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• Tesla posts profit despite hit from coronavirus

  29-04-2020 23:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Tesla shrugged off coronavirus-related problems and posted a profitable first quarter.
  
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• Facebook's business is looking resilient despite pandemic

  29-04-2020 23:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Facebook's core advertising business has been upended by the pandemic, but the company said it saw "signs of stability" in the first three weeks of April.
  
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• Microsoft's cloud business helps offset pandemic woes

  29-04-2020 23:31
  
  Ongoing demand for Microsoft's cloud computing services helped softened the blow of the coronavirus pandemic on the software giant's other products in the first three months of the year
  
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• Texas Twister Cuts Destructive Path Visible From Space

  29-04-2020 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Even though the tornado was not as powerful as others spawned by a supercell storm system in the South, it scoured out a path visible to the Landsat 8 satellite.
  
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• The Beautiful Patterns Left Behind When Whiskey Dries

  29-04-2020 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scientists can tell where whiskey came from by the patterns it creates.
  
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• The Pandemic Is Making Us Depressed and Anxious. Can Healthy Food Provide Relief?

  29-04-2020 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Research has linked better quality diets with reduced risk of depression.
  
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• Quantum Computer of the Future: A Novel 2D Build With Existing Technology

  29-04-2020 21:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The basic units of a quantum computer can be rearranged in 2D to solve typical design and operation challenges. Quantum computing is increasingly becoming the...
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• National Parks Are Empty During the Pandemic — and Wildlife Are Loving It

  29-04-2020 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With people, vehicles and all the commotion absent, some species might demonstrate just how much more space they actually need.
  
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• MIT Study Shows Textbook Formulas for Describing Heat Flow Characteristics Are Oversimplified

  29-04-2020 19:18 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Understanding How Fluids Heat or Cool Surfaces – Crucial in Many Industries Whether it’s water flowing across a condenser plate in an industrial plant, or...
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• Lyft to cut 17% of staff and furlough hundreds more due to pandemic

  29-04-2020 18:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Lyft plans to cut nearly 1,000 staffers and furlough hundreds more as it grapples with the impact of the ongoing pandemic on people using its ride-hailing services.
  
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• YouTube removed doctors' viral coronavirus video. Facebook chose not to.

  29-04-2020 18:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  The different reactions highlight the challenges of moderating high-stakes misinformation as it goes viral, especially when the source is considered an expert.
  
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• Re-Engineering Society: Technocrats Rule, Politicians Drool

  29-04-2020 17:38 via technocracy.news
  
  As the pandemic winds down, the U.S. economic system is about to spring back to life. So, it’s back to business as usual, right?
  Wrong!
  Thanks to ignorant politicians, Technocrats have skillfully used the coronavirus panic to wedge themselves between citizens and their duly-elected representative government leaders.
  Having dictated policies that resulted in the shuttering of the entire global economic system, a feat of epic magnitude, Technocrats are now refusing to step away and simply le
  
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• Prof Neil Ferguson’s Pandemic Model Shredded By Experts

  29-04-2020 17:37 via technocracy.news
  
  Ferguson’s Imperial College paper was one-sided, not peer reviewed and missed critical elements. His underlying computer model code was also unpublished, which meant that no one could examine it for potential errors.
  Ferguson’s irresponsible release of results from his computer model is equivalent to yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. Yet, this man caused the shut down of the global economic system. ⁃ TN EditorA few weeks ago our party assembled a team to audit p
  
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• Climate Change Threatens Drinking Water Quality Across the Great Lakes

  29-04-2020 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Warmer waters, heavier storms and nutrient pollution are a triple threat to Great Lakes cities' drinking water. The solution: Cutting nutrient releases and installing systems to filter runoff.
  
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• Study: Common Core Behind Historic Drop In Student Scores

  29-04-2020 16:59 via technocracy.news
  
  Common Core State Standards curriculum were created and owned by two private non-profit organizations, both of which were heavily funded and influenced by Bill Gates of vaccine fame. CCSS has failed miserably and an entire generation has been mentally crippled. ⁃ TN Editor As we approach the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the United States Department of Education in May, shocking trends in student performance should lead us to reconsider the federal role in education and whe
  
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• Dancing Black Hole Collision Unleashes a Flash of Light Brighter Than a Trillion Stars

  29-04-2020 15:28 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The recently retired infrared observatory was the only telescope to spot a far-off flash of light that holds clues about the physical characteristics of these...
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• Google makes Meet, its Zoom and Skype competitor, free for everyone

  29-04-2020 15:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Free-to-use Zoom and Skype are getting some competition: Meet, which is Google's premium video conferencing tool, is now free for everyone.
  
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• CERN Searches for Matter–Antimatter Asymmetry in the Higgs Boson–Top Quark Interaction

  29-04-2020 14:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The ATLAS and CMS collaborations used the full LHC Run 2 dataset to obtain new insights into the interaction. Recent years have seen the study...
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• Researchers Crack COVID-19 Genetic Signature Using AI, Identify Origin

  29-04-2020 14:02 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using machine learning, a team of Western computer scientists and biologists have identified an underlying genomic signature for 29 different COVID-19 DNA sequences. This new...
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• Large “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid NASA Has Been Tracking for 22 Years Will Fly Past Earth Today

  29-04-2020 12:12 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The large near-Earth object is well known to astronomers and will get no closer than 3.9 million miles to our planet. A large near-Earth asteroid...
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• Coronavirus World Map: 2,954,222 Confirmed Cases; 207 Countries; 202,597 Deaths

  29-04-2020 08:59 via scitechdaily.com
  
  WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 99 WHO has published the ‘R&D Blueprint: COVID-19 Experimental Treatments,’ which lists drug and non-drug experimental treatments for COVID-19....
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• Samsung warns Covid-19 will hurt smartphone sales and the rollout of 5G. But the work-from-home revolution is here to stay

  29-04-2020 08:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Samsung is warning that the months ahead are going to be painful, as major markets around the world struggle to safely restart economies without sparking another coronavirus outbreak.
  
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• Convict in LA Times hack again accused of attacking media

  29-04-2020 07:04
  A journalist who went to federal prison for hacking attacks on California media is now charged with a similar attack on a magazine
  
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• The Origin of Arrokoth: Birth of a “Snowman” at the Edge of the Solar System

  29-04-2020 06:47 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A model developed at the Faculty of Physics at the Technion, in collaboration with German scientists at Tübingen, explains the unique properties of Arrokoth –...
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• Hubble Watches Comet ATLAS Disintegrate – Identified Months Ago by Planetary Defense System

  29-04-2020 05:06 via scitechdaily.com
  
  These two Hubble Space Telescope images of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken on April 20 and 23, 2020, provide the sharpest views yet of the...
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• Battered by floods, U.S. river communities try new remedies

  29-04-2020 01:30
  
  Some communities in the U.S. heartland are taking a more natural approach to preventing the kinds of floods that have devastated the region in recent years
  
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• Google's growth slows as pandemic infests advertising market

  29-04-2020 00:34
  
  Google reported its weakest revenue growth in nearly five years as the pandemic-driven recession began to shrivel its advertising sales in the first quarter
  
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• Pillar of Cosmology: ‘Elegant’ Solution Reveals How the Universe Got Its Structure

  29-04-2020 00:27 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A direct, observation-based test of one of the pillars of cosmology. The universe is full of billions of galaxies — but their distribution across space...
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• Takeaways from a trend toward natural flood controls

  29-04-2020 00:08
  
  Some communities in the U.S. heartland are taking a more natural approach to preventing the kinds of floods that have devastated the region in recent years
  
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