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• Lawsuit against Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein accuses company of racketeering

  14-07-2023 23:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Three independent designers have brought a lawsuit against Chinese fast-fashion retailer Shein accusing the company of racketeering and “egregious” copyright infringement.
  
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• City of Lubbock reports first human death from West Nile Virus - KCBD

  14-07-2023 23:19 via news.google.com
  City of Lubbock reports first human death from West Nile Virus  KCBDHow to avoid mosquito bites with Midland mosquito population carrying the West Nile virus  NewsWest 9Saturday morning top stories: First confirmed Lubbock death from West Nile Virus  KCBDLubbock resident dies from West Nile Virus, city confirms  KLBK | KAMC | EverythingLubbock.comMosquitoes in Fairview Township Test Positive for West Nile Virus  erienewsnow.comView Full Coverage
  
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• The story behind Barbenheimer, the summer’s most online movie showdown

  14-07-2023 23:18
  
  The very online showdown between Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” all started with a date: July 21
  
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• Actors vs. AI: Strike brings focus to emerging use of advanced tech

  14-07-2023 23:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  The future of generative artificial intelligence in Hollywood — and how it can be used to replace labor — has become a crucial sticking point for actors going on strike.
  
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• Appeals court pauses order limiting Biden administration contact with social media companies

  14-07-2023 23:10
  
  A federal appeals court has temporarily paused a lower court’s order limiting executive branch officials’ communications with social media companies about controversial online posts
  
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• Texas boy looking for friends goes viral on TikTok

  14-07-2023 21:39 via nbcnews.com
  A Texas boy knocked on his neighbor's door asking for friends after peers nearby bullied him. The video hit 69 million views on TikTok since July 4. NBC News' Maura Barrett talks to the boy, his mother and his neighbors about the experience.
  
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• Breakthrough in material design will help football players, car occupants and hospital patients

  14-07-2023 21:20
  
  The discovery that football players were unknowingly acquiring permanent brain damage as they racked up head hits throughout their professional careers created a rush to design better head protection. One of these inventions is nanofoam, the material on the inside of football helmets.
  
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• European heatwave: what's causing it and is climate change to blame?

  14-07-2023 21:10
  
  Europe is currently in the midst of a heatwave. Italy, in particular, is expected to face blistering heat, with temperatures projected to reach 40℃ to 45℃. There's even a chance that the current European temperature record of 48.8℃, set in Sicily in 2021, could be surpassed.
  
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• Wet-Bulb Temperatures: How Are Extreme Heat and Humidity Outpacing Human Tolerance?

  14-07-2023 20:50 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Climate change is causing an increase in humidity, but there’s an upper limit to the temperatures we’re built to endure. Find out the effects caused by extreme heat waves and wet-bulb temperatures.
  
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• Twitter has started paying some creators like Andrew Tate and the Krassenstein brothers for generating ad revenue

  14-07-2023 20:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Elon Musk’s Twitter has been accused of failing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in severance to laid-off workers.
  
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• Research highlights benefits of wild plants in fallow land and other ecosystems in Madagascar

  14-07-2023 20:14
  
  Many landscapes in the tropics consist of a mosaic of different types of land use. How people make use of these different ecosystems, with their particular plant communities, was unclear until now. Researchers, many of them from Madagascar, have now investigated this in an interdisciplinary Malagasy research project at the University of Göttingen.
  
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• 'Stunning' cache of gold coins found in Kentucky cornfield

  14-07-2023 20:10
  A trove of more than 700 gold coins dating back to the US Civil War found buried in a cornfield in the state of Kentucky is being put up for sale and is expected to reap millions.
  
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• Crowds cheer as India launches a lander and rover to explore the moon's south pole

  14-07-2023 20:08
  An Indian spacecraft blazed its way toward the far side of the moon Friday in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover on the lunar surface, the country's space agency said.
  
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• Nations call for swift fossil fuel exit to tackle climate change

  14-07-2023 20:06
  
  The world needs an "urgent" exit from fossil fuels as part of efforts to slash planet-heating emissions and rein in global warming, a coalition of countries including EU economies and climate-vulnerable nations said Friday.
  
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• Risk assessment for fluoride in groundwater of Mihe-Weihe River Basin—a region with high fluorine content

  14-07-2023 20:04
  Due to the unclear distribution characteristics and causes of fluoride in groundwater of Mihe-Weihe River Basin (China), there is a higher risk for the future development and utilization of groundwater. Based on the systematic sampling and analysis, a team of researchers from Shandong University of Science and Technology studied the distribution features and enrichment mechanism for fluoride in groundwater by the graphic method, hydrogeochemical modeling, the proportionality factor between conve
  
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• Researchers use liquid crystals that mimic beetle shell coloration units to create a more secure type of QR code

  14-07-2023 20:04
  A research group led by Dr. Jialei He of Nagoya University's Graduate School of Engineering has developed a method for processing cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) into micrometer-sized spherical particles.
  
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• Expedition uncovers four new tarantula species in Colombia's biodiversity hotspot

  14-07-2023 20:03
  The Colombian Pacific region, nestled within the heart of the Chocó Biogeographic Region, has unveiled some of its remarkable biological wonders. Recognized as one of the world's most enigmatic biodiversity hotspots, this area has remained largely unexplored, particularly when it comes to spider diversity.
  
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• Were Dinosaurs Good Parents to Their Offspring?

  14-07-2023 20:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Paleontologists share fascinating insights into the parenting behavior of dinosaurs. Here’s what we know about how they cared for their eggs and young.
  
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• Examining our options for a lunar solar power satellite

  14-07-2023 20:00
  The concept of gathering some of the unlimited sunlight available in space, then transmitting it down to users, was first developed to serve the clean energy needs of planet Earth. But Space-Based Solar Power can also work for the moon.
  
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• ESA moves ahead with In-Orbit Servicing missions

  14-07-2023 19:59
  
  Isn't it strange that when satellites run out of fuel or a single component breaks down, we just discard them? ESA and European industry have joined forces to make sure that our satellites can live on.
  
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• Linewidth narrowing in self-injection-locked, on-chip lasers

  14-07-2023 19:55
  On-chip laser diodes based on quantum well (QW) and quantum dot (QD) semiconductor materials have become the primary technology for several applications due to their excellent characteristics, including high power efficiency, high-temperature operation, and small form-factors. Although QWs have been extensively used in commercial products, QDs have emerged as an attractive alternative due to their unique zero-dimensional density of states and atom-like degeneracy.
  
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• Single-end hybrid Rayleigh Brillouin and Raman distributed fiber-optic sensing system

  14-07-2023 19:51
  The real-time monitoring of facilities, particularly large facilities (such as rail transit systems, large bridges, and buildings), can provide information regarding their surrounding environment and allow their health conditions to be assessed, which is essential for establishing the current concept of smart cities based on the Internet of Things.
  
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• Why trees outcompete shrubs to shift upward

  14-07-2023 19:43
  Climatic warming is altering the structure and function of alpine ecosystems, including shifts of vegetation boundaries. The upward shift of alpine treelines, the uppermost limit of tree growth forming the boundary between montane forest and alpine communities, is strongly modulated by shrub-tree interactions. But little is known on the responses of such coexisting life forms to a warmer climate.
  
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• Study shows runoff can be an important source of energy for coastal organisms and animals

  14-07-2023 19:43
  Not everything that flows into the sea is waste. "In the past, we've heard that runoff and drainage from land is bad for the ocean. Now we see that it can also be an important resource," says Juan Pardo, Ph.D. student in the Center for Coastal Research (CCR) at UiA.
  
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• Rapid fabrication of a polymer lens on a laser chip for miniaturized spectroscopy

  14-07-2023 19:43
  There is a growing demand for portable gas sensors, from both environmental and health sciences users as well as industry. Resonant optical sensors, in particular planar micro-resonators, combine high sensitivity and small footprint, which makes them good candidates for these applications.
  
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• Investigating gender equality in urban cycling

  14-07-2023 19:43
  Over recent years not only has cycling proved itself to be an outdoor activity with tremendous health benefits, but it has also presented itself as a useful tool in the quest to find an environmentally friendly method of urban transportation.
  
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• Precision technology, machine learning lead to early diagnosis of calf pneumonia

  14-07-2023 19:38
  Monitoring dairy calves with precision technologies based on the "internet of things," or IoT, leads to the earlier diagnosis of calf-killing bovine respiratory disease, according to a new study. The novel approach—a result of crosscutting collaboration by a team of researchers from Penn State, University of Kentucky and University of Vermont—will offer dairy producers an opportunity to improve the economies of their farms, according to researchers.
  
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• The mutual benefit of agriculture and solar energy

  14-07-2023 19:36
  Agricultural photovoltaics (AV) is a concept developed in the 1980s that combines agriculture and solar energy production on the same land. Practitioners grow crops under solar panels and can control the amount and wavelength of light that passes through photosynthesis. Light not needed for photosynthesis could provide clean energy production. At the same time, when plants photosynthesize, they lose water through transpiration. The loss of moisture cools the air and increases the power generatio
  
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• Researchers reveal rising compound risk inequality to aging and extreme heat wave exposure in global cities

  14-07-2023 19:36
  Prof. Chen Mingxing's team at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed the increasing inequality of the compound risk of aging and extreme heat wave exposure of global cities under future scenarios. This work was published in npj Urban Sustainability.
  
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• Project uses AI and archaeological materials for network analyses from the Middle Stone Age to antiquity

  14-07-2023 19:36
  Publishing in the international journal Antiquity, a team of archaeologists from seven countries led by Kiel University has presented the "Big Exchange" project, which uses AI to better understand the networks and interactions of prehistoric and early historic people.
  
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• Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns use fundamentally different moral rhetoric, study finds

  14-07-2023 19:36
  New research from Professor Manos Tsakiris, from the Department of Psychology reveals how candidates in U.S. presidential primary elections use distinct moral rhetoric on social media to appeal to voters.
  
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• Zuckerberg’s Twitter Clone ‘Threads’ Sees Massive Drop In Engagement After Launch Surge

  14-07-2023 19:35 via technocracy.news
  Once again, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has misjudged both his product and the public. This follows the disaster of the Metaverse, with remains largely empty after costing billions to develop. If it were not for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, all formerly developed platforms, Zuckerberg would be an also-ran. One must wonder just how smart he really is. ⁃ TN EditorThreads, the new social media platform launched by Mark Zuckerberg as a rival to Twitter, has experienced a significant drop
  
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• Decrypting lunar craters quickly and easily

  14-07-2023 19:34
  The surface of the moon tells the story of the inner solar system. Every meteorite that hits leaves its mark, and together those craters hold a record of the events that have occurred on and around the moon over the past 4 billion years.
  
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• Conservation 'safe havens' may have a major drawback

  14-07-2023 19:33
  They save our animals from extinction but "safe havens" also have a major drawback.
  
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• You Can Finally Use iCloud Keychain in Chrome - Lifehacker

  14-07-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
  You Can Finally Use iCloud Keychain in Chrome  LifehackermacOS Sonoma public beta is out — here are the 5 features you should try first  Tom's Guide5 best features of macOS 14 Sonoma beta that will transform your MacBook  TechRadarmacOS Sonoma, iOS 17 public betas launch & Apple joins Threads on the AppleInsider Podcast  AppleInsiderPassword sharing, game mode and other key features coming to MacBooks later this year  Gadgets NowView Fu
  
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• Mass Casualty At Concerts: Vaccinated Crowds ‘Die Suddenly”

  14-07-2023 19:13 via technocracy.news
  This story needs serious investigation to determine the cause of this phenomenon. By comparison, the 1969 Woodstock event attracted some 400,000 people to a three-day marathon of music activity and partying. Only two people died: one from a drug overdose and the other was run over in his sleeping bag with a tractor collecting trash. Deaths from heart attack at Woodstock? ZERO. ⁃ TN EditorWhat is happening with “mass casualty events” at concerts?
  This has now happened several ti
  
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• From Contact Tracing To Carbon Footprint Tracking: WEF’s Carrot Or Stick Approach To COVID & Climate Policy

  14-07-2023 18:55 via technocracy.news
  
  If the object is to enforce a lower and lower carbon footprint on humans, then at some point, one could be standing naked, homeless and penniless on a street corner, breathing out CO2 fifteen times per minute. What’s next? Eliminate you to stop you from emitting. This is the only logical extreme for carbon footprint measuring: it is anti-human.⁃ TN EditorWith digital ID and CBDC, it would be easy to turn carbon footprint measurement into enforcement under a social credit system.
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• Italians outraged after judge clears man of groping teen because contact was brief

  14-07-2023 18:54
  
  Italians are using social media to denounce a court verdict clearing a school janitor of a sexual assault charge for groping a 17-year-old student because it only lasted “around five/10 seconds.”
  
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• US officials worry about 'chilling effect' on combating election disinformation after federal court order

  14-07-2023 18:22 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge's move to limit how some US agencies communicate with social media companies could have a "chilling effect" on how the federal government and states address election-related disinformation just as the 2024 election cycle gets underway, according to interviews with current and former US officials.
  
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• What Is the Drug Bedaquiline and Why Is It Important for Those With Tuberculosis?

  14-07-2023 17:45 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Bedaquiline is a powerful tuberculosis medication that works by depriving the stubborn bacterium of energy, and patents for the treatment have set off a war online.
  
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• Facebook banned 'Boogaloo'-related groups — but new research suggests a 'boomerang' effect

  14-07-2023 17:29 via nbcnews.com
  
  Eighteen months after Facebook banned communities connected with the “Boogaloo” anti-government movement, the group’s extremist ideas were back, research found.
  
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• Sizzling Secrets of WASP-76b: Unmasking a Hot Jupiter’s Vaporized Rock Atmosphere

  14-07-2023 17:22 via scitechdaily.com
  Chemistry of so-called ‘hot Jupiter’ provides new insights into the formation of our Solar System. Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one half of the...
  
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• BBC News anchor hospitalized with mental health concerns after tabloid scandal divides U.K.

  14-07-2023 17:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  BBC news anchor Huw Edwards is at the center of a media storm between The Sun tabloid newspaper and the BBC, raising questions about media standards and ethics.
  
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• Why Is the Isle of Wight Rich in Dinosaur Fossils?

  14-07-2023 17:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Some of the first-ever dinosaur bone finds occurred on this British island. Now, researchers are discovering even more.
  
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• FTC investigating ChatGPT creator OpenAI over consumer protection issues

  14-07-2023 16:47
  
  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into ChatGPT creator OpenAI and whether the artificial intelligence company violated consumer protection laws by scraping public data and publishing false information through its chatbot
  
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• India launches a lander and rover to explore the moon’s south pole

  14-07-2023 16:38
  
  An Indian spacecraft is blazing its way toward the far side of the moon in a follow-up mission to a failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover on the lunar surface
  
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• How people are using AI to improve their dating game

  14-07-2023 16:02 via today.com
  Artificial intelligence is changing online dating by creating custom responses and editing photos — and some people even talk to generated personalities. NBC’s Jacob Ward reports for TODAY.
  
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• Surge at Sea: Alarming Increase of Norovirus Outbreaks on Cruise Ships

  14-07-2023 15:55 via scitechdaily.com
  The allure of the open sea, captivating itineraries, and the luxurious promise of a carefree escape have long made cruising a popular choice for vacationers....
  
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• Meta Threads engagement has dropped off since red-hot debut, tracking firms say

  14-07-2023 15:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  What comes up must come down — at least in the case of user engagement on Threads, Meta’s new Twitter competitor.
  
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• Microsoft gets more time from UK to plead case to buy video game maker Activision

  14-07-2023 15:18
  
  British antitrust regulators have extended their deadline to issue a final order blocking Microsoft’s $69 billion plan to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard
  
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