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• Amazon's stock surges as profit jumps and sales jump

  03-08-2023 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  E-commerce behemoth Amazon increased its net sales 11% to $134.4 billion in the second quarter as analysts monitor consumer spending in both the cloud and retail markets.
  
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• Saber-Tooth Cats and Dire Wolves Had Joint Ailments During the Latter Years of the Ice Age

  03-08-2023 23:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  The able predators developed painful joint ailments at a high rate, according to a new study by a veterinary surgeon who examined hundreds of fossils.
  
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• Apple's sales fall for the third consecutive quarter

  03-08-2023 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  Apple said Thursday that its revenue slipped 1% to $81.8 billion for its quarter ending July 1, marking the third consecutive year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue for the world's most valuable company.
  
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• Amazon profit jumps and sales surge

  03-08-2023 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  E-commerce behemoth Amazon increased its net sales 11% to $134.4 billion in the second quarter as analysts monitor consumer spending in both the cloud and retail markets.
  
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• 5 Unusual Ways That Dogs Help Humans

  03-08-2023 20:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  How do dogs help humans? With their incredible sense of smell, intelligence and eagerness to please — dogs are perfectly suited for some unlikely but useful jobs.
  
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• Judge tosses charges against executive in South Carolina nuclear debacle, but case may not be over

  03-08-2023 19:50 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A judge has ordered criminal charges dropped against the final executive accused of lying about problems building two nuclear reactors in South Carolina that were abandoned without generating a watt of power
  
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• Threads user count falls to new lows, highlighting retention challenges

  03-08-2023 19:17 via cnn.com
  
  Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, is struggling to retain users roughly a month after its highly publicized launch, according to fresh industry estimates showing that app engagement has fallen to new lows.
  
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• Google users can now ask to have their explicit photos removed from search results

  03-08-2023 19:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Google on Thursday rolled out a new policy that allows people to request that their personal, sexually explicit photos be removed from its search results.
  
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• Dog-Sized Dinosaur Was an Eating Machine Capable of Shredding Plants

  03-08-2023 18:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  A recent discovery in Thailand shows what many herbivores looked like 150 million years ago, a time when the spry animals coexisted with much larger predators.
  
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• How a Worm Came Back to Life After 46,000 Years Frozen in the Siberian Permafrost

  03-08-2023 17:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  A special sugar used in the food industry may have wrapped itself around the nematode's guts and protected it for millennia.
  
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• Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Cause Massive Decline In Human Well-Being

  03-08-2023 17:00 via technocracy.news
  
  We have made the case for years that climate alarmism, with its drive to eliminate fossil fuels, is patently anti-human in nature and effect. This is precisely why it must be stopped. Endless disputes over pseudo-science only plays into the alarmist agenda. It will not be stopped because the “science is bad” but rather because it is anti-human. ⁃ TN EditorIn 1999, American climatologist Michael Mann first published a “hockey stick graph” that purported to show
  
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• Brownstone: The German Origin Of The Pandemic Treaty

  03-08-2023 16:33 via technocracy.news
  
  Germany has been at the center of modern globalization since the early 1970s. Germany, for instance, was the originator of the new legal theory of “reflexive law” that the United Nations has since presented it as the only suitable legal system for Sustainable Development. It has since turned the rule of law on its head. Now we see Germany as the originator of the pandemic treaty. ⁃ TN EditorWith the WHO hurtling towards adoption of the ‘Pandemic Treaty,’ as well as
  
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• Nordangård: Transitioning to a New Global Order

  03-08-2023 15:56 via technocracy.news
  
  At the genesis of modern globalization In 1973, the Trilateral Commission posited that “interdependence” of nations was inevitable, and then pushed it everywhere. Now, the same cabal says that nation states are unable to cope with the interconnected global problems on their own; hence, nobody except the United Nations can head global governance.
  The goal of this con game is to twist the resources of the world out of the hands of nation states and into the hands of the global elitists
  
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• Twitch expands its ban on gambling livestreams

  03-08-2023 15:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Amazon-owned Twitch said Wednesday it’s expanding the ban on livestreams of gambling content on the platform.
  
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• Do We Know If Dinosaurs Were Smart Enough to Hunt In Packs?

  03-08-2023 15:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  How did dinosaurs hunt? Much of the evidence in favor of pack hunting is circumstantial, say paleontologists.
  
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• Russia fines Wikipedia and Apple for spreading 'false information' about Ukraine conflict

  03-08-2023 14:16 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Russian court has imposed fines on Apple and the host of Wikipedia for failing to remove material deemed to be “false information” about Russia’s military actions in Ukraine
  
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• Trump supporters view the latest indictment as evidence of a crime — against Trump

  03-08-2023 14:03 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The latest indictment of Donald Trump alleges the former president conspired to overturn the will of voters and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power
  
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• Waves grow up to 13 feet tall in California as Earth warms, research finds

  03-08-2023 12:32 via abcnews.go.com
  
  New research shows winter waves off California’s Pacific coast are swelling in size as the planet warms
  
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• Agence France-Presse pursues copyright case against X, formerly known as Twitter

  03-08-2023 12:17 via abcnews.go.com
  
  France's international news agency, Agence France-Presse, says it's pursuing a copyright case against X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, in an effort to secure potential payment for its news content
  
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• Nintendo's profit jumps as Super Mario franchise gets a boost from hit film

  03-08-2023 12:06 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Nintendo is reporting a 52% increase in profit for the first fiscal quarter following the success of its Super Mario movie and the new Zelda video game
  
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• 'Zelda' sales breakout juices Nintendo's aging Switch

  03-08-2023 10:48 via cnn.com
  
  Japan's Nintendo on Thursday said it sold 3.91 million units of its Switch console in the April-June quarter, exceeding sales in the same period a year earlier, boosted by the runaway success of its latest "Zelda" title.
  
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• China wants to limit minors to no more than two hours a day on mobiles

  03-08-2023 09:02 via cnn.com
  
  China is proposing new measures to curb the amount of time that kids and teens can spend on their phones, as the country takes aim at internet addiction and tries to cultivate "good morality" and "socialist values" among minors.
  
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• China proposes to limit children's smartphone time to a maximum of 2 hours a day

  03-08-2023 08:56 via abcnews.go.com
  
  New regulations will curb the amount of time kids spend on their smartphones.
  
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• The heaviest animal ever may be this ancient whale found in the Peruvian desert

  03-08-2023 04:47 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A newly studied species of ancient whale might be the heaviest animal ever found
  
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• Utah law requiring age verification for porn sites remains in effect after judge tosses lawsuit

  03-08-2023 03:26 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Utah law requiring adult websites to verify the age of their users will remain in effect after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality
  
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• Dead fish carpet beaches at Pacific coast town in north Mexico as experts blame toxic algae bloom

  03-08-2023 02:31 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A town on northern Mexico's Pacific coast has seen its beaches littered with a carpet of dead fish, after what experts describe as a toxic algae bloom
  
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• The Sacrifice Within – The Secret Behind Our Body’s Resilience

  03-08-2023 02:07 via scitechdaily.com
  Recent findings about collagen, our body’s most abundant protein, reveal that its sacrificial bonds snap more quickly than the basic structure, thereby protecting the tissue...
  
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• São Paulo’s 10,000-Year-Old Skeleton Proves To Be Amerindian

  03-08-2023 00:48 via scitechdaily.com
  A study, conducted across four distinct regions of Brazil, performed genomic data analysis of 34 fossils, comprising larger skeletal remains as well as the renowned...
  
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