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• Facebook recalling 4 million Oculus Quest 2 headset components

  27-07-2021 23:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Facebook on Tuesday announced it is temporarily pausing sales of its Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headsets and recalling a component in around 4 million of the devices, in cooperation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
  
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• What Makes Us Introverts, Extroverts or Ambiverts?

  27-07-2021 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s not about shyness, it’s about where you get your energy from.
  
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• Ex-eBay employee gets 18 months for cyberstalking campaign

  27-07-2021 22:57
  A former security operations manager for eBay Inc. has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in an extensive campaign to terrorize and intimidate the editor and publisher of an online newsletter
  
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• Facebook says it's moving forward with Instagram for kids despite backlash

  27-07-2021 22:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Facebook on Tuesday reaffirmed its intention to build an Instagram for kids under 13, despite pressure from lawmakers to back down on the plan, while simultaneously announcing new updates to address concerns about the safety of younger users on its platforms.
  
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• Man gets life for killing woman who mistook his car for Uber

  27-07-2021 22:41
  
  A South Carolina man has been sentenced to life in prison for abducting and murdering the woman who mistook his car for her Uber ride in 2019
  
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• Smart Eye Deputy CEO Rana el Kaliouby talks automotive AI

  27-07-2021 21:53
  
  Rana el Kaliouby co-founded and led Boston startup Affectiva, which uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to analyze mood and emotion
  
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• FBI tracking more than 100 active ransomware groups

  27-07-2021 20:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  The FBI is tracking more than 100 active ransomware groups, an agency official said Tuesday.The figure, given by Bryan Vorndran,
  
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• Are Fake Meat Products Good for You?

  27-07-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It depends on which ones you're consuming, health experts say.
  
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• Rampant And Blatant COVID Fear Mongering On Social Media

  27-07-2021 16:44 via technocracy.news
  
  Propaganda on social media is ubiquitous and intended to deceive an unsuspecting public into complying with the Technocrat agenda of total control. Fabricated social media posts saturate the Internet with total falsehoods as so-called fact checkers remain completely silent. This is the next wave of assault in the revolutionary Great Reset. ⁃ TN EditorIf the words of that “doctor” who “just left the ER” and has a message about getting “crushed” by the new
  
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• Covid Mania Down Under: Tape Doors Shut, Stay Off Balconies

  27-07-2021 16:25 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats have no ethical boundaries or moral shame in spreading their insanity to every corner of planet earth. People are forced to accept lockdown policies that fly in the face of logic, common sense and real science. This insane narrative is being played out in every nation. ⁃ TN EditorNational Rugby League (NRL) players and their families have been banned from their balconies and ordered to tape them shut to stop Covid in parts of Queensland, Australia.
  Australian health officials i
  
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• Big Tech Using Government Intel List To Target White Supremacists

  27-07-2021 16:09 via technocracy.news
  
  Major Governments are pivoting from tracking Islamic terrorists to surveilling white supremacists and domestic terrorists. Government data is being shoveled to a private organization funded by Big Tech in order to crush dissent and opposition. ⁃ TN EditorA private counterterrorism group formed by the world’s biggest tech companies, including Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, will use lists produced by government intelligence agencies to police content by white supremacists,
  
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• Instagram moves to protect teens. Child safety experts fear what's next for tweens.

  27-07-2021 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The move follows pushback at launch of an Instagram service for children under 13.
  
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• Ancient Skulls Show Anglo-Saxon Identity Was More Cultural Than Genetic

  27-07-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Skeletal evidence shows Britain's ancient Anglo-Saxon society as more genetically diverse than once thought. Language and culture served as a social glue, archaeologists argue, not ancestry.
  
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• Jeff Bezos offers NASA $2 billion to get Blue Origin back in the moon race

  27-07-2021 12:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Jeff Bezos wants to spot NASA up to $2 billion in a bid to reignite the battle for space between his rocket company Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX.
  
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• WeChat suspends new user registrations as China cracks down on tech

  27-07-2021 11:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  WeChat is suspending all new user registrations until early August, the social messaging app announced on Tuesday.
  
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• The Silent Pulse of the Universe: What Jocelyn Bell Burnell Discovered

  27-07-2021 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell made an astounding discovery. But as a young woman in science, her role was overlooked.
  
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• The Silent Pulse of the Universe

  27-07-2021 10:55 via nytimes.com
  
  In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a breakthrough in astronomy. But as a woman in science, her role was overlooked.
  
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• 3 Steps To Get Tight & Toned For A Lasting Transformation

  27-07-2021 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Weight loss is killing your results and we’ll prove it to you
  
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• Bitcoin jumps on speculation that Amazon considering crypto

  27-07-2021 05:34
  
  Bitcoin’s price surged again Monday after speculation that Amazon may be entering the cryptocurrency sector after it posted a job seeking a “digital currency and blockchain product lead.”
  
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• NASA’s Fermi Spots a Weird Pulse of High-Energy Radiation Racing Toward Earth

  27-07-2021 02:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  On August 26, 2020, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a pulse of high-energy radiation that had been racing toward Earth for nearly half the...
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• Activision Blizzard employees sign petition denouncing company's 'abhorrent' response to lawsuit

  27-07-2021 02:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Pressure on Activision Blizzard is mounting as more than 2,000 current and former employees signed a petition slamming what they see as the video game company's "abhorrent and insulting" response to a California lawsuit.
  
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• Solving the Plastic Shortage With an Efficient New Chemical Catalyst

  27-07-2021 01:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  In a year that has already battered manufacturing supply chains, yet another shortage is complicating manufacturers’ and consumers’ lives: plastics, and the food packaging, automotive...
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• Brains Might Sync As People Interact — and That Could Upend Consciousness Research

  27-07-2021 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When we cooperate on certain tasks, our brainwaves might synchronize. This finding could upend the current understanding of consciousness.
  
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• New Research Finds Children With Autism Have a Distinctive Gut Microbiome

  27-07-2021 00:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Significantly fewer gut bugs linked to neurotransmitter activity. Children with autism seem to have a distinctive and underdeveloped range and volume of gut bacteria (microbiome)...
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