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• Uber prices are still way up, so the company is bringing back carpooling - The Verge

  04-11-2021 23:46 via news.google.com
  Uber prices are still way up, so the company is bringing back carpooling  The VergeUber revenue up 72% from last year, but Didi stake contributes to big loss  CNBCUber misses on earnings, beats on revenue in Q3  CNBC TelevisionOSHA Vaccine Mandate and OPEC Plus Meeting: Live Business News  The New York TimesUber reports quarterly results: Shares fall in after-hours  Yahoo Finance
  
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• NASA to deflect asteroid in test of 'planetary defense' - Phys.org

  04-11-2021 23:26 via news.google.com
  NASA to deflect asteroid in test of 'planetary defense'  Phys.orgNASA to intentionally crash spacecraft into asteroid  ReutersNASA will launch its 1st asteroid-defense mission this month  Space.comPlanetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO)  NASALIVE: NASA speaks ahead of rocket launch for asteroid defense test  Reuters
  
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• Uber Q3 loss widens on investment losses, revenue up 72%

  04-11-2021 22:43
  
  Uber has posted a big rebound in third-quarter revenue thanks to riders and drivers returning from pandemic lockdowns, but its bottom-line loss was wider than Wall Street expected
  
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• Search for life on other worlds tops astronomy to-do list

  04-11-2021 22:32
  
  A U.S. survey of astronomers puts the search for extraterrestrial life at the top of their to-do list for the next 10 years
  
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• Texas voting law faces lawsuit from Justice Department - The Texas Tribune

  04-11-2021 22:25 via news.google.com
  Texas voting law faces lawsuit from Justice Department  The Texas TribuneJustice Department sues Texas over new voting restrictions  CNNThe Biden administration is suing Texas over its new voting law  NPRJustice Department Sues Texas Over New Election Law  CBSDFWJustice Dept. Sues Texas Over Voting Restrictions  The New York Times
  
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• IRS Boosts 401(k) Contribution Annual Cap to $20,500 - The Wall Street Journal

  04-11-2021 21:58 via news.google.com
  
  IRS Boosts 401(k) Contribution Annual Cap to $20,500  The Wall Street JournalDemocrats put 401(k) and IRA restrictions for the rich back into their Build Back Better plan  CNBC2022 IRA and 401(k) Contribution Limits Are Set (There's Both Good and Bad News)  Yahoo FinanceWhy Aren't More Retirement Savers Jumping on This Fantastic 401(k) Feature?  The Motley FoolWhy you should ditch plans to convert your 401(k) to a Roth IRA  MarketWatch
  
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• The Latest: Activists give Poland 'Fossil of the Day' award

  04-11-2021 21:55
  
  Environmental campaigners have awarded their ‘Fossil of the Day’ award to the Polish government for giving — and then apparently backtracking on — a pledge to speed up its phaseout of coal power
  
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• NYC Mayor-elect to take first 3 paychecks in bitcoin

  04-11-2021 21:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  “NYC is going to be the center of the cryptocurrency industry," Adams tweeted Thursday.
  
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• Russian source for Steele’s Trump dossier arrested by US authorities - The Guardian

  04-11-2021 21:33 via news.google.com
  Russian source for Steele’s Trump dossier arrested by US authorities  The GuardianAnalyst who aided Trump-Russia dossier charged with lying  Yahoo NewsDurham charges Steele dossier sub-source with five counts of making false statements to the FBI  Fox NewsGregg Jarrett: The arrest of the man behind the phony dossier underscores the many lies of the Russia hoax  Fox NewsTrump Russia Probe: Was FBI Manipulated by the Democratic Party?  Bloomb
  
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• SpaceX crew launch bumped to next week; astronaut on mend

  04-11-2021 21:30
  
  SpaceX's next astronaut flight is off until at least next week as more bad weather looms
  
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• Changing animation speed on Google’s Pixel 6 series can break the fingerprint scanner on AOD - 9to5Google

  04-11-2021 21:28 via news.google.com
  Changing animation speed on Google’s Pixel 6 series can break the fingerprint scanner on AOD  9to5GooglePixel 6 users report wildly varying battery life — here could be some reasons why  Android PoliceGoogle Pixel 6a — 5 things I really want to see  Tom's Guide5 Reasons to Buy: PIXEL 6 and PIXEL 6 PRO  Droid LifeStill using a Google Pixel 2 or Pixel 3? Why you should (or shouldn't) upgrade to the Pixel 6  Android Police
  
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• Kristen Stewart on becoming Princess Diana in 'Spencer,' why she decided to share her engagement news - USA TODAY

  04-11-2021 21:02 via news.google.com
  Kristen Stewart on becoming Princess Diana in 'Spencer,' why she decided to share her engagement news  USA TODAY'Spencer' Imagines Princess Diana’s Inner Life  The AtlanticThe most notable versions of Princess Diana seen onscreen  CNN'Spencer' review: Kristen Stewart shines, but it's no biopic  Los Angeles Times‘Spencer’ Features an Immense Performance by Kristen Stewart  Observer
  
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• Tech companies blasted for inaction on Spanish-language disinformation

  04-11-2021 20:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Lawmakers and activists blasted technology companies, saying they're doing a worse job flagging and removing Spanish-language disinformation compared to English.
  
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• Several countries pledge to phase out heavily polluting coal

  04-11-2021 20:30
  
  In the fight to curb climate change, several major coal-using nations have announced steps to wean themselves off of the heavily polluting fossil fuel
  
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• Astronaut sounds alarm on climate, say they can see 'entire regions burning'

  04-11-2021 19:42
  
  "We see the pollution of rivers, atmospheric pollution, things like that."
  
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• Diwali 2021 in photos: Millions celebrate the ‘festival of lights’ - The Washington Post

  04-11-2021 19:32 via news.google.com
  Diwali 2021 in photos: Millions celebrate the ‘festival of lights’  The Washington PostDiwali Festival celebration held at Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple in South Jordan  FOX 13 News UtahWhat is Diwali? Here’s how Hindus and others celebrate the holiday  Deseret NewsThousands across the D-FW are celebrating Diwali  WFAADiwali 2021: What the holiday signifies and how festivities look in India  NPR
  
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• Britney Spears's mom requests $663K in attorneys fees as the singer blasts her for being behind the conservatorship - Yahoo Entertainment

  04-11-2021 19:30 via news.google.com
  Britney Spears's mom requests $663K in attorneys fees as the singer blasts her for being behind the conservatorship  Yahoo EntertainmentBritney Spears Takes Her Sons to the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit in Los Angeles: 'Me and My Boys'  PEOPLEBritney Spears Deletes Post Blaming Mother For Conservatorship  NBC NewsLance Bass Wants to See Britney Spears Out More If Conservatorship Ends  TMZJamie Lynn Spears Wants Britney To 'Stop Spreading The Hate'  
  
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• Judge rules against Blue Origin in standoff with SpaceX, NASA

  04-11-2021 19:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A federal judge delivered a major blow to Jeff Bezos' space company, Blue Origin, on Thursday by ruling in favor of NASA in a dispute over who will build the lander intended to take humans back to the moon.
  
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• Realtor who flew to the Capitol riot on a private jet and said she wouldn't go to jail because of her 'blonde hair' and 'white skin' gets 60 days behind bars - Yahoo News

  04-11-2021 19:11 via news.google.com
  
  Realtor who flew to the Capitol riot on a private jet and said she wouldn't go to jail because of her 'blonde hair' and 'white skin' gets 60 days behind bars  Yahoo NewsCapitol rioter sentenced to 60 days in jail  CBS Evening NewsTexas Real Estate Agent Jenna Ryan Sentenced To Prison For Actions During January 6 Capitol Riot; ‘You Win!!! I’m Going To Prison’  CBS Dallas / Fort WorthRioter who bragged she wouldn't go to jail gets prison term &n
  
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• Owen Paterson: Conservative MP resigns amid UK lobbying scandal - Al Jazeera English

  04-11-2021 18:03 via news.google.com
  Owen Paterson: Conservative MP resigns amid UK lobbying scandal  Al Jazeera EnglishBoris Johnson's government in fresh swirl of murk and sleaze accusations  CNNOwen Paterson quits as MP over lobbying row 'nightmare'  BBC NewsThis Conservative sleaze row will soon matter to voters too  The GuardianThe Guardian view on the Paterson case: enough is enough  The Guardian
  
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• Scientists find fossil of early hominid in South Africa - ABC News

  04-11-2021 17:45 via news.google.com
  Scientists find fossil of early hominid in South Africa  ABC NewsView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Animals of the Forest Floor

  04-11-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here are five helpful but sometimes dangerous creatures that support the ecosystem.
  
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• Bezos’ Blue Origin loses lawsuit against NASA over SpaceX lunar lander contract

  04-11-2021 16:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  The U.S. Federal Court of Claims ruled against Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin in the company’s lawsuit against NASA over a lucrative astronaut lunar lander contract.
  
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• Gamergate: Single Molecule Controls Unusual Ants’ Switch From Worker to Queen-Like Status

  04-11-2021 16:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Depending on the outcome of social conflicts, ants of the species Harpegnathos saltator do something unusual: they can switch from a worker to a queen-like status known...
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• UK approves Merck’s antiviral COVID-19 pill in world first move - Al Jazeera English

  04-11-2021 15:13 via news.google.com
  UK approves Merck’s antiviral COVID-19 pill in world first move  Al Jazeera EnglishMolnupiravir, the first pill to treat Covid | Covid-19 Special  DW NewsBritain approves Merck's COVID-19 pill in world first  Yahoo NewsFirst pill to treat Covid gets approval in UK  BBC NewsThe Guardian view on Covid’s second winter: act now or pay later  The Guardian
  
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• MITRE: The Military Intelligence Group That Drives The Push For Digital Vaccine Passport In America

  04-11-2021 15:07 via technocracy.news
  
  This is an absolutely must-read article to understand the meaning of the phrase, “Deep State”.  America is being driven by unelected and unaccountable Technocrats clustered in private think-tanks that could not possibly exist in the public sector. All of it is unwittingly funded by taxpayers.
  Collusion between the military and Big Tech was warned about by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address. This has since morphed into the heart of what Shoshana Zuboff has des
  
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• Trilateral Commission Members Henry Kissinger And Eric Schmidt On The Future Of The World

  04-11-2021 14:47 via technocracy.news
  
  Google’s Eric Schmidt gave up its original motto, “Don’t be evil”, then he joined the Trilateral Commission and became the heir apparent to fellow member Henry Kissinger. Now they are writing books together and pontificating to describe the future of the world with AI. ⁃ TN EditorThe White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has called for “a bill of rights” to protect Americans in what is becoming “an AI-powered world.” The concern
  
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• Physicists Discover How DNA Molecules Self-Assemble: Laws of Nature Harnessed To Create “Smart Materials”

  04-11-2021 14:46 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A team of physicists has discovered how DNA molecules self-organize into adhesive patches between particles in response to assembly instructions. Its findings offer a “proof...
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• Is it green, or forever toxic? Nuclear rift at climate talks

  04-11-2021 14:35
  
  Nuclear power is a central sticking point as negotiators plot out the world’s future energy strategy at the climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland
  
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• ER’s Are Suddenly Filled With Seriously Ill, But Not With COVID

  04-11-2021 14:24 via technocracy.news
  
  Signs of medical apocalypse are surfacing in hospital ERs across the country. The system is being overwhelmed with seriously ill patients that do not have COVID. Blood clots, heart conditions, abdominal pain and respiratory problems are common. Medical Technocrats remain silent.  ⁃ TN EditorInside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan, staff members are struggling to care for patients showing up much sicker than they’ve ever seen.
  Tiffani Dusang, the
  
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• U.S. puts new controls on Israeli spyware company NSO Group

  04-11-2021 13:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Biden administration is putting new export limits on Israel’s NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company.
  
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• Solving the Krill Paradox: Researchers Find Whales Eat (and Poop) Far More Than Previously Thought - SciTechDaily

  04-11-2021 13:27 via news.google.com
  Solving the Krill Paradox: Researchers Find Whales Eat (and Poop) Far More Than Previously Thought  SciTechDailyThe world was better off when there was more whale poop  CNETWhy Whale Poop Matters More Than You Might Think  SlateStaggering Data on How Much Whales Actually Eat Just Solved The 'Krill Paradox'  ScienceAlertBiologists vastly underestimated how much whales eat and poop  Popular Science
  
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• Solving the Krill Paradox: Researchers Find Whales Eat (and Poop) Far More Than Previously Thought

  04-11-2021 13:27 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Research on whale feeding highlights how the precipitous decline of large marine mammals has negatively impacted the health and productivity of ocean ecosystems. From 1910...
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• Nintendo says the chip shortage is hurting Switch sales

  04-11-2021 13:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Nintendo has become the latest victim of a global chip shortage that is battering supply chains.
  
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• The Mad Genius Stereotype: Fact or Merely Fiction?

  04-11-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The link between creativity and mental illness is pervasive in popular culture. But research remains controversial.
  
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• Mars Perseverance Rover: Driving Farther and Faster With Autonomous Navigation and Helicopter Scouting

  04-11-2021 12:16 via scitechdaily.com
  
  We’ve been driving on Mars since 1997, beginning with the 83 sol Sojourner rover mission. Since 2003 with the arrival of the Spirit and Opportunity...
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• A Guide to Solar Flares: What Does It Take To Be X-Class?

  04-11-2021 11:06 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light, and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar...
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• Unlike Anything in Our Solar System: Rocky Exoplanets Are Even Stranger Than We Thought

  04-11-2021 09:49 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new astrogeology study suggests that most nearby rocky exoplanets are quite unlike anything in our Solar System. An astronomer from NSF’s NOIRLab has teamed...
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• Deep Learning AI Explained: Neural Networks

  04-11-2021 09:24 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Ballyhooed artificial-intelligence technique known as “deep learning” revives 70-year-old idea. In the past 10 years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — such as the speech recognizers...
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• AP PHOTOS: A slow motion burial awaits in volcano no-go zone

  04-11-2021 09:14
  
  A child’s swing. A fountain in a courtyard. A tray of glasses abandoned under the duress of escape. All will disappear as a blizzard of dark ash blows from a volcano on La Palma island and drifts to the ground inch by inch, foot by foot.
  Inside the exclusion zone, there is destruction by lava as well as burial in a sepulcher of black snow. A living room furnished with a hammock sits empty in the final hours before an implacable tongue of molten rock crushes an entire house.
  Whether the end
  
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• Bees, sheep, crops: Solar developers tout multiple benefits

  04-11-2021 08:28
  Solar is a renewable energy source that can help wean the world off fossil fuels that produce climate-warming gases
  
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• The Creepy Feeling in the Uncanny Valley

  04-11-2021 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Almost — but not quite — humanlike robots can freak us out. But for roboticists, that feeling is an opportunity to get things right.
  
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• 5 Inventions That Changed The World

  04-11-2021 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  History’s game-changers range from the humble wheel to the modern computer.
  
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• 5 Fierce Warrior Cultures

  04-11-2021 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Spartans, ninjas and more! Which fighters would you want on your side?
  
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• US government works to 'cocoon' old nuclear reactors

  04-11-2021 05:19
  
  Costs to clean up a massive nuclear weapons complex in Washington state are usually expressed in the hundreds of billions of dollars and involve decades of work
  
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• Undersea 5.7 earthquake shakes part of eastern Indonesia

  04-11-2021 05:17
  A shallow undersea earthquake has shaken part of eastern Indonesia but no serious damage or casualties have been reported so far
  
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• Are COVID-19 boosters the same as the original vaccines?

  04-11-2021 05:11
  
  COVID-19 boosters use the same recipe as the original vaccines, and weren't tweaked since they still work well against the delta and other variants
  
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• 29 Days on the Edge: The Road To Launch and Beyond for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

  04-11-2021 04:23 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has safely arrived at its launch site in French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America, technical...
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• EXPLAINER: Why are foreign tech firms pulling out of China?

  04-11-2021 03:30
  
  Yahoo Inc. said this week that will withdraw from the China market.
  
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• Globe bounces back to nearly 2019 carbon pollution levels

  04-11-2021 02:41
  
  Global carbon pollution this year has bounced back to almost 2019 levels, after a drop during pandemic lockdowns
  
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