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Cancer Deaths Plummet Dramatically Over The Last 25 Years
Life expectancy in the U.S. may be on a downward trend, but a recent study marked a bright spot: cancer…
Read More »The NYT Bought Facebook Ads Encouraging Users To Delete Their Accounts
Facebook executives are angry at The New York Times for what they believe is unfair reporting about the company, NBC…
Read More »More than two-thirds say National Do Not Call Registry ineffective
Traditional screening tactics aren’t working against the robocall invasion Progress in the fight to block robocalls has been slow or…
Read More »Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’ Would Avert A ‘Barely Detectable’ Amount Of Global Warming. That’s According To EPA’s Climate Model
New York Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” won’t impact global warming, according to a climate model. It would only avert 0.14…
Read More »China First Country To Land Craft On Dark Side Of The Moon
China landed a space module on the dark side of the moon Thursday, marking a major achievement for the communist…
Read More »2 in 3 Americans think 5G will be widely available within a year
A study – driven by T-Mobile and conducted by HarrisX – is planned to be produced quarterly, and today the…
Read More »Here’s How The Government Shutdown Could Create More Headaches For Facebook
The government shutdown is threatening to derail a Federal Trade Commission investigation into Facebook’s use of people’s private information, The…
Read More »Report Details Nature Of Facebook’s Secret Rulebook Governing Global Speech
Facebook’s secretive rule book regulating how employees censor certain forms of expression contains numerous biases and outright errors, according to…
Read More »A New Study Could Spell Trouble For The Future Of Wind Energy
Wind energy resources have been in sharp decline in regions all across the world, according to a study conducted by…
Read More »Facebook Dings Dem Operatives Who Pulled A Fast One During Alabama Election
Facebook suspended several accounts linked to Democratic operatives who orchestrated a ruse to fool Alabama voters into believing that Russian…
Read More »What on Earth is the Global Positioning System?
GPS is everywhere—on your phone, in your car, even on your wrist—but what the heck even is it and how…
Read More »Amazon’s Alexa Goes Haywire, Tells Customer To ‘Kill’ Your Foster Parents’
One of Amazon’s newest projects is researching ways to make Alexa a more human-like communicator for customers, but sometimes the…
Read More »This Drone Seamlessly Transitions Between Swimming and Flying
By David Pring-Mill It isn’t unreasonable to think of drones as pesky technological nuisances. Our modern digital ecosystem regularly infringes…
Read More »Reaching out to touch virtual reality
By Matthew Hutson, Knowable Magazine In Steven Spielberg’s 2018 film Ready Player One, based on the 2011 book by Ernest Cline,…
Read More »Facebook Gave AI Control Of A Crucial Personal Data Collection Tool
Facebook ceded control of a critical pillar of the company’s personal data collection tools to artificial intelligence after it became too large…
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