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• Tech trade groups file lawsuit against Florida's new social media law

  27-05-2021 23:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Florida's new law prohibiting social media platforms from suspending politicians is just days old. But it's already being challenged in court by the tech industry.
  
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• Census Bureau's use of 'synthetic data' worries researchers

  27-05-2021 22:58 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Some researchers are up in arms about a U.S. Census Bureau proposal to add privacy protections by manipulating numbers in the data most widely used for economic and demographic research
  
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• 'Nothing looks good' preparing for summer wildfire season

  27-05-2021 22:45 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Crews across the U.S. West are lighting controlled burns and taking other steps to prepare for the 2021 fire season that follows the worst one on record
  
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• Tennessee woman arrested for speeding through COVID-19 vaccination tent in protest, authorities say - KABC-TV

  27-05-2021 22:22 via news.google.com
  
  Tennessee woman arrested for speeding through COVID-19 vaccination tent in protest, authorities say  KABC-TV64 Percent of Vaccinated People Who Get COVID Have This in Common, CDC Says  Yahoo LifestyleView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• CDC investigates a potential link between COVID-19 vaccines and heart problem seen in young people - PennLive

  27-05-2021 18:53 via news.google.com
  CDC investigates a potential link between COVID-19 vaccines and heart problem seen in young people  PennLiveView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• After Colonial hack, DHS issues first cybersecurity regulation for pipelines

  27-05-2021 18:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Department of Homeland Security has
  
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• Mass Vaccination Campaign Triggers Spike In Cases, Deaths

  27-05-2021 17:41 via technocracy.news
  
  The highly-touted break-through COVID vaccines are in break-down. For those who are hesitant to take the vaccine(s), they have good reasons to not proceed further. Statistics are complex and often intentionally muddied, but there is now a more clear picture of the vaccines’ impact on society. ⁃ TN EditorCOVID cases have risen sharply in nearly every country that has launched a mass vaccination campaign. (Please watch this short video before You Tube removes it.1) Why is this hap
  
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• Johns Hopkins Prof: Half Of Americans Have Natural Immunity, Don’t Need Vaccine

  27-05-2021 17:24 via technocracy.news
  
  He describes it as the “biggest failure of medical leadership”. If you have had the COVID-19 virus, which gives you natural antibodies to fight future infections, then you don’t need to be vaccinated on top of it. He flatly states, “Please, ignore the CDC guidance!”
  The Technocrat feeding frenzy to get everyone to vaccinate is based on self-interested propaganda. All other voices are muted, canceled or ridiculed as conspiracy theories. ⁃ TN EditorA professor w
  
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• Microsoft President Threatens That Orwell’s 1984 Could Happen In 2024

  27-05-2021 17:10 via technocracy.news
  
  Microsoft’s master Technocrat and President Brad Smith feigns concern over the arrival of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four but doesn’t even hint at Microsoft’s (and Bill Gates) causative role in bringing it about in the first place. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is of the same mind. ⁃ TN EditorLife as depicted in George Orwell’s 1984 “could come to pass in 2024” if lawmakers don’t protect the public against artificial intelligence, Microsoft&rs
  
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• Citizen says it's not starting its own private security force -- but it won't rule out hiring someone else to do it

  27-05-2021 16:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Citizen, an app that started as a service for real-time crime alerts made waves late last week with news that it was testing a private, on-demand security force, after a company-branded patrol car was spotted in Los Angeles. Now the company has said that test is over, and that it will not launch its own private security force in the future -- but would not rule out partnerships with other companies that would accomplish the same thing.
  
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• Silicon Valley is in a high-stakes standoff with India

  27-05-2021 16:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  WhatsApp is suing the Indian government. Twitter is concerned about getting wrapped up in a police investigation. Google is pledging to follow new tech rules in the country, but it's still early days.
  
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• Iran bans bitcoin mining as its cities suffer blackouts and power shortages

  27-05-2021 15:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Iran’s government announced a ban on the mining of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the country’s
  
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• Uber drivers win their first ever unionization deal

  27-05-2021 14:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Uber has recognized a labor union for the first time in a move that could boost efforts by gig economy workers to win better employment rights.
  
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• No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to subscribe: Amazon buys MGM for $8.5 billion

  27-05-2021 14:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Amazon said Wednesday that it has struck a deal to acquire movie studio MGM for $8.5 billion, bolstering its efforts to become a top player in Hollywood.
  
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• Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii's shores

  27-05-2021 13:56 via abcnews.go.com
  “Ghost nets” from unknown origins drift among the Pacific’s currents, threatening marine creatures of all sorts and littering shorelines with the entangled remains of what they kill
  
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• Facebook will no longer remove claims that Covid-19 was man-made

  27-05-2021 13:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Facebook said it's no longer removing from its platforms claims that coronavirus was man-made.
  
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• Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano stops erupting after months of lava

  27-05-2021 07:19 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano has stopped erupting
  
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• Why the Sun’s Atmosphere Is Hundreds of Times Hotter Than Its Surface – 80 Year-Old Theory Finally Confirmed

  27-05-2021 05:03 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The visible surface of the Sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000°C. But a few thousand kilometers above it – a small distance when we consider...
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• 8th noose found at Amazon site despite additional security

  27-05-2021 04:42 via abcnews.go.com
  
  NAACP, state and local officials are denouncing what they call continued racism at an Amazon warehouse construction site in Connecticut where an eighth noose has been found
  
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• AP PHOTOS: Lunar eclipse coinciding with supermoon dazzles

  27-05-2021 02:28 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The moon put on a show for many parts of the world Wednesday, as the first total lunar eclipse in more than two years coincided with a supermoon.The blazing orange moon dazzled as it hung over the skies of the Pacific as well as the western half of North America, parts of South America and eastern Asia.
  The reddish-orange color of the super “blood” moon is the result of all the sunrises and sunsets in Earth’s atmosphere projected onto the surface of the eclipsed moon.More lunar
  
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• Buildup to super blood moon eclipses the finale

  27-05-2021 02:25 via abcnews.go.com
  
  In the end, the buildup may have been more spectacular than the finale
  
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• Forecast: 40% chance Earth to be hotter than Paris goal soon

  27-05-2021 02:23 via abcnews.go.com
  A new world weather agency forecast says it'll likely be so hot in the next five years that there's a 40% chance the globe will push past the temperature limit set by the Paris climate agreement
  
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• Ford: Electric vehicles to be 40% of global sales by 2030

  27-05-2021 01:43 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Ford says it expects 40% of its global sales to be battery-electric vehicles by 2030 as it adds billions to the amount it’s spending to develop them
  
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• Important Global Health Problem Identified: Disease of the Smallest Heart Blood Vessels

  27-05-2021 01:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  For the first time, a prospective, international study has shown that chest pain caused by problems with the very small vessels supplying blood to the...
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