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2 years ago+18 18 0Warming Arctic linked to polar vortex outbreaks farther south
Warming of the Arctic caused by climate change has increased the number of polar vortex outbreaks, when frigid air from the far north bathes other parts of the Northern Hemisphere in killer cold, a new study finds.
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2 years ago+13 13 0Apple delays controversial plan to scan iPhones for child exploitation images
After objections about privacy rights, Apple said Friday it will delay its plan to scan users’ photo libraries for images of child exploitation. “Last month we announced plans for features intended to help protect children from predators who use comm ...
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2 years ago+13 13 0New insulation material provides more efficient electricity distribution
High-voltage direct current cables which can efficiently transport electricity over long distances play a vital role in our electricity supply. Optimizing their performance is therefore an important challenge. With that aim in mind, scientists from C ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0Hamas congratulates Taliban for ‘defeating’ US
In response to the Taliban re-conquest of Afghanistan, Hamas on Monday congratulated the Afghan people for “defeating” the US. “We congratulate the Muslim Afghan people for the defeat of the American occupation on all Afghan lands, and we congratulat ...
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2 years ago+22 22 0How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence
CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail.
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2 years ago+4 4 0Apple Ordered to Pay Optis Wireless $300 Million in Second LTE Patent Trial
Apple must pay $300 million in damages to Optis Wireless Technology for infringing a handful of patents related to 4G LTE technology, a Texas jury has ruled (via Reuters). In August 2020, a jury found that Apple had infringed five Optis wireless pate ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Working out in 4-second bursts for less than 15 minutes a day could boost your cardio fitness, a small study suggests
If you struggle to find time for the gym, research suggests that high intensity exercise for less than 15 minutes a day may improve fitness. Repeated, four-second bursts of intense exercise, performed three times a week, was found to boost cardio and ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0Unfair Use: Anti-Interoperability and Our Dwindling Digital Freedom
You’ve probably heard of “open-source software.” If you pay attention to the politics of this stuff, you might have heard of “free software,” and may even know a little about the ethical debate underpinning the war of words between these two labels. ...
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2 years ago+20 20 0Please, no Moore: 'Law' that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul-de-sac
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. In it, he noted that in three years, the optimal cost per component on a chip had dropped by a factor of 10, while the optimal number had incre ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0Boeing Starliner launch delayed indefinitely
Boeing's Starliner won't launch Wednesday as had been planned following problems with its propulsion system that prevented a key uncrewed test flight to the international space station a day earlier—and it's not clear when the troubled ...
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2 years ago+15 15 0The rise of inflation conspiracy theories
I watched a “documentary” a few days ago called End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless. One statement in the documentary stuck in my mind.
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2 years ago+14 14 0American Dysfunction Is the Biggest Barrier to Fighting Covid
Lax vaccination and haphazard rules on masking sabotage the fight against the Delta variant in the U.S.
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2 years ago+24 24 0Facebook catches Iranian spies catfishing US military targets
If you’re a member of the US military who's gotten friendly Facebook messages from private-sector recruiters for months on end, suggesting a lucrative future in the aerospace or defense contractor industry, Facebook may have some bad news.
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2 years ago+11 11 0This farm relies on birds — not pesticides — to control pests
Dennis Tamura never set out to be a bird-watcher. He’s been a farmer for over 35 years, and he and his wife grow organic vegetables and flowers on Blue Heron Farms outside Watsonville. But birds have become a part of the farm’s ecosystem. About 15 ye ...
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2 years ago+13 13 0UN sets out Paris-style plan to cut extinction rate by factor of 10
Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Pari ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0Is nuclear power the missing piece of our climate change puzzle?
Athought experiment, proposed with a grin by Dietmar Detering, a German entrepreneur living in New York: "What would the climate debate look like if all we had were fossil fuels and renewables, and suddenly someone said, 'I invented somethi ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0'The Blacklist' creator Jon Bokenkamp is leaving after 8 seasons
The mind behind The Blacklist is stepping down. On the heels of a game-changing season 8 finale, series creator Jon Bokenkamp announced his departure from the NBC crime drama Thursday. His exit follows that of leading lady Megan Boone, whose characte ...
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2 years ago+18 18 0They Seemed Like Democratic Activists. They Were Secretly Conservative Spies.
The young couple posing in front of the faux Eiffel Tower at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas fit right in, two people in a sea of idealistic Democrats who had arrived in the city in February 2020 for a Democratic primary debate.
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2 years ago+17 17 0Jobless claims: Another 411,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week
The Department of Labor released its weekly report on new jobless claims Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET.
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2 years ago+4 4 0'The Boys' casts three new superheroes: Meet Supersonic, Gunpowder, and Blue Hawk
Miles Gaston Villanueva, Sean Patrick Flannery, and Nick Wechsler are joining the cast of Amazon's subversive comic book show in season 3.
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