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NASA lends 3.9-billion-year-old moon rock to the Biden White House
There's a new decoration in President Joe Biden's Oval Office. Although really, it's a very old decoration. At the request of the new administration, NASA loaned out a moon rock from its Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The moon rock went on display in the Oval Office on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.
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1 day agoAnalysis aj0690
Space station detectors found the source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning
The origins of an enigmatic type of lightning in the upper atmosphere has been traced to a 10-microsecond flash of bright blue light.
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12 days agoCurrent Event aj0690
New York City Paid an NBA Star Millions After an NYPD Officer Broke His Leg. The Officer Paid Little Price.
Five years ago, NBA guard Thabo Sefolosha was standing outside a nightclub when he was tackled by five New York Police Department officers, one of whom broke his leg with a baton. Sefolosha sued, and the city paid its largest settlement for alleged police brutality in years, $4.5 million.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event aj0690
Woman trampled to death during Capitol riots carried a 'don't tread on me' flag
In addition to the police officer killed by pro-Trump rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was 34-year-old Rosanne Boyland, a woman holding a "Don't Tread on Me" flag who was crushed and trampled to death by her fellow "patriots" (as the Trumps call them).
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event aj0690
Over Half of U.S. Young Adults Now Live With Their Parents
When a survey by the Pew Research Center showed that the proportion of Americans aged 18 to 29 living with their parents increased during the pandemic, you may have seen some dramatic headlines announcing that this number is higher than at any time. another time since the Great Depression. But the real story, from my point of view, is less alarming and even more interesting.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event aj0690
House: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google have “monopoly power,” should be split
Last June, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law began an in-depth investigation into four major firms—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The subcommittee wanted to answer one key question: did Big Tech get big playing by the rules, or does it cheat to stay at the top? After 16 months of hearings, research, and analysis, the panel's findings are out... and the results look really bad for every company involved.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event aj0690
Automation isn't wiping out jobs. It's that our engine of growth is winding down
In army of robots now scrub floors, grow microgreens and flip burgers. Due to advances in artificial intelligence, computers will supposedly take over much more of the service sector in the coming decade, including jobs in law, finance and medicine that require years of education and training.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event aj0690
The Galaxy Note 20's One UI 3.0 update is rolling out globally
Samsung’s been making some good headway to keep up with its original Android 11 rollout schedule. Its current flagship lines have already received the One UI 3.0 update on AT&T and Verizon, although T-Mobile’s S20 hit a roadblock last week resulting in a halted rollout. However, T-Mobile has still seemingly gone ahead with the Note20's update as many users have already started receiving the Android 11-based One UI 3.0 experience on their 2020 Note flagships.
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1 month agoExpression aj0690
I think Dan Brown turned my parents into QAnoners
If you haven't heard of the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon by now, perhaps it's irresponsible of me to tell you about it. Essentially, a member of a sketchy Internet forum alleged that he is a high level government official with secret information about a satanic cult run by Democrat pedophiles and their sex-trafficking associates. It's the same old antisemitic dogwhistle all over again, but with a fun new twist: President Donald Trump has surreptitiously dedicated his career....
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
An enormous supervolcano may be hiding under Alaskan islands
A mysterious, previously undiscovered supervolcano may be lurking beneath Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. A new study suggests a wide crater, created when the supervolcano exploded, connects at least four existing volcanoes. It’s so big that if the supervolcano erupted during the last few thousand years, it could have disrupted civilizations around the world, says John Power, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Alaska Volcano Observatory. Power presents the findings at the annual mee...
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
The batteries that could make fossil fuels obsolete
The twin smokestacks of the Moss Landing Power Plant tower over Monterey Bay. Visible for miles along this picturesque stretch of the north Californian coast, the 500-foot-tall (150m) pillars crown what was once California's largest electric power station – a behemoth natural gas-fired generator. Today, as California steadily moves to decarbonise its economy, those stacks are idle and the plant is largely mothballed.
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
Carrot the deer found in Ontario with arrow sticking out of his head
The Canadian winter can be tough for deer, as temperatures plummet and food becomes scarce. But Carrot, a whitetail buck living in northern Ontario, faces an additional challenge: he has an arrow sticking out of his head. “It’s been really tough to see,” said Lee-Anne Carver, a wildlife photographer in the city of Kenora, who named the young animal. “I’ve been photographing animals for years and there’s something special about Carrot. He’s unlike any deer I’ve ever met.”
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
India iPhone factory vandalized after workers claim they weren't paid by Apple supplier
An iPhone factory in India run by a Taiwanese manufacturer was vandalized over the weekend after workers there claimed they were not being paid their wages, prompting Apple (AAPL) to launch an investigation.
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
Arizona legislature closes after Giuliani spent two days with maskless GOP lawmakers
Hours after President Trump tweeted Rudy Giuliani's coronavirus diagnosis, legislative staff in Arizona’s Capitol abruptly announced a week-long closure of the state Senate and House starting Monday.
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest
Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years ago
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
DeepMind's A.I. can now predict protein structures to within an atom's width of accuracy. Here's why that's a very big deal.
Researchers have made a major breakthrough using artificial intelligence that could revolutionize the hunt for new medicines. The scientists have created A.I. software that uses a protein’s DNA sequence to predict its three-dimensional structure to within an atom’s width of accuracy.
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
‘Mini desk. Tiny hands. Small soul’: Trump mocked for giving speech at little table
For a US president obsessed by size – his hands, his wealth, his crowds – Donald Trump made something of a bold U-turn on Thursday night by addressing the country from a desk seemingly designed for a leprechaun.
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
Most Americans Object to Government Tracking of Their Activities Through Cellphones
A new survey found widespread concern among Americans about government tracking of their whereabouts through their digital devices, with an overwhelming majority saying that a warrant should be required to obtain such data.
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2 months agoCurrent Event aj0690
BREAKING: New Species Discovered in Waters Off Puerto Rico
A new species has been discovered in the deep sea by NOAA and TheVast has captured the details to share! The new species is a comb jelly from the waters near Puerto Rico.