Post Overview
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5 years ago
+20 20 0India’s engineers have thrived in Silicon Valley. So has its caste system.
Engineers and advocates of the lowest-ranked caste say that tech companies don't understand caste bias and haven't explicitly prohibited caste-based discrimination.
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5 years ago
+15 15 0Layoffs thought to be temporary are now permanent for nearly 4 million Americans
When the initial wave of layoffs due to the coronavirus hit the U.S. economy in April and subsequent lockdowns, many people thought these losses would be temporary phenomenon that would quickly rebound as businesses reopened.However, the new employme ...
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5 years ago
+17 17 0Donald Trump Attended a Las Vegas Church on Sunday That Ended Up Worshiping Him
Donald Trump attended church Sunday morning at the International Church of Las Vegas, complete with an extravagant display of worship music and twirled American flags, in case there was any doubt about the Christian Nationalism bent of this administr ...
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5 years ago
+27 27 0 x 1America’s Toxic Love Affair With Technology
America has long carried on a great love affair with technological progress. But the truth is that really big inventions—the printing press, the internal-combustion engine, the internet—have both upsides and downsides. They make new things possible, ...
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5 years ago
+21 21 0California kept prison factories open. Inmates worked for pennies an hour as COVID-19 spread
While much of California shut down this spring, Robbie Hall stitched masks for 12 hours a day in a sewing factory at a women’s prison in Chino. For several weeks, Hall and other women said, they churned out masks by the thousands but were forbidden f ...
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5 years ago
+19 19 0Astronaut chooses daughter's wedding over space test flight
The commander of Boeing’s first astronaut flight has pulled himself off the crew so he’s on Earth — not at the International Space Station — for his daughter’s wedding next year. It’s the second crew switch for Boeing’s Starliner capsule, grounded un ...
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5 years ago
+11 11 0Analysis: New Apple 'iPhone 12' to offer 5G speeds U.S. networks can't deliver
5G will finally get its U.S. closeup with the expected debut of Apple Inc’s next iPhone on Tuesday. But the blazing speeds promised will not materialize for most people.
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5 years ago
+22 22 0Huawei ousted from heart of EU as Nokia wins Belgian 5G contracts
Orange and Proximus have picked Nokia to help build 5G networks in Belgium as they drop Huawei amid U.S. pressure to exclude the Chinese firm from supplying key telecoms equipment.
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Analysis
5 years ago
+21 21 0Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears
In study, stimulating sound and touch together molds the brain, reduces tinnitus
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Expression
5 years ago
+22 22 0The Pandemic Depression Is Over. The Pandemic Recession Has Just Begun.
Signs of a slower, grinding recovery sure look familiar.
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5 years ago
+29 29 0 x 1Happy Birthday, PBS. Please Save Us.
Next month will mark 50 years of television that aims to educate and unite.
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5 years ago
+18 18 0Mexico issues arrest warrants on sixth anniversary of disappearance of 43 college students
Mexican authorities have issued dozens of arrest warrants for police and soldiers whom they believe may have participated in the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican college students, head of the investigation said on Saturday.
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5 years ago
+4 4 0Nolan North Is Actively Trying To Get Marvel To Make Another DEADPOOL Video Game
The Deadpool video game was released in 2013, and for fans of the Merc with the Mouth, it was the perfect interpretation of the character. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a sequel, but we did get a re-release on the current generation of consol ...
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5 years ago
+15 15 0Navalny team says nerve agent was found on hotel room water bottle
The nerve agent used to poison Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detected on an empty water bottle from his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, suggesting he was poisoned there and not at the airport as first thought, his team said o ...
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+17 17 0Japan's video gaming grandma, 90, plays her way into record books
Still nimble-fingered pensioner Hamako Mori holds Guinness world record as oldest gaming YouTuber
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How-to
5 years ago
+18 18 0Sacha Baron Cohen Back for ‘Borat 2’ and Is Already Done Filming the Sequel— Report
The original "Borat" grossed over $260 million worldwide and earned Cohen a Golden Globe award.
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5 years ago
+2 2 0Black Widow Reflects The Time’s Up Era And Is About ‘Women Helping Women’, Says Scarlett Johansson
Though Scarlett Johansson first appeared as Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, in the MCU 10 years ago in Iron Man 2, it’s taken a decade for the character to get her own Marvel movie. The long-awaited Black Widow is set to delve into Romanoff’s past ...
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Analysis
5 years ago
+14 14 0The catastrophic science behind the stunning photos of Arctic crater
A 160-foot-deep crater has opened up in the Arctic permafrost. It is the result of built up methane gas released during the frost's thaw, scientists say.
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+19 19 0Black silicon photodetector hits record-breaking 132% efficiency
Researchers at Aalto University have developed a photovoltaic device that has an external quantum efficiency of 132 percent. This impossible-sounding feat was achieved using nanostructured black silicon, and could represent a major breakthrough for s ...
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5 years ago
+17 17 0How Trump Killed Tens of Thousands of Americans
On July 17, President Donald Trump sat for a Fox News interview at the White House. At the time, nearly 140,000 Americans were dead from the novel coronavirus. The interviewer, Chris Wallace, showed Trump a video clip in which Robert Redfield, the di ...




















