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Schools bought millions of Chromebooks in 2020 — and three years later, they’re starting to break
Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops that they could send home with their students. Quite a few turned to Chromebooks. Three years later, the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund concludes in a new report called Chromebook Churn that many of these batches are already beginning to break. That’s potentially costing districts money; PIRG estimates that “doubling the lifespan of Chromebooks could result in $1.8 billion in savings for taxpayers.” It also creates quite a bit of e-waste.
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Smart gun operating on facial recognition goes on sale in US
Colorado-based Biofire Tech is taking orders for a smart gun enabled by facial-recognition technology, the latest development in personalized weapons that can only be fired by verified users.
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The Pentagon Is Increasingly Relying on Billionaires’ Rockets. And It’s OK with That.
The U.S. Space Force is not concerned about relying on mercurial billionaires to provide space capabilities, according to top service leaders. The service’s ability to put large satellites in space rests primarily on the shoulders of Elon Musk, whose SpaceX test-flew a new heavy-lift rocket for the first time on Thursday, and Jeff Bezos, whose Blue Origin is slated to deliver engines to United Launch Alliance.
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7 miles of California beaches closed after 250,000 gallons of sewage spill into the LA River
Water from the Los Angeles River connects to the Pacific Ocean in Long Beach, meaning pollution upriver can impact the city's coastal waters.
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Little Girl, Parents Shot After Basketball Rolls Into Neighbor’s Yard: Report
A 6-year-old girl and her parents were injured by gunfire on Tuesday night after a basketball rolled down a residential street in North Carolina and into a man’s yard, enraging him, neighbors told WSOC-TV.
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R. Kelly Files Appeal Over 30-Year Prison Sentence, Argues Prosecutors Did Not Prove Case
His attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, filed Kelly's appeal on Tuesday. This development came after a jury found him guilty on all nine counts of a superseding indictment charging him with racketeering predicated on criminal conduct including sexual exploitation of children, forced labor, and Mann Act violations.
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1,000-year-old canoe recovered from N.C. lake moves Waccamaw tribe members to tears
When Michael Jacobs first laid eyes on a canoe his ancestors expertly crafted a millennium ago, he says he "couldn't do nothing but cry." Jacobs is the chief of the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe in southeastern North Carolina, where a team of archaeologists and tribe members and local residents recently pulled a 1,000-year-old canoe from the water.
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Americans Spend $48 per Month on Video Streaming Services — and Half of Those Surveyed Say That’s Too Much
“Subscription fatigue” among consumers is only getting worse, making it even more challenging for direct-to-streaming video providers to retain customers, according to Deloitte’s latest Digital Media Trends survey. As streaming video competition continues to intensify, subscription growth rates across the industry have slowed — and churn rates have increased, according to the Deloitte’s 17th annual Digital Media Trends report. On average, U.S. consumers pay $48 per month for subscription-video services...
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Minneapolis becomes first major US city to allow Muslim call to prayer at all times
Minneapolis officials have approved loudspeaker broadcasts of the Muslim call to prayer at all times – making it the first major American city to do so. The Minneapolis City Council on Thursday unanimously agreed to amend the city’s noise ordinance, allowing the “adhan” — Arabic for “announcement”–to sound five times a day, year-round.
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Clean Energy Is Thriving in Texas. So Why Are State Republicans Trying to Stifle It?
Texas leads the nation for generating the most electricity from solar and wind and plays an outsized role in manufacturing electric vehicles. A slew of new bills could change that.
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Invasive ‘stinknet’ growing in the Phoenix-area creating headaches for homeowners
You may have seen it around the Valley and thought it was a wildflower, but Globe Chamomile, or ‘stinknet,’ is an invasive plant. Over the years, more and more Arizonans have been complaining about how much there is, given that when it dries out, it becomes fire fuel.
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Environmental Justice Advocates Urge California to Stop Issuing New Drilling Permits in Neighborhoods - Inside Climate News
The first thing Nalleli Cobo wanted to do when she heard the oil well in her South Los Angeles neighborhood was shutting down was scream. She had so much pent-up energy she didn’t know what else to do. Cobo grew up breathing foul-smelling, toxic emissions from an oil production site just 30 feet from her home. She sometimes caught whiffs of chocolate and citrus, which she thinks came from chemicals used to mask the fetid smell.
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FBI warns against using public phone charging stations
The FBI recently warned consumers against using free public charging stations, saying crooks have managed to hijack public chargers that can infect devices with malware, or software that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet or computer.
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Most U.S. Banks Near Insolvency, Hundreds Already Fully Insolvent
The yield on 10-year U.S. treasury bonds was at roughly 1% in January 2022, and the German bonds were trading at -0.5%. That signaled the drastically bad effect inflation would have for stocks and bonds. An increase in inflation could increase bond yields, which only means bad things for stocks. Because there’s an inverse relation between yields and bond prices, higher yields indicate a price fall for them.
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Ron DeSantis takes aim at Disney, vows to void Florida theme park development agreement
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ramped up his fight against Walt Disney Co , seeking to void an agreement that Disney passed to limit the power of a board appointed by DeSantis to oversee its Florida theme park property.
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Predictions about the decline of Christianity in America may be premature
The cross, and the empty tomb. Both Christian symbols are bookends to the Easter story. One symbolizes the tragic execution of Jesus while the other represents the Christian belief in his resurrection, and the claim that death does not have the final word on him or his followers.
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In Ruling to Ban Abortion Pills, Federal Judge Claims 'Fetus' Is an Unscientific Term
The Trump-appointed judge who ruled on Friday night to invalidate the FDA’s approval (23 years ago) of the highly safe, effective abortion pill mifepristone wants you to know he had “inclusivity” in mind when writing his decision.
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A dramatic new EPA rule will force up to 60% of new US car sales to be EVs in just 7 years
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to make a groundbreaking announcement this week that will make the majority of new US car sales EVs by 2032, according to a breaking New York Times scoop.
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Texas Man Used AirTag to Track and Kill Suspected Truck Thief
A San Antonio man allegedly used an Apple Airtag tracking device to locate his stolen truck and kill the suspected thief. According to police reports, he used the Airtag to find the truck in a shopping center parking lot, and shot the man he suspected of stealing it in the head.
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Top 5 American book reading statistics (USA, 2022-2023)
Whether these American book reading statistics give you cause for concern or reason to hope, there are steps you can take to rekindle your love of reading.
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