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19 hours agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang announces NYC mayoral run
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang officially announced he is running for mayor of New York City.
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2 days agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Twitter loses $5 billion in market value after Trump is permanently barred from the platform
Twitter stock fell as much as 12% on Monday after the social-media company permanently suspended President Donald Trump's account on Friday evening. The share-price decline wiped $5 billion from Twitter's market capitalization. Twitter's bosses suspended Trump's account - which had about 88 million followers - after the world leader's fanning of conspiracy theories about voter fraud and election theft spurred thousands of his supporters to lay siege to the Capitol last w...
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6 days agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
The most underrated action series of the century is finally streaming on HBO Max
In 1971, martial arts legend Bruce Lee pitched a television show that was passed over for a simple and unfortunate reason: his race. At the time (and even now), Hollywood didn't have faith an American show with an Asian lead would attract an audience to satisfy costs. Lee died two years later in 1973, his dream unfulfilled.
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9 days agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Rowan Atkinson Says Cancel Culture “Like Medieval Mob Looking For Someone To Burn”; Hints At ‘Blackadder’ Revival
Mr. Bean and Johnny English actor Rowan Atkinson has bemoaned the rise of cancel culture, comparing keyboard warriors to a “medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn.” In an interview with the Radio Times, the multi-hyphenated British star blamed social media platforms for increased levels of polarization, which he said makes him fearful for the future of freedom of speech.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews
Like thousands of other parents, I decided to get my kids a cheap drone for Christmas. I spent $24 for a plastic flying machine with rudimentary collision-avoidance capabilities. A plastic cage mostly kept small fingers away from the four propellers. The kids were delighted for the first couple of hours.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Comcast will cap home internet data starting next week – and people are angry
If you rely on Comcast for your internet service, you might have to change your usage habits next year. Beginning on January 1, Comcast is implementing a data cap of 1.2TB for home users. Users who exceed that threshold will incur additional monthly fees.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
The thymus as key to healthy pregnancies
How the immune system adapts to pregnancy has puzzled researchers for decades. An international team of researchers, including scientists from IMBA – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences – has now discovered that important changes in the thymus occur in order to prevent miscarriages and gestational diabetes. The results are published in the journal Nature.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Andrew Yang's new non-profit is giving away $500,000 in free cash as a UBI experiment
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang announced Thursday he will give away half a million dollars in a universal basic income pilot project to the residents of a town in New York state.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
UPS returning some AirPods Max shipments to Apple as 'hazardous materials'
Some customers in Canada and the US are reportedly being notified by UPS that their AirPods Max will not be delivered because they contain "hazardous materials." As the first AirPods Max begin to arrive worldwide, an unknown number of customers are instead being told theirs will not be delivered. What UPS describes as an "irregularity" appears to be confined to customers in Canada, though the shipping company is stopping the orders while still en route from the US.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Norway launches major wind power research centre
Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Tina Bru, has announced an investment of $13.73 million in a new windpower research centre. The NorthWind research centre will work on innovations to make wind power cheaper, more efficient, and more sustainable. One of the centre’s main priorities will be offshore wind research.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Cord-Cutters Cause Comcast to Launch Nationwide Data Cap
Comcast will begin imposing data caps on customers in all of the states it operates in come 2021, after announcing that a dozen states in the Northeast that were previously excluded from the limitations would now be included.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Uber ditches effort to develop own self-driving car
Uber has ditched efforts to develop its own self-driving car with the multibillion-dollar sale of its driverless car division to a Silicon Valley startup. The ride-hailing company is selling the business, known as Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), for a reported $4bn (£3bn) to Aurora, a start-up that makes sensors and software for autonomous vehicles and is backed by Amazon and Sequoia Capital.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Massachusetts on the verge of becoming first state to ban police use of facial recognition
Massachusetts lawmakers this week voted to ban the use of facial recognition by law enforcement and public agencies in a sweeping police reform bill that received significant bipartisan support. If signed into law, Massachusetts would become the first state to fully ban the technology, following bans barring the use of facial recognition in police body cameras and other, more limited city-specific bans on the tech.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
Apple will be forced to sell iPhones with included power adapter in Brazil
While Apple has basically removed all accessories that come with new iPhones in the box, it was reported in October that the company had to keep shipping them with EarPods in France due to local laws. Something similar will happen in Brazil with the power adapter, as the Brazilian state of São Paulo decided that Apple is now required to sell new iPhones with the accessory.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wetwilly87
‘Alien’ TV Miniseries Is More Than a Rumor: Development Talks Continue ‘from Time to Time’
Noah Hawley wants to use his "Legion" playbook to bring an "Alien" miniseries to FX.