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• The House Judiciary Committee just voted Bill Barr in contempt of Congress. Which means basically nothing. - CNN

  08-05-2019 23:53 via cnn.com
  The House Judiciary Committee just voted Bill Barr in contempt of Congress. Which means basically nothing.  CNNSee Nadler's dire warning after Barr contempt vote  CNN'Start Here': McGahn can't share notes, Barr faces contempt, Uber drivers to strike  ABC NewsAG Barr's contempt charge won't force Trump to give House Democrats what they want. Here's what might.  NBC NewsExecutive Privilege Isn’t a Magic Wand to Protect Trump  BloombergView fu
  
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• Wait, You Can Still Get the Plague? - Slate

  08-05-2019 23:48 via slate.com
  Wait, You Can Still Get the Plague?  SlateThe plague has, at various points in history, been responsible for wiping out over half of the human beings in Europe, killing some 10,000 people a day in what ...View full coverage on Google News
  
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• Catholic Woman Leaves Pakistan For Canada After Years Of Death Threats - NPR

  08-05-2019 23:36 via npr.org
  Catholic Woman Leaves Pakistan For Canada After Years Of Death Threats  NPRAsia Bibi in Canada after fleeing Pakistan following blasphemy acquittal, lawyer says  Fox NewsPakistan Christian Asia Bibi has arrived in Canada, lawyer confirms  CNNAasia Bibi leaves Pakistan for Canada after years on death row over blasphemy case  NBC NewsChristian mother, 53, jailed for blasphemy in Pakistan returning home  Daily MailView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Intel Details Manufacturing through 2023: 7nm, 7+, 7++, with Next Gen Packaging - AnandTech

  08-05-2019 23:35 via anandtech.com
  Intel Details Manufacturing through 2023: 7nm, 7+, 7++, with Next Gen Packaging  AnandTechIntel to Launch 7nm Process in 2021, 7nm Xe Graphics Architecture, Ice Lake Architecture  Tom's HardwareIntel Unveils Process Roadmap, 10nm Shipping in June 2019, 7nm in 2021 – Intel 7nm Xe GPUs For Datacenter in 2021, 10nm Xe Consumer GPUs in 2020  WccftechIntel shares drop, three-year outlook seen lagging rivals  Yahoo FinanceIntel Process Technology Update: 1
  
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• Ajax Amsterdam vs. Tottenham Hotspur - Football Match Report - May 8, 2019 - ESPN

  08-05-2019 23:10 via espn.com
  Ajax Amsterdam vs. Tottenham Hotspur - Football Match Report - May 8, 2019  ESPNTottenham vs. Ajax score: Lucas Moura Champions League hat-trick completes stunning comeback for Spurs  CBS SportsPochettino in tears! Incredible scenes as Spurs reach Champions League final!  BT SportChampions League Madness Continues As Tottenham Gut Ajax With Last Minute Game-Winning Goal  DeadspinBT Sport cut to grinning Peter Walton after Lucas Moura wninner  Dai
  
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• US regulators under scrutiny as they look to punish Facebook

  08-05-2019 23:07 via abcnews.go.com
  The Federal Trade Commission is considering action against Facebook's CEO.
  
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• Google's privacy promises don't sway many experts

  08-05-2019 22:54 via abcnews.go.com
  Google announced new privacy tools Tuesday.
  
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• Warriors Hall of Famer is no fan of Rockets’ style and here’s why - The Mercury News

  08-05-2019 22:48 via mercurynews.com
  Warriors Hall of Famer is no fan of Rockets’ style and here’s why  The Mercury NewsGolden State Warriors' Klay Thompson walked out of 'Avengers: Endgame' one hour early: report  Fox NewsNBA rumors: Warriors believe Chris Paul made 'dirty play' on Andre Iguodala  Yahoo SportsIman Shumpert has made an impact for the Rockets  The Dream ShakeOpinion: Will Rockets-Warriors series go down as one of the greats?  USA TODAYView full coverage o
  
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• GM is trying to sell a closed factory to troubled EV startup Workhorse - The Verge

  08-05-2019 22:48 via theverge.com
  GM is trying to sell a closed factory to troubled EV startup Workhorse  The VergePresident Trump says GM to sell Lordstown plant to Workhorse  WKBN27Under pressure from Trump, GM in talks to sell idled Ohio plant  ReutersFormer Lordstown workers don't want GM to sell, mayor just wants jobs  WKBN.comGM in talks to sell massive Ohio plant; invests $700M, creates 450 jobs in state  MLive.comView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Jeff Bezos is about to speak publicly about Blue Origin, his secretive rocket company

  08-05-2019 21:52 via rss.cnn.com
  Jeff Bezos may be ready to bring Blue Origin, his secretive space company, out of the shadows.
  
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• Instagram still doesn't have vaccine misinformation under control

  08-05-2019 21:52 via rss.cnn.com
  Two months after Facebook pledged to fight vaccine misinformation on its platforms, Instagram is still serving up posts from anti-vaccination accounts.
  
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• Video game 'loot boxes' face final boss — a Missouri senator

  08-05-2019 21:28 via nbcnews.com
  "Social media and video games prey on user addiction, siphoning our kids' attention from the real world and extracting profits from fostering compulsive habits."
  
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• New Dinosaur Species May Have Flown Like a Bat

  08-05-2019 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Powered flight among large living things has been around for hundreds of millions of years. Dinosaurs, and their relatives the pterosaurs, figured out how to take to the skies long before their avian descendants today did. Now, a new species of dinosaur is shedding some light on the evolutionary path that lofted reptiles skyward.The fossil, discovered in Liaoning Province in China and named Ambopteryx longibrachium, is actually notable for the fact that it seems to be an altogether diffe
  
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• Rural Areas Drive Increases in Global Obesity - Scientific American

  08-05-2019 21:00 via scientificamerican.com
  Rural Areas Drive Increases in Global Obesity  Scientific AmericanWeight gain in rural areas is responsible for a lot of the global rise in obesity  The VergeRise In Global Obesity: It's Happening Faster In Rural Than Urban Areas : Goats and Soda  NPRObesity epidemic is led more by rural than urban populations  Washington PostObesity is on the rise in rural communities worldwide  The Week MagazineView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Trump's tariff deadline looms as Wall Street hedges for all outcomes in trade showdown - CNBC

  08-05-2019 20:52 via cnbc.com
  Trump's tariff deadline looms as Wall Street hedges for all outcomes in trade showdown  CNBCChina backtracked on nearly all aspects of US trade deal: Sources  CNBCStocks are dropping as traders view a resolution to the US-China trade war as 'unlikely'  Business InsiderA U.S.-China Trade Deal Doesn't Matter Anymore  BloombergTrump will 'hang tough' on China, political fallout be damned | TheHill  The HillView full coverage on Google News
  
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• New Analysis Debunks Controversial Claim About the Origin of Humanity - Gizmodo

  08-05-2019 20:30 via gizmodo.com
  New Analysis Debunks Controversial Claim About the Origin of Humanity  GizmodoAustralopithecus species dismissed as human ancestor  CosmosAncient South African fossil thought to be a human ancestor is NOT in our genus, study concludes  Daily MailStatistical study finds it unlikely South African fossil species is ancestral to humans  Phys.orgView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Rick Scott: The US needs to consider a naval blockade of Cuba - Washington Examiner

  08-05-2019 20:26 via washingtonexaminer.com
  Rick Scott: The US needs to consider a naval blockade of Cuba  Washington ExaminerA Reality Check for Venezuela  SlateFace of Venezuela crisis: Fox News goes inside camp taking in refugees fleeing Maduro regime  Fox NewsRebuilding Venezuela after Maduro will require the US to front some money | TheHill  The HillRick Scott wants the U.S. Navy to block Cuba and Venezuela’s oil trade  Bradenton HeraldView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Watch the first trailer for HBO’s Watchmen - The Verge

  08-05-2019 20:05 via theverge.com
  Watch the first trailer for HBO’s Watchmen  The VergeWatchmen | Official Tease | HBO  HBOHBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Trailer: Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock … The End Of The World Is Coming  DeadlineWATCHMEN Trailer Finally Sheds Some Light On What To Expect From The Small Screen Sequel  Comic Book MovieNew Watchmen teaser arrives with a whole damn army of Rorschachs  The A.V. ClubView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Was Australopithecus Sediba Our Ancestor?

  08-05-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Remember Australopithecus sediba? The convention-challenging South African hominin, announced with much fanfare in 2010, has gotten lost in a torrent of other recent fossil finds from our family tree. A new study adds insult to injury, stacking the odds against A. sediba's place in our distant evolutionary past.
  The last decade or so has been a wild ride for researchers trying to figure out the story of human evolution. The family tree of hominins — humans and species more closel
  
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• Scientists Heal Damaged Donor Lungs, Giving Hope to Waitlisted Patients

  08-05-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a lung transplant surgeon, Matt Bacchetta has watched countless patients wait for an organ, only to not get one. About 80 percent of donor lungs are not in good enough to shape to use. Now Bacchetta and a team of researchers from Columbia University in New York City have shown that they can repair damaged pig lungs so they are suitable for transplants. If it works in humans, the discovery could dramatically expand the number of usable donor organs, the researchers say.“There’s suc
  
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• Lyft and Uber Might Actually Be Making Traffic Worse

  08-05-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  These are consequential days for ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft. Drivers in many U.S. cities are going on strike today, protesting low pay, and analysts expect Uber will likely earn billions when it goes public on Friday. (The two events are not unrelated.)But amidst the economic discussions, at least we can all agree that it’s good news in terms of traffic, right? The more people rely on professional drivers to get around, the fewer individual cars will be clogging up the str
  
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• N.Y. state Senate passes bill allowing Congress to get Trump tax returns - NBC News

  08-05-2019 19:41 via nbcnews.com
  N.Y. state Senate passes bill allowing Congress to get Trump tax returns  NBC NewsN.Y. Senate passes bills on Trump's tax returns and pardon power  CBS NewsSenate passes bills targeting Trump on taxes and pardons  POLITICOWhat Is Donald Trump Hiding?  The New York TimesTrump Faces Pressure From N.Y. Lawmakers Over Tax Returns  The New York TimesView full coverage on Google News
  
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• 6 dead, including 4 children, in Harlem blaze - ABC News

  08-05-2019 19:16 via abcnews.go.com
  6 dead, including 4 children, in Harlem blaze  ABC News6 dead, including 4 kids, in Harlem apartment fire  CBS NewsFamily Of Six Killed In Harlem Apt. Fire  CBS New YorkMom killed in Harlem fire likely disconnected smoke detectors, fell asleep while cooking  New York Post Report: City mourns family of 6 killed in Harlem apartment fire  SILive.comView full coverage on Google News
  
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• New species of 'fierce' tiny dinosaurs with bat-like wings is discovered in China - The Independent

  08-05-2019 19:00 via independent.co.uk
  New species of 'fierce' tiny dinosaurs with bat-like wings is discovered in China  The IndependentAdorable Jurassic Dinosaur May Have Flown With Bat-Like Wings  GizmodoAnother Bat-Winged Dinosaur Has Been Found  The AtlanticAmbopteryx, new species of bat-wing dinosaur, discovered in China  National GeographicDinosaur With Bat Wings Was More Than Legend  The New York TimesView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Bucks should have Brogdon back in limited role - ESPN

  08-05-2019 18:50 via espn.com
  Bucks should have Brogdon back in limited role  ESPNNBA Conference Semifinals: Boston Celtics vs. Milwaukee Bucks (Game 4)  FanSidedKyrie Irving free agency rumors: Nets -- not Knicks -- are new favorite to land Celtics star  CBS SportsGame 5 Preview: Boston Celtics at Milwaukee Bucks  Celtics BlogI was wrong to side with Paul Pierce on Bucks vs. Celtics after Game 1 – Common | First Take  ESPNView full coverage on Google News
  
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• MCU Quiz: How Closely Did You ACTUALLY Watch Avengers: Endgame? - WhatCulture

  08-05-2019 18:34 via whatculture.com
  MCU Quiz: How Closely Did You ACTUALLY Watch Avengers: Endgame?  WhatCultureDisney earnings beat, but movie revenue drops ahead of ‘Endgame’ windfall  MarketWatch‘Avengers: Endgame’ directors reveal why they cut Katherine Langford’s scene out of movie  Fox NewsAvengers Endgame: Why ‘fat Thor’ did NOT lose his new weight - ‘We were adamant’  ExpressAVENGERS: ENDGAME Spoilers - 5 Huge Rumours That Were Tr
  
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• US Senator Introduces Bill to Ban Loot Boxes & P2W Microtransactions - MMORPG.com

  08-05-2019 18:33 via mmorpg.com
  US Senator Introduces Bill to Ban Loot Boxes & P2W Microtransactions  MMORPG.comSenator Hawley announces bill banning loot boxes, pay-to-win mechanics  Ars TechnicaU.S. Senator Introduces Bill To Ban Loot Boxes And Pay-To-Win Microtransactions  KotakuGOP senator announces bill to ban 'manipulative' video game design | TheHill  The HillSenate bill would ban paid loot boxes in games aimed at kids  EngadgetView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Smart City Startup Quayside Draws Fire Over Privacy And High Costs

  08-05-2019 18:32 via technocracy.news
  Toronto is learning the hard way about Public-Private Partnerships with the likes of Google-linked  Sidewalk Labs. Smart City construction in its Quayside district is costly compared to traditional urban design, and data privacy is still an open sieve. ⁃ TN EditorThe Google sister company promised to transform a dilapidated stretch of the Toronto waterfront into the world’s most technologically advanced neighborhood.
  Quayside would be outfitted with robotic garbage collection, s
  
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• Cash Is King: San Francisco To Ban Credit-Only Stores

  08-05-2019 18:16 via technocracy.news
  Reality meets globalization in San Francisco, one of the most liberal cities on earth. Retail trade is being hurt by cashless stores, so a new city ordinance will mandate that cash return or stores will lose their business license. ⁃ TN EditorSan Francisco is about to require brick-and-mortar retailers to take cash as payment, joining Philadelphia and New Jersey in banning a growing paperless practice that critics say discriminates against low-income people who may not have acces
  
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• Kentucky teen who sued over school ban for refusing chickenpox vaccination now has chickenpox - NBC News

  08-05-2019 18:14 via nbcnews.com
  Kentucky teen who sued over school ban for refusing chickenpox vaccination now has chickenpox  NBC NewsA northern Kentucky teenager banned from school for refusing the chickenpox vaccination due to his religious beliefs has come down with the childhood malady ...View full coverage on Google News
  
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• $2.5 trillion 'Holy Grail' found? Breakthrough discovery could lead to 100 percent recyclable plastics, scientists say - Fox News

  08-05-2019 18:13 via foxnews.com
  $2.5 trillion 'Holy Grail' found? Breakthrough discovery could lead to 100 percent recyclable plastics, scientists say  Fox NewsScientists on the verge of creating 100 percent recyclable plastic  New York Post With Only About 20% of Plastics Being Recycled, New Breakthrough May Be 'Holy Grail' for Recycling  Good News NetworkThis infinitely-recyclable plastic might help us finally clean up landfills and oceans  ZME ScienceResearchers develop plastic that t
  
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• Deployment Of Construction Robots Displacing Laborers

  08-05-2019 18:02 via technocracy.news
  The construction industry is one of America’s most fundamental components of GDP and potentially one of the most significant source of ‘unemployables’ as workers are displaced. Robot automation of jobs is expanding quickly. ⁃ TN EditorResearch firm Tractica today projected a $226 million revenue market by 2025 for the construction robotics space, an area that traditionally has been labor-intensive and not focused on robotics as much as industries such as manufacturing, su
  
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• Movie Review: Pokémon Detective Pikachu Does Enough To Break The 'Bad Video Game Movie' Curse - Nintendo Life

  08-05-2019 18:00 via nintendolife.com
  Movie Review: Pokémon Detective Pikachu Does Enough To Break The 'Bad Video Game Movie' Curse  Nintendo LifeBox Office: Can Ryan Reynolds’ ‘Detective Pikachu’ Dethrone ‘Avengers: Endgame’?  VarietyIt Should Be Impossible for Detective Pikachu to Be This Good  The Atlantic"Detective Pikachu" — Here's How The Characters In The Film Look Side By Side With Their Originals  BuzzFeedWhat Your Pokémon Pick Says Ab
  
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• Ashland grad wins NASA competition, goes to Mars - Ashland Daily Press

  08-05-2019 17:58 via apg-wi.com
  Ashland grad wins NASA competition, goes to Mars  Ashland Daily PressNASA's Insight sees cloudy days on Mars, so why does it never rain?  CNETInSight Mars Lander Snaps Dusty Selfie on Red Planet (Photo)  Space.comNASA's new Mars lander is already covered in dust  Daily MailA Martian Dust Devil Swept Right Over NASA’s InSight Lander  GizmodoView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Why the Lyft-Uber strike will likely fizzle - Washington Examiner

  08-05-2019 16:56 via washingtonexaminer.com
  Why the Lyft-Uber strike will likely fizzle  Washington ExaminerLyft driver explains why rideshare drivers are striking  Yahoo FinanceUber and Lyft drivers strike for higher pay ahead of Uber's IPO  CBS NewsUber, Lyft drivers on global strike just before Uber's IPO  Yahoo NewsTake Today Off From Uber and Lyft  The New York TimesView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Uber's first investors open up about their wild ride

  08-05-2019 16:40 via rss.cnn.com
  Mike Walsh was busy trying to manage his doomed software company in 2009 when he agreed to take a 15 minute meeting with a little-known figure in the tech industry named Ryan Graves.
  
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• Hackers steal $40 million worth of bitcoin in massive security breach

  08-05-2019 16:40 via rss.cnn.com
  Binance, a major cryptocurrency exchange, says hackers stole more than $40 million worth of bitcoin from its customers.
  
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• Why Uber and Lyft drivers are striking

  08-05-2019 14:45 via rss.cnn.com
  Drivers in more than a dozen cities plan to strike on Wednesday ahead of Uber's highly anticipated Wall Street debut.
  
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• Uber drivers go on strike to protest low pay ahead of a blockbuster IPO

  08-05-2019 14:45 via rss.cnn.com
  Uber drivers around the world are logging out of the company's app to protest its compensation policies ahead of a blockbuster public offering.
  
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• Tencent sparks frenzy in China by taking down a popular video game

  08-05-2019 14:45 via rss.cnn.com
  Tencent pulled the plug on its wildly popular mobile game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in China.
  
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• India is cutting people off from the internet in the middle of its election

  08-05-2019 14:45 via rss.cnn.com
  India is in the middle of the world's largest election, with more than 900 million people eligible to vote between April 11 and May 19. Despite this grand exercise in political freedom, some Indians are being denied access to the internet for days at a time as they prepare to cast their ballots.
  
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• Uber and Lyft drivers going on strike to protest low wages

  08-05-2019 14:10 via nbcnews.com
  "Uber's corporate owners are set to make billions, all while drivers are left in poverty and go bankrupt,” one strike organizer said.
  
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• RFK's family splits publicly over vaccine controversy - The Boston Globe

  08-05-2019 12:52 via bostonglobe.com
  RFK's family splits publicly over vaccine controversy  The Boston GlobeBrother and Sister of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Accuse Him of Spreading Misinformation on Vaccines  The New York TimesFamily of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slams his views on vaccines as 'tragically wrong'  CNNRFK Jr. Is Our Brother and Uncle. He's Tragically Wrong About Vaccines.  POLITICORobert Kennedy Jr.'s Vaccine Views Slammed As 'Tragically Wrong' By Family  HuffPostView full cove
  
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• South Africans head to the polls in key election - CNN

  08-05-2019 08:56 via cnn.com
  South Africans head to the polls in key election  CNNSouth Africa elections: Polls close after national vote  Aljazeera.comMillions of South Africans head to the polls  CBS NewsSouth Africa election results: Who will win? ANC have MAJORITY in polls but will it last?  Express.co.ukANC corruption is a major cause of South Africa’s failure – and the polls will show it  The GuardianView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Uber, Lyft drivers plan to strike in more than a dozen major cities

  08-05-2019 06:31 via rss.cnn.com
  Ride-hailing drivers in more than a dozen cities plan to strike on Wednesday ahead of Uber's highly anticipated Wall Street debut.
  
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• Scientists Discover 3-Foot-Tall Relative of the Tyrannosaurus Rex

  08-05-2019 03:08 via scitechdaily.com
  A new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex – much smaller than the huge, ferocious dinosaur made famous in countless books and films, including, yes, “Jurassic...
  The post Scientists Discover 3-Foot-Tall Relative of the Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
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• New study reveals "extraordinary change" in El Niño possibly linked to climate change

  08-05-2019 03:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  |Update: I posed some questions related to this story to Jason Furtado, a meteorologist at the University of Oklahoma. I've added them and Furtado's responses to the end of the post. |In a first, researchers have used chemical fingerprints locked within coral skeletons to build a season-by-season record of El Niño episodes dating back 400 years — a feat many experts regarded as impossible.That record, presented in a new study appearing in the scientific jour
  
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• Blue Supergiant Stars Shimmer Because of Waves on Their Surface

  08-05-2019 02:52 via scitechdaily.com
  Blue supergiants are rock ‘n’ roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them rare and difficult to study. Before space telescopes were invented,...
  The post Blue Supergiant Stars Shimmer Because of Waves on Their Surface appeared first on SciTechDaily.
  
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• Lyft lost more than $1 billion last quarter

  08-05-2019 02:40 via rss.cnn.com
  Lyft released its first earnings report as a public company on Tuesday after the bell.
  
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• Study Uncovers How Coca-Cola Influences Science Research

  08-05-2019 01:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Coca-Cola has poured millions of dollars into scientific research at universities. But if the beverage giant doesn’t like what scientists find, the company has the power to make sure that their research never sees the light of day.That’s according to an analysis published in the Journal of Public Health Policy that explains how Coca-Cola uses contract agreements to influence the public health research it financially supports.The paper explains that Coca-Cola
  
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