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8 days agoCurrent Event kong88
You Do Not Have to Hand It to the GOP
With two weeks left in Donald Trump’s presidency, Mick Mulvaney has resigned from the administration. “I can’t do it. I can’t stay,” he told CNBC. That’s newsworthy in the most banal sense; Mulvaney is the rare Trump official to last four years in a chaotic administration.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event kong88
Trump pardons former lawmaker who spent campaign funds on Steam games
United States congressman Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty last year to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds. In March, he was sentenced to 11 months in federal prison. What made his story especially comical was how brazen the fraud had been. Among the items listed in the indictment were European vacations for his family, stays at luxury hotels, plane tickets for his family’s pet rabbits, and $1,302 in Steam games.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event kong88
Let’s Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices
Things were touch-and-go for a while, but it looks like Let's Encrypt's transition to a standalone certificate authority (CA) isn't going to break a ton of old Android phones. This was a serious concern earlier due to an expiring root certificate, but Let's Encrypt has come up with a workaround.
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1 month agoCurrent Event kong88
Europe threatens to break up Big Tech if it doesn't play by new rules
Officials across Europe on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would give regulators sweeping new powers to take on US tech giants, threatening huge fines and raising the prospect of breakups or bans for repeat offenders.
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1 month agoCurrent Event kong88
Trump admin accused of rushing to approve mining deal on land held sacred by Native Americans
Leaders from the San Carlos Apache Tribe have accused the federal government of fast-tracking an environmental review in an effort to give Rio Tinto Ltd and its partners more than 2,400 acres of the land in the Tonto National Forest.
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1 month agoCurrent Event kong88
Trudeau Says He Sees No Path For Basic Income Right Now
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shared his thoughts about a universal basic income during a virtual town hall Wednesday, saying it’s an idea worth discussing but one the government isn’t itching to move ahead on. The NDP have advocated the idea of basic income in the House of Commons during the pandemic, calling it a tool that could help eliminate poverty by ensuring Canadians have enough money to meet the basic necessities of life in food, clothing, and shelter.
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1 month agoCurrent Event kong88
Scientists Develop New Device to Convert Unusable Mars Water into Useful Fuel and Oxygen
Water which exists on Mars is either frozen or salty which means it cannot be used by humans. But the water discovery on the Martian surface triggered new questions among the scientists—How can humans use the Martian water?
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1 month agoCurrent Event kong88
Japan spacecraft carrying asteroid soil samples nears home
A Japanese spacecraft is nearing Earth after a yearlong journey home from a distant asteroid with soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system, a space agency official said Friday. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft left the asteroid Ryugu, about 300 million kilometers (180 million miles) from Earth, a year ago and is expected to reach Earth and drop a capsule containing the precious samples in southern Australia on Dec. 6.
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1 month agoCurrent Event kong88
Trump administration pulls out of Open Skies treaty with Russia
The Trump administration has officially withdrawn from the Open Skies treaty, six months after starting the process to leave.
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2 months agoCurrent Event kong88
Joe Biden calls climate change the ‘number one issue facing humanity’
Joe Biden declared climate change the “number one issue facing humanity” and vowed a national transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy that could create millions of new jobs. “It’s the number one issue facing humanity. And it’s the number one issue for me,” Biden said of climate change during an episode of Pod Save America released Saturday. He was interviewed by Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama.
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2 months agoCurrent Event kong88
Inspired By Nature, Zymergen Brews High-Performance Bio-Electronics
This simple-looking film will probably end up in your next smartphone, laptop, watch, or television. It's made by fermentation—the same process used to make bread and beer. The biomanufacturing era has begun.
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3 months agoCurrent Event kong88
'I had to change the channel': 'SNL' host Bill Burr divides fans after controversial opening monologue
Bill Burr didn't hold back in his controversial opening "Saturday Night Live" monologue. Wearing a grey face covering, the 52-year-old comedian hosted the second episode of the season, using a portion of his monologue to criticize white women who "somehow hijacked the woke movement."
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3 months agoCurrent Event kong88
Save Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises From Extinction, Urge 300 Scientists From 40 Countries
A controversial environment chief in the Trump administration has said he has no intention of leaving his post after a US district court judge deemed his tenure and ongoing occupation of the position illegal. William Perry Pendley, head of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), said this week that the judge’s ruling “has no impact, no impact whatsoever”.
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3 months agoExpression kong88
Jill Lepore: 'When did we hand Google, Twitter and Facebook the reins?'
The historian talks big data, social media and the US election
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4 months agoCurrent Event kong88
iOS 14 on the iPhone 6S and SE: Performance is fine, other stuff is not
It’s September, and you know what that means: shorter days, the first tentative tinge of chill in the night air, Halloween candy at the grocery store, and—most relevantly for us—a new version of iOS. Apple supports its own phones with new software updates for years longer than any of the Android phone makers do, but that doesn’t mean that using a new version of iOS on the oldest-supported hardware is always pleasant. For iOS 14, that hardware is the iPhone 6S and the original 4-inch iPho...