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Current Event funhonestdude19 years on, these Columbine survivors are parents — and they're reaching out to the Parkland Generation
A national school walkout begins Friday in the United States, on the 19th anniversary of Columbine and in the wake of February's shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
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2 days ago
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Taro: "If Square Enix gives me money I will create anything"
During PAX East we had an opportunity to catch up with Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro (wearing his Emil mask from the game) and composer Keichi Okabe. The conversation revolved around the success of the game and its fans, as well as the work that has gone into the soundtrack.
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2 days ago
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Rape victim outraged after Uber driver posted bail, fled country
A local woman is outraged after she says an Uber driver raped her and then left the country. That suspect was arraigned on Friday, posted bail and is believed to have fled the country. Boston 25 News would not normally identify victims of sexual assault, but Emily Murray insisted to our Bob Ward that she wants to be seen and be heard. She told him she wants everyone to know what happened to her, and how the system failed her.
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3 days ago
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Biologists Discover Pathway That Protects Mitochondria
MIT biologists have discovered the first cellular response targeted at helping mitochondria when their protein import goes wrong.
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4 days ago
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Facebook's Tracking Of Non-Users Sparks Broader Privacy Concerns
Concern about Facebook Inc’s respect for data privacy is widening to include the information it collects about non-users, after Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the world’s largest social network tracks people whether they have accounts or not. Privacy concerns have swamped Facebook since it acknowledged last month that information about millions of users wrongly ended up in the hands of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, a firm that has counted U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20...
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4 days ago
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Elon Musk's Boring Co raises $112.5 million in funding, most from Musk
Elon Musk’s Boring Co said on Monday it raised $112.5 million in equity, with 90 percent coming from Musk himself, as the company seeks to build underground tunnels for its hyperloop transportation project. In a regulatory filing, the company listed 31 unnamed investors as participants in the funding round. Besides Musk, the rest of the investors were early Boring employees, according to the company.
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5 days ago
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Facebook paid $7.3m for Mark Zuckerberg's security last year
Facebook increased its spending on security for Mark Zuckerberg by 50% last year, the company has disclosed, paying more than $7.3m (£5.1m) to protect its top executive. The security funds were required “due to specific threats to his safety arising directly as a result of his position as our founder, chairman, and CEO,” the under-fire social media company said in a new filing to US regulators.
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7 days ago
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The Turn-of-the-Century Pigeons That Photographed Earth from Above
An early-twentieth-century camera enabled, for the first time, the taking of pictures that afforded a bird’s-eye view.
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7 days ago
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Sigh OK fine punish them. But lets not escalate this any further.
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9 days ago
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Baby born four years after parents' death
A baby has been born in China to a surrogate mother four years after his parents died in a car crash, Chinese media reported. The couple, who died in 2013, had frozen several embryos hoping to have a child through IVF. After the accident, their parents fought a protracted legal battle to be allowed to use the embryos. The boy was born in December to a surrogate from Laos and The Beijing News first reported the case this week.
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9 days ago
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Deep Neural Network Trained on 50K Images Improves MRI Scans
The future of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) looks bright. One reason: Researchers have developed an image reconstruction process that appears capable of producing better snapshots of the brain, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) and other technological advancements. AUTOMAP—short for automated transform by manifold approximation—uses deep neural networks and high-end graphical processing units (GPU) to program a necessary component of some MRI scans, according to the study, recently p...
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10 days ago
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China warns against 'Cold War' mindset
Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned against a "Cold War mentality" as he vowed to open up parts of the country's economy. His speech at the Boao Forum for Asia - often referred to as Asia's Davos - appears to be an attempt to calm a trade row with the US. He pledged to cut import tariffs on cars and relax requirements for foreign firms investing in China.
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12 days ago
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Sony confirms God of War 5 will also be set in Norse mythology
As we gear up for the PS4 release of the new God of War on April 20, Sony has confirmed to finder that we can expect more snow-filled action from Kratos in the future. For thirteen years now, we’ve been very happily ripping apart the heads off mythological beasts as the muscular God-hater Kratos. However, until this year, the setting has been that of Greek mythology.
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12 days ago
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he's leaving Facebook
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he's leaving Facebook, amid concerns about security safeguards about the personal information that users share with the social media giant. "I am in the process of leaving Facebook. It's brought me more negatives than positives," Wozniak wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday. "Apple has more secure ways to share things about yourself. I can still deal with old school email and text messages."
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13 days ago
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Cyberharassment victim highlights fee Verizon charges to block stalker
After suffering cyberharassment, one California woman has to pay to keep her stalker from contacting her. Discussing consumers' legal rights, M. O’Neal, who asked to keep her full name private for safety purposes, shared with the Northern California Record how she must pay $5 per month to block her cyberstalker, a small-business owner she met once when having a gift custom-made for her father, through her Verizon Wireless service.
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2 weeks ago
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Chinese man caught smuggling five rhino horns is jailed by Dutch court
A Dutch court has sentenced a Chinese man to a year in jail for smuggling five rhino horns and four other horn objects worth about €500,000 ($613,000) in his luggage. The man was caught by customs officials at Schiphol airport in December as he traveled through Amsterdam on his way from South Africa to the Chinese city of Shanghai.
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2 weeks ago
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Afghan woman shot in face builds new life in Canada after US rejection
Shakila Zareen, 23, lost much of her face after being shot by her husband but, after multiple surgeries and seeing her hopes of resettlement dashed, she has a new home in Vancouver.
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2 weeks ago
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Deputies search home of family killed in California crash
Washington sheriff's deputies have executed a search warrant at the home of the family who died after their car plunged over a California cliff. The search is both an effort to gain insight into the deadly plunge — which may have been deliberate — and to possibly find three of the eight family members who still haven't been accounted for.
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2 weeks ago
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Tony Bussey is half the man he was after losing 326 pounds
Tony Bussey, 43, took up two seats on a plane fleeing Fort McMurray in 2016 — and the fact he prevented another person from getting a place on the plane because of his weight changed his life.
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2 weeks ago
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Pope Francis says 'defenseless' being killed in Holy Land after Gaza bloodshed
Pope Francis, in his Easter address on Sunday, called for peace in the Holy Land two days after 15 Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers on the Israeli-Gaza border, saying the conflict there "does not spare the defenseless". The pope made his appeal in his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to tens of thousands of people in the flower-bedecked square below where he earlier celebrated a Mass.