[Reuters] U.S. to test nuclear-powered spacecraft by 2027

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[CBS] NYPD videoing people leaving Drake concert worries privacy advocates

Some audience members leaving a concert by Drake at a Manhattan theater came outside to see a New York Police Department officer filming ...

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[The Guardian] Universities to return to ‘pen and paper’ exams after students caught using AI to write essays

Australian universities have been forced to change the way they run exams and other assessments amid fears students are using emerging ar...

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[Business Insider] Amazon is laying off over 18,000 workers, the largest job cut in the company's history

Amazon plans to lay off the largest number of workers in the company's history. In a memo to Amazon staff on Wednesday, CEO Andy Jassy sa...

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[MSN] How Safe Is It To Store Crypto on Exchanges? What To Know Amid FTX Collapse

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[Insider] A brother and sister had to stop 6 times in 1 day to charge their rented Tesla in cold weather because the battery drained so quickly

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[NBC] Hackers linked to Chinese government stole millions in Covid benefits

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[WSJ] U.S., EU Agree to Coordinate Semiconductor Subsidy Programs

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[AP] Amnesty International Canada says it was hacked by Beijing

TORONTO (AP) — The Canadian branch of Amnesty International said Monday it was the target of a cyberattack sponsored by China. The human ...

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[The Guardian] US judge orders Amazon to ‘cease and desist’ anti-union retaliation

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[Fox] Pennsylvania teenager charged with homicide after Instagram video confession

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[AP] China launches 3 astronauts to complete space station

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[AP] Studies find automatic braking can cut crashes over 40%

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[AP] Report: Tweets with racial slurs soar since Musk takeover

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[The Guardian] ‘Overweight’ neutron star defies a black hole theory, say astronomers

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[Insider] Amazon's new robot should strike fear into its hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers

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FTC says it's tracking developments at Twitter with 'deep concern' after key security departures

The Federal Trade Commission is closely watching Twitter’s moves under new owner Elon Musk, a spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. ...

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[NBC] NASA moon rocket launch delayed again as storm approaches Florida coast

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[CNN] Twitter battles wave of impersonators after launching new paid verification system

CNN has confirmed multiple verified Twitter accounts have been suspended by the platform after other users posted screenshots showing mis...

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[ABC] California settles with firm in Volkswagen emissions scandal

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[WSJ] Exclusive: Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week

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[CNN] Twitter delays $8 'blue check' verification plan until after the midterms | CNN Business

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[BBC] Golden asteroid: Nasa mission set to launch in 2023 - CBBC Newsround

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[The Guardian] TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data

TikTok is spelling out to its European users that their data can be accessed by employees outside the continent, including in China, amid...

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[Vice] Neo-Nazis, Antisemites, and the N Word: Twitter Just Hours Under Elon Musk

Minutes after Elon Musk became Twitter’s official owner, the platform was filled with vile hate speech as users celebrated. The very fir...

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[NY Times] Spotify Wants to Get Into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in the Way

Daniel Ek, the chief executive of Spotify, wants his company to be the premier outlet in the world of audio. But when he pushed the strea...

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[WAPO] ‘Joe Biden’ has been dominating a niche fighting game for years

Since 2020, a player who goes by the in-game handle “Joe Biden” has operated at the highest levels of Guilty Gear, a fighting game series...

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[Politico] Will Electric Vehicles Kill the Gas Station?

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[WAPO] Racist tweets quickly surfaced after Musk closed Twitter deal

An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon ...

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[WAPO] Big rock slams into Mars, gouges crater, reveals subsurface features

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[Huff Post] 'Nation's Report Card' Shows Decline in Reading Scores, Record Decline In Math

Students across the U. S. have fallen behind in both math and reading in the past three years, illuminating the drastic effects of the CO...

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[CNBC] Binance is ‘narrowing down’ identity of hacker behind $570 million crypto attack, CEO says

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is getting closer to figuring out the identity of a hacker that orchestrated a $570 million hack on its B...

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[WSJ] The Mechanics of Russia’s Nuclear Arsenal, Explained

As Russia suffers losses in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has made veiled threats to use nuclear weapons—a scenario that security exp...

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[Insider] An ex-TikTok moderator, who was paid $10 a day and had to scroll through child abuse and gun violence, was required to keep her webcam on all night, report says

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[Forbes] Google’s New Medical Imaging Suite Will Enable A Bright Future Ahead For Healthcare

Earlier this month, Google Cloud announced its latest venture within the realm of healthcare: a new Medical Imaging Suite. This initiativ...

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[NPR] NASA announces the team members for its UFO study

A group of 16 researchers will spend the next nine months studying unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs, as part of a ...

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[Insider] Mark Zuckerberg should dial down the metaverse crap and make Facebook 'Facebook' again

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[The Guardian] Save energy by not turning clocks back in October, says expert

Households could save more than £400 a year on energy bills if clocks are not put back at the end of October, according to an expert, who...

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[MSN] A new four-year project will test the viability of large-scale wave energy in Europe

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[Reuters] U.S. awards $2.8 billion for EV battery, grid projects

WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The Biden administration will announce on Wednesday it is awarding $2.8 billion in grants for projects to ...

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[BBC] Google offers glimpse of ultra-realistic chat tech

Google has launched a UK version of an app that lets users interact with the artificial-intelligence system one of its engineers has clai...

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[The Guardian] Amount of ocean heat found to be accelerating and fueling extreme weather events

The amount of heat accumulating in the ocean is accelerating and penetrating ever deeper, with widespread effects on extreme weather even...

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[CNN] Biden moves one step closer to making giant Pacific Ocean wind turbines a reality

The Department of Interior on Tuesday announced it will hold a lease sale for wind energy off the coast of Central and Northern Californi...

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[CNN] $4.6 billion plant will make green ammonia 'the fuel of the future'

$4.6 billion plant will make green ammonia 'the fuel of the future' South Africa plans to build the world's largest green ammonia plant ...

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[CNBC] Apple iPhone maker Foxconn says it wants to make cars for Tesla as it ramps up EV push

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[The Guardian] US Atlantic coast now a breeding ground for supercharged hurricanes – study

The US Atlantic coast has become a breeding ground for super-charged hurricanes which are likely to batter coastal communities even harde...

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[NBC] Asteroid dust successfully brought back to Earth

A spacecraft that touched down on a space rock during a billion-mile mission successfully returned the first-ever samples from the surfac...

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[The Guardian] Young LGBTQ+ people more than twice as likely to experience hate speech online

Young LGBTQ+ people are more than twice as likely to experience hate speech online compared with those who identify as heterosexual, acco...

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[CNN] Lake Mead water crisis is exposing volcanic rock from eruptions 12 million years ago | CNN

Lake Mead’s falling water level has exposed several shocking things in recent months – previously sunken boats, old war ships and human r...

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[Insider] Electric vehicles could be charged within 5 minutes thanks to tech developed by NASA for use in space

* A cooling system developed by NASA for electronics in space could be used to help charge electric cars. * The system could, in theory,...

4 months

[CNBC] Google selects Coinbase to take cloud payments with cryptocurrencies and will use its custody tool

Google said Tuesday that it will rely on Coinbase to start letting some customers pay for cloud services with cryptocurrencies early in 2...

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[VICE] Police Are Using DNA to Generate 3D Images of Suspects They've Never Seen

On Tuesday, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) shared a computer generated image of a suspect they created with DNA phenotyping, which it ...

4 months

[AP] Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orb...

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[CNN] Iran's state broadcaster hacked during nightly news program

An Iranian state broadcaster was allegedly hacked during its nightly news program Saturday, according to the pro-reform IranWire outlet, ...

4 months

[MSN] Dubai’s driverless taxis on show at Gitex before 2023 introduction

Self-driving electric taxis — set to be on Dubai’s roads next year — will go on display at the Gitex technology exhibition, which opens o...

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[Yahoo News] SpaceX Falcon 9 puts on spectacular sky show boosting 2 satellites to orbit

Running two days late after back-to-back scrubs, SpaceX launched a pair of Intelsat communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Saturda...

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[NY Times] Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Struggles

“The pressures Meta’s business is facing in 2022 are acute, significant and not metaverse-related,” said Matthew Ball, an investor and me...

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[BBC] How to store data for 1,000 years

So far, documents including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Magna Carta, the King James Bible – and The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...

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[BBC] Ticketmaster demand-based pricing system criticized

A new Ticketmaster pricing system, which alters the price of tickets based on demand, is being criticised by both fans and industry exper...

4 months

[Forbes] Pittsburgh International Airport Just Installed A Giant Algae Air Purifier

Pittsburgh International Airport's xBridge opened in 2020 and has become a 10,000-square-foot innovation center. Drawing from the region'...

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[WAPO] Cyborg cockroaches are coming, and they just want to help

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[Insider] Electric cars won't overload the power grid — and they could even help modernize our aging infrastructure

* Electric cars won't overwhelm the US grid anytime soon, energy and transportation experts say. * EVs don't consume a lot of energy now...

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