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3 days agoCurrent Event tukka
Etsy not thinking of accepting bitcoin right now: CEO
Etsy Inc Chief Executive Officer Josh Silverman said on Friday the e-commerce retailer is not thinking about accepting bitcoin as a form of payment right now, saying more people need to buy and own it before it can be used as tender.
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4 days agoCurrent Event tukka
Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast. This image was acquired on Feb. 24, 2021 (Sol 3) at the local mean solar time of 16:22:38.
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9 days agoCurrent Event tukka
School officials order windows screwed shut after teachers open them to increase ventilation
Teachers at a school in Abbotsford, B.C., started opening classroom windows after learning in December that there was no ventilation system in an older wing of the school. But many of the windows were later screwed shut, with school officials citing safety issues.
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13 days agoCurrent Event tukka
‘Roaring Kitty’ Reddit investor sued over role in GameStop stock surge
One of the principal figures in a group of Reddit investors who drove a huge surge in GameStop’s share price in January is being sued in federal court, in a class-action complaint alleging securities fraud. The lead plaintiff, a Washington state investor, suffered “substantial financial losses,” when he used $200,000 to make a short-selling speculation against GameStop’s price, when the company’s stock was below $100. It then went skyrocketing to a record closing price of $347.51 on Ja...
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event tukka
Popular Google Play app became malicious adware — check your barcode scanner
Android gets a bit of an exaggerated reputation for malware due to apps installed from outside of the official Google Play store. Unfortunately, Google's version of a walled garden doesn't always manage to keep the weeds out.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event tukka
Robert Downey Jr. is launching a new ‘rolling’ venture fund to back sustainability startups
A little less than two years ago, when the actor, producer and investor Robert Downey Jr. unveiled his new, sustainability focused initiative called the FootPrint Coalition at Amazon’s re:MARS conference it was little more than a static website and a subscription prompt.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
McDonald’s quietly rolls out McPlant burger in test markets
McDonald’s Corp. has quietly begun selling the McPlant burger in Denmark and Sweden, giving the fast-food giant insight into customer interest before more locations roll out the meat alternative.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like
From denialism to death threats, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci describes a fraught year as an adviser to President Donald J. Trump on the Covid-19 pandemic.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
US Politicians Use Moral Language More Often When They Have Less Power
Whatever your political affiliation, making appeals to people’s morality can be a powerful rhetorical tool. Politicians frequently use language that refers to moral principles of harm, fairness, loyalty, authority and purity, in order to defend policy positions, appeal to new voters and appease old ones.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
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. Senators voted to approve the law, which passed through the lower house of parliament last year, on Thursday, according to a statement from Joël Giraud, the Minister for Rural Affairs.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
Personalized Skin Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in New Trial Results
The future of cancer treatment might involve personalized vaccines meant to manage or even prevent relapses—at least if new research published Thursday continues to pan out. In a small clinical trial, high-risk melanoma patients given such a vaccine were able to create a long term, durable immune response to their cancer, scientists said. They also remained alive four years after the initial treatment, with most being actively disease-free.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub, the pirated-papers website
Move comes as publishers sue in India to block public access
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1 month agoAnalysis tukka
Phage viruses can make superbugs susceptible to antibiotics again
Viruses firmly hold the world’s attention at the moment, but we shouldn’t ignore the rising health threat that bacteria pose, too. The crafty critters are fast evolving resistance to antibiotics, meaning our best drugs could soon stop working entirely. Now researchers in Australia have found a way…
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
Maryland governor said he was repeatedly denied authorization to send National Guard to D.C.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Thursday that after receiving a request for help from the District of Columbia on Wednesday, he immediately mobilized the state police and National Guard, but was repeatedly denied authorization to deploy.
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1 month agoCurrent Event tukka
Trump auction of oil leases in Arctic refuge attracts barely any bidders
The Trump administration’s last-minute attempt on Wednesday to auction off part of a long-protected Arctic refuge to oil drillers brought almost zero interest from oil companies, forcing the state of Alaska into the awkward position of leasing the lands itself.