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Unraveling breast cancer risk
By Ashleen Knutsen, Knowable Magazine For decades, Piri Welcsh has had professional and personal stakes in understanding the genetics of…
Read More »Watch: Why SpaceX Built A Stainless Steel Starship
Despite advances in materials over the past 70 years, SpaceX chose stainless steel for the Starhopper rocket. Many modern rockets use…
Read More »NYPD Demands Google GPS App Stop Helping People Get Around DUI Checkpoints
The New York Police Department demanded that Google’s GPS navigation app Waze stop helping drivers avoid DUI checkpoints. Waze allows…
Read More »Author Of New Book ‘Zucked’ Says Facebook’s Mission Is To Make People ‘Angry And Afraid’
Roger McNamee, author of the new book “Zucked,” appeared on “Fox & Friends” Thursday and said Facebook seeks to make…
Read More »Harvard Prof Believes An Alien Spaceship Is Flying By Jupiter
A Harvard University professor believes an alien spaceship could be flying by Jupiter despite criticism from other scientists saying the…
Read More »Facebook Breaks Out The Big Guns As Zuckerberg Wards Off Regulators
Facebook is using company executives to personally answer questions from policy makers about the nature of the social media giant’s…
Read More »Here’s What You Need To Know About The Great ‘Polar Vortex’ Of 2019
The “polar vortex” was the coldest weather many Americans have seen in decades. Many news reports tried to link the…
Read More »The power of brands, conscious and unconscious
By Ian Chipman, Knowable Magazine Imagine yourself in your local supermarket, doing your usual grocery run. In aisle after aisle,…
Read More »Net Neutrality Is In The News Again And Twitter Is Weighing In On Its Future
Twitter re-upped its support for net neutrality Friday as supporters for the controversial policy prepare to challenge the Trump administration…
Read More »Twitter And Facebook Ding Network Of Accounts Tied To Russia And Iran
Facebook and Twitter said they coordinated efforts ahead of the 2018 elections to remove thousands of accounts tied to foreign…
Read More »NASA Selects United Launch Alliance’s Reliable Atlas V Rocket to Launch Lucy Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids
Centennial, Colo. (Jan. 31, 2019) – NASA’s Launch Services Program announced today that it selected United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) proven…
Read More »Blue Origin to Launch Telesat’s Advanced Global LEO Satellite Constellation
Telesat and Blue Origin have signed a multi-launch agreement that paves the way for the powerful New Glenn rocket to…
Read More »Apple Dings App After Facebook Used It To Conduct Shady Research On Users
Apple said Wednesday that Facebook violated the company’s policies when it surreptitiously used a research application to gobble up private data…
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