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It’s Been A Year And I’m Still Thinking About The Sony Car

It’s Been A Year And I’m Still Thinking About The Sony Car

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It's Been A Year And I'm Still Thinking About The Sony Car For companies that exist to build cars, automakers sure like to parade around non-working mockups with the promise they’ll one day be drivable. How ironic is it that when Sony, a major tech company, decided to bring a car to the Consumer Electronics Show last year, it brought one that ran.Read more... Go to Source
Early Evidence Suggests Pfizer Vaccine Works Against New Coronavirus Variant

Early Evidence Suggests Pfizer Vaccine Works Against New Coronavirus Variant

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Early Evidence Suggests Pfizer Vaccine Works Against New Coronavirus Variant Scientists are hard at work testing out whether mutations found in new variants of the coronavirus could bypass the immunity offered by currently developed vaccines. The first results from this work are encouraging: They suggest that the Pfizer vaccine is still effective against one important mutation found in these…Read more... Go to Source
Senator Says Computer Stolen From Capitol Office During Coup Attempt by Trump Loyalists

Senator Says Computer Stolen From Capitol Office During Coup Attempt by Trump Loyalists

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Senator Says Computer Stolen From Capitol Office During Coup Attempt by Trump Loyalists A laptop computer belonging to the office of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley from Oregon was one of several electronic devices stolen by Trump loyalists during a failed coup attempt on Wednesday, according to a new report from Politico. The news comes as the Department of Justice tries to make an assessment of the property…Read more... Go to Source
FCC Chairman Quietly Abandoned Attempt to ‘Clarify’ Section 230

FCC Chairman Quietly Abandoned Attempt to ‘Clarify’ Section 230

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FCC Chairman Quietly Abandoned Attempt to 'Clarify' Section 230 Approximately 5 million years ago back in October, Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai vowed to “move forward with a rulemaking” to “clarify” Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a key legal shield that protects online platforms from liability for certain types of content posted by users. However,…Read more... Go to Source
Tapjoy Settles With FTC After Years of Cheating Mobile Gamers

Tapjoy Settles With FTC After Years of Cheating Mobile Gamers

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Tapjoy Settles With FTC After Years of Cheating Mobile Gamers The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it has finally reached a settlement with Tapjoy, a California-based adtech company that’s alleged to have defrauded consumers consumers out of the in-app rewards that they were promised. Per the FTC, Tapjoy’s scam had allegedly gone on for “several years,”…Read more... Go to Source
Thanks For the Evidence, You Seditious Dweebs

Thanks For the Evidence, You Seditious Dweebs

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Thanks For the Evidence, You Seditious Dweebs Yesterday, a nauseated and tired public witnessed a clear, on-the-ground, real-time feed of Trump supporters committing countless potential felonies and misdemeanors. They saw it not through security footage or journalists’ reports but mostly from the culprits themselves, who gleefully livestreamed and tweeted from…Read more... Go to Source
Researchers Take Another Look at Platypus DNA, and Yup, Still Weird

Researchers Take Another Look at Platypus DNA, and Yup, Still Weird

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Researchers Take Another Look at Platypus DNA, and Yup, Still Weird Waddling, wriggling, ambling, digging, laying eggs. There’s no shortage of verbiage when it comes to describing monotremata—the taxonomic order made up of only two animals, the platypus and the echidna. Rattling off the numerous weird traits of these creatures is trope in news coverage—and it’s near impossible to…Read more... Go to Source
Striking 3D Satellite Images Show Shattered Iceberg A68a, Which Still Threatens a Sensitive Island

Striking 3D Satellite Images Show Shattered Iceberg A68a, Which Still Threatens a Sensitive Island

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Striking 3D Satellite Images Show Shattered Iceberg A68a, Which Still Threatens a Sensitive Island A68a, the world’s most famous iceberg, is still hanging out near South Georgia island, along with its recent offspring. Here’s what we know about these gigantic chunks of ice and how the situation might develop from here as ocean currents swirl the ‘bergs.Read more... Go to Source
Not Even Puppies Are Safe From Advertiser Blocklists

Not Even Puppies Are Safe From Advertiser Blocklists

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Not Even Puppies Are Safe From Advertiser Blocklists Even if you aren’t knee-deep in tech news all the time, chances are you’ve heard a tech critic mention the so-called “attention economy,” or as I like to call it, the “cash-for-eyeballs” economy. It’s a concept that, at least in theory, makes a lot of sense: Companies like Facebook make their multi-billion dollar…Read more... Go to Source
Good News: Natural Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, Study Suggests

Good News: Natural Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, Study Suggests

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Good News: Natural Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, Study Suggests New research released Wednesday should provide comfort to covid-19 survivors worried about losing their natural immunity to the coronavirus anytime soon. The findings suggest that in most people, a robust immune response to the virus lasts for at least eight months—and there are good signs that it could even last…Read more... Go to Source
American Airlines Bans Alcohol on Flights Out of D.C. After Trump Loyalists Attempt Coup

American Airlines Bans Alcohol on Flights Out of D.C. After Trump Loyalists Attempt Coup

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American Airlines Bans Alcohol on Flights Out of D.C. After Trump Loyalists Attempt Coup American Airlines announced early Thursday that it would no longer be serving alcohol on flights out of Washington D.C., after videos went viral of passengers being verbally abusive on flights into Washington for President Trump’s neo-fascist rally. The alcohol ban is one of many precautionary measures being taken by…Read more... Go to Source
Newly Sworn-In West Virginia Lawmaker Streamed Video Of Himself Storming the Capitol

Newly Sworn-In West Virginia Lawmaker Streamed Video Of Himself Storming the Capitol

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Newly Sworn-In West Virginia Lawmaker Streamed Video Of Himself Storming the Capitol Newly-elected member of West Virginia’s House of Delegates Derrick Evans was among the insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, and we know this because he streamed video of himself doing it in which he referred to himself in the third person.Read more... Go to Source