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• Instagram plans to bring back chronological feed next year, top exec says

  08-12-2021 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  Instagram head Adam Mosseri testified for the first time before a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday as lawmakers question the app's impact on the mental health of younger users.
  
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• Instagram offers 'drug pipeline' to kids, tech advocacy group claims

  08-12-2021 22:52 via cnn.com
  
  Instagram says it prohibits drug sales, but accounts advertising the sale of Xanax, ecstasy, opioids and other drugs are still widespread and easy to find on the platform, including for young users, according to a report released by tech advocacy group the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) on Tuesday.
  
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• Explainer: What caused Amazon's outage? Will there be more?

  08-12-2021 22:20
  
  Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn't start
  
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• Amazon's cloud issues highlight backbones of modern internet

  08-12-2021 21:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Robotic vacuum cleaners halted in their tracks. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were canceled anyway.
  
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• Biden signs executive order to make U.S. government carbon neutral by 2050

  08-12-2021 21:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  The president is aiming to leverage the federal government’s massive buying power to jumpstart the market for clean energy, electric vehicles and more efficient buildings.
  
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• Instagram head faces questions from lawmakers over app's impact on kids

  08-12-2021 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  Instagram head Adam Mosseri is set to testify for the first time before a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday as lawmakers question the app's impact on the mental health of younger users.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes' defense rests its case

  08-12-2021 20:23 via cnn.com
  
  Elizabeth Holmes' defense rested its case Wednesday, shortly after the founder and former CEO of Theranos concluded her seventh day on the witness stand in her own criminal trial.
  
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• Four People, Four Different Paths Into Citizen Science

  08-12-2021 20:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Citizen Science: Stories of Science We Can Do Together! In it, host Bob Hirshon chatted with four citizen scientists about how they got their start in the community and how they share citizen science with others.
  
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• Craving Binge-Worthy Reality TV? Mental Health Experts Can Explain

  08-12-2021 19:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Your relationship with the screen and your favorite reality TV stars can bring benefits or risks to your psychological well being. It depends on what you are watching, why and how often.
  
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• FAA issues aircraft restrictions linked to 5G technology, warns of possible flight diversions

  08-12-2021 17:49 via cnn.com
  
  The Federal Aviation Administration announced a new rule on Tuesday that forbids pilots from using auto-landing and other flight systems at low altitudes where 5G wireless signals could interfere withinstruments that measure a plane's distance to the ground.
  
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• Panel: Consider tinkering with oceans to suck up more carbon

  08-12-2021 17:28
  
  The National Academy of Sciences says the world needs to look into making oceans suck up more carbon dioxide to fight climate change
  
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• Microsoft to change hiring process after DOJ finds immigration-related discrimination

  08-12-2021 17:21 via nbcnews.com
  
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• Man charged after Christmas tree outside Fox News building set on fire, police say

  08-12-2021 16:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 49-year-old man has been charged with setting a Christmas tree outside the Fox News building in Manhattan on fire, police say.
  
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• Oregon Legislators Seek To Make Indoor Mask Mandate Permanent

  08-12-2021 16:17 via technocracy.news
  
  Oregon lawmakers have abandoned real science that shows the uselessness of masks against viruses, but are fully determined to make citizens to what they tell them to do. Expect boutique face mask stores and kiosks to pop up everywhere now.  ⁃ TN EditorOregon is moving to making its indoor mask mandate permanent, meaning the rule will only be able to be repealed in the highly unlikely event of Republicans winning the state.
  Authorities are progressing in making compulsory face covering
  
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• Japanese tourists dock at International Space Station

  08-12-2021 16:02
  
  A Japanese billionaire and his producer rocketed to space on Wednesday and reached the International Space Station several hours later
  
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• The New Normal: Biometrics Seen As Future Of Airline Travel

  08-12-2021 15:59 via technocracy.news
  
  You are forced to wear a face mask, to show proof of injection, to show your face, eyes and fingerprints in order to get to your destination. Technocrats believe more technology can solve all problems; if there are no problems to solve, then create some. ⁃ TN EditorIf it’s been a year or more since you traveled, particularly internationally, you may notice something different at airports in the United States: More steps — from checking a bag to clearing customs — are bein
  
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• Cost Of War: Excess Deaths Soaring Despite Mass Injections

  08-12-2021 15:39 via technocracy.news
  
  COVID injections were promised to be the path to normalcy, but the reality is far from it. Those who have already received the injection(s) have doubled their risk for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS).  This is the ugly cost of Technocracy’s war against humanity, and there is no end in sight. ⁃ TN Editor
  STORY AT-A-GLANCE> In the week ending November 12, 2021, the U.K. reported 2,047 more deaths than occurred during the same period between 2015 and 2019; heart disease and stroke
  
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• Japanese billionaire and producer blast off on 12-day mission to International Space Station (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported that they were the first self-paying space tourists since 2009.)

  08-12-2021 15:15
  Japanese billionaire and producer blast off on 12-day mission to International Space Station (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported that they were the first self-paying space tourists since 2009.)
  
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• Parents of the social media generation are not OK

  08-12-2021 13:43 via cnn.com
  
  Last September, just a few weeks into the school year, Sabine Polak got a call from the guidance counselor. Her 14-year-old daughter was struggling with depression and had contemplated suicide.
  
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• While Elon Musk looks up, residents down below say his rockets make life unbearable

  08-12-2021 13:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Celia Johnson, a retired social worker in her mid-70s, can still vividly describe childhood trips to the slender, sandy beach in Boca Chica Village, Texas.
  
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• Major outage at Amazon disrupts businesses across the US

  08-12-2021 11:49
  
  Amazon’s cloud-service network suffered a outage disrupting access to many sites
  
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• Fish Predators Help Control Coral-Eating Crown-of-Thorns Starfish on Great Barrier Reef

  08-12-2021 11:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Reef fish, such as emperors, tropical snappers, and rockcods, help keep numbers of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish in check on the Great Barrier Reef. Reef fish,...
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• Here's what people searched for on Google in 2021

  08-12-2021 09:32 via cnn.com
  
  If 2020 was defined by a spike in people frantically Googling for everything related to the coronavirus, this year saw the old standards of sports and entertainment make a resurgence in online searches around the world.
  
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• Japanese billionaire soars into space

  08-12-2021 08:54 via cnn.com
  
  Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire, soared into outer space aboard a Russian-built Soyuz capsule and rocket Wednesday morning, kicking off the first self-funded tourism mission to the International Space Station in a decade.
  
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• Why Eraser Enzymes Go Wrong and Lead to Cancer

  08-12-2021 06:45 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Biochemist studies when enzymes in our cells go wrong and misbehave in human disease. University of Delaware researcher awarded NIH grant to study why eraser...
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• How Hydra – A Group of Small Aquatic Animals – Regenerate Their Own Heads

  08-12-2021 06:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, maps out for the first time how Hydra, which are a group of small...
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• Study can't confirm lab results for many cancer experiments

  08-12-2021 05:53
  
  An eight-year project to carefully repeat early but influential lab experiments in cancer research has reached a conclusion
  
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• Scientists Identify Factor in “Young Blood” That Helps Rejuvenate Aging Muscle

  08-12-2021 05:31 via scitechdaily.com
  
  As we age, our muscles gradually become smaller, weaker, and less able to heal after injury. In a new study, UPMC and University of Pittsburgh...
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• Instagram pushes drug content to teens

  08-12-2021 04:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  Instagram is pushing drug-related content to teen accounts, according to research by the watchdog group Tech Transparency Project (TTP).
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes nears end of her time on the stand in her criminal trial

  08-12-2021 03:43 via cnn.com
  
  Elizabeth Holmes' marathon testimony is expected to conclude on Wednesday morning, capping six days on the witness stand considered the main event of one of the highest-profile Silicon Valley trials in decades.
  
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• Stellantis wants to outfit cars with AI to drive up revenue

  08-12-2021 03:28
  
  Carmaker Stellantis has announced a strategy to embed AI-enabled software in 34 million vehicles across its 14 brands
  
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• Hawaii recoups from big storm amid lingering flood threats

  08-12-2021 03:11
  
  Flash flood warnings have been canceled for Hawaii, but the threat of heavy rain is persisting as a slow-moving storm system lingers over parts of the state
  
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• Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick: Astronomers Find White Dwarf Blasting a Companion Object

  08-12-2021 01:46 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A white dwarf is blasting a companion object, which is either a low-mass star or a planet. The companion is likely receiving a barrage of...
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• Computer scientist who claims he invented Bitcoin wins major court case

  08-12-2021 01:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  Craig Wright, a computer scientist who claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin, prevailed in a civil trial verdict Monday.
  
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• Amazon says 'many' services restored after outage disrupts Disney+, Netflix, Slack

  08-12-2021 01:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Amazon Web Services experienced an outage Tuesday that affected streaming services and other widely-used websites.
  
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• Harvard Scientists Observe Quantum Spin Liquids – A Never-Before-Seen State of Matter

  08-12-2021 00:36 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Harvard researchers observe a state of matter predicted and hunted for 50 years but never previously observed. In 1973, physicist Philip W. Anderson theorized the...
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