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1501.
U.S. Administers 1 Million Vaccine Doses For Third Straight Day
According to the White House, more than 200 million eligible Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
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1502.
Psychologists say a good life doesn’t have to be happy, or even meaningful
What does a good life look like to you? For some, the phrase may conjure up images of a close-knit family, a steady job, and a Victorian house at the end of a street arched with oak trees. Others may focus on the goal of making a difference in the world, whether by working as a nurse or teacher, volunteering, or pouring their energy into environmental activism.
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1503.
Bill Maher Rips Into Apple: Their Phones “Make People Bullies”
Bill Maher took on the most valuable company in the world on Friday. He used his “New Rules” segment on Real Time to decry Apple’s announcement that it would soon scan users’ phones for child pornography. Maher said repeatedly that he was against pedophilia, but also against invasions of privacy.
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1504.
Farmers seeking 'right to repair' rules to fix their own tractors gain White House ally
Grain farmer Cole Siegle didn't have time to waste when a combine his family was using to help with the harvest started acting up. An onboard computer glitch was the problem — a quick fix with the right equipment.
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The rise of 3D-printed houses
A batch of new houses across California is selling unusually fast. In the past two months, 82 have been snapped up, and the waiting list is 1,000 long. That demand should, though, soon be satisfied—for, while it can take weeks to put up a conventional bricks-and-mortar dwelling, Palari Homes and Mighty Buildings, the collaborators behind these houses, are able to erect one in less than 24 hours.
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Scientists harness human protein to deliver molecular medicines to cells
Researchers from MIT, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a new way to deliver molecular therapies to cells. The system, called SEND, can be programmed to encapsulate and deliver different RNA cargoes, potentially provoking less of an immune response than other delivery approaches.
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DigiTimes: Apple Planning Multiple Apple Events for September
Apple is planning to hold multiple product events in September, rather than its strategy from last year to break up its fall product launches into three separate events split across September, October, and November, according to sources who spoke to DigiTimes.
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1508.
Conspiracy Theories Are More “Entertaining” Than The Truth — And This Helps Explain Why People...
Almost half the world’s 2.2 billion children are already at “extremely high risk” from the impacts of the climate crisis and pollution, according to a report from Unicef. The UN agency’s head called the situation “unimaginably dire”. Nearly every child around the world was at risk from at least one of these impacts today, including heatwaves, floods, cyclones, disease, drought, and air pollution, the report said. But 1 billion children live in 33 countries facing three or four impacts simultaneously. The countries include India, Nigeria and the Philippines, and much of sub-Saharan Africa.
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1509.
Why Weren’t Cars Electric From the Start?
If we’re approaching the golden age of the electric vehicle, it’ll be the second time.
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1510.
The Taliban respond with force to an outpouring of public anger.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Jalalabad. The Taliban shot into the crowd and beat protesters.
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1511.
Broken tech is causing a mounting environmental disaster. It's time for tech companies to...
Companies are making it impossible to fix their devices, so we end up throwing away perfectly good tech. This is causing billions of tons in e-waste.
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‘They deserve a place in history’: music teacher makes map of female composers
Interactive tool features more than 500 women who are often forgotten in the classical music world
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‘No one wanted to read’ his book on pandemic psychology – then Covid hit
Australian psychologist Steven Taylor published what would turn out to be a prophetic book, and it has become like a Lonely Planet guide to the pandemic
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Palantir to take bitcoin as payment, mulls betting on cryptocurrencies
Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR.N) has started accepting payment in bitcoin and is considering investing in cryptocurrencies, the U.S. analytics provider disclosed, the latest firm to pivot to digital currencies that are gaining wider mainstream acceptance.
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Trump let this pesticide stay on the market. Under Biden, EPA is banning it on food.
For the past decade, environmental, labor and public health groups have clamored for phasing out the pesticide that can lead to headaches or blurred vision when inhaled or ingested.
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1516.
Bitcoin mixer owner pleads guilty to laundering over $300 million
Larry Dean Harmon, the owner of a dark web cryptocurrency laundering service known as Helix, pleaded guilty today of laundering over $300 million worth of bitcoins between 2014 and 2017.
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Sudoku maker Maki Kaji, who saw life's joy in puzzles, dies
TOKYO (AP) — Maki Kaji, the creator of the popular numbers puzzle Sudoku whose life's work was spreading the joy of puzzles, has died, his Japanese company said Tuesday. He was 69 and had bile duct cancer.
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Study: As cities grow in size, the poor 'get nothing at all'
On average, people in larger cities are better off economically. But a new study published in the Royal Society Interface builds on previous research that says, that’s not necessarily true for the individual city-dweller. It turns out, bigger cities also produce more income inequality.
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Goodreads' Problem With Extortion Scams and Review Bombing
Many authors and publishers now see the social networking site as a "necessary evil".
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1520.
Swiss university claims it broke the record for Pi calculation
Most people know the value of Pi as 3.1416, but it's gotten longer and longer over the years as researchers try to find its most accurate calculation. A team from the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden in Switzerland now claims it has broken the world record for computing for the mathematical constant: It said it has calculated for 62.8 trillion digits of Pi. The current record holder, Timothy Mullican, calculated up to 50 trillion digits and was recognized for his work last year.
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The Last of Us 2 battle royale mode may have been in the works, unearthed multiplayer files suggest
Could Factions 2 include a battle royale mode?
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New browser extension helps local businesses compete with Amazon
A lover of local business has created a free and easy way for people to keep their money in their community.
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1523.
Automation could put 4 in 10 Canadian jobs at high risk in future, study says
More than 40 per cent of the Canadian workforce is at high risk of being replaced by technology and computers in the next two decades, according to a new report.
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Apple shifts stance on CSAM scanning following widespread criticism
Apple has provided further details concerning its child sexual abuse material (CSAM) scanning technology in its fourth follow-up briefing since its initial announcement ten days ago. The tech giant will now only flag images that had been supplied by clearinghouses in multiple countries and not just by the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), as announced earlier.
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US government opens probe into Tesla Autopilot crashes with emergency vehicles
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a probe into Tesla’s Autopilot software, citing the cars’ repeated collisions with parked emergency vehicles. The NHTSA investigation will cover Tesla Models Y, X, S, and 3 vehicles released from 2014 through 2021. The federal agency says since 2018 it has logged 11 incidents (which include 17 injuries and one fatality) in which Tesla vehicles using the company’s Autopilot features, like Traffic-Aware Cruise Control, have crashed into stationary emergency vehicles.
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Steve Jobs vs Tim Cook: Who Is Better As the CEO of Apple?
In the year 1997, Apple was not much far away from bankruptcy. The company was losing money after a few terrible years. Its entire business concept appeared to be flawed. But then came Steve Jobs, back at Apple. Having failed to make Pixar and NeXT successful as hardware companies, his arrival at Apple was not promising. But as history witnessed, it proved to be one of the greatest turnarounds in the history of business.
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1527.
Many Americans aren't aware they're being tracked with facial recognition while shopping
You're not just on camera, you're also being tracked
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Deepfakes Are Now Making Business Pitches
The video technology, initially associated with porn, is gaining a foothold in the corporate world.
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1529.
Is Stablecoin the Answer to All Cryptocurrency Problems?
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies that are designed to stay steady in price, making them suitable for use as a store of value and a medium of exchange.
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Hugely Popular Anti-Vaxx Misinformation Website Is Just Some Lady in Piedmont
Vaccine misinformation hotbed OpenVAERS is one of the leading sources of bad info about COVID vaccines on the internet, and an investigation finds that it’s run by some woman in the Oakland-surrounded suburb of Piedmont with too much time on her hands.
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