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• Researchers Make Computer Models To Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

  14-01-2025 23:30 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn more about the new computer models that make more targeted antibiotics a possibility.
  
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• Dozens of Bodies Recovered From Illegal Mine in South Africa - The New York Times

  14-01-2025 23:16 via news.google.com
  Dozens of Bodies Recovered From Illegal Mine in South Africa  The New York TimesSouth Africa vows to arrest trapped miners  Financial TimesSouth Africa pulls 36 corpses from illegal mine, arrests 82 survivors  Reuters.comIllegal workers stuck in South African mine should be handled ‘with dignity,’ bishop says  Catholic News Agency
  
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• Chornobyl Dogs Have Genetic Differences but Not From Disaster Mutations

  14-01-2025 23:15 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn more about how researchers zoomed in on the genomes of Chornobyl's dogs.
  
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• Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg to attend Trump's inauguration

  14-01-2025 23:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday, according to an official involved with planning the event.
  
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• ChatGPT becomes more Siri-like with new scheduled tasks feature - Ars Technica

  14-01-2025 23:08 via news.google.com
  ChatGPT becomes more Siri-like with new scheduled tasks feature  Ars TechnicaChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos  The VergeThe Prompt: OpenAI Is Trying To Make ChatGPT A ‘Helpful AI Companion’  ForbesOpenAI rolls out assistant-like feature 'Tasks' to take on Alexa, Siri  ReutersOpenAI’s agentic era begins: ChatGPT Tasks offers job scheduling, reminders and more  VentureBeat
  
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• Whoopi Goldberg Defends Carrie Underwood Over Trump Inauguration Performance: ‘I Stand Behind Her’ - Billboard

  14-01-2025 23:06 via news.google.com
  Whoopi Goldberg Defends Carrie Underwood Over Trump Inauguration Performance: ‘I Stand Behind Her’  BillboardCarrie Underwood, Village People to perform at Trump’s inauguration events  The Associated Press'Time to bring the country together': Village People defend decision to perform during Trump inaugural events  ABC NewsAll The Big Performers At Trump’s Inauguration Events: Carrie Underwood, Village People, Lee Greenwood And More  
  
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• Texans only Democrats in Congress to vote for bill restricting trans athletes - The Texas Tribune

  14-01-2025 22:24 via news.google.com
  Texans only Democrats in Congress to vote for bill restricting trans athletes  The Texas TribuneTwo House Dems join GOP to ban biological males from girls' school sports  Fox NewsGOP-led House votes to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports  CNNU.S. House of Representatives  C-SPAN House Passes Bill to Bar Trans Athletes From Female School Sports Teams  The New York Times
  
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• Rats Facing Lego Robot Scorpions May Help Understand Human Anxiety

  14-01-2025 22:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Recording neuron activity associated with different objects can show how nervousness related to specific locations or objects persists.
  
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• Trump says he will create an ‘External Revenue Service’ agency to collect tariff income - Federal News Network

  14-01-2025 21:47 via news.google.com
  Trump says he will create an ‘External Revenue Service’ agency to collect tariff income  Federal News NetworkTrump announces new External Revenue Service to collect foreign money  Fox BusinessTrump announces new ‘External Revenue Service’ to collect tariff funds  The Washington PostTrump vows to create ‘External Revenue Service’ to gather tariff income  POLITICOTrump Gets Ridiculed For 'External Revenue Service' Proposal
  
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• Billionaire investor Frank McCourt discusses his bid for TikTok

  14-01-2025 21:09 via nbcnews.com
  Frank McCourt, a billionaire investor who has campaigned to make the internet safer through his Project Liberty foundation, has made a bid for TikTok. McCourt told NBC News' Kate Snow that he will make "fundamental" changes to the app if his bid is successful.
  
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• More than half a million ‘TikTok refugees’ flock to China’s RedNote as ban looms - The Guardian

  14-01-2025 20:43 via news.google.com
  More than half a million ‘TikTok refugees’ flock to China’s RedNote as ban looms  The GuardianThe great social media migration: Sudden influx of US users to RedNote connects Chinese and Americans like never before  CNNWhat would happen to TikTok on my phone if the app is banned?  CBS NewsTikTok could soon be banned. Here are alternative apps, from Lemon8 to RedNote.  The Washington PostUS TikTok users flock to Chinese app Xiaohongshu in p
  
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• NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas - Science@NASA

  14-01-2025 20:20 via news.google.com
  NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas  Science@NASAWebb Watches Carbon-Rich Dust Shells Form, Expand in Star System  Science@NASAJWST Snaps Colossal Waves of Star Dust That Dwarf Our Own Solar System  ScienceAlertWebb Telescope Spots a Star’s Spectacular Farewell in Stunning Detail  The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries ChannelNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures wood grain-like patterns revealing 3D structur
  
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• Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year.' Read the internal memo.

  14-01-2025 20:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Meta is set to cut about 5% of its workforce, focusing on the company’s lowest-performing staffers, CNBC confirmed Tuesday.
  
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• Tulip Siddiq, U.K. Anticorruption Minister, Resigns - The New York Times

  14-01-2025 19:18 via news.google.com
  Tulip Siddiq, U.K. Anticorruption Minister, Resigns  The New York TimesUK anti-corruption minister resigns over ties to ousted Bangladesh PM  Reuters UKGiving Tulip Siddiq anti-corruption job seen by insiders as own goal  The GuardianUK Minister Quits After Being Named In Probe Against Sheikh Hasina In Bangladesh  NDTVAs Tulip Siddiq resigns, spot the difference between Keir Starmer's first ministerial casualties  Sky News
  
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• Seven Planets Will Soon Align, Creating a Planet Parade in the Sky

  14-01-2025 18:45 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Learn about the great planetary alignment occurring on February 28, 2025, and the misconceptions surrounding this type of celestial event.
  
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• Mars hides behind the Full Wolf Moon in gorgeous photos from around the world - Space.com

  14-01-2025 18:09 via news.google.com
  Mars hides behind the Full Wolf Moon in gorgeous photos from around the world  Space.comWatch: Mars Makes First 2025 Full Moon Special  The Weather ChannelSee the full wolf moon overtake Mars in the night sky and glimpse a planetary parade  CNNUS stargazers see Mars disappear behind the Wolf Moon, 13 January  Sky at Night MagazineColorado photographers capture 'wolf moon': First full moon of 2025  Denver 7 Colorado News
  
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• Huge Fail: Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights

  14-01-2025 17:00 via technocracy.news
  
  Six years after this UN Declaration was ratified, the field of NBIC (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno) science exploded, and with it, the lust for Transhumanism was set on fire. NBIC was conceived by the National Science Foundation of the United States in a 2003 paper titled “Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance,” authored by Mihail C. Roco and William Sims Bainbridge. Within a few short years, NBIC spread to every major university worldwide; private research facilities sprung
  
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• TikTok pushes users to sister app Lemon8 ahead of potential ban

  14-01-2025 16:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  As the TikTok ban could take effect at the end of the week, another ByteDance-owned app has climbed the rankings in the Apple App Store: Lemon8.
  
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• MSNBC President Rashida Jones steps down after four-year tenure

  14-01-2025 15:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Rashida Jones, the president of MSNBC, announced Tuesday that she is stepping down after four years of steering the cable news network.
  
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• Quantum engineers create a 'Schrödinger's cat' inside a silicon chip - Phys.org

  14-01-2025 15:00 via news.google.com
  Quantum engineers create a 'Schrödinger's cat' inside a silicon chip  Phys.orgSchrödinger cat states of a nuclear spin qudit in silicon  Nature.comReal-World 'Schrödinger's Cat' Brings Quantum Computing Breakthrough  NewsweekThis metaphorical cat is both dead and alive – and it will help quantum engineers find computing errors  University of CalgaryHow Schrödinger’s cat could detect quantum computer errors  Cosmos
  
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• Chinese TikTok alternative RedNote tops app charts ahead of potential ban

  14-01-2025 14:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  TikTok users are pushing back against the looming TikTok ban Sunday by downloading a Chinese app called RedNote, or Xiaohongshu.
  
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• Tsunami alert lifted after magnitude 6.6 earthquake rattles southwestern Japan

  14-01-2025 11:36
  
  A strong earthquake has rattled southwestern Japan, but there were no reports of serious damage
  
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• Bezos' space firm calls off debut launch of new rocket in final minutes of countdown

  14-01-2025 06:02
  
  Blue Origin will try again to launch its massive new rocket as early as Thursday after calling off the debut launch because of ice buildup in critical plumbing
  
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• New Brazil law restricts use of smartphones in elementary and high schools

  14-01-2025 05:46
  
  Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a bill restricting the use of smartphones at school, following a global trend for such limitations
  
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• Betting on wildfires: Digital platforms go beyond betting on just elections

  14-01-2025 00:56 via nbcnews.com
  Online betting of world events surged in popularity ahead of the 2024 election. NBC News’ Yasmin Vossoughian reports on the ethical concerns of using platforms to profit from negative events. 
  
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