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6 hours agoCurrent Event mariogi
Google will no longer donate to members of Congress who voted against certifying the US election result
Google will not fund members of Congress this cycle who voted against certifying the results of the US election, the company has confirmed.
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1 day agoCurrent Event mariogi
Arizona Republicans Censure Party Leaders At Odds With Trump
State GOP members passed resolutions to condemn three party leaders who they said failed to support former President Donald Trump: Gov. Doug Ducey, former Sen. Jeff Flake and Cindy McCain.
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3 days agoAnalysis mariogi
This Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes
The company is rolling out a patch for the vulnerabilities, which allowed one researcher to break into a car in 90 seconds and drive away.
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4 days agoCurrent Event mariogi
Tim Cook gifted Trump first 2019 Mac Pro off assembly line
Trump toured the Flex plant in Austin, Texas, in late 2019 to prop up his administration's promise to boost American production might. Apple has used Flex to build Mac Pro models since at least 2013. While the visit to Flex, and Apple's new Austin campus, was well documented, Cook's Mac Pro gift was only today revealed in a financial disclosure report highlighted by The New York Times reporter David Enrich.
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7 days agoAnalysis mariogi
This fossil reveals how dinosaurs peed, pooped and had sex
We know a lot about dinosaurs -- what they looked like, what they ate and what killed them off -- but no fossils have definitively preserved two dinosaurs in the act of mating.
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10 days agoCurrent Event mariogi
Amazon will let other companies build custom versions of Alexa
Amazon will let other companies build custom versions of Alexa
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2 weeks agoExpression mariogi
The Roots of Josh Hawley’s Rage
Why do so many Republicans appear to be at war with both truth and democracy?
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2 weeks agoAnalysis mariogi
CDC has not seen emergence of a highly contagious U.S. variant of coronavirus
The White House coronavirus task force said there could be a new variant of the virus that evolved in the U.S. and is driving spread, a document obtained by NBC News said.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event mariogi
The Pentagon Has 6 Months to Disclose What It Knows About UFOs
As part of the newly passed COVID-19 relief legislation, lawmakers are demanding answers from U.S. intelligence agencies and the Defense Department on the potential existence of UFOs and other unidentified aerial phenomena.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event mariogi
Facebook ordered to pay $4.7M to Italian developer over copycat feature
Facebook has been ordered to pay €3.83 million (around $4.72 million) in damages to an Italian developer over the social network’s “Nearby” feature. Reuters reports that the Milan-based appeals court upheld a 2019 ruling saying Facebook had copied the feature from developer Business Competence’s Faround app.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event mariogi
Local restaurateurs hope winter and COVID won't kill them off
At the Academy Tavern on Larchmere last week, Missy and Wilson Heller shared a table but not a comfort level. “I’m freaked out,” Missy said about eating out during the pandemic. “It’s all overblown,” Wilson said about the danger.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event mariogi
McConnell offers no clues for how Senate will avoid government shutdown
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered no clues for how the chamber might convince Senators Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders to drop demands that have put Washington on the brink of a government shutdown. The Kentucky Republican only briefly mentioned the need to pass a House-approved stopgap spending measure and get it to Donald Trump before midnight during his opening remarks on Friday.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis mariogi
Hubble pins down weird exoplanet with far-flung orbit that behaves like the long-sought 'Planet Nine'
A planet in an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away may offer a clue to a mystery much closer to home: A hypothesized, distant body in our solar system dubbed "Planet Nine." This is the first time that astronomers have been able to measure the motion of a massive Jupiter-like planet that is orbiting very far away from its host stars and visible debris disk. This disk is similar to our Kuiper Belt of small, icy bodies beyond Neptune. In our own solar system, the susp...
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1 month agoAnalysis mariogi
Staying Sober During the Holidays: 8 Tips to Avoid Addiction Temptation
The holiday season is particularly difficult for recovering addicts or alcoholics. Stress, financial burdens, family dysfunctions, and loneliness all contribute to relapse. Here are 8 science-backed ways to handle addiction temptation and help your loved ones stay sober during the holidays.
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1 month agoCurrent Event mariogi
Experts warn about the radicalizing power of right-wing media networks
A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The best word for what's happening in America right now is radicalization. President Trump and the right-wing media machine are leading far too many viewers and readers to become radicalized. And that's making it much harder to speak a common language and solve common problems.
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1 month agoCurrent Event mariogi
Universal Basic Income has been a ‘lifesaver’ to families during coronavirus pandemic: California mayor
Universal basic income (UBI) has been a “lifesaver” for households participating in UBI pilot programs, Mayor Michael Tubbs told Yahoo Finance. The Stockton, Calif. mayor is the founder of Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, a program that provides $500 a month to families in dozens of cities around the United States and was originally slated to end in July. The program recently received a sizable boost after Twitter (TWTR) CEO Jack Dorsey donated $15 million to the initiative.
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1 month agoCurrent Event mariogi
Comet Records From 1240 Accurately Date When a Byzantine Princess Died
Visiting comets can serve as markers in historical timelines. A team of Japanese researchers used one to confirm the death of an Empress.
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1 month agoCurrent Event mariogi
Military robots perform worse when humans won't stop interrupting them
A US project has found that AI-controlled military robots perform worse when humans interrupt them – but letting the robots operate alone raises serious ethical questions.
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1 month agoCurrent Event mariogi
Nearly 19 million Americans could lose their homes when eviction limits expire Dec. 31
Millions of households are behind on their rent and face a potential "fiscal cliff" early next year.