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• Covid-19 Pandemic: Live Updates and News for Feb. 18, 2021 - Bloomberg

  17-02-2021 23:57 via news.google.com
  Covid-19 Pandemic: Live Updates and News for Feb. 18, 2021  BloombergView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Groups ask Biden for wider environmental review of nuke work

  17-02-2021 23:33
  
  Watchdog groups want the Biden administration to reconsider a decision by a U.S. agency not to conduct a more extensive environmental review related to production of the plutonium cores used in the nation's nuclear arsenal
  
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• In Australia, Google makes publisher deals, Facebook walks

  17-02-2021 23:05
  
  Google is quickly negotiating generous deals with Australian media companies to pay for journalism as lawmakers consider forcing digital giants into such agreements
  
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• NASA rover attempting most difficult Martian touchdown yet

  17-02-2021 22:07
  NASA's latest road trip to Mars is almost complete
  
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• The Star Hopping Strategy that Could One Day Save Humanity

  17-02-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  By the time the Sun turns into a Red Giant, humanity will need to have settled elsewhere. Here's how.
  
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• Google and News Corp. strike a deal

  17-02-2021 21:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  Google will start paying Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for the use of its journalism in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.
  
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• VIRUS TODAY: White House says U.S. vaccinations picking up

  17-02-2021 21:30
  
  The White House said the U.S. is vaccinating some 1.7 million people per day, up from under 1 million a month ago
  
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• Sicilian village cleans up ash, stones from Mt Etna eruption

  17-02-2021 21:27
  
  Residents and municipal teams have spent the day cleaning up a Sicilian village near Mount Etna after Europe’s most active volcano spewed lava, ashes and volcanic stones
  
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• NY sues Amazon, saying it didn't protect workers from virus

  17-02-2021 21:22
  
  New York is suing Amazon, claiming the company failed to provide workers with a safe environment at two warehouses as COVID-19 infections surged nationwide
  
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• Facebook blocks news in Australia over government's payment rules

  17-02-2021 21:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Facebook said Wednesday that Australian users and publishers will not be able to post news content to its social network.
  
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• Wild Days of the Early Solar System: Ceramic Chips Inside Meteorites Provide Snapshot of 4.5 Billion Years Ago

  17-02-2021 21:06 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Analysis by University of Chicago scientists reverses earlier findings, suggests large temperature swings. A new analysis of ceramic chips embedded in meteorites suggests the formation...
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• EXPLAINER: How will we know we've reached herd immunity?

  17-02-2021 20:58
  Health officials around the world are racing to vaccinate enough people to stop the spread of COVID-19 — but what qualifies as “enough” is still an open question
  
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• Unexpected Life Lurking in Subglacial Lakes Isolated Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice

  17-02-2021 20:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Lakes underneath the Antarctic ice sheet could be more hospitable than previously thought, allowing them to host more microbial life. This is the finding of...
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• Think Cities Have Pothole Problems Now? Just Wait

  17-02-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cold, heat, stress and moisture are some of asphalt's worst enemies. Roads are likely to see more damage as climate change brings higher temperatures and more extreme weather swings.
  
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• Is Life Expectancy Written in Our DNA?

  17-02-2021 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  DNA methylation provides clues about how long a person or animal is likely to live. Could it be harnessed to slow the aging process?
  
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• Bosnia village with link to Mars enthralled by rover landing

  17-02-2021 18:46
  
  Bosnian villagers are preparing to gather in front of a video screen in the yard of their community’s only school to watch NASA’s Mars rover attempt a difficult landing Thursday in a crater on the Red Planet named after their small village
  
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• Google Maps will now let you pay for parking and transit without leaving the app

  17-02-2021 18:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Google Maps can already tell you which train to take or map out an optimal driving route. Now, it's simplifying travel even more by letting users pay for parking or public transportation right from their phones.
  
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• Cretaceous Amber Fossil Sheds Light on Evolution of Bioluminescence in Beetles

  17-02-2021 18:35 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Bioluminescence has fascinated people since time immemorial. The majority of organisms able to produce their own light are beetles, specifically fireflies, glow-worm beetles, and their...
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• When Logic Fails, ‘Informed Consent’ Means Nothing

  17-02-2021 17:53 via technocracy.news
  
  The Nuremberg Code (1947) gave the conditions of informed consent, “without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint of coercion.”  The Technocrat world is guilty on all points. ⁃ TN EditorHealth officials tell us to not be discouraged by vaccine side effects, that we should be vaccinated in spite of them.
  Oh wait. Do they mean there ARE negative side effects?
  In the northeast Ohio Fairness Local Sc
  
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• U.S. charges three North Koreans in hacks and scheme to steal $1B in cash, cryptocurrency

  17-02-2021 17:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Authorities think the attack was retaliation for Sony's “The Interview,” a Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy that ridiculed North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
  
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• Gates: ‘All Rich Countries Should Move To 100% Synthetic Beef’

  17-02-2021 17:14 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrat Bill Gates has a lot of brass thinking he can dictate the diet of billions of people. He is not only the self-declared savior of COVID-19 and vaccines, but now wants food and global warming as well. ⁃ TN EditorMicrosoft cofounder Bill Gates said in a new interview that all rich countries should transition to 100% synthetic beef in order to significantly curb the greenhouse-gas emissions driving climate change.
  In an interview published Sunday by MIT Technolog
  
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• World’s Oldest DNA – 1.2 Million Years Old – Reveals How Mammoths Evolved

  17-02-2021 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  An international team led by researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm has sequenced DNA recovered from mammoth remains that are up to 1.2...
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• 20% of People Have a Genetic Mutation That Provides Superior Resilience to Cold

  17-02-2021 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Almost one in five people lack the protein α-aktinin-3 in their muscle fiber. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden now show that more of the...
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• Amazon just teased 3 new products. They may never hit the market

  17-02-2021 15:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Amazon announced three new Alexa-enabled products on Wednesday: a smart sticky note printer, nutrition scale and cuckoo clock. But there's a catch -- the tech giant will only ship these items if enough people pre-order them.
  
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• Thai users of Clubhouse app warned about political content

  17-02-2021 15:38
  
  Thailand’s government has warned users of the recently introduced Clubhouse voice chat app that they must be careful not to misuse it or face possible legal consequences
  
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• New York Attorney General sues Amazon, alleging 'deficient' Covid-19 response

  17-02-2021 14:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  New York is taking Amazon to court over claims that the company has failed to provide sufficient protections for its workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  
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• Why families stuck inside together just text each other all day

  17-02-2021 13:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Early in the pandemic, Jane Cox Childress brought her teenage son warm cookies at his desk during a remote learning session. She received a text message in response: "Mom, could you please not bring me anything when I'm in class?"
  
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• New York attorney general sues Amazon over Covid-19 shortfalls

  17-02-2021 13:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  The suit comes days after the retailer filed its own lawsuit seeking to block New York Attorney General Letitia James' case.
  
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• Many schools moving online looked to one obscure company last year. Parents are furious.

  17-02-2021 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Interviews with eight parents in five states showed how Edgenuity software was pressed into duty by some school districts as an all-in-one approach to remote learning.
  
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• Amid rising seas, 'dry' resort is wetter than it likes

  17-02-2021 07:27
  
  The impacts of rising sea levels can be clearly seen in Ocean City, New Jersey, a family resort town spending tens of millions of dollars to deal with flooding
  
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• China steps up online controls with new rule for bloggers

  17-02-2021 06:54
  
  China's internet watchdog is cracking down further on online speech, issuing a requirement that bloggers and influencers have a government-approved credential before they can publish on certain topics
  
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• Cardiologist, anti-war activist Bernard Lown dies at 99

  17-02-2021 05:32
  
  Dr. Bernard Lown, a Massachusetts cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later co-founded an anti-nuclear war group that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, died Tuesday
  
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• EXPLAINER: Topsy-turvy weather comes from polar vortex

  17-02-2021 03:30
  
  It seems like the world's weather has turned upside-down
  
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• This AI reads children's emotions as they learn

  17-02-2021 03:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A Hong Kong company has developed facial expression-reading AI that monitors students' emotions as they study. With many children currently learning from home, they say the technology could make the virtual classroom even better than the real thing.
  
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• Some dinosaur migration was delayed by climate, study shows

  17-02-2021 02:30
  A new study finds plant-eating dinosaurs arrived in the Northern Hemisphere millions of years after their meat-eating cousins
  
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• Apple tweaks syringe emoji to be less graphic amid vaccine rollout

  17-02-2021 01:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Apple on Tuesday unveiled a small change to its syringe emoji that removes the drops of blood.
  
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• Sony facing class action lawsuit over alleged PS5 controller defect

  17-02-2021 00:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sony's PlayStation 5 has been hugely popular — and hard for consumers to get their hands on — since it was released last fall. But not everyone who managed to snag one has been satisfied.
  
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