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COVID-19 Vaccines
Twitter, Facebook, and Snap are part of White House vaccination campaign
The Verge - Kim Lyons
Facebook, Twitter, and Snap are among the companies that will assist with the Biden administration's promotional campaign for vaccine eligibility, Axios reported. The White House had set a date of May...
21 hours ago
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U.S. Politics
Joe Biden’s southern border challenge: reversing Trumpism
Australia News - Presented by Anushka Asthana with Nina Lakhani and David Smith; produced by Lucy Greenwell, Alex Mistlin and Axel Kacoutié; additional production by Joe Koning; the executive producers of Today in Focus are Phil Maynard and Nicole Jackson
The 46th US president took office promising a more welcoming immigration policy. But Republicans are calling a new wave of migrants at the southern border a ‘crisis’ and demanding action. In this episode...
23 hours ago
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Security
Federal investigators looking into breach at software code testing company Codecov
The Verge - Kim Lyons
Federal officials are investigating a security breach at software auditing company Codecov, which apparently went undetected for months, Reuters reported. Codecov’s platform is used to test software code...
1 day ago
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U.S. Politics
Senate Democrats settling on 25% corporate tax rate
Axios - Hans Nichols
The universe of Democratic senators concerned about raising the corporate tax rate to 28% is broader than Sen. Joe Manchin, and the rate will likely …
23 hours ago
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Chicago Public Schools
Chicago High Schools to Reopen Monday After Union Approval
U.S. News & World Report - Associated Press
By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s public high schools were set to reopen Monday for the first time since the nation's …
21 hours ago
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Scotland
Scottish election 2021: The voters the parties are vying to win over
bbc.co.uk - By Mary McCool
They are the voters all the parties want to win over - "the undecided". The BBC spoke to five people from our voter panel who are still working out who to vote for in the Scottish election - and asked...
22 hours ago
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Digital Currency
Bitcoin slumps as cryptocurrency sheds record gains - CityAM
cityam.com - James Warrington
Bitcoin fell as much as 14 per cent today, shedding most of the volatile cryptocurrency’s gains over the last year. The digital asset has surged so …
1 day ago
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Anthony Fauci
Fauci: Republican vaccine deniers are hurting efforts to lift Covid restrictions
Guardian US - Richard Luscombe
Republicans who refuse the Covid-19 vaccination are actively “working against” efforts to lift the very coronavirus restrictions they insist are an infringement of their civil liberties, Dr Anthony Fauci,...
1 day ago
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Mountbatten
Sinn Féin president apologises for murder of Lord Mountbatten
The Guardian - Caroline Davies
The Sinn Féin president, Mary Lou McDonald, has apologised for the IRA’s 1979 murder of Lord Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh’s uncle. Speaking after the funeral of Prince Philip, she told Times Radio...
1 day ago
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Technology
Is Boston Dynamics becoming a boring robotics company?
VentureBeat - Ben Dickson
Boston Dynamics has made a name for itself through fascinating videos of biped and quadruped robots doing backflips, opening doors, and dancing to “Uptown Funk.” Now, it has revealed its latest gadget:...
1 day ago
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Technology
Boston Dynamics’ latest robot doesn’t do backflips — and that’s a smart move
TNW - Ben Dickson
Boston Dynamics has made a name for itself through fascinating videos of biped and quadruped robots doing backflips, opening doors, and dancing to Uptown Funk. Now, it has revealed its latest gadget: robot...
1 day ago
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PlayStation
PS5 confirmed to have CMOS battery failure issue
NME - Thomas Hughes
It has been confirmed that the PS5 has the same CMOS battery issue found in the PS4, which stops players accessing digital games in the event of a …
1 day ago
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Vaccine Passport
Vaccine passports for COVID-19: How they'll be a part of global travel
CNET - Kent German
Cruise lines and some airlines will require inoculation, and countries will let vaccinated travelers skip quarantines, but others worry about discrimination.
1 day ago
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Labor Movement
America’s Unions Are More Popular Than You Think
jacobinmag.com
In the wake of this month’s (at least provisional) defeat in Bessemer, America’s labor movement has a significant opportunity in the form of the PRO …
Apr 1
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Birth Control
New Forms of Male Birth Control Are Coming, But Will Men Use Them?
spy.com - Taylor Galla
Birth control is humanity’s ultimate compromise with nature — it’s our method for having it both ways. We can enjoy the pleasures of sexual activity …
1 day ago
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Australian News
To abandon vaccination targets is to abandon the mantle of leadership
theconversation.com - Peter Gahan and Jesse E. Olsen
The Australian government has abandoned its ambitious targets to have the adult population vaccinated by the end of October. It has, in fact, …
23 hours ago
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Quantum Computing
Cambridge Quantum pushes into NLP and quantum computing with new head of AI
VentureBeat - George Lawton
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) hiring Stephen Clark as head of AI last week could be a sign the company is boosting research into ways quantum computing could be used for natural language processing....
1 day ago
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UK Politics
Jean-Claude Juncker: 'I should not have listened to David Cameron on Brexit'
inews.co.uk - Leo Cendrowicz
Time is said to be the greatest healer. But for Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Union between 2015 and 2019, the gaping wound of …
1 day ago
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Alexei Navalny
Von der Leyen ‘worried’ about Navalny, demands he get treatment
politico.eu - Joshua Posaner
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny should immediately be granted access to proper medical care while imprisoned at a penal colony outside …
1 day ago
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Vaccination
COVID-19: B.C. invites all adults to register for vaccinations this week
vancouversun.com - Scott Brown
The B.C. government is inviting all adults, aged 18 and over, to register for COVID-19 vaccinations this week.The Ministry of Health’s new …
23 hours ago
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U.S. Politics
Pelosi renews call for Congress to investigate the Capitol insurrection
Vox - Katelyn Burns
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) renewed her call for a congressional commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol insurrection in a “Dear Colleague” letter sent to her Democratic House colleagues...
1 day ago
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Ontario Politics
Doug Ford must resign
The Washington Post - By David Moscrop
As Ontario Premier Doug Ford sat down at a Friday afternoon news conference to announce his plans to extend the province’s covid-19 measures, social media feeds erupted with posts from around the province,...
1 day ago
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U.S. Politics
Stephen Miller, Maria Bartiromo freak out over H.R. 1 putting Democrats in power "forever"
Salon
This article originally appeared on Raw Story Fox News host Maria Bartiromo and former Trump administration official Stephen Miller worried over the weekend that Democrats will be in charge "forever" voting...
1 day ago
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Spacecraft
New Horizons is now 50 times as far from the sun as Earth
Digital Trends - By Georgina Torbet
A NASA probe which was the first spacecraft to explore Pluto is continuing its journey out into the solar system, where it is now almost 5 billion …
1 day ago
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Matthew McConaughey
Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey has a double-digit lead over Gov. Greg Abbott in latest Texas gubernatorial election...
Insider - Joshua Zitser
Texans would rather vote for actor Matthew McConaughey than Gov. Greg Abbott, according to a poll released by The Dallas Morning News and the …
1 day ago
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Sexuality
The Crusade Against Pornhub Is Going to Get Someone Killed
VICE - Samantha Cole
For years, anti-trafficking organizations have pushed agendas that toe the line of vigilantism. They shouldn't be surprised when someone takes their version of "justice" into their own hands. In early...
5 days ago
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Alexei Navalny
Biden adviser warns "there will be consequences" for Russia if Navalny dies
Axios - Orion Rummler
The Biden administration warned the Russian government "that there will be consequences" if jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies, …
1 day ago
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Genetics
What we can learn from sequencing 1 million human genomes with big data
TNW - The Conversation
The first draft of the human genome was published 20 years ago in 2001, took nearly three years and cost between US$500 million and $1 billion. The Human Genome Project has allowed scientists to read,...
1 day ago
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Media Industry
Being skeptical of sources is a journalist's job – but it doesn't always happen when those sources are the police
theconversation.com - Danielle K. Kilgo
The death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo might well have made international headlines on March 29, 2021 – the day he was shot and killed by a police …
1 day ago