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• Bruno Latour, Philosopher on the Social Basis of Scientific Facts, Dies at 74

  12-10-2022 23:27 via nytimes.com
  He later became an unexpected ally of the science establishment in the face of attacks by climate deniers and conspiracy theorists.
  
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• Scientists Discover a Previously Unknown Plant Mechanism – And Its Impact Could Be Enormous

  12-10-2022 22:58 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists find that meiotic exit in Arabidopsis is driven by P-body-mediated inhibition of translation A previously unidentified mechanism for reprogramming gene expression during the transition...
  
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• SpaceX books another ride for a millionaire around the moon

  12-10-2022 22:51 via cnn.com
  
  Dennis Tito, a US millionaire who previously paid his way to the International Space Station in 2001, and his wife, Akiko, plan to take a lunar expedition that will last roughly a week, according to SpaceX.
  
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• She helped take down Kiwi Farms while in hiding. At TwitchCon, she's back in the public eye.

  12-10-2022 21:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Keffals, whose name is Clara Sorrenti, is a transgender Twitch streamer and activist. After taking down down Kiwi Farms, she's ready for a new chapter.
  
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• Scientists got lab-grown human brain cells to play 'Pong' - Engadget

  12-10-2022 20:29 via news.google.com
  Scientists got lab-grown human brain cells to play 'Pong'  EngadgetLab-grown brain cells play Pong computer game  Al Jazeera EnglishBrain cells in a dish played video game Pong, scientists say  CNNThese neurons in a dish learn to play Pong. Here’s why this is a big deal  ZME ScienceA dish of neurons may have taught itself to play Pong (badly)  Ars TechnicaView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Government Scientists: COVID-19 Rebound Not Caused by Impaired Immune Response

  12-10-2022 20:18 via scitechdaily.com
  Detailed analysis of eight patients published. Findings from a small study of eight patients suggest that COVID-19 rebound is likely not caused by impaired immune...
  
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• Scientists transplant human brain tissue into rats to study brain disorders - The Washington Post

  12-10-2022 20:00 via news.google.com
  Scientists transplant human brain tissue into rats to study brain disorders  The Washington PostWION Fineprint | Scientists create human-rat hybrid brain!  WIONHuman Brain Cells Grow in Rats, and Feel What the Rats Feel  The New York TimesNew method allows for a much more detailed examination of the brain processes  News-Medical.NetView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Why Meta's virtual-reality avatars are finally getting legs

  12-10-2022 19:49 via abcnews.go.com
  Why is it so hard to build a metaverse avatar — a visual representation of ourselves in the digital world — that walks on two legs
  
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• New AI Algorithms Predict Sports Teams’ Moves With 80% Accuracy

  12-10-2022 18:38 via scitechdaily.com
  New algorithms can predict the in-game actions of volleyball players with more than 80% accuracy. Now the Cornell Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Controls, which...
  
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• Scientists grow human brain cells in rats to study diseases

  12-10-2022 17:57 via abcnews.go.com
  Scientists at Stanford University have transplanted human brain cells into the brains of baby rats, where they grew and formed connections
  
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• Watch Live Human Brain Cells in a Dish Learn To Play Pong

  12-10-2022 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  Live biological neurons show more about how a brain works than AI ever will. Scientists have shown for the first time that 800,000 brain cells...
  
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• Microsoft unveils $4,299 Surface desktop computer

  12-10-2022 16:39 via cnn.com
  
  Microsoft's most expensive Surface device is about to get even pricier.
  
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• World's 1st space tourist signs up for flight around moon

  12-10-2022 16:16 via abcnews.go.com
  The world’s first space tourist has signed up to spin around the moon aboard Elon Musk’s Starship
  
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• Police Use DNA To Create Image Of Unknown Suspect

  12-10-2022 16:09 via technocracy.news
  Images generated from DNA is as useless as a Ouija board to identify a suspect, yet Technocrats are drawn to playing with data as cats are drawn to catnip. Public outcry was immediate. No American city should allow this kind of operation in their local police departments. ⁃ TN EditorThe Edmonton Police Service is, for the first time in its history, using DNA phenotyping in the hopes of identifying a suspect in a 2019 sexual assault.
  On Sunday, March 10, 2019, at approximately 5:45 a.m., po
  
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• China Runs Police Outpost In New York City

  12-10-2022 15:44 via technocracy.news
  The long arm of China’s police reaches into other countries where Chinese citizens reside, encouraging them to return to the homeland to face criminal prosecution. The first in the U.S. was New York City. This is reminiscent of China’s Confucius Centers at universities nationwide that spied on academia. ⁃ TN EditorChinese authorities have opened at least one “overseas police service station” in the United States as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) g
  
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• The 150 Bilderbergers Who Influenced And Controlled The Response To COVID-19

  12-10-2022 15:16 via technocracy.news
  The Bilderberg Meetings are where global narratives are created in private and behind closed doors. This mammoth study of the aftermath of those meetings digs into the subsequent activities of members with respect to COVID-19. TN recommends downloading the associated PDF. ⁃ TN EditorIt is unknown whether a 2021 Bilderberg Meeting was held; the group’s website stated that it “had to be cancelled, due to travel and meeting restrictions.”[1] Of the 1861 living Bilderber
  
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• 477 whales die in 'heartbreaking' New Zealand strandings

  12-10-2022 14:57 via abcnews.go.com
  Some 477 pilot whales have died after stranding themselves on two remote New Zealand beaches over recent days, officials say
  
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• Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

  12-10-2022 14:22 via abcnews.go.com
  NASA says a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away last month succeeded in shifting its orbit
  
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• Amazon Labor Union faces next showdown in upstate New York

  12-10-2022 14:10 via cnn.com
  
  In April, a grassroots worker group made history by gaining enough votes to form the first US union at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, in what was widely viewed as a "David vs. Goliath" battle. The next month, that same group, the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), fell short at a smaller facility across the street.
  
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• Facebook owner Meta unveils $1,500 VR headset: Will it sell?

  12-10-2022 07:49 via abcnews.go.com
  Facebook parent Meta has unveiled a high-end virtual reality headset with the hope people will soon be using it to work in the virtual reality of the still-elusive place called the metaverse
  
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• Yankees vs. Guardians score: Live updates from ALDS Game 1 as New York, Aaron Judge start playoff run - CBS Sports

  12-10-2022 03:26 via news.google.com
  Yankees vs. Guardians score: Live updates from ALDS Game 1 as New York, Aaron Judge start playoff run  CBS SportsMeet the beautiful WAGs of the Yankees ahead of the ALDS 2022 series vs. Guardians  New York Post The Yankees have a great defense, but will their elite defenders hit?  Pinstripe AlleyMichael Kay breaks down Yankees vs. Guardians  YESNetworkMLB announces start times for ALDS Games 3, 4, 5 between Guardians and Yankees  cleveland.comVie
  
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• Biden says Putin 'totally miscalculated' by invading Ukraine but is a 'rational actor' - CNN

  12-10-2022 03:12 via news.google.com
  Biden says Putin 'totally miscalculated' by invading Ukraine but is a 'rational actor'  CNN'A very dangerous road': Putin and the U.S. navigate a new round of nuclear brinkmanship  Yahoo NewsBiden says Putin 'miscalculated significantly' in 'irrational' Russian invasion of Ukraine  Fox NewsNuclear moment of truth for Biden and the West  The HillPutin ‘totally miscalculated’ Russia’s ability to occupy Ukraine, Biden says  The Gua
  
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• Woman says she had to press Herschel Walker to pay for abortion he wanted - The Washington Post

  12-10-2022 03:07 via news.google.com
  Woman says she had to press Herschel Walker to pay for abortion he wanted  The Washington PostRepublicans saw the Herschel Walker problem coming a mile away  CNNGeorgia Voters Are 'Unfazed' By Walker Abortion Allegations  NBC NewsThe One Thing That Can Save Herschel Walker  BloombergPress: What would Jesus say on Herschel Walker?  The HillView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Video shows Tucker Carlson cut rapper’s anti-semitism - live - The Independent

  12-10-2022 03:04 via news.google.com
  Video shows Tucker Carlson cut rapper’s anti-semitism - live  The IndependentWatch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn't Put on Air  VICEClarence Page: Who decides whether Ye, or Kanye, deserves a Twitter platform?  Chicago TribuneElon Musk says he expressed 'concerns' over Ye's antisemitic tweet: 'I think he took it to heart'  Fox BusinessView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Biden Vows ‘Consequences’ for Saudi Arabia After Oil Production Cut - The New York Times

  12-10-2022 03:02 via news.google.com
  Biden Vows ‘Consequences’ for Saudi Arabia After Oil Production Cut  The New York TimesLawmakers questioning US-Saudi relations  Fox BusinessBiden Vows to Punish Saudis But Struggles to Calibrate Response  Yahoo FinanceU.S. won't take eye off Iran in review of Saudi relationship - State Dept  ReutersBiden's war on American energy will take its toll on Democrats in November  Fox NewsView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Aggravated assault charges filed against former San Antonio officer who shot 17-year-old at McDonald's parking lot - CNN

  12-10-2022 02:58 via news.google.com
  Aggravated assault charges filed against former San Antonio officer who shot 17-year-old at McDonald's parking lot  CNNSan Antonio police officer who was fired after shooting 17-year-old now charged with aggravated assault  Fox NewsSan Antonio officer fired over shooting unarmed teen  ABC NewsEx-Texas cop charged for shooting teen eating hamburger  San Antonio Express-News17-year-old is on life support after being shot by San Antonio officer in McDonald's
  
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• Yordan Alvarez hits 3-run walk-off HR as Astros win Game 1 - ESPN

  12-10-2022 02:56 via news.google.com
  Yordan Alvarez hits 3-run walk-off HR as Astros win Game 1  ESPNAstros walk-off win: Jason Bristol and Jeremy Booth break down a crazy Game 1 win  KHOU 11Astros win ALDS Game 1 2022  MLB.comAstros vs. Mariners score: Yordan Alvarez hits three-run walk-off homer as Houston completes stunning comeback  CBS SportsALDS: Houston Astros look ready, rarin' the go for Game 1 against Mariners  KHOU 11View Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Angela Lansbury, Broadway maverick and beloved 'Murder, She Wrote' star, dies at 96 - KABC-TV

  12-10-2022 02:55 via news.google.com
  Angela Lansbury, Broadway maverick and beloved 'Murder, She Wrote' star, dies at 96  KABC-TVAngela Lansbury, Screen and Broadway Icon, Dead at 96  PEOPLEAngela Lansbury, beloved star of 'Murder, She Wrote,' dead at 96  CNNPat Summerall's 'Murder, She Wrote' Bit Was So Good  The Big LeadDame Angela Lansbury Passes Away at 96  Broadway WorldView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• LA City Council Meets After Leak of Racist Audio: Live Updates - The New York Times

  12-10-2022 02:03 via news.google.com
  LA City Council Meets After Leak of Racist Audio: Live Updates  The New York TimesBiden calls on Nury Martinez, 2 other LA City councilmembers to resign after racist audio leak  FOX 11 Los AngelesYou think S.F. is a mess? Here's what's happening in L.A. right now  San Francisco ChronicleView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• TikTok going big on US e-commerce? Job listings offer clues

  12-10-2022 01:53 via abcnews.go.com
  TikTok appears to be deepening its foray into e-commerce
  
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• Blake Shelton to Depart ‘The Voice’ After Next Season, as Niall Horan and Chance the Rapper Join as Coaches - Variety

  12-10-2022 01:32 via news.google.com
  Blake Shelton to Depart ‘The Voice’ After Next Season, as Niall Horan and Chance the Rapper Join as Coaches  VarietyBlake Shelton Is 'Stepping Away' from 'The Voice' After 23 Seasons  PEOPLEBlake Shelton leaving 'The Voice' after Season 23  Fox NewsBlake Shelton Leaving ‘The Voice’ After Season 23 on NBC  TVLineBlake Shelton announces exit from 'The Voice' as new coaches join  CNNView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge - The Associated Press

  12-10-2022 01:30 via news.google.com
  Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge  The Associated PressThe DART mission successfully changed the motion of an asteroid  CNNAsteroid's path altered in NASA's first test of planetary defense system  ReutersSuccess! Spacecraft striking small asteroid was able to change orbit  KENS 5: Your San Antonio News SourceSmashing success: NASA’s first planetary defense test changes asteroid’s orbit by 32 minutes  Fox Weat
  
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• Tales of bloody Iran protest crackdown at border crossing - BBC

  12-10-2022 01:26 via news.google.com
  Tales of bloody Iran protest crackdown at border crossing  BBCProtests hit Iran’s oil and petrochemical sectors amid widespread anti-regime actions  Fox NewsIran escalates brutal crackdown on protesters  CBS Evening NewsOil and Gas Workers Add Fuel to Iranian Protesters' Fire  BloombergIran protests: Alarm at crackdown by security forces in Kurdish city  BBCView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Israel and Lebanon agree 'historic' maritime border deal, US says - BBC

  12-10-2022 00:58 via news.google.com
  Israel and Lebanon agree 'historic' maritime border deal, US says  BBCIsrael and Lebanon reach historic deal over disputed maritime border  CBS NewsIsrael and Lebanon reach historic agreement, paving the way to potentially rich gas exploration  CNNMaritime border deal: Lebanon, Israel satisfied with US proposal  Al Jazeera EnglishGantz says maritime deal 'fair and good for both sides'  The Times of IsraelView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Ukraine live updates: Zelenskyy pushes peace plan, seeks more weapons - USA TODAY

  12-10-2022 00:24 via news.google.com
  Ukraine live updates: Zelenskyy pushes peace plan, seeks more weapons  USA TODAYRussia's war in Ukraine: Live updates  CNNRussia Continues Attacks On Ukraine As Zelensky Addresses G7 Leaders  CBS MiamiFactbox: What is the G7, who are its members, and what does it do?  ReutersZelenskyy Requests More Air Defenses From G7 After Russian Missile Strikes  NBC NewsView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• LIVE: The 86 best deals to score during Amazon's Prime Day October sale before Black Friday - Business Insider

  12-10-2022 00:03 via news.google.com
  LIVE: The 86 best deals to score during Amazon's Prime Day October sale before Black Friday  Business InsiderThe Peloton Bike Is $200 Off At Amazon Right Now  HuffPostLove the outdoors? Get 39% off on Celestron Nature DX 10x56 binoculars with Prime Day sale  Space.comThe 21 best Amazon Prime Day deals for travelers  The Points GuyBest of Amazon Prime Early Access Sale 2022: Furniture, AirPods, Rugs, and More  The KitchnView Full Coverage on Googl
  
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• Nick Castellanos delivers with bat and glove as Phillies hang on to beat Braves, 7-6, in Game 1 of the NLDS - The Philadelphia Inquirer

  12-10-2022 00:00 via news.google.com
  Nick Castellanos delivers with bat and glove as Phillies hang on to beat Braves, 7-6, in Game 1 of the NLDS  The Philadelphia InquirerHow the Philadelphia Phillies Match Up Versus the Atlanta Braves in NLDS  Sports IllustratedPhillies win NLDS Game 1 2022  MLB.comNick Castellanos brings the chaos, leading Phillies to win over Braves in NLDS Game 1  Yahoo SportsBraves vs. Phillies score: Takeaways as Philadelphia survives bullpen meltdown in NLDS Game 1&nbs
  
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