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Current Event ubthejudgeUS Sen. Ed Markey says mobile carriers' alleged throttling practices highlight need for 'net neutrality'
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, renewed his push for "net neutrality" protections Thursday, following reports that many major U.S. mobile carriers may be "throttling," or slowing down, certain services on their networks. Markey, who led the U.S. Senate push to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's rollback of net neutrality rules, said the findings from researchers behind the app "Wehe" underscore the need for the Obama-era internet rules.
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3 days ago
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Scientists to swap dusty old kilogram for something more stable
Just as the redefinition of the second in 1967 helped to ease communication across the world via technologies like GPS and the internet, experts say the change in the kilogram will be better for technology, retail and health - though it probably won’t change the price of fish much.
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3 days ago
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Bishop bans same-sex marriage, says his church has been hijacked by the "Gay Rights Agenda"
An Episcopal Church bishop in Albany, New York, has issued a directive banning same-sex marriage in his diocese, claiming that the church has been “hijacked by the ‘Gay Rights Agenda,' which is very well organized, very strategic, very well financed and very powerful.”
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5 days ago
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50,000 people march in Montreal to demand more climate action
An estimated 50,000 people marched in Montreal to show their support for climate action on Saturday, as part of a wider campaign with sister marches happening in cities throughout Quebec. The march was organized by a group called The Planet Goes to Parliament. Spokesperson Nathalie Roy said that the movement was born out of increasing frustration from citizens during the recent provincial election campaign.
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5 days ago
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Growing criticism of Trump cemetery no-show
A British minister has appeared to join growing criticism of US President Donald Trump's decision to miss a memorial event on Saturday due to rain. Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood took an apparent swipe at the president on Twitter, saying "rain did not prevent our brave heroes from doing their job". Mr Trump is in France to commemorate the centenary of World War One's end.
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7 days ago
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'Remarkable' global decline in fertility rates
Their report found fertility rate falls meant nearly half of countries were now facing a "baby bust" - meaning there are insufficient children to maintain their population size. The researchers said the findings were a "huge surprise", and there would be profound consequences for societies with "more grandparents than grandchildren". The study, published in the Lancet, followed trends in every country from 1950 to 2017.
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8 days ago
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Laura Levis died outside a Boston-area ER. The doors were locked. Why?
My wife, Laura Levis, did everything she could to save herself when the asthma attack began. She went to Somerville Hospital and called 911, too. How could she have been left to die just outside the emergency room?
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11 days ago
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Tesla's pickup truck will be like something out of 'Blade Runner,' CEO Elon Musk says
Elon Musk is serious about plans for a Tesla pickup truck, and says it's going to look like something out of the sci-fi movie "Blade Runner."
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12 days ago
Comment ubthejudge
Uggh this video just frustrated me. America needs to fix itself and fast.
Posted in: Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
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13 days ago
Analysis ubthejudge
Old School 'Sniffing' Attacks Can Still Reveal Your Browsing History
The way that major browsers store history and structure links leaves them vulnerable to old school ‘sniffing’ attacks, according to new research from the University of California San Diego.
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2 weeks ago
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My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery
His career as an eminent physicist was derailed by an obsession. Was he a genius or a crackpot?
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2 weeks ago
Current Event ubthejudge
Hacked Facebook private messages for sale
The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service they had details from a total of 120 million accounts.
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2 weeks ago
Analysis ubthejudge
Wait a year before new pregnancy - study
A study says 12-to-18 months is the ideal interval between giving birth and becoming pregnant again.
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2 weeks ago
Analysis ubthejudge
Are hydrogen trains the future of travel?
Trains that emit pure water could be in the UK by the "early 2020s", according to the government.
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2 weeks ago
Analysis ubthejudge
Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare
Sidewalk Labs promised 'privacy by design' in Quayside. Will it actually happen?
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2 weeks ago
Current Event ubthejudge
Search engine for CCTV lets you find people from their description
Finding someone in a surveillance video could soon be as easy as Googling them. Descriptions of people of interest, such as a suspect or a missing person, are normally given in terms of their height, gender or clothing. But using this information to find a short woman wearing a red jacket in a video, say, often requires scanning hours of footage manually, which is no easy task. But a new search tool can do it automatically.
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2 weeks ago
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Humans Are Screwing Up Dolphins' Abilities To Talk To Each Other
As if humans weren’t already doing enough to destroy the planet and harm our fellow creatures, a new study has revealed that human-caused noise is hindering the ability of dolphins to communicate with one another. Dolphins ― highly intelligent and social animals ― use a complex array of whistle calls to talk to each other that some scientists have compared to human speech.
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3 weeks ago
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If the bombs stop it's obviously this guy.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event ubthejudge
Oxygen-Rich Liquid Water May Exist on Mars
The possibility of life on Mars may not be consigned to the distant past. New research suggests our neighboring world could hide enough oxygen in briny liquid water near its surface to support microbial life, opening up a wealth of potentially habitable regions across the entire planet. Although the findings do not directly measure the oxygen content of brines known to exist on the Red Planet, they constitute an important step toward determining where life could exist there today.