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Is it time to leave WhatsApp – and is Signal the answer?
Earlier this month, WhatsApp issued a new privacy policy along with an ultimatum: accept these new terms, or delete WhatsApp from your smartphone. But the new privacy policy wasn’t particularly clear, and it was widely misinterpreted to mean WhatsApp would be sharing more sensitive personal data with its parent company Facebook. Unsurprisingly, it prompted a fierce backlash, with many users threatening to stop using the service.
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Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
Sales increase 43% globally in 2020 as plunging battery costs mean the cars will soon be the cheapest vehicles to buy
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Scientists Make First 'Invisible Solar Panels' You Can Integrate Into Smartphones
A long time after the Paris Climate Agreement, nations have kept on enhancing on the mission to make a smooth exit from non-renewable energy and to change to renewable energy sources for electricity. Korean Scientists from Incheon National University exhibits how they have made the first fully transparent solar cell.
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House lawmakers reintroduce bipartisan bill to weed out foreign disinformation on social media
Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and John Katko (R-N.Y.) on Friday reintroduced legislation intended to cut down on foreign disinformation and propaganda spread on social media, in particular following a spike in the content after the presidential election and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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France has passed a law protecting the sounds and smells of the countryside
France has passed a law protecting the "sensory heritage" of its rural areas, in the face of complaints about the noises and smells typical of the countryside. Senators voted to approve the law, which passed through the lower house of parliament last year, on Thursday, according to a statement from Joël Giraud, the Minister for Rural Affairs.
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Will 'Ozark' Season 4 Be on Netflix in 2021?
Filming for Ozark was expecting to begin on November 9, 2020. If the filming continues, we can expect the first part of season 4 in 2021.
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What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19?
Some patients could be living with the aftereffects for years to come. Recent research into another persistent, mysterious disease might help us understand how to treat them.
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Covid job losses lead MPs to call for trials of universal basic income
A cross-party group of MPs has called on the government to allow councils to run universal basic income trials in response to mass unemployment triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. A letter to the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, signed by more than 500 MPs, lords and local councillors says pilot schemes are urgently needed as the pandemic unleashes widespread economic disruption and drives up redundancies at the fastest rate on record this winter.
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Apple Watch credited with helping police locate kidnapped Texas woman
Police in Selma, Texas are crediting the Apple Watch with helping them locate a kidnapped woman. As reported by Fox San Antonio, the kidnapped woman used her Apple Watch to call for help, and police were able to use a cellular ping to track her.
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Food Truck Sells Out of 1,000 Servings of 3D-Printed Vegan Meat in Five Hours
Israeli company Redefine Meat attracted 600 customers to a small village in Israel with its innovative vegan Alt-Meat, which will soon be available at local butcher shops and restaurants thanks to a partnership with meat distributor Best Meister.
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Microsoft reverses Xbox Live price hike, will add free multiplayer for some games
Microsoft won't raise the price of Xbox Live, and it's adding free multiplayer for free-to-play games like 'Fortnite.'
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A moon rock in the Oval Office: President Joe Biden's lunar display
Joe Biden was three weeks from taking office as a freshman U.S. senator when the moon rock that is now on display in the White House was collected by astronauts on the lunar surface. Biden and lunar sample 76015,143 will now share the Oval Office.
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Psychologists use "The Sims 3" video game to study how psychopathic individuals target their victims
New findings published in Evolutionary Psychological Science suggest that psychopathic people view the absence of aggression as an indicator of weakness.
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Building Earth's largest telescope on the far side of the moon
NASA engineers are planning a robotically constructed kilometre diameter radio telescope that will fit in a giant crater and study radio waves from the big bang.
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Cancel culture comes for the moderates
In the history of cancel culture, it’s hard to find a case where, after an inappropriate firing, an employer had the courage to admit that it had acted rashly and rehire the victim.
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A Texas doctor has been charged with stealing 9 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine 'for friends and family'
A Texas doctor faces charges alleging that he stole nine doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from his place of work. Dr. Hasan Gokal stole the single vial on December 29 while working at the county vaccination site in Humble, Texas, according to the Harris County prosecutor's office.
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Page refresh: how the internet is transforming the novel
The internet shapes how we see the world, and now it’s changing the stories we tell, writes author Olivia Sudjic.
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A Bitter Archaeological Feud Over an Ancient Vision of the Cosmos
The Nebra sky disk, which has been called the oldest known depiction of astronomical phenomena, is a “very emotional object.”
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Massive Apple VR leak reveals headset price, release window
A new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple's first VR headset will cost well over $900 and have a chip faster than the M1 Mac.
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Space station detectors found the source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning
The origins of an enigmatic type of lightning in the upper atmosphere has been traced to a 10-microsecond flash of bright blue light.