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• Asymptomatic COVID-19 Transmission Revealed Through Study of 2,000 Marine Recruits

  11-11-2020 23:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A study of nearly 2,000 Marine recruits who went through supervised quarantine before starting basic training revealed several instances of asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the...
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• Misinformation metastasized: After Trump's loss, a slew of misleading claims take hold

  11-11-2020 22:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  A dizzying array of false claims and conspiracy theories have dominated social and ultraconservative media since the early morning after Election Day.
  
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• Central Florida lands hub for Jetsons-like 'flying cars'

  11-11-2020 21:59
  The nation’s first regional hub for “flying cars” is being built in central Florida, and once completed in five years, the vehicles will be able to take passengers from Orlando to Tampa in a half hour
  
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• Google curtails free photo storage, pushes users to buy more space

  11-11-2020 21:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  The move is a reversal of Google's years-old policy of unlimited capacity for high-quality images.
  
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• Can Steam Cleaners Kill the COVID-19 Virus?

  11-11-2020 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Steam sterilization to kill viruses is very effective at hospitals — but it's not necessarily a great option for people's homes.
  
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• Hurricanes stay stronger longer after landfall than in past

  11-11-2020 21:18
  A new study finds that hurricanes are staying stronger longer after striking land than they did decades ago, and that means more destruction inland
  
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• Chinese shoppers spend over $100 billion in shopping fest

  11-11-2020 19:18
  
  Chinese consumers spent over a hundred billion dollars during this year’s Singles’ Day shopping festival, signaling a rebound in consumption as China recovers from the coronavirus pandemic and a battering of the economy
  
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• Even with Georgia runoff, Facebook and Google continue their bans on political ads

  11-11-2020 19:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee quickly criticized the decisions, saying the bans "amount to unacceptable voter suppression."
  
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• Giant Tegu Lizards Are Moving Into Georgia — and They’re Not Welcome

  11-11-2020 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  They're a threat to the state’s ground-nesting birds and tortoises. Needless to say, these reptiles are not being met with Southern hospitality.
  
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• Harris County Public Health Department Goes Door-To-Door To Collect Blood Samples

  11-11-2020 17:20 via technocracy.news
  
  Contact Tracing is morphing into a generalized population control program where random homeowners will get a knock on the door to ask very personal questions and solicit blood samples. ⁃ TN EditorHarris County Public Health will conduct a survey to continue studies on the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Representatives with HCPH will go door-to-door to randomly selected homes throughout the county, collecting blood samples to determine the presence of COVID-19 antibodies.
  “In an effort to better
  
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• Should the Turkey Replace the Bald Eagle as the National Bird? Ben Franklin Thought So

  11-11-2020 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Franklin was Team Turkey all the way. His reasons weren’t as crazy as you might think.
  
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• Study: It Was A Mistake To Close Schools

  11-11-2020 15:54 via technocracy.news
  
  The first pandemic bell-ringer was Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College of London, and he issued the first policy proposal of closing all schools. Since, his computer model has been discredited and his policies slammed.
  This is the outcome of letting crackpot ideologue scientists execute social engineering programs on the world. Ferguson and his academic crowd had plenty of pre-existing experience promoting alarmist global warming hysteria before trying their hand at a pandemic. After all
  
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• Klaus Schwab: ‘Technocratic Dictatorial Rule By A Tiny Elite’

  11-11-2020 15:35 via technocracy.news
  
  Writers, journalists and analysts are dancing around the fact that Technocracy has been the plan of the global elite for a very long time. It didn’t just start. It wasn’t by random chance or just the “luck of the draw.”
  Modern globalization started with the formation of the Trilateral Commission in 1973, founded by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski promoted Technocracy through what he called the “Technetronic Era”. They fed this to the Unit
  
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• TikTok hasn’t heard from the Trump administration in weeks

  11-11-2020 14:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  TikTok faces a Nov. 12 deadline to divest its U.S. business, but it's not clear what would happen if the company did not comply.
  
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• $250 billion wiped off Chinese tech stocks as Beijing signals crackdown

  11-11-2020 12:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Fears that Beijing could tighten the screw on China's biggest tech companies have wiped hundreds of billions of dollars off their stock market value in just two days.
  
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• TikTok asks court to step in as sale deadline looms

  11-11-2020 06:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  TikTok is asking a court to push off a looming deadline that would require the short-form video app to be spun off from its Chinese parent company ByteDance this week.
  
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• Singles Day: Alibaba sales blitz set for record haul as Chinese shake off Covid-19

  11-11-2020 04:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  China's annual Singles Day online shopping bonanza regularly hauls in tens of billions of dollars for Alibaba and other e-commerce and retail companies in China. This year, it's taking on new meaning as a showcase for the country's success in battling the Covid-19 pandemic.
  
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• Ring recalls 350,000 smart doorbells after some of them caught fire

  11-11-2020 02:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Amazon-subsidiary Ring is recalling hundreds of thousands of video doorbells after receiving reports of them catching fire.
  
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• Lyft's results show pain but also hope as some riders return

  11-11-2020 00:23
  
  Lyft is still feeling the pandemic’s severe impact on the ride-hailing industry
  
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• These venues are high-risk areas for spreading the coronavirus, model suggests - The Washington Post

  11-11-2020 00:15 via news.google.com
  These venues are high-risk areas for spreading the coronavirus, model suggests  The Washington Post
  
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• Mads Mikkelsen In Talks To Replace Johnny Depp In ‘Fantastic Beasts’ - Deadline

  11-11-2020 00:15 via news.google.com
  Mads Mikkelsen In Talks To Replace Johnny Depp In ‘Fantastic Beasts’  DeadlineMads Mikkelsen in Negotiations to Replace Johnny Depp in ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’  TheWrapMads Mikkelsen in Early Talks to Replace Johnny Depp in ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’  VarietyMads Mikkelsen In Early Talks to Replace Johnny Depp in 'Fantastic Beasts'  Hollywood ReporterFantastic Beasts 3: Mads Mikkelsen in Talks to Replace Johnny Depp  Com
  
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• Destruction of murder hornets nest doesn't end threat

  11-11-2020 00:11
  
  When scientists destroyed the first nest of so-called murder hornets found in the U.S., they discovered about 500 live specimens in various stages of development
  
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• Apple's new M1 Macs won't work with external GPUs - Engadget

  11-11-2020 00:04 via news.google.com
  
  Apple's new M1 Macs won't work with external GPUs  EngadgetHere's what Apple announced during their 'One More Thing' event  CNNApple announces MacBook Air with Apple’s Arm-based M1 processor  The VergeApple’s M1-Powered MacBook Pro and Air: What They Will—and Won’t—Do  The Wall Street JournalHow to watch the Apple One More Thing event: see the new MacBooks here  TechRadarView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• The Vatican’s Explosive McCarrick Report: 5 Takeaways - The New York Times

  11-11-2020 00:01 via news.google.com
  The Vatican’s Explosive McCarrick Report: 5 Takeaways  The New York TimesABC News Live Update: Oral arguments on Obamacare underway in the Supreme Court  ABC NewsPittsburgh native Cardinal Wuerl set to retire from Vatican roles  TribLIVEEveryone Knew About Theodore McCarrick  The New York Times‘The Vatican fiction continues’: Abp. Viganò issues first response to McCarrick report  LifesiteView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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