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• Gig economy reckoning spreads to popular home services company

  21-05-2021 23:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Darlene Demiraiakian started working as an independent contractor for Handy, an on-demand service for home cleaning and handyman tasks, more than a year and a half ago for the flexibility it provided her to make money while caring for her terminally ill partner. But she says there have been countless instances when something has gone awry — each of which has made her feel like she has little control over what arises while working for the company.
  
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• DNA Markers Uncovered in Grape Genetics Research Reveal What Makes the Perfect Flower

  21-05-2021 23:19 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Wines and table grapes exist thanks to a genetic exchange so rare that it’s only happened twice in nature in the last 6 million years....
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• Extraordinary Evolution Research Reveals Mammals in the Time of Dinosaurs Held Each Other Back

  21-05-2021 21:49 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new study led by researchers from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford, and the University of Birmingham for Current Biology...
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• Handwritten example of famous Einstein equation gets $1.2M

  21-05-2021 21:38 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A letter written by Albert Einstein in which he writes out his famous E=mc2 equation has sold at auction for more than $1.2 million, about three times more than it was expected to get
  
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• Tim Cook defends Apple in blockbuster Fortnite trial: 'It has nothing to do with money'

  21-05-2021 21:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In his first-ever court appearance, Tim Cook sought to defend Apple from allegations that it abuses its market power by touting it as a principled company with an obsessive focus on users.
  
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• NASA Finds Organic Salts Are Likely Present on Mars – Remnants of Ancient Martian Microbial Life?

  21-05-2021 20:31 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Salts Could Be Important Piece of Martian Organic Puzzle A NASA team has found that organic, or carbon-containing, salts are likely present on Mars, with...
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• Vast Antarctic iceberg could drift through ocean for years

  21-05-2021 20:26 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The iceberg, dubbed A-76, is more than 40 times the size of Paris.
  
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• Science’s New Replication Crisis: Research That Is Less Likely to Be True Is Cited More

  21-05-2021 20:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Papers that cannot be replicated are cited 153 times more because their findings are interesting, according to a new UC San Diego study. Papers in...
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• 7 nooses halt construction at Connecticut Amazon warehouse

  21-05-2021 19:59 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Amazon has temporarily shut down a new warehouse construction site in Connecticut after a seventh noose was found hanging over a beam
  
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• Microsoft CEO responds to news of Bill Gates' affair with employee

  21-05-2021 19:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Friday responded to recent news about the conduct of the company's founder, Bill Gates, that raised questions about the tech giant's workplace culture.
  
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• They're huge on TikTok … now what? Internet stars are chasing their next big break

  21-05-2021 19:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  When it comes to creating a viral song, TikTok stars are the experts. It could be why so many of them are turning to music to expand their platforms.
  
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• Big on TikTok, Bella Poarch and Addison Rae push into music

  21-05-2021 19:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  When it comes to creating a viral song, TikTok stars are the experts. It could be why so many of them are turning to music to expand their platforms.
  
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• Technocrat Scientists Are Working On Self-Spreading Vaccines

  21-05-2021 18:29 via technocracy.news
  
  The Technocrat mind believes that scientists have some sort of divine mandate for the care of populations and that they and they alone should make health decisions for everyone. Furthermore, their Transhumanist bent is being revealed as they attempt to create Humanity 2.0.
  See also:Coronavirus cure: Scientists plan bizarre ‘self-spreading vaccine’ to fight pandemic
  Could self-spreading vaccines stop a coronavirus pandemic?
  We now have the technology to develop vaccines that spread th
  
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• Mars Report: Update on NASA’s Perseverance Rover & Curiosity Rover [Video]

  21-05-2021 18:03 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on the surface of Mars since February of 2021, joining NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been studying the Red Planet...
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• Chinese Technocratic Authoritarianism Rising, Western Democracy Eroding

  21-05-2021 17:55 via technocracy.news
  
  China intends to conquer the world with authoritarian Technocracy rather than guns and missiles. Thus far, they are excelling and the rest of the world is regressing. There is no give and take in China; it’s their way or the highway. The rest of the world is just starting to figure this out. ⁃ TN EditorIt already seems that the biggest struggle in the 21st century may be between the competing models of Chinese technocratic authoritarianism and Joe Biden’s hopes for a revitalise
  
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• AP PHOTOS: Get ready to be bugged by cicadas

  21-05-2021 17:48 via abcnews.go.com
  The cicada occupation is just getting started.Some of the red-eyed flying insects, which come out once every 17 years, have begun to emerge. But bug experts say you ain’t seen nothing yet.
  This is Brood X (as in the Roman numeral 10), one of the largest groups of periodic cicadas. Some places already are overloaded, with singing bugs covering walls and trees. Elsewhere, the ground hasn’t warmed enough for the cicadas to come out en masse.But come out they will — by the billions
  
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• New detector finds gamma rays from surprising cosmic sources

  21-05-2021 17:34 via abcnews.go.com
  
  China's new Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory has detected a dozen sources of ultra high-energy gamma rays from within our Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study in the journal Nature
  
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• Snap buys lens company for $500 million as augmented reality efforts ramp up

  21-05-2021 17:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Snap is acquiring WaveOptics, a company that creates lenses and other parts that are used in
  
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• CNN's Chris Cuomo apologizes for 'inappropriate' conversations with brother's staff, network says

  21-05-2021 17:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  CNN said that the anchor would not be involved in future calls and that he acknowledged that the calls were "inappropriate." He will not face discipline.
  
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• Drugs Used to Treat COVID-19 Patients Tracked Throughout the Pandemic

  21-05-2021 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Efforts to Treat COVID-19 Patients Chronicled in UC Health Medications Data A record of medicine utilization patterns assembled by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at...
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• Legal Brief: All U.S. Employees Are Protected From Mandated COVID Injections

  21-05-2021 16:59 via technocracy.news
  
  A legal memo from Liberty Counsel Action is suitable for print and distribution to employers of all sizes, in order to protect employee rights under American law. Forced mandates are illegal. Discrimination against the non-vaccinated is also illegal. ⁃ TN EditorMemo-reCOVIDVaccinationMandate-April2021Read full story here…
  
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• VIPER: NASA Rover to Search for Water & Other Resources on Moon

  21-05-2021 16:19 via scitechdaily.com
  
  As part of the Artemis program, NASA is planning to send its first mobile robot to the Moon in late 2023 in search of ice and other...
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• Harry Reid: What We Believe About U.F.O.s

  21-05-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  We still don’t know what they are — but we may be close to finding out.
  
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• Carbon storage offers hope for climate, cash for farmers

  21-05-2021 15:32 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Farming techniques that are good for the soil may also play an important role in fighting climate change
  
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• Pediatric Infectious Disease Expert Guidance: Should My Child Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?

  21-05-2021 15:22 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The Food and Drug Administration expanded emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to include adolescents 12 to 15 years of age on May...
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• Sandwich Structure Improves Efficiency of Next-Generation Solar Panels

  21-05-2021 14:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Scientists Take a Bite Out of Solar Efficiency Challenge With Sandwich Model The design of next-generation solar panels can now be improved thanks to a...
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• Apple's rivals may never be able to catch up to its powerful new chip

  21-05-2021 14:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Early in the testing phase of Apple's M1 chipset, a milestone new product for the company, the processor was installed in a batch of Mac computers and given to staffers working on applications that demanded heavy processing power. It was a pivotal moment: the first time Apple had made its own chip for any of its computers, shifting away from years of using a one-size-fits-all option from Intel.
  
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• Unraveling the Mysteries of Dark Energy: Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

  21-05-2021 14:11 via scitechdaily.com
  
  International collaboration, under the aegis of Berkeley Lab, aims for 3D map of the universe, unraveling of mysterious ‘dark energy.’ A five-year quest to map...
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• China authorities name 105 apps for improper data practices

  21-05-2021 13:42 via abcnews.go.com
  
  China’s internet watchdog has said it found Bytedance’s Douyin, Microsoft Bing, LinkedIn and 102 other apps were engaged in improper data collection and usage
  
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• The Charlotte Whale: Unexpected Discovery of a Whale Skeleton Hundreds of Miles From the Sea

  21-05-2021 13:38 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The unexpected discovery of a whale skeleton hundreds of miles from the sea and more than 200 feet above sea level in 1849 is a...
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• Unprecedented Nanoscale Look at Reaction That Limits the Efficiency of Generating Clean Hydrogen Fuel

  21-05-2021 13:02 via scitechdaily.com
  
  With a new suite of tools, scientists discovered exactly how tiny plate-like catalyst particles carry out a key step in that conversion – the evolution...
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• New MIT Algorithm Helps Robots Collaborate to Get the Job Done

  21-05-2021 12:31 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Algorithm enables robot teams to complete missions, such as mapping or search-and-rescue, with minimal wasted effort. Sometimes, one robot isn’t enough. Consider a search-and-rescue mission...
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• NASA’s Webb Space Telescope to Study How Massive Stars’ Blasts of Radiation Influence Their Environments

  21-05-2021 11:43 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The nearby Orion Bar is a typical example of a region influenced by young, massive stars Spectacular supernova explosions have been known to shape the...
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• New Robot-Assisted Nondestructive Broadband Imager Is the Next Step Towards Advanced Technology

  21-05-2021 11:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  One of the key aspects of academic and industrial research today is non-destructive imaging, a technique in which an object or sample is imaged (using...
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• Green Light on Gold Atoms: Unexpected Findings From Metallic Nano-Antennas That Concentrate Light

  21-05-2021 11:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Because individual atoms or molecules are 100 to 1000 times smaller than the wavelength of visible light, it is notoriously difficult to collect information about...
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• Gene Signature Discovered for Plaque-Eating Microglia in Alzheimer’s Disease

  21-05-2021 11:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common form of dementia and is characterized by the build-up of amyloid plaques in the brain. Microglia, the immune sentinels...
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• Alarming Biodiversity Devastation: Human-Driven Decline Requires Millions of Years of Recovery

  21-05-2021 11:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new study shows that the current rate of biodiversity decline in freshwater ecosystems outcompetes that at the end-Cretaceous extinction that killed the dinosaurs: damage...
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• Tencent profits soar even as China tech crackdown worries linger

  21-05-2021 09:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Tencent has posted forecast-beating earnings with a 65% jump in profit, but investors are still not particularly enthused about the Chinese gaming and social media giant.
  
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• Powerful US nuclear test reactor getting rare major overhaul

  21-05-2021 06:31 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Scientists in Idaho this summer plan to remove the 62,000-pound stainless steel lid on one of the world’s most powerful nuclear test reactors for a rare internal overhaul
  
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• BTS Drop New English-Language ‘Butter’ Video - Rolling Stone

  21-05-2021 06:29 via news.google.com
  BTS Drop New English-Language ‘Butter’ Video  Rolling StoneNew BTS Song ‘Butter’ Credits Columbia Records Chief Ron Perry as Co-Writer and Co-Producer  VarietyBTS Releases 'Butter' Single: Stream It Now  BillboardBTS returns with new single “Butter”  KOREA NOWBTS Smash YouTube Premiere Record—Again—With ‘Butter’ Video  ForbesView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Strong Market Rally, But Don't Rush In; Applied Materials Tops Views - Investor's Business Daily

  21-05-2021 06:21 via news.google.com
  Strong Market Rally, But Don't Rush In; Applied Materials Tops Views  Investor's Business DailyStock futures are flat following a rebound day on Wall Street  CNBCS&P 500 Snaps 3-Day Losing Streak as Tech Reigns Supreme By Investing.com  Investing.comStocks snap losing streak as jobless claims dip, crypto stabilizes  Fox Business5 things to know before the stock market opens Thursday  CNBCView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Apple brings CEO Tim Cook to court in defense of app store

  21-05-2021 06:16 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Apple CEO Tim Cook will take the witness stand Friday to defend the company’s iPhone app store against charges that it has grown into an illegal monopoly — one far more profitable than his predecessor Steve Jobs ever envisioned
  
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• Prince Harry opens up about panic attacks, drinking and drugs after Diana's death - Page Six

  21-05-2021 06:11 via news.google.com
  Prince Harry opens up about panic attacks, drinking and drugs after Diana's death  Page SixPrince Harry Says Requests for Help to His Family Were 'Met with Total Silence, Total Neglect'  PEOPLEThe Me You Can’t See review: Prince Harry’s honesty is powerful – the rest is frustratingly unambitious  The IndependentPalace despised Meghan Markle's 'trashy' baby shower, says royal expert  Page SixMeghan Markle's favorite brands are on sale at N
  
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• LA Jewish man chased by 2 vehicles waving Palestinian flags: 'They were yelling Allahu akbar' - Fox News

  21-05-2021 05:57 via news.google.com
  LA Jewish man chased by 2 vehicles waving Palestinian flags: 'They were yelling Allahu akbar'  Fox NewsLos Angeles Police Department investigating altercation at restaurant as possible anti-Semitic hate crime  CNN Police Investigate Possible Jewish Hate Crime Attack At Beverly Grove Restaurant  CBS Los AngelesAntisemitic Attack Condemned By Beverly Hills City Council  Patch.comPro-Palestinian mob attacks Jewish diners in LA, 3 suspects sought in hate crime
  
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• Lady Gaga Discusses Being Pregnant, ‘Total Psychotic Break’ After Being Raped at 19 - Vulture

  21-05-2021 05:49 via news.google.com
  Lady Gaga Discusses Being Pregnant, ‘Total Psychotic Break’ After Being Raped at 19  VultureLady Gaga says she was impregnated by producer that raped her at 19  InsiderOprah Winfrey says childhood rape convinced her that girls ‘aren’t safe in a world full of men’  The IndependentLady Gaga Recalled the Trauma She Endured After Her Rapist “Dropped Me Off Pregnant”  Yahoo LifestyleLady Gaga says a producer made her re
  
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• Total lunar eclipse: How to watch the super flower blood moon on May 26 - CNET

  21-05-2021 05:32 via news.google.com
  Total lunar eclipse: How to watch the super flower blood moon on May 26  CNETRare total lunar eclipse will excite skywatchers May 26  KTAR.comHere comes the supermoon | News | beacononlinenews.com  The West Volusia Beacon3 Students Named Winners of Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest  NASABlood Moon lunar eclipse 2021: Where and when to watch  FOX 6 MilwaukeeView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Magnetic Monsters: Hubble Tracks Down Location of Mysterious Radio Signals From Intergalactic Space

  21-05-2021 05:22 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arms They come from anywhere in the sky: mysterious flashes of radio energy that disappear in...
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• Millions of mice are swarming Australian towns. Now there's a plan to end the plague with poison - CNN

  21-05-2021 04:58 via news.google.com
  Millions of mice are swarming Australian towns. Now there's a plan to end the plague with poison  CNN Millions of mice are swarming Australian towns. Now there's a plan to end the plague with poison  East Idaho NewsView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Trump Justice Department seized CNN records tied to correspondent’s phone and email - POLITICO

  21-05-2021 04:30 via news.google.com
  Trump Justice Department seized CNN records tied to correspondent’s phone and email  POLITICOTrump administration secretly obtained CNN reporter's phone and email records  CNN Trump DOJ secretly collected CNN reporter's phone, email records  USA TODAYCNN says Trump Justice Department secretly obtained reporter’s phone records  Baltimore SunTrump administration secretly obtained CNN reporter's phone and email records  CNNView Full Cove
  
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• PACERS at WIZARDS | FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | May 20, 2021 - NBA

  21-05-2021 04:22 via news.google.com
  
  PACERS at WIZARDS | FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | May 20, 2021  NBAWizards vs. Pacers score: Russell Westbrook and Co. clinch No. 8 seed in playoffs, send Indiana packing  CBSSports.comThe Wizards remain confident, and their recent history against the Pacers should only help  The Washington PostRussell Westbrook powers Wizards beatdown of Pacers in NBA play-in tournament  Yahoo SportsRuss & Beal guide Wizards BLOW OUT in W‼️ | NBA Highlights 
  
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