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3 days agoCurrent Event jerrycan
Parler finds refuge with right-leaning webhosting service
A handful of Big Tech companies moved to take down social media platform Parler over the weekend, but it appears to have found a new company to help try to keep its website running. On Monday, Parler registered its domain and server to be hosted by Epik, an internet webhosting company known for working with right-leaning websites. Gab, another social media platform popular with conservatives, also uses Epik. A web domain search shows that Parler is now registered with Epik.
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6 days agoCurrent Event jerrycan
South Korean Court Orders Japan To Compensate 12 WWII Sex Slaves
The Japanese government rejected the ruling, increasing tensions between the two countries.
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6 days agoAnalysis jerrycan
Identical twins are not so identical, study suggests
Research finds they differ by an average of 5.2 early mutations, adding new perspective to nature-versus-nurture debates
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event jerrycan
Kim Yo Jong Is Ready to Become the First Woman Dictator in Modern History
Kim Jong Un’s little sister has emerged as North Korea’s most outspoken attack dog, securing her place as a possible successor to the leadership.
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2 weeks agoExpression jerrycan
Facebook is the worst brand of the year
The year 2020 straddles the massive gap between the company Facebook projects itself to be and the one defined by its IRL actions.
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2 weeks agoAnalysis jerrycan
Chernobyl fears resurface as river dredging begins in exclusion zone
Scientists warn of threat of nuclear contamination from work on giant E40 waterway linking Baltic to the Black Sea
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event jerrycan
EU bans plastic waste from being shipped to developing countries
The European Union has banned all non-recyclable plastic waste being shipped to developing nations from 1 January. The large quantity of plastic sent to the Global South is often not being properly treated. A lot of this waste ends up either in landfill, the ocean, or being incinerated because these countries often don’t have the capacity to sustainably treat the waste.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event jerrycan
Yes, the U.S. can go carbon neutral by 2050, says new Princeton study
The month of December opened with good news and bad news for people concerned about the climate crisis. A climate analysis released by the independent watchdog group Climate Action Tracker said that based on promises made by Paris Climate Agreement participants, the world could limit warming to 2.1 degrees C (3.8 degrees F) by the year 2100.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jerrycan
Books by bike: Sri Lankan man runs mobile library for kids
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — During his leisure time, Mahinda Dasanayaka packs his motorbike with books and rides his mobile library — across mostly muddy roads.
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1 month agoAnalysis jerrycan
MOXIE: NASA's Experimental Device Designed to Generate Oxygen on Mars
Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment device is designed to create about 6 to 10 grams of oxygen per hour.
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1 month agoCurrent Event jerrycan
MAGA Truthers Make Desperate Last Stand at Miami Church Vigil
On Wednesday night, Alberto Delgado strolled onto the stage of Alpha & Omega, the Miami-area Evangelical megachurch where he serves as senior pastor, and promised nearly 200 MAGA diehards that Donald Trump would serve another term as president. Despite an avalanche of court rulings rejecting Trump’s fact-free claims of voter fraud, Delgado—a snow-haired, natty-dressed preacher with a baritone voice and who serves as a religious adviser to Trump—assured his flock that the fight for the ...
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2 months agoCurrent Event jerrycan
‘Bob’s Burgers’ Cast and Creators on Remote Recording, Show’s Evolution, 200th Episode
After a decade-long run, the “Bob’s Burgers” creators and cast are more in tune with the beloved show, and each other, than ever before. Although they miss recording as an ensemble amid the pandemic, they pride themselves on their natural and learned chemistry to continue improvising the show and digging deep into the roots of their characters.
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2 months agoAnalysis jerrycan
Old Dogs, New Research and the Secrets of Aging
The ways that dogs grow and age may provide potentially useful similarities with people.
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2 months agoCurrent Event jerrycan
Scientists have developed an efficient Quantum Modem for the future internet
The 1st quantum revolution brought about semiconductor electronics, the laser, and lastly the internet. The coming, 2nd quantum revolution guarantees spy-proof communication, extremely precise quantum sensors, and quantum computers for beforehand unsolvable processing tasks.
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2 months agoCurrent Event jerrycan
Google’s Project Zero discloses Windows 0day that’s been under active exploit
Security flaw lets attackers escape sandboxes designed to contain malicious code.
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2 months agoCurrent Event jerrycan
Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90
Sir Sean Connery has died at the age of 90, his family has said. The Scottish actor was best known for his portrayal of James Bond, being the first to bring the role to the big screen and appearing in seven of the spy thrillers. Sir Sean died peacefully in his sleep, while in the Bahamas, having been "unwell for some time", his son said.
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2 months agoExpression jerrycan
Secrets and spies: Behind the doors of the UK's most enigmatic government agency
Over a century GCHQ has evolved from a codebreaker into a critical defence against the most advanced technological threats to national security.