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5 years ago+22 22 0How can the US monitor the world if we all use Huawei?
Why does the US government always crack down on Huawei? To achieve this, it even uses some disgraceful measures, including slandering the company by exerting its national power. The US moves have sparked questions as to why the US fears the Chinese c ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0Parents, vaping near children is just as dangerous as smoking: study
A new study has found that an overwhelming number of parents believe e-cigarettes are safe to use around children, despite growing concerns about the toxic chemicals they contain. They’ve been marketed as a safer alternative to smoking,” said Jeremy ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Powerful Images Of The Last Hundred Years You Have To See
The 20th century has graced us with moments of joy, moments of sorrow and everything in-between, but most people weren't there to see the greatest moments in history themselves. Luckily, photographers were there to capture the most powerful imag ...
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5 years ago+4 4 0Mueller notifies judge that Roger Stone posted Instagram image that could violate gag order
Special counsel Robert Mueller on Monday notified a federal judge about an Instagram post by President Donald Trump's friend Roger Stone that could be in violation of the judge's strict gag order on Stone. The filing by Mueller cited CNBC ...
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5 years ago+7 7 0Should Big Tech Own Our Personal Data?
FACEBOOK, TWITTER AND Google seem to take turns making the wrong kinds of headlines. Last month it was Google’s turn. The company was fined $57 million by a French regulatory agency, the first time a large Silicon Valley company has been penalized fo ...
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5 years ago+9 9 0Iron Man 3 Hid A Massive Clue JARVIS Would Become Vision
Iron Man 3 includes a subtle Easter egg that hints at JARVIS' transformation into Vision.
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5 years ago+21 21 0World-Renowned Oceanographer Walter Munk Dies at 101
Renowned oceanographer and founder of the University of California, San Diego, Walter Munk has died at the age of 101, the university announced Friday. Munk made ground-breaking discoveries in oceanography and gave Allied forces a strategic advantage ...
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5 years ago+38 38 0 x 1Living Alone Can Be Deadly
Men who lived alone had a 23 percent increased risk for dying prematurely from any cause and a 36 percent increased risk for cardiovascular death.
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5 years ago+17 17 0Twitch Streamer And Game Studio Employee Arrested In Child Sex Sting
Thomas Cheung, an employee of game studio Hi-Rez (Paladins) and a partnered Twitch streamer, was arrested last weekend in Brookhaven, Georgia in connection with a Super Bowl weekend child sex sting. Police charged him with using a computer service “t ...
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5 years ago+1 2 1President Trump Directed His Attorney To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project
President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter. Trump also supp ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Nancy Pelosi Elected Speaker as Democrats Take Control of House
Ebullient Democrats assumed control of the House on Thursday and elected Representative Nancy Pelosi of California speaker, returning her to a historic distinction as the first woman to hold the post. They then moved to defy President Trump and passe ...
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5 years ago+8 8 0BTC Lightning Network Company Rejects $1.25 Million from Roger Ver to Build on Bitcoin Cash
Roger Ver offered $1.25 million to OpenNode, a lightning network software company, to build on top of Bitcoin Cash. OpenNode declined, stating “our vision of a better, more open financial system is only possible with Bitcoin.” In a video lambasting t ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Marvel might start developing X-Men, Deadpool films next year
Properties such as the X-Men , Deadpool and the Fantastic Four -- characters that have lived at 20th Century Fox for decades -- will be brought under the Marvel banner. And that means it's almost certain they'll enter the MCU in the future. ...
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5 years ago+15 15 0Another Major Investor Joins World Bank In Dropping Support For Coal
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has dropped its support for coal. The World Bank signaled an intent to pivot away from coal in 2013 but continued work on a project in Kosovo that was only recently shelved. Like most major ...
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5 years ago+19 19 0Facebook could face billion dollar fine for data breaches
Facebook could be facing a multi-billion dollar fine after a European regulator announced Friday that it is launching an investigation into the company over failure to protect user privacy. The Irish Data Protection Commission, which oversees Faceboo ...
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5 years ago+7 7 0Your 4K Netflix Streaming Is on a Collision Course With Your ISP's Data Caps
Household bandwidth consumption is soaring thanks to video streaming, new data suggests, and American consumers are about to run face-first into broadband usage limits and overage fees that critics say are unnecessary and anti-competitive. Cisco’s 20 ...
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5 years ago+21 21 0Study witnesses first moments of star dying in finest detail
An international research team including The Australian National University (ANU) has used the Kepler space telescope in coordination with ground-based telescopes to witness the first moments of a star dying in unprecedented detail. The astronomers w ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Michelle Wolf scared the White House Correspondents' Dinner away from comedy
Because the goblins of our current administration have skin thinner than a piece of wet tissue, The White House Correspondents’ Association has announced that, for the first time in more than three decades, they will not feature a comedian at the ann ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0Frankie Muniz Doesn't Know That He Starred In 'Malcolm in the Middle' After Health Incident
Frankie Muniz is highly recognized for his lead role as the middle child on the 2000’s hit TV show Malcom In The Middle. But acting wasn’t his only passion back then. In 2005, Muniz signed a two-year deal with Jensen Motorsport as a wheel race car dr ...
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5 years ago+13 13 0We could end factory farming this century
Jacy Reese thinks that someday, we’ll look back on factory farming as one of the greatest moral mistakes in history. In his new book, The End of Animal Farming, he lays out a road map to get us to that point. Reese is the co-founder of the Sentience ...