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1 day ago+19 19 0Covid job losses lead MPs to call for trials of universal basic income
A cross-party group of MPs has called on the government to allow councils to run universal basic income trials in response to mass unemployment triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. A letter to the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, signed by more than 500 MPs, ...
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1 day ago+9 9 0How Marvel and DC Are Leaning Into Fan Demand
To boost their streaming services, Hollywood giants are developing dozens of shows and spinoff features based on Marvel, DC and Star Wars — does that risk overexposure?
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12 days ago+24 24 0What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app.
If you love privacy, there's a lot to love about Signal.
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12 days ago+17 17 0At This Banana Farm, the Bunches Grow in 430 Shapes and Sizes
India's "plantain man" has traveled widely to build a collection of unusual varieties.
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2 weeks ago+27 27 0 x 1The Guy Who Built a Trump Twitter Archive Says He’ll Follow Him to Parler If He Has To
“I wasn't thinking that it would just disappear one day.”
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2 weeks ago+20 20 0Should we recognize privacy as a human right?
Data-driven innovation is critical to economic growth. But at what cost? As a society, we are easily persuaded to trade our privacy to use apps that track our every move. Opting out is nearly impossible. In an ideal world, we'd have privacy laws ...
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3 weeks ago+7 7 04.6 Million Square Miles of Land Will Sink In by 2040, Reveals New Study
Do you ever get a sinking feeling that something is terribly wrong? It could be because something is. A new study is revealing that land is literally sinking in all around the world right under our feet.
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3 weeks ago+10 10 0Is Going Vegan a Healthier Option?
Vegan diets help individuals to lose weight. However, they also carry an array of additional health benefits. A vegan diet can help in maintaining a healthy heart. Such a diet can protect you against type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer. Veganism ...
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3 weeks ago+9 9 0Over 3000 Russian propaganda cases registered by EU disinformation watchdog in 2020
For many, this has been a challenging year, which brought not only a global pandemic but also an infodemic: an unprecedented flood of false or inaccurate information about the coronavirus. Unfortunately, pro-Kremlin media has actively contributed to ...
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3 weeks ago+12 12 0What Hundreds of American Public Libraries Owe to Carnegie’s Disdain for Inherited Wealth
One reason why the steel magnate spent much of his fortune building libraries is that he saw handing large fortunes to the next generation as a waste of money.
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1 month ago+13 13 0Conservative Twitter users dominate the discussion of fake news about the coronavirus, study finds
An analysis of Twitter data suggests that conservatives are the top spreaders of fake news about the COVID-19 crisis. The findings were published in the Journal of Computational Social Science. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a deep political di ...
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1 month ago+21 21 0Snowden and Assange Deserve Pardons. So Do the Whistleblowers Trump Imprisoned.
IN 2007, the Bush administration’s Justice Department sent me a letter saying it was conducting a criminal investigation into “the unauthorized disclosure of classified information” in my 2006 book, “State of War.” When my lawyers called the Justice ...
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1 month ago+18 18 0At Least 128,000 People in the U.S. Have Received the Covid-19 Vaccine
More than 128,000 people received a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine this week as the United States began an unprecedented mobilization to deploy vaccines and eventually end a pandemic that has upended every aspect of American life.
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1 month ago+15 15 0Ohio Quietly Passes Bill That Could Bankrupt Churches Linked To Fossil Fuel Protests
Ohio lawmakers faced fierce blowback last winter over a bill that would escalate criminal charges on fossil fuel protesters and threaten religious organizations or nonprofits that support such demonstrations with crushing fines. By then, the state Se ...
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1 month ago+10 10 01st Patients To Get CRISPR Gene-Editing Treatment Continue To Thrive
The last thing a lot of people want to do these days is get on a plane. But even a pandemic would not stop Victoria Gray. She jumped at the chance to head to the airport this summer. "It was one of those things I was waiting to get a chance to d ...
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1 month ago+29 29 0Deep Fakes: Are Fake News becoming real?
Deep fakes, deceptively real computer-generated images, audio and video recordings of people, are gradually moving into the focus of media and politics. In a world constantly struggling with fake news and disinformation, deep fakes are about to “wrea ...
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1 month ago+24 24 0North American Concert Industry Lost $30 Billion in 2020
The global live events industry lost more than $30 billion in 2020 due to the global pandemic, including $9.7 billion at the box office, according to the year-end report by live-entertainment industry trade publication Pollstar. At the top of the yea ...
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1 month ago+23 23 0Apps face App Store expulsion by not complying with new ad-tracking rules
Apps that fail to "play by the rules" of Apple's anti-ad tracking policy will be removed from the App Store, executive Craig Federighi has warned to developers who attempt to circumvent iOS 14's inbound privacy feature.
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1 month ago+21 21 0Armed Michiganders Gather Outside Secretary Of State's Home To Deny Voting Results
Supporters of President Donald Trump amped up their efforts to intimidate Michigan officials this weekend, gathering with firearms outside Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s home on Saturday to protest the battleground state’s election results, whic ...
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1 month ago+22 22 0We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says
The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business.