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41 minutes agoCurrent Event rawlings
Spotify Tests Audiobooks With Classics Collection (Exclusive)
Nine classic audiobooks — including Cynthia Erivo's narration of 'Persuasion' and Hilary Swank's narration of 'The Awakening' — are now available on Spotify.
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1 hour agoAnalysis rawlings
Earth Has Lost 28 Trillion Tons of Ice since the Mid-1990s
Melt has accelerated over recent decades, contributing to sea level rise
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3 hours agoExpression rawlings
Warning Signal: the messaging app’s new features are causing internal turmoil
Signal promised to be different from other messaging apps — but will the company’s focus on growth compromise its mission?
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2 days agoCurrent Event rawlings
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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2 days agoCurrent Event rawlings
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.
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6 days agoExpression rawlings
I Am Not a Soldier, but I Have Been Trained to Kill
A sprawling tactical industry is teaching American civilians how to fight like Special Ops forces. By preparing for violence at home, are they calling it into being?
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11 days agoCurrent Event rawlings
Tesla files to use new 'millimeter-wave radar' in electric cars
Tesla has applied with the FCC for the use of a new “millimeter-wave radar” inside the automaker’s electric cars. New Tesla Radar Tesla uses a front-facing radar sensor hidden inside the front fascia of its vehicles as part of its Autopilot/Full Self-Driving (FSD) sensor suite.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event rawlings
QAnon Woke Up the Real Deep State
To the QAnon community, and others involved in storming the Capitol: The Deep State is real, but it’s not what you think. The Deep State you worry about is mostly made up; a fiction, a lie, a product of active imaginations, grifter manipulations, and the internet. I’m telling you this now because storming the Capitol building has drawn the attention of the real Deep State — the national security bureaucracy — and it’s important you understand what that means.
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2 weeks agoAnalysis rawlings
Amazon Rainforest Will Collapse by 2064, New Study Predicts
The future of the world's largest rainforest looks bleak. A report for Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development concluded that the Amazon rainforest will collapse and largely become a dry, shrubby plain by 2064. Development, deforestation and the climate crisis are to blame, study author and geologist Robert Toovey Walker found.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event rawlings
Bucking Trump, NSA and FBI say Russia was “likely” behind SolarWinds hack
Hackers working for the Russian government were “likely” behind the software supply chain attack that planted a backdoor in the networks of 18,000 private companies and governmental bodies, officials from the US National Security Agency and three other agencies said on Tuesday.
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2 weeks agoExpression rawlings
Climbing the Himalaya With Soldiers, Spies, Lamas and Mountaineers
“Himalaya: A Human History,” by Ed Douglas, a journalist and climber, unfolds the story of the world’s highest mountain range and its equally outsize impact on mankind.
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3 weeks agoExpression rawlings
America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
The United States can bring manufacturing back — which will bring back good jobs and protect national interests.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event rawlings
A Theory By North Carolina State University Professors Rules Out Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
Larry Silverberg and his research partner Jeffrey Eischen From North Carolina State University have proposed a surprising new model of physics that could entirely rewrite the way we have studied physics so far.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event rawlings
Game Of Thrones creators' new series hit with tragedy as producer is murdered
A co-worker has been named as responsible for the attack.
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1 month agoCurrent Event rawlings
Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes
Fujifilm has announced that it has set a new world record by creating a magnetic storage tape that can store a staggering 580 terabytes of data.
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1 month agoCurrent Event rawlings
Pardons in killings of Iraqi civilians stir angry response
WASHINGTON (AP) — The courtroom monitors carried the image of a smiling 9-year-old boy as his father pleaded for the punishment of four U.S. government contractors convicted in shootings that...
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1 month agoAnalysis rawlings
Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males
One theory is that reckless young bison and mammoths got into more trouble.
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1 month agoCurrent Event rawlings
"We want them infected": Shocking email reveals top Trump appointee's plan to spread COVID-19
According to a new report from POLITICO, a former top Trump appointee urged for health officials to adopt a "herd immunity" approach to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing for millions of people to be infected.
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1 month agoCurrent Event rawlings
Alleged Russian SolarWinds hack "probably an 11" on scale of 1 to 10, cybersecurity expert warns
"I guarantee you, by the time it's done, it will be far worse than what we think it is right now," said Mark Wright of cybersecurity firm Sentinel One.