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Jul1223 hours agoThousands of companies, including tech giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon, staged a Day of Action Wednesday to protest plans by the Federal Communications Commission to roll back rules that th...
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Jul121 day agoAn iceberg bigger than the state of Delaware has snapped off of the West Antarctic ice shelf and is now floating in the Weddell Sea. At roughly 600 feet tall, with a volume twice that of Lake Erie...
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Jul112 days agoThe US “startup visa” has been delayed before it could go into the effect — possibly permanently — and the technology industry isn’t happy. President Barack Obama approved the International Entrepr...
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Jul112 days agoFifty-five years ago this month, Milo Nordyke was staring out at the Nevada desert, waiting for a huge explosion to blow a hole in the surface of the earth. The blast was known as Sedan, and it was...
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Jul103 days agoPresident Donald Trump seems to be backing away from a plan to create an “impenetrable” cybersecurity unit with Russia. Trump tweeted on Sunday that he wants to work with Russia to prevent “electio...
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Jul076 days agoIt wasn't long ago that hybrid and electric cars seemed a futuristic novelty. But cars that do more than burn gas passed a new milestone this week. Volvo has announced that from 2019 onwards, n...
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Jul076 days agoFirms operating nuclear power plants and other energy facilities in the US have been under attack by hackers in recent months, according to a report by The New York Times. The Department of Homelan...
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Jul067 days agoFrance will end sales of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040 as part of an ambitious plan to meet its targets under the Paris climate accord, new Ecology Minister Nicolas Hulot announced Thursday....
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Jul051 week agoA baby cries for attention while his mother makes tea and tends a stove inside her family’s ger, or yurt. The air inside the heavy canvas walls is thick with the smells of smoke and cheese curd. Tw...
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Jun302 weeks agoAs US Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a crowd of federal, state and local law enforcement in March, the country “is in the throes of a heroin and opioid epidemic.” According to estimates from t...
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Jun302 weeks agoScientists behind NASA's Kepler K2 mission recently unveiled hundreds of new planet candidates for NASA’s exoplanet catalog, including 10 that could be rocky planets in the "just right"...
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Jun302 weeks agoWhen it comes to coffee, Ethiopia is sacred ground. It’s the home of Coffea arabica — one of the most popular species of coffee bean. And in Ethiopia, coffee is a major part of the economy: It make...
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Jun292 weeks agoThe Seasteading Institute in California has an audacious mission: to establish floating societies that will “restore the environment, enrich the poor, cure the sick, and liberate humanity from poli...
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Jun292 weeks agoA survey by Carnegie Mellon University of 1,200 children living near some of the biggest polluters in the Pittsburgh area shows that children who live near sources of pollution run the same risk of...
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Jun272 weeks agoHouston, America’s fourth-largest city, with a metro population of more than 6 million, is at risk of major devastation and massive loss of life from storm surges if a big hurricane were to hit, ac...