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2 days agoCurrent Event cone
For Prosecutors, Trump’s Clemency Decisions Were a ‘Kick in the Teeth’
Commutations in high-profile Medicare fraud cases have elicited anger among those who spent years pursuing complex prosecutions.
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10 days agoExpression cone
QAnon Has Taken Over Far-Right Platform Gab
QAnon followers are being pushed back to the fringes of the internet as mainstream platforms try to purge the conspiracy theory.
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11 days agoCurrent Event cone
Retired mathematician fixes bikes for hundreds without charging a dime
This past April, Ric Jackson helped a neighbor who was looking for someone to fix the brakes on his daughter's bicycle. "I fixed it up. He took it back. And she was thrilled and he was thrilled," Jackson said. "And it's just mushroomed." The avid cyclist and retired mathematician has since fixed more than 650 bikes for friends, neighbors, even strangers.
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11 days agoCurrent Event cone
Disagreeing takes up a lot of brain real estate
Yale researchers have devised a way to peer into the brains of two people simultaneously while are engaged in discussion. What they found will not surprise anyone who has found themselves arguing about politics or social issues.
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11 days agoCurrent Event cone
Japan widens virus emergency to 7 more areas as cases surge
Japan expanded a coronavirus state of emergency to seven more prefectures Wednesday, affecting more than half the population amid a surge in infections across the country. Prime Minister Yoshide Suga also said Japan will suspend fast-track entry exceptions for business visitors or others with residency permits, fully banning foreign visitors while the state of emergency is in place.
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12 days agoCurrent Event cone
Kentucky Proposes to Exempt Bitcoin Miners From Taxes
Representatives of the lower house of the Kentucky General Assembly has presented a draft tax incentive for Bitcoin miners. It aims to increase the attractiveness of the state for commercial cryptocurrency mining.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
Rumor: new iPad Pro coming in March, thicker 12.9-inch model with Mini-LED display
After sharing some details about the ninth-generation iPad this week, MacOtakara reported today that Apple is planning to launch the next-generation iPad Pro in March this year. The new models are expected to have a similar design to the current generation, but with a Mini-LED display for the 12.9-inch version.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
‘Augmented creativity’: How AI can accelerate human invention
In 2012, economist Robert Gordon published a controversial paper in which he argued that economic growth was largely over, due in no small part to our failure to maintain the engines of innovation in recent decades.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
The Facebook-owned messenger with 2 billion users revamps its privacy policy.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
Mandatory WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update Allows User Data to be Shared With Facebook
WhatsApp's latest terms and privacy policy allows the popular messaging app to share a significant amount of user data with Facebook (via XDA Developers).
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2 weeks agoAnalysis cone
The U.S. Military Wants to Kill Everything with Lasers
Strykers will incinerate enemy drones, helicopters, aircraft, and maybe even incoming enemy missiles, rockets, and artillery with 50kw laser weapons during an upcoming “combat shoot-off” at Fort Sill, Okla.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
In 1995, a WIRED cofounder challenged a Luddite-loving doomsayer to a prescient wager on tech and civilization’s fate. Now their judge weighs in.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
Noah Hawley is making an Alien TV series for FX and Hulu
Fargo and Legion showrunner Noah Hawley is stepping into the world of Alien with a new show at FX. This marks the first TV series based on the popular movie franchise, according to FX chairman John Landgraf, who announced the show at Disney’s investor event today. Disney acquired the rights to the franchise when it acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019. Not much is known about the show, except for a brief description that referred to it as a “scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here ...
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
Policeman buys family food instead of arresting them for shoplifting
A US police officer who was called out to arrest a family suspected of shoplifting instead bought them some food so they could have a decent Christmas dinner. Matt Lima was called to a food store in Somerset, Massachusetts, last month, a police statement said. Two women were reported not to be scanning all of their groceries. When questioned, the family said they had fallen upon hard times and could not afford to pay for all the food.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
Democrats propose ban on 'he' and 'she' and all gender-specific words in new rules for Congress
Republicans have condemned a Democrat plan to eliminate gender-specific pronouns such as "he" and "she" from the rules of the US House of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat Speaker of the House, announced the proposal as a "bold and future-focused" move, and said it would make the lower chamber of Congress the "most inclusive in history" for transgender and nonbinary people.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
McConnell, Pelosi homes vandalized after $2,000 relief fails
Vandals lashed out at the leaders of the U.S. House and Senate over the holiday weekend, blighting their homes with graffiti and in one case a pig’s head as Congress failed to approve an increase in the amount of money being sent to individuals to help cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
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3 weeks agoExpression cone
The U.S. finally has a system to prevent deadly rail accidents. It took 50 years
A 2008 train crash in Chatsworth killed 25 people and broke a long congressional stalemate on a nationwide rail safety project known as "positive train control." Twelve years later, that system is finally in place.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
Ohio State study: 30% of student athletes have heart damage linked to COVID-19
In a study published in September, researchers from Ohio State University found that out of more than two dozen athletes from the university who tested positive for COVID-19, 30% had cellular heart damage and 15% showed signs of heart inflammation caused by a condition known as myocarditis.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
How to spend your money for maximum happiness
The idea that materialistic values can obstruct our path to happiness dates back hundreds of years. The Buddha encouraged a balance between asceticism and pleasure; early Christian monasticism preached spiritual transformation through simple living; philosopher Lao Tzu warned that if you chase after money, “your heart will never unclench.”
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
One of America’s Richest Islands Got Pummeled by COVID. Then The Warring Started.
As the freezing water sloshed up against the sides of the boat and the first winter Nor’easter formed off the shores of Cape Cod, a team of men hoisted a small white box onto a ferry. Under a gray sky, morning commuters shuffled up a ramp and onto the high-speed ferry and sat next to the package. No one on the boat knew the importance of that box. How could they? It was so nondescript as to elicit non reactions among the gathered.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
iPhone workers: forced labor or detention centers, says report
A fresh claim of iPhone workers being used as forced labor in China has appeared today, following an investigation by the Tech Transparency Project. It suggests that iPhone glass supplier Lens Technology has been using Muslim minority Uighurs, who were given the stark choice of working in the company’s plant or being sent to detention centers which have been likened to concentration camps …
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event cone
It Used To Be Just A Fence. It Became A Tribute To Things Lost And Found In 2020
It's a regular, old, chain link fence circling a parking lot in a residential community in Maryland. Except that attached to the fence are seven wooden boxes. They look like elaborate dioramas.
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1 month agoExpression cone
The Warped Morality Of ‘Wonder Woman 1984’
Isn’t Wonder Woman supposed to be a good person? I don’t think Wonder Woman 1984 is a good movie. If it was just another forgettable superhero blockbuster I’d leave it at that - but the warped vision of morality presented by this film is too rotten to ignore, an egregious example of the cracked moral compass at the heart of the superhero genre.
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1 month agoCurrent Event cone
Another new coronavirus variant found in Nigeria, says Africa CDC
Another new variant of the novel coronavirus seems to have emerged in Nigeria, the head of Africa’s disease control body said on Thursday, cautioning more investigation was needed.