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• Pandemic brings fortunes to Amazon - and headaches too

  30-04-2020 23:57 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Amazon has spent years honing the business of packing, shipping and delivering millions of products to doorsteps around the world
  
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• SpaceX and Blue Origin among companies selected to build NASA moon landers

  30-04-2020 23:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  NASA announced three new contracts to develop lunar landers — one of which could carry two astronauts to the surface of the moon, a mission currently slated for 2024.
  
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• Apple is holding steady despite the coronavirus pandemic

  30-04-2020 23:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple warned earlier this year that it would experience a slump in iPhone sales as the coronavirus upends its supply chain and its biggest markets. But so far the impact appears muted.
  
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• Test sites surge in Georgia, but will enough people show up? - Atlanta Journal Constitution

  30-04-2020 23:35
  Test sites surge in Georgia, but will enough people show up?  Atlanta Journal ConstitutionGeorgia reports 1,000 new COVID-19 cases as Kemp lifts stay-at-home order - Business Insider  Business InsiderGeorgia Gov. Kemp orders elderly to shelter in place, days after loosening some coronavirus restrictions  Fox NewsOpinion: It’s just too soon to reopen Ga.  Atlanta Journal ConstitutionWhy Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Loves Playing Dumb | Opinion &nb
  
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• SpaceX, Blue Origin among companies selected to build NASA moon landers

  30-04-2020 23:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  NASA announced three new contracts to develop lunar landers — one of which could carry two astronauts to the surface of the moon, a mission currently slated for 2024.
  
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• Jeff Bezos tells shareholders to 'take a seat' as company manages Covid-19

  30-04-2020 23:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Amazon sales jumped 26% in the first three months of 2020, but the company's profits took a hit as it scrambled to manage the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Apple revenue picks up slightly amid coronavirus

  30-04-2020 23:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple warned earlier this year that it would experience a slump in iPhone sales as the coronavirus upends its supply chain and its biggest markets. But so far the impact appears muted.
  
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• Twitter swings to 1Q loss despite revenue growth as costs up

  30-04-2020 22:41 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Twitter’s stock has tumbled after the company failed to show that it’s weathering the pandemic-borne digital advertising slump the same way its bigger rivals Facebook and Google are
  
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• Facebook and Google are coming for Zoom

  30-04-2020 22:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  If there's one company the pandemic has turned into a household name, it's Zoom. Amid the continued state lockdowns, the video conferencing platform has become a lifeline for schools and businesses and a gathering place for virtual cocktail hours, birthday parties, workout classes and even weddings. And that hasn't escaped the notice of some of the world's biggest technology companies, including Facebook and Google.
  
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• Ryan Murphy And Michelle Krusiec On “Being Seen” In ‘Hollywood’, Giving Anna May Wong And Marginalized Acting Legends The Spotlight They Deserved - Deadline

  30-04-2020 22:10
  Ryan Murphy And Michelle Krusiec On “Being Seen” In ‘Hollywood’, Giving Anna May Wong And Marginalized Acting Legends The Spotlight They Deserved  DeadlineYou Have 12 New Netflix Treats To Binge This Weekend — Here’s What’s Worth Watching  Refinery29Review: Netflix's 'Hollywood' Is A Thin Alt-History  NPRHollywood accuracy: What's fact and what's fiction in Ryan Murphy's Netflix series.  SlateNetflix's 'Hollywood'
  
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• Three: Mirror Image

  30-04-2020 22:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Five years into a rabbit hole, Caleb goes from one side of the screen to the other.
  
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• How Do Supermassive Black Holes Form? You Can Sketch Galaxies to Help Astronomers Find Out

  30-04-2020 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tracing out the shape of a galaxy may offer clues to the size of its supermassive black hole. And a new study shows citizen scientists are actually better at it than computer algorithms.
  
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• AI Designs Computer Chips for More Powerful AI

  30-04-2020 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Google’s breakthrough could dramatically accelerate the design cycle for intelligent machines.
  
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• Why robots aren't delivering your groceries during the pandemic

  30-04-2020 21:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  By 2020, robots were supposed to be driving our cars and delivering food and other goods to our homes.
  
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• Sensitive New Test Detects COVID-19 Antibodies in Only 10 Minutes

  30-04-2020 21:11 via scitechdaily.com
  
  As the COVID-19 curve shows signs of flattening in the U.S. and elsewhere, public health officials are trying to grasp just how many people have...
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• ‘Safe Distancing’ Portland Will Ban Cars On 100 Miles Of Roads

  30-04-2020 20:29 via technocracy.news
  
  Portland already hates cars so what better excuse than ‘safe distancing’ to ban them from 100 miles of city streets? What are citizens to do? Let them walk or ride bicycles, six feet apart, of course! The social distancing police will have a bonanza of new ticketing opportunities. ⁃ TN EditorThe city of Portland, Oregon will ban cars from 100 miles of roadway in order to encourage social distancing for people walking, biking or running during the coronavirus pandemic.
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• Michigan health departments offer free condoms by mail during pandemic - MLive.com

  30-04-2020 19:22
  Michigan health departments offer free condoms by mail during pandemic  MLive.comMichigan launches free condom delivery service during coronavirus lockdown  New York Post The state of Michigan is mailing free condoms to those in need  NBC NewsFree condom delivery: Michigan health officials launch safe sex program amid COVID-19  USA TODAYCoronavirus prompts Michigan health department to launch free condom delivery service  Fox NewsView Full Covera
  
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• Trump's 30-Day Plan to Slow Coronavirus Spread Is Ending—Here's Where America Stands - Newsweek

  30-04-2020 19:20
  Trump's 30-Day Plan to Slow Coronavirus Spread Is Ending—Here's Where America Stands  NewsweekTrump predicts ‘spectacular’ rebound as markets plunge  The Mercury NewsTrump tells Biden to 'fight' Tara Reade sexual assault allegation  CNBCFederal Appeals Court Rules Against Trump Admin. Move to Block Funding from Sanctuary Cities  National ReviewTrump: We're Going To Build The Country Back "Just Like It Was"  RealClearPoliticsView
  
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• With new coronavirus tracker, Apple and Google may finally get their big break in health care

  30-04-2020 19:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  For years, Apple and Google have dreamed of breaking into the enormous market for personal health. Apple CEO Tim Cook has said he wants health tech to be considered Apple's "greatest contribution" to humanity, and sought clearance from the Food and Drug Administration so that the latest Apple Watches can monitor your heart rhythm. Google has poured hundreds of millions into research on aging, cancer and neuroscience. Both have acquired health startups, and poached health executives.
  
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• 66-Million-Year-Old ‘Crazy Beast’ Marooned on Mesozoic Madagascar

  30-04-2020 18:51 via scitechdaily.com
  
  International team of researchers, led by David Krause, senior paleontologist at Denver Museum of Nature & Science and longtime Stony Brook U. professor, discover 66-million-year-old...
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• ‘Social Distancing’ Is The Problem, Not The Answer

  30-04-2020 18:41 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats created the Great Panic of 2020 and now are dominating the restarting of the economy. Forget the Rule of Law. Now it is Rule of Regulation and they create the regulations. Technocracy’s coup de ‘etat must be stopped immediately before they can solidify their total scientific dictatorship. ⁃ TN EditorIt should be clear by now to even the slowest of wits. Bill Gates and his corrupt buddies at the United Nations-World Health Organization medical-industrial complex engi
  
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• Hohmann: ‘Social Distancing’ Is The Problem, Not The Answer

  30-04-2020 18:41 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats created the Great Panic of 2020 and now are dominating the restarting of the economy. Forget the Rule of Law. Now it is Rule of Regulation and they create the regulations. Technocracy’s coup de ‘etat must be stopped immediately before they can solidify their total scientific dictatorship. ⁃ TN EditorIt should be clear by now to even the slowest of wits. Bill Gates and his corrupt buddies at the United Nations-World Health Organization medical-industrial complex engi
  
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• Samsung expects profit decline as pandemic hits sales

  30-04-2020 17:00 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Samsung Electronics Co. says its operating profit for the first three months of 2020 rose 3.4% from a year earlier driven by increasing demands for computer chips
  
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• ‘Contact Tracers’ Have Power To Quarantine At Their Discretion

  30-04-2020 16:42 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats are spinning out of control in America as an army of professional snitches will be empowered to interview and then order quarantine at their arbitrary discretion. This is a recipe for societal disaster and the establishment of a police state. ⁃ TN EditorDr. Elly Steel normally works as a dentist for the Cabarrus Health Alliance, the county’s health department. But her role has shifted since the middle of March. With nonessential dental work paused because of the coronavir
  
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• Can Your Community Handle a Natural Disaster and Coronavirus at the Same Time?

  30-04-2020 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If the forecasts are right, the U.S. could be facing more natural disasters this year — on top of the coronavirus pandemic. Local governments aren't prepared.
  
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• American Stasi: California Building 10,000 Person Army Of Professional Snitches

  30-04-2020 16:29 via technocracy.news
  
  California will lead the nation in creating an army of Big-Brother snitches to rat out personal health statuses. Hiring will be no problem since unemployment is rampant among many groups, including the homeless and illegal immigrants. What could go wrong?
  This program risks the formal establishment of an American Stasi counterpart to the German Stasi in Nazi Germany during WWII. These were called “informants” but the people that they “spotted” were often targeted for deat
  
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• Apple, Google Partner For Big Brother Tracking Platform

  30-04-2020 16:08 via technocracy.news
  
  Apple and Google already know who you are and exactly where you are, but they are releasing new apps in mid-May to track your proximity to other users. If data is the new oil of the 21st century, then Technocrats just hit the big bonanza. ⁃ TN EditorAs the coronavirus pandemic has unfolded over the past many weeks, one of the most effective ways to control the spread of the pandemic has been the method of “contract tracing.” The term has been coined for the process of finding o
  
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• US intel agencies: COVID-19 virus not man-made or altered, but still studying if outbreak began in China lab accident

  30-04-2020 15:42 via abcnews.go.com
  US intel agencies: COVID-19 virus not man-made or altered, but still studying if outbreak began in China lab accident
  
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• World Record Smashed? Supercell Thunderstorm Pelted City With ‘Gargantuan’ Hail

  30-04-2020 15:38 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A supercell thunderstorm pelted a city center in Argentina a few years ago with hailstones so large scientists suggested a new category to describe them...
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• Results In for First Human Randomized Trial of Antiviral Drug Remdesivir for COVID-19

  30-04-2020 15:08 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Study stopped early by data safety monitoring board because of difficulty recruiting patients after COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China brought under control, so the true...
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• Nintendo Switch and 'Animal Crossing' are quarantine bestsellers. Here's why

  30-04-2020 14:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  People are playing more video games than before, but one console is markedly more popular than the others. The Nintendo Switch has been in high demand during the pandemic, selling out on multiple websites.
  
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• Facebook to let U.S. and Canada users transfer photos and videos

  30-04-2020 14:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  The step could assuage antitrust concerns by giving users an option to easily leave the company’s services, the social media network said on Thursday.
  
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• Apple is making it easier to unlock your iPhone since everyone's wearing masks now

  30-04-2020 14:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  All you need to do is swipe up if you’re wearing a mask, and you’ll skip the Face ID display and enter in a code instead.
  
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• 4.2 Billion Year-Old Clues to the Origins of Earth’s Magnetic Field

  30-04-2020 13:37 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The existence of a magnetic field beyond 3.5 billion years ago is still up for debate. Microscopic minerals excavated from an ancient outcrop of Jack...
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• Gravitational King of Kepler-88 Planetary System Dethroned by Newly Discovered Exoplanet

  30-04-2020 12:40 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Hawaii astronomer discovers massive extrasolar planet with Maunakea telescope. Our solar system has a king. The planet Jupiter, named for the most powerful god in...
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• When Science Is Partisan

  30-04-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A conversation with National Affairs editor Yuval Levin.
  
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• News24.com | MTN seeks to dismiss US anti-terrorism case in Afghanistan

  30-04-2020 10:09
  
  The telecoms group has filed court papers to dismiss a US claim that it paid Taliban officials not to attack its operations in Afghanistan.
  
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• Fin24.com | MTN seeks to dismiss US anti-terrorism case in Afghanistan

  30-04-2020 10:09
  
  The telecoms group has filed court papers to dismiss a US claim that it paid Taliban officials not to attack its operations in Afghanistan.
  
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• Elon Musk criticizes coronavirus stay-at-home orders, calling them 'fascist'

  30-04-2020 06:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is railing against stay-at-home orders meant to slow the coronavirus pandemic, calling them "fascist" and likening them to "forcibly imprisoning people in their homes" during a Tesla earnings call Wednesday.
  
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• SoftBank warns of even steeper losses as it takes a $6.6 billion hit on WeWork

  30-04-2020 05:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  SoftBank is warning that it will fall deeper into the red, just two weeks after it shocked investors by forecasting a record annual loss.
  
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• Tesla ekes out 1Q profit, Musk rails against virus measures

  30-04-2020 03:46 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Tesla has reported a small first-quarter net profit and its CEO has gone on a rant about the legality of government stay-home orders issued to prevent the coronavirus from spreading
  
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• Story of Dinosaur Evolution and Ecology Rewritten After Unambiguous Fossil Evidence Discovered

  30-04-2020 02:50 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Paleontologist and National Geographic Explorer finds unique swimming adaptations in a dinosaur. Scientists have long opposed the idea that dinosaurs lived in aquatic habitats. Now,...
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• Scrutinized malaria drug purchase to be refunded in Utah

  30-04-2020 02:02 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Utah will be refunded $800,000 it spent to buy malaria drugs once touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus despite warnings from doctors
  
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• Spectacular Disintegration of Comet ATLAS Captured by Hubble Space Telescope

  30-04-2020 00:09 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The comet was first discovered in December 2019 by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) robotic astronomical survey system in Hawaiʻi, USA. It brightened...
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• Facebook revenue growth slows, but 'signs of stability' rise

  30-04-2020 00:09 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Facebook on Wednesday reported its slowest quarterly growth as a public company, pressured by the coronavirus pandemic and a resulting global slowdown in the digital advertising market
  
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