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Facebook Maybe Not Singlehandedly Undermining Democracy With Political Content, Says Facebook

Facebook Maybe Not Singlehandedly Undermining Democracy With Political Content, Says Facebook

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Facebook Maybe Not Singlehandedly Undermining Democracy With Political Content, Says Facebook In a dispatch from Facebook’s newsroom released Tuesday night, corporate executives sought to downplay the role partisan discourse plays in shaping the platform, stressing that political content makes up only about 6% of users’ newsfeeds and that ranking pages by which posts receive the most engagement is not…Read more... Go to Source
We Now Know How Much Ubisoft Games on Amazon’s Cloud Gaming Service Will Cost

We Now Know How Much Ubisoft Games on Amazon’s Cloud Gaming Service Will Cost

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We Now Know How Much Ubisoft Games on Amazon's Cloud Gaming Service Will Cost As of this morning, anyone who has received, or will receive, a beta invite to Luna, Amazon’s brand new cloud gaming service, can access the Ubisoft+ channel that’s filled with—you guessed it—Ubisoft games like Assassins’ Creed Odyssey. What Amazon didn’t initially announce was the price of subscribing to that game…Read more... Go to Source
A Dark Matter Detector Based on a Wind Chime Seems Just Weird Enough to Work

A Dark Matter Detector Based on a Wind Chime Seems Just Weird Enough to Work

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A Dark Matter Detector Based on a Wind Chime Seems Just Weird Enough to Work Dark matter physicists may have one of the most frustrating jobs in science. Their work deals with something that must, by almost all models of the universe, exist. But we’ve never found any direct evidence for dark matter. Where other scientists can capture their subjects in a lab and perform experiments on it,…Read more... Go to Source
Covid-19 Survivors Face Increased Risk of Mental Illness and Dementia, Study Suggests

Covid-19 Survivors Face Increased Risk of Mental Illness and Dementia, Study Suggests

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Covid-19 Survivors Face Increased Risk of Mental Illness and Dementia, Study Suggests A new study out this week is the latest to suggest that the effects of covid-19 can extend beyond the initial acute illness. Researchers found that about one in every five people diagnosed with covid-19 went on to be diagnosed with an episode of mental illness and/or insomnia in the three months following—a rate…Read more... Go to Source
8 COOLEST MOTORHOMES IN THE WORLD

8 COOLEST MOTORHOMES IN THE WORLD

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http://youtu.be/ATFkNj8BqN4 BRAIN TIME ► https://goo.gl/tTWgH2 1. SEALANDER https://youtu.be/CPnZUGPeao0 https://youtu.be/RFKOcilvBmo https://youtu.be/g9laUMb6oZk https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdM74TcoA2DgxMPiUO6IG9A 2. MINK 2.0 https://youtu.be/vPNv2LMwvpA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBrMtU9LtPjznxVT4RX3iRQ 3. BRUDER EXP-6 (Preview) https://youtu.be/rao14joQE-4 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7kdsgRWuraLQgYfavXwsKw 4. 2020 Airstream Caravel 16RB https://youtu.be/B8p80qTi0sg https://youtu.be/U9nyYNagPtU https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRs8mXpzh10GKznQE878Kw 5. Verve Lux 28 https://youtu.be/C91FA96Th_Q https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkTHtkGVCMITtNLFFG_0W_Q 6. Valentino Rossi’s Motorhome https://youtu.be/p7ZIXCjXMO8 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSjZxev_OMzb2AzGN5FTp...
What’s the Best Countertop Dishwasher?

What’s the Best Countertop Dishwasher?

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What's the Best Countertop Dishwasher? A few weeks ago, my wife and I awoke to a sight of pure horror: a dishwasher full of food scraps and dirty water. After cleaning and replacing the filter, we arrived at the conclusion that we should either bring in an appliance repair specialist or buy a new dishwasher seeing as ours has been here since the early…Read more... Go to Source
Joe Biden Announces Covid Advisory Board, Pandemic Blueprint to Clean Up This Mess

Joe Biden Announces Covid Advisory Board, Pandemic Blueprint to Clean Up This Mess

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Joe Biden Announces Covid Advisory Board, Pandemic Blueprint to Clean Up This Mess Just hours after good news of a promising vaccine rolled in, the Biden-Harris trasition team today announced appointees to its covid-19 advisory board. According to the Washington Post, at least two of the advisory board co-chairs, former FDA Commissioner David Kessler and Obama-era Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, have…Read more... Go to Source
‘Free Speech’ Social Network Parler Tops App Store Downloads After Trump Loses Election

‘Free Speech’ Social Network Parler Tops App Store Downloads After Trump Loses Election

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'Free Speech' Social Network Parler Tops App Store Downloads After Trump Loses Election Parler, the Twitter alternative for conservatives where users can say anything they want without fear of censorship (except for an arbitrary list of terms conservatives don’t like), is taking off in the wake of Donald Trump’s defeat against Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 elections.Read more... Go to Source

This Tongue-Like Robot Gripper Can Slurp Its Way Into Tight Spaces

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This Tongue-Like Robot Gripper Can Slurp Its Way Into Tight Spaces In another example of unsettling biomimicry, engineering researchers from the University of New South Wales in Sydney were inspired by an elephant’s trunk and designed what looks more like a robotic tongue that can firmly grasp objects by wrapping around them like a snake.Read more... Go to Source
Couple Who Pointed Guns at Protesters Sues Photographer Who Captured Them in the Act

Couple Who Pointed Guns at Protesters Sues Photographer Who Captured Them in the Act

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Couple Who Pointed Guns at Protesters Sues Photographer Who Captured Them in the Act In a delightful act of copyright justice, Mark and Patricia McCloskey—the personal injury attorneys who became infamous for aiming firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters this summer from their castle mansion’s pristine lawn—have reportedly been sent a $1,500 bill for attempting to profit off one of the photos of…Read more... Go to Source
The Green New Deal Didn’t Sink Democrats

The Green New Deal Didn’t Sink Democrats

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The Green New Deal Didn't Sink Democrats The dust hasn’t even settled on the 2020 election (stares intently at Georgia’s two Senate runoffs), but the sniping has already begun. Establishment House Democrats who have either spent decades in Congress or ran as conservative Democrats spent the end of last week blaming progressives for the party running behind …Read more... Go to Source
Dentist Gets Two Months In Jail For Treating Patients During Self-Quarantine In Australia

Dentist Gets Two Months In Jail For Treating Patients During Self-Quarantine In Australia

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Dentist Gets Two Months In Jail For Treating Patients During Self-Quarantine In Australia A dentist in Perth, Australia has received two months in jail for treating 41 patients while she was supposed to be in two weeks of mandatory self-quarantine to prevent the spread of covid-19. The judge’s sentence is the harshest covid-related punishment passed down in Australia since the pandemic began earlier this…Read more... Go to Source
UK Defense Chief Says Army Could Have 30,000 Robots by the 2030s

UK Defense Chief Says Army Could Have 30,000 Robots by the 2030s

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UK Defense Chief Says Army Could Have 30,000 Robots by the 2030s This is not a movie; this is real life. It is not a drill. In about a decade, we might see a ton of robots working alongside humans in the UK army. But don’t worry, although some of the robots will have weapons, only humans will be able to fire them. (That’s a relief, I think?) Read more... Go to Source
GoFundMe Takes Down Campaign That Raised More Than $200,000 to Look for Imaginary Voter Fraud

GoFundMe Takes Down Campaign That Raised More Than $200,000 to Look for Imaginary Voter Fraud

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GoFundMe Takes Down Campaign That Raised More Than $200,000 to Look for Imaginary Voter Fraud Tech companies of all shapes and sizes are apparently taking note of what happens when you let rampant misinformation, or conspiracy theories, flourish on your platform and don’t do anything about it. This week, GoFundMe quickly pulled the plug on a popular campaign that had raised more than $200,000 to investigate…Read more... Go to Source