Post Overview
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Current Event
5 years ago
+16 16 0Facebook’s sad summer continues with a $650 million settlement
The company will pay Illinois users between $200 and $400 over claims that it violated the state’s facial recognition law.
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5 years ago
+3 3 0NBA: Zero positives out of 346 tested in bubble
The NBA and players' association said Monday that COVID-19 tests of 346 players at the league's bubble campus in Orlando since July 13 have yielded zero positives.
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Analysis
5 years ago
+4 4 0Schools Beat Earlier Plagues With Outdoor Classes. We Should, Too.
A century ago, children in New York City attended classes during a pandemic. It seemed to work.
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5 years ago
+4 4 0KFC will sell Beyond Fried Chicken at 50+ California restaurants after wildly successful test launches in Atlanta, Nashville, and Charlotte
KFC will sell Beyond Fried Chicken at over 50 restaurants in Southern California, the chain announced on Thursday in a press release emailed to Business Insider. The plant-based chicken will be sold in greater Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as Or ...
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5 years ago
+15 15 0Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier
Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile. Online profiles describe him as a coffee lover and politics junkie who was raised in a traditional Jewi ...
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5 years ago
+13 13 0Around 1.3 million people filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week
Around 1.3 million people filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, the 14th straight week of declines, according to new figures from the Department of Labor. Thursday's data is further indication that despite historic levels of jobl ...
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5 years ago
+8 8 0Nikkei corroborates lack of charger and earbuds in iPhone 12 box, OLED screens for all models
This morning, Asian technology publication Nikkei posted its latest report on Apple’s upcoming iPhone lineup, corroborating much of what has been known via other sources. Nikkei says that the iPhone 12 will consist of four new models and each will be ...
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5 years ago
+22 22 0First Apple Silicon Benchmarks Destroy Surface Pro X
As expected, developers with early access to Apple silicon-based transition kits have leaked some early benchmark scores. And it’s bad news for Surface Pro X and Windows 10 on ARM fans.
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5 years ago
+17 17 0An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle
For the past year, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sat in a London jail awaiting extradition to the US. This week, the US Justice Department piled on yet more hacking conspiracy allegations against him, all related to his decade-plus at the helm ...
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5 years ago
+31 31 0 x 1NSA: Russian agents have been hacking major email program
BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. National Security Agency says the same Russian military hacking group that interfered in the 2016 presidential election and unleashed a devastating malware attack
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5 years ago
+10 10 0Leaker: Apple to Stick With Lightning Over USB-C for 'iPhone 12' Before Going Port-Less Next Year
Apple will use a Lightning port instead of USB-C in the upcoming "iPhone 12," but it will be the last major series of Apple's flagship phones to do so, with models set to combine wireless charging and a port-less Smart Connector system ...
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5 years ago
+15 15 0Homecoming S2: The most fun you’ll have with an evil company this spring
Sometimes Hollywood at large seems to embrace the infamous Google strategy: make two of everything and see what sticks. Who recently asked for twin dog-as-best-friend-but-end-of-life tearjerkers? And did audiences need dual "Nikola Tesla races t ...
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Analysis
5 years ago
+4 4 0California Wants to Vaporize Trash to Create Energy
A forthcoming facility in California promises to transform tens of thousands of tons of landfill garbage into hydrogen each year. It hopes to be running by 2023.
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5 years ago
+15 15 0Microsoft says Congress should fund broadband in next relief bill
Tech giant Microsoft is calling for broadband funding to be included in the next coronavirus relief bill. In a blog post on Thursday, Microsoft President Brad Smith argues that access to broadband connectivity has become more critical than ever as mi ...
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5 years ago
+17 17 0Is Japan Pulling Its Companies out of China?
On March 5, the Japanese government announced that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s much-anticipated visit to Japan would be postponed. Given the worsening pandemic, the news was hardly surprising. The next day, the government announced tightened trave ...
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5 years ago
+15 15 0Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being
The world’s most robust study of universal basic income has concluded that it boosts recipients’ mental and financial well-being, as well as modestly improving employment. Finland ran a two-year universal basic income study in 2017 and 2018, during w ...
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5 years ago
+15 15 0Bob Dylan announces first original album in eight years, Rough and Rowdy Ways
Bob Dylan has announced his first album of original songwriting in eight years. Rough and Rowdy Ways will be released on 19 June. It follows three albums of cover versions – Shadows in the Night (2015), Fallen Angels (2016) and triple album Triplicat ...
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5 years ago
+6 6 0The Price of Bitcoin’s Halvening — Before You Invest
Welcome to the Halvening. This event occurs once every four years, and this time in 2020, the production will cut from 12.5 to 6.25 Bitcoin mined globally every ten minutes. As for the production that gets lost, even I don’t know where it ends up.
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5 years ago
+18 18 0South Korea records no new domestic cases of Covid-19 for first time since February
South Korea has reported no new domestic coronavirus cases for the first time since February, the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said. The KCDC reported four new infections, all imported cases, taking the national tally to 10 ...
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Analysis
5 years ago
+2 2 0After the Dinosaur-Killing Impact, Soot Played a Remarkable Role in Extinction
The interstellar object (alternatively a comet or an asteroid) that killed the dinosaurs when it slammed into Earth didn't work alone. Researchers have shown previously that its after-effects, such as tidal waves and earthquakes, played an impor ...




















