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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

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Google moved the Pixel camera's best feature and people think they killed it — Elgan Nation

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elgan.com - The best feature of the Pixel phone by far is in the camera app. The feature was called Photobooth. You could find it by opening the camera app swiping to the right and choosing “More,” which would g…

Amazon Might Start Making Ring Smart Lights - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - Amazon is soon going to get into smart light bulbs with a new Ring-branded smart light bulb. The company has so far made a lot of smart home devices, but it is surprisingly yet to make its own brande…

BioShock will return, but without Ken Levine

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arstechnica.com - Instead, the new game "will be in development for the next several years" by Cloud Chamber, a 2K-subsidiary studio based in both Novato, California and Montreal. Veteran Firaxis game producer Kelley …

Can a games platform tackle kids’ anxiety about having to do math? – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - You know that feeling when you look at your bank statements and try to figure out what on earth is going on? Or when you do your taxes? It turns out this isn’t just an insignificant feeling, but a sc…

Effective ways to ensure your remote team feels like part of HQ – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Nearly every startup begins as a lean, scrappy team that works closely in a central hub — it’s an interesting time when each team member is wearing multiple hats, likely working across several differ…

Gift Guide: VR gear you won’t feel stupid for buying – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2019 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find our other guides ri…

YouTube asks the FTC to clarify how video creators should comply with COPPA ruling – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - YouTube is asking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for further clarification and better guidance to help video creators understand how to comply with the FTC’s guidelines set forth as part of YouTub…

Fourteen attorneys general will challenge T-Mobile and Sprint merger in court this week – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - After months of statements, the biggest challenge yet to T-Mobile and Sprint’s proposed merger kicks off today in a Manhattan court. The trial is the result of pushback from a coalition of attorneys …

Berlin-based streaming guide JustWatch acquires New York rival GoWatchIt – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Berlin-headquartered streaming guide JustWatch has grown to over 10 million users across 38 countries in under 5 years. Now, it’s expanding its U.S. presence with the acquisition of New York-based ri…

AWS is sick of waiting for your company to move to the cloud – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - AWS held its annual re:Invent customer conference last week in Las Vegas. Being Vegas, there was pageantry aplenty, of course, but this year’s model felt a bit different than in years past, lacking t…

Video of Cybertruck driving on California highway reveals more questions – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Video of Cybertruck driving on California highway reveals more questions A video just surfaced showing the Tesla Cybertruck driving around LA. Elon Musk is purportedly driving, but it’s not confirmed…

By Miles, the UK pay-by-mile car insurance app, adds ‘connected car’ policy for Tesla drivers – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - By Miles, the U.K. pay-by-mile car insurance provider, is launching a “connected car” insurance policy specifically for Tesla drivers. The new insurance product pulls real-time mileage information di…

Late registration savings to Disrupt Berlin ends tomorrow – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Just two more days to go until Disrupt Berlin opens its doors to thousands of the top international early-stage startup founders, investors, movers and shakers. And we have good news for all you last…

Why Consistency Will Give You Confidence - Thrive Global

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thriveglobal.com - Have you ever followed a cool brand on Facebook and then followed them on Instagram and it looks like a completely different brand? The profile pictures are different (like seriously different), the …

Verizon reportedly blocks archivists from Yahoo Groups days before deletion

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arstechnica.com - An ad-hoc group scrambling to archive as much content as possible from Yahoo Groups ahead of the site's final demise next week is running into trouble as more than a hundred volunteer archivists say …

Amazon: Trump used “improper pressure” to block AWS from DOD cloud contract

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arstechnica.com - In a redacted filing released today by the US Federal Court of Claims, attorneys for Amazon asserted that Amazon Web Service's loss of the Department of Defense Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructur…

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 865 is 25% faster, comes with mandatory 5G

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arstechnica.com - Today, Qualcomm detailed its new flagship SoC for 2020: the Snapdragon 865. This is going to be the chip that ships in every single high-end Android phone that comes out in 2020, and there's a lot to…

Google workers fired amid organization efforts file retaliation complaint

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arstechnica.com - Four former employees who say Google fired them in retaliation for their efforts to organize co-workers are planning legal action against the company. The workers allege the tech giant violated US la…

Surprise! Oculus Quest becomes first VR set with native hand tracking—this week

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arstechnica.com - Let's fly through the skies with Oculus Quest hand tracking. (Be warned: this is a 360-degree video within a media app, not a hand-compatible VR game.) So long as you hold your hands in front of the …

The iPhone 11’s U1 chip necessitates constant geolocation checks, Apple says

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arstechnica.com - Earlier this week, security reporter Brian Krebs published a story explaining that Apple's latest iPhones (iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro) periodically check the user's location even if the user disable…

Google Fiber ends $50, 100Mbps plan, but 1Gbps is still $70 with no data cap

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arstechnica.com - Google Fiber has stopped offering its $50-per-month, 100Mbps Internet plan to new customers, leaving its gigabit service as the only option available to people who weren't grandfathered into the chea…

Some Stadia games cost more than their downloadable counterparts

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arstechnica.com - The Stadia controller looks a lot like every controller these days. Dig one more level and there's the Chromecast Ultra. For testing with a Pixel phone, Google sent us this custom-made Stadia control…

You can order the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR starting tomorrow

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arstechnica.com - Let's zoom in to see some of the ports in this configuration. On top, you'll notice a couple more ports, a power button, and this handle. When you grab it, you can twist and pull the entire cover off…

Jaguar increases I-Pace range with update after one-make race series

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arstechnica.com - "The Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy has generated a huge amount of data for us to analyze and those marginal gains, derived from competition on the track, are now being applied to customers' cars to further e…

Dentist who rode hoverboard while pulling tooth faces patient in court

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arstechnica.com - An Alaskan dentist accused of fraudulently billing Medicaid and needlessly sedating patients was also found to have pulled a patient’s tooth while riding on a wheeled "hoverboard" scooter. Dentist Se…

Brave Browser Promises a Brave New Cyberworld with Next-Gen Launch - Grit Daily

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gritdaily.com - No one said the Internet had to be this way. No one said that to access websites we’d have to give a giant tech company a list of every page we read, every video we watch, and every link we click. No…

Microsoft wants everyone to follow its lead with its new mobile design

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theverge.com - Nearly a decade ago, Microsoft launched its Windows Phone platform with the promise that its software would free users from their phones. The first big ad campaign showed people engrossed in their de…

Exciting New Tools for Designers, December 2019 | Webdesigner Depot

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webdesignerdepot.com - As you are shopping this month for others, why not find a few goodies for yourself? Our roundup of new tools and resources is packed with usable items. And most are free, so there’s no shame in tryin…

Chinese government to replace foreign hardware and software within three years | ZDNet

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zdnet.com - Beijing officials have ordered all government offices and public institutions to replace foreign hardware and software with Chinese alternatives within the next three years. The mass replacement proc…

The PC was supposed to die a decade ago. Instead, this happened | ZDNet

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zdnet.com - Not all that long ago, tech pundits were convinced that by 2020 the personal computer as we know it would be extinct. You can even mark the date and time of the PC's death: January 27, 2010, at 10:00…

WhatsApp now has call waiting feature but with limits

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androidcommunity.com - While it’s not really that popular in the U.S., Facebook-owned WhatsApp is still one of the most popular messaging apps around the world. One feature that it has is that you can call other users thro…

Google Glass Explorer Edition will get its final update next year

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androidcommunity.com - Google has been quiet about the Google Glass project. The last update we featured was about the Glass Enterprise Edition 2 allowing efficiency and speed in production. That was back in May. That last…

OnePlus 8 Lite image renders, 360-degree video appear on the web

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androidcommunity.com - The next OnePlus phone series isn’t due until April but we’ve been hearing information and seeing images of the OnePlus 8. Renders were released as early as October showing a punch-hole display. A pu…

Samsung Tap View may be introduced, may only work via NFC

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androidcommunity.com - Samsung isn’t only busy with smartphones. The South Korean tech giant also has a smart TV business that competes with a lot of other OEMs. We don’t mention Samsung smart TVs as much but the company m…

Samsung Galaxy A51 will be unveiled soon, here’s when

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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy A51 is coming. Early image renders presented quad cameras. Just a few days ago, it was also teased on video. The follow-up to the Galaxy A50 is already in the works and some new de…

Microsoft Patent Suggests Surface Book (and Pro?) Changes - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - A recently-filed patent application shows that Microsoft may be changing a future Surface Book generation in major ways. And no, it doesn’t involve that crazy hinge. “A computing device … includes a …

Minecraft Cross-Play is Coming to PlayStation 4 - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - Our national nightmare is over: Microsoft announced today that Minecraft cross-play is finally coming to the PlayStation 4. “Starting tomorrow, Minecraft players on the PlayStation 4 Edition will beg…

Collections is Live in Edge Canary and Dev - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - Microsoft announced today that the Collections feature is now available in the latest builds of Edge Canary and Dev. “Collections is now enabled by default for all Microsoft Edge Insiders in the Cana…

11 Proven PPC strategies for your ecommerce site - Search Engine Watch

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searchenginewatch.com - This article is very critical if you have an ecommerce store. Ecommerce marketing, if not done properly, can lead to complications because there are just so many different things that you can do. The…

This 3D Printed Hi-Point May Be the Cheapest Pistol in Existence

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thefirearmblog.com - There is no question that Hi-Point firearms have made a name for themselves by providing law-abiding citizens with affordable and functional firearms. With an average out the door price of about $150…

Apple concerned that two former employees accused of stealing trade secrets will flee to China - 9to5Mac

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9to5mac.com - Apple is currently involved in a legal battle with two former employees who are being charged with stealing trade secrets related to Project Titan. As that process continues, Reuters reports today th…

Ring's Neighbors app is revealing device locations, report says

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cnet.com - Ring's Neighbors app could allow people to pin down device locations, Gizmodo says. Data found on Ring's Neighbors app can reveal the exact location of the company's devices -- and, by extent, users'…

How to Let Facebook Automatically Present the Best Ad Text: Multiple Text Options

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socialmediaexaminer.com - Want Facebook’s AI to show the right ad text to the right audience? Wondering how multiple text options can help improve your conversions? In this article, you’ll learn how to use Facebook’s Multiple…

Learn All You Need To Know About Photography

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slr-digitalcamera.com - Do you want to start a photography hobby or career but do not know where you should start? Are you confused about your shot selection, or how to set different types of lighting? Even those with a mea…

Clientron POS Terminal won the Taiwan Excellence Award for the fifth consecutive year

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embedded-computing.com - The 28th Taiwan Excellence Award ceremony was held yesterday afternoon (Nov. 27). Clientron, a smart retail IoT solution leading provider, won the jury's affirmation again with their "multi-functiona…

True Business Success Begins With These Social Media Marketing Steps

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firstadsense.com - That being said, social media market campaigns can fall flat if they aren’t planned adequately.In these paragraphs you will read about ways to use social media marketing.Inform all your current custu…

How To Make Internet Marketing Turn Into Profits

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iim.internetinfomedia.com - The advice given here can give you make more revenue. Don’t throw in the towel if you experience a few bumps on the road. You gain absolutely nothing from giving up. When you are planning a product o…

Some Helpful Tips For Effective Facebook Marketing.

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duracmarketing.com - Are you feeling left in the dust when it comes to social media? Do you want to beat the competition? Are they already using Facebook to market their products? Do you want to better their campaigns ti…

Making Money Online Is Esay With These Tips

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getmoneymaker.com - It is almost impossible to dive in headfirst and start earning money with the click of a mouse. This article will give you the information you need to start working online. Follow the tips written in…

Privacy, Cookies And Personalization: Ad Tech Needs To Get Over It

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durac.info - “Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Dan Linton, global data privacy officer a…

Platform Revolution - Platform Value in The Digital Economy

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robllewellyn.com - Platform value is key to the digital economy, and in a new book called Platform Revolution, authors Geoff Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne and Sangeet Choudary provide a manual for creating a platform ma…

Egnyte accelerates efficiency with new Microsoft Power Automate integration

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community.egnyte.com - Power Automate uses robotic process automation (RPA) to streamline and automate repetitive and tedious processes throughout an organization. RPA does this with software bots that reduce lengthy codin…

Best 4K TVs for 2019: LG, Vizio and TCL compared

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cnet.com - 4K resolution used to be an expensive step-up feature that was only available with high-end TVs. But nowadays, just about every television set with a screen that is 40 inches or bigger is available i…

2020 Social Media Trends | Oneupweb Beyond the Minute

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oneupweb.com - Identifying new social media trends is like a never-ending game of “Where’s Waldo?” You think – yes! You’ve got the perfect strategy! But then it turns out to be just a passing fad. Social media tren…

How to Create an Effective Lead Generation Strategy - Zymplify

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zymplify.com - Lead generation trends change all the time. It’s important to stay up to date with what people are currently interested in so that you can create the most seamless and organic lead generation strateg…

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SCIENCE

Scientists watch Greenland Ice Sheet lake drain five million cubic meters of water in just five hours

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newsweek.com - Scientists working in the Arctic have watched a lake on the Greenland Ice Sheet drain five million cubic meters of water—equivalent to 2,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools—in just five hours. The rapid…

15 Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Marketing | Smart Insights

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linkedin.com - AI technology is a hot topic in marketing at the moment, but AI is a broad term covering a wide range of different technologies. Artificial intelligence means any technology that seeks to mimic human…

Cloudy with a chance of neurons: The tools that make neural networks work

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arstechnica.com - Artificial Intelligence—or, if you prefer, Machine Learning—is today's hot buzzword. Unlike many buzzwords have come before it, though, this stuff isn't vaporware dreams—it's real, it's here already,…

Mindstrong Health hires leadership team with all-star tech product experience – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Mindstrong Health is tackling one one of the most difficult challenges in healthcare: Severe mental illness, commonly referred to as SMI in the healthcare industry. The startup, founded in 2013 by Pa…

Near Space Labs provides unmatched high-resolution imaging using stratospheric satellites – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Imaging is one of the key markets in the emerging space tech industry, and for good reason – there’s a proven and robust demand for imaging and Earth observation data among government, private and ot…

Watching a “language” develop when kids can’t speak to each other

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arstechnica.com - In the 2016 film Arrival, a linguist must figure out how to communicate with enormous seven-limbed aliens, starting with no shared language at all. Her first trembling, breathless attempt to bridge t…

Here’s how much global carbon emission increased this year

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arstechnica.com - Large oceangoing ships turn very slowly, which can be frustrating to someone accustomed to speeding around on nimble watercraft. Those eagerly watching for progress on climate change can relate. Ever…

On the day of a key test, Russia trolls Boeing’s Starliner mission

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arstechnica.com - On Friday, Boeing and United Launch Alliance conducted a number of key tests in preparation for the launch of the Starliner spacecraft later this month. During this "Integrated Day of Launch," flight…

No one knows why rocks are exploding from asteroid Bennu

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wired.com - NASA | Goddard | University of Arizona | Lockheed Martin Many scientists expect the Bennu sample to revolutionize our understanding of asteroids, especially those that are near Earth and pose the gre…

'Grin and Bear It' Is Wrong. Here's What Great Leaders Understand About Emotional Intelligence.

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entrepreneur.com - “One of the things that I was told early on is that you should never let them see you sweat,” Ursula Burns once said in an interview. Burns, then-CEO of Xerox, was reflecting on leadership advice she…

Accessibility Tips for Web Developers

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dev.to - It's awesome to build sites that are inclusive and accessible to everyone. There are at least six key areas of disability we can optimize for: visual, hearing, mobility, cognition, speech and neural.…

Which Development Tasks are the Easiest to Outsource (Experts Advice)

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noupe.com - Software development is no easy task, especially when you’re looking to create something innovative, inspiring, and unique. It is a mishmash of various processes whose complexity depends on the proje…

5 habits of highly ineffective designers

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uxdesign.cc - “A truly ineffective designer can be dangerous for the team’s culture, and it’s the lack of care, not ineffectiveness, that troubles me.” “A truly ineffective designer can be dangerous for the team’s…

Brand Illustration Systems: Drawing A Strong Visual Identity — Smashing Magazine

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smashingmagazine.com - Yihui Liu is a UI/visual inhouse designer and illustrator with a huge passion for human-centered design. After studying and working in Beijing, she completed … More about Yihui … Upgrade your inbox a…

Cybertruck Inspired: Geometry and Brutalism in Web Design

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shakuro.com - I was fascinated by Elon Musk’s Tesla’s Cybertruck unveiling on November 21st. It turned a lot of heads for its unapologetically brutalist design, with sharp edges and minimalist stainless steel clad…

CSS: An Art, a Science, a Nightmare (Everything You Should Know)

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taniarascia.com - Speaking CSS is like speaking English, or any other spoken language - there are many words, but you only end up using a small subset of them on a daily basis. Just like reading a dictionary isn't an …

Cold War-era spies are being recruited to help climate scientists

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inverse.com - The Himalayas are known as Earth’s “third pole” for their massive glaciers. The water they store is an important source of drinking water for billions of people in South Asia. But as the climate warm…

Music Is Truly a Universal Language: New Research Shows That Music Worldwide Has Important Commonalities

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openculture.com - Photo by Jo Dusepo, via Wikimedia Commons Photo by Jo Dusepo, via Wikimedia Commons Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s description of music as a universal language has become a well-worn cliché, usually ut…

Space Photos of the Week: Parker's Potential

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wired.com - Despite being the source of all life on Earth and the definitional center of the solar system, the sun is still something of an enigma. How fast does the solar wind blow? How do those particles strea…

With Shovels and Drones, Volcano Hunters Probe Kilauea

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wired.com - Measuring the temperature of lava (somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit) isn’t easy. Most thermometers either melt or just aren’t practical in the field, so other methods must be devi…

Why it can be hard to stop eating even when you're full: Some foods may be designed that way

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theconversation.com - All foods are not created equal. Most are palatable, or tasty to eat, which is helpful because we need to eat to survive. For example, a fresh apple is palatable to most people and provides vital nut…

Microsoft releases Math Solver app in beta

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androidcommunity.com - If you have trouble solving mathematical problems or you just like doing some in your spare time, Microsoft released a new app that would be perfect for you. The Math Solver app does what its name sa…

Giraffes just silently went to the list of endangered animals facing extinction

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indiatoday.in - Two subspecies of giraffes were recently added to the list of "critically endangered" species for the first time ever, as per athelatest report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (…

FDA Claims CBD Is Evil, While WHO And NIDA Said It’s All Good

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forbes.com - Getty There is something fishy going on in the United States concerning the government's negative stance on CBD (cannabidiol). The scientific goons over at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

Student attitudes toward cheating may spill over into their careers

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sciencedaily.com - The study tackles two questions: If students tolerate cheating in the classroom, will they also tolerate unethical behavior in their careers? And what's shaping these attitudes? Part of the researche…

Aspirin's health benefits under scrutiny: New research shows benefits no longer clearly outweigh harms in adults without heart disease

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sciencedaily.com - That's according to a new study published in Family Practice. Nearly one-quarter of Americans over the age of 40 have reported taking aspirin daily even if they don't have a history of heart disease …

The Ethical Dilemma at the Heart of Big Tech Companies

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hbr.org - If it seems like every week there’s a new scandal about ethics and the tech industry, it’s not your imagination. Even as the tech industry is trying to establish concrete practices and institutions a…

Scale Your IoT Architecture with AI at the Edge

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iotworldtoday.com - Thanks to the proliferation of IoT devices, enterprise data volumes are exploding. Traditionally, the sensitive data IoT devices gather has largely been stored in the cloud. But given the latency bet…

Boost Skin Collagen & Radiance With These Inflammation-Reducing Tips

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mindbodygreen.com - Externally, when your skin is exposed to irritations like UV light, polluted air, or adverse chemicals such as the ingredients in some skin care products, your body initiates an inflammatory response…

Can A Weighted Blanket Decrease Your Muscle Soreness?

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mindbodygreen.com - The theory that weighted blankets could assist muscle recovery stems from the fact that compression is a tool often used for injuries. (Ever heard a doctor say RICE? Rest, ice, compression, elevation…

3 Healthy Aging Tips From Functional Medicine Doctor Frank Lipman

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mindbodygreen.com - Lipman's final piece of advice (and, arguably, the most important) is to remember to enjoy life. In our world of biohacking and meticulous measuring, we can become so caught up in all of the numbers …

The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design

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nytimes.com - It took Neolithic builders nearly 1,500 years to complete Stonehenge, the outdoor enclosure of nearly 100 enormous upright stones on Salisbury Plain in the south of England. The origin of the structu…

Microchip Technology Introduces New family of High Density SPI EERAMs, Extending Up to 1 Mb

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embedded-computing.com - Microchip Technology announced a new family of Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) EERAM memory products. The family is highlighted by four reliable SPI densities to Microchip's EERAM portfolio, rangin…

First-class Professional Expertise for Embedded Specialists

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embedded-computing.com - embedded world is progressing exceptionally well. Already, the exhibition space booked in 2019 has been exceeded. And the prospects for the embedded world and electronic displays conferences are equa…

Learn How To Start Building More Muscle Today

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fatlosscenter.info - What aspects of your body do you not like? Do you dwell on your imperfections when you take a shower and look at yourself? Now is a great time to improve your outlook, and a good place to begin is yo…

A 40 Week Roller Coaster Of Emotion: How To Make Your Pregnancy Great

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bestpregnancysites.com - Many women think it is difficult to find useful information on pregnancy, but it’s not if you read these important tips. The tips located in this article will help you face the different challenges o…

Move Over Kale, Jalapenos Are the Health Food You Never Knew About

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askdrnandi.com - Research is being done to see how jalapeno peppers may help with your heart health. Hot peppers contain capsaicin which may reduce cholesterol, triglycerides and platelet aggregation. Some studies su…

Physical activity may protect against prostate cancer

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medicalnewstoday.com - Researchers using a new method of assessing risk factors for prostate cancer have found an intriguing link between a lack of physical activity and an increased risk of this condition. Prostate cancer…

Cows on Russian farm get fitted with VR goggles to increase milk production

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impactlab.net - The VR headsets will hopefully relax the cows, offering them sun-filled summer views of green pastures. If you walked onto the RusMoloko dairy farm near Moscow, in Russia, you may think you’ve arrive…

Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation Management

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robllewellyn.com - The management of Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation have both similarities and differences, although confusion sometimes arises between the two. While Enterprise Architecture models…

To Secure Multicloud Environments, First Acknowledge You Have a Problem

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blog.serchen.com - Multicloud environments change rapidly. Organizations need a security framework that is purpose-built for the cloud and that aligns with their digital transformation strategy. Enterprise cloud adopti…

How many head and neck injuries does cell phone use cause?

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medicalnewstoday.com - Some have dubbed texting "the new drunk driving" — and for good reason. New research suggests that texting while walking can also be dangerous, as it rounds up all the head and neck injuries that occ…

Real-Life Telepathy Is Closer Than You Think

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thedailybeast.com - Quietly over the past few months, the technology has started falling into place to allow people to communicate without words by transmitting their thoughts to each other via tiny, modem-like devices …

How Your Organization’s Experts Can Share Their Knowledge

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hbr.org - All companies have subject matter experts who hold knowledge critical to their businesses. As a leader, how can you make sure to not only preserve that know-how for future generations but also multip…

Assembling the right resources for the office of the chief data officer

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cio.com - We’ve come a long way from the first website, which was published on August 6, 1991. The Internet has over 1.94 billion websites. Over seven billion search queries a day are conducted worldwide, and …

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LEISURE

Great Napa Cab to Gift This Season - The Corkscrew Concierge™

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thecorkscrewconcierge.com - Yes, I’m that person that gives people shit about drinking Napa Cabernet Sauvignon. And I’m that person, even when my general mantra is to drink what you like as long as you’re open-minded. I have no…

About Italy Travel Guide | Italy Trip Planning | ItalianTourism.us

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italiantourism.us - This Italian Tourism Guide provides in-depth information on the many fabulous Italy vacation destinations. The famous ones like Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Tuscany, Sicily, the Amalfi Coast, Lake …

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French e-grocery app Jow raises $7M additional funding – TechCrunch

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You Can’t Work 24/7: The Problem with Our Always On Culture. - Thrive Global

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The Jungle Prince of Delhi

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The Great Chinese Art Heist

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[Letter from California] Gimme Shelter, by Wes Enzinna | Harper's Magazine

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From Berth to Death | Hakai Magazine

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Guidemaster: The best tech that will make your home an even better place

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Being Rich Without Making Money Your Life

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Why Essentialism is Essential

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Mindfulness: Your Secret Business Weapon

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Diss Tech Buddhists All You Want—but Read This Book First

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HAPPENING NOW: Join Stephen Kruiser and Kurt Schlichter for a VIP Gold Live Chat!

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It’s the most desperate time of year — for retailers

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Convenience Stores Outsmart Amazon With New 'Honor System' Model

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The Sound of Silence - New age music artist Marcomé

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The 21 best holiday cookie recipes from our 2019 contest

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Curious about sound baths? Here's what happened when I took a sonic soak

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8 skin-care Sephora best sellers you can snag for $15 or less

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wellandgood.com - Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be over, but my urge to splurge remains. It’s like the flood gates—or, more accurately, vault doors–have been opened and nothing can re-contain them. Lately, I’m cli…

I'm going to a million holiday parties—here's the one thing I'm wearing to all of them

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How to create the perfect weekly workout formula, according to Charlee Atkins

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This Reddit Hair Trick Made My Curls Shinier & Healthier — And It's So Easy

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mindbodygreen.com - As far as beauty goes, Instagram and YouTube get all the glory—thanks to being home to savvy influencers who boast complex and often entrancing routines. But as the young beauty gurus of the internet…

Chobani is coming for Oatly's crown with its new oat milk

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wellandgood.com - When you think of Chobani, you think of Greek yogurt. It’s the top-selling brand in the country. But for the first time, the company is entering the non-dairy space—and with that comes a round of non…

How To Train Your Newly Adoped Dog

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Start Using These Fantastic Wine Tips Today

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Things To Do To Achieve A Fit Body

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Your Path To Fat Loss Success Starts Right Here

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Tips To Make Sure Your Body Is Getting What It Needs

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Planning A Vacation Anywhere Without The Help Of A Travel Agent

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Nantes and Rennes Excursions: Fantasy and Art in France

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Tips For Feline Companion Care To Help You

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Ways To Lose Weight Safely And Effectively | African Mango Plus Reviews – Does It Work?

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Cooking Advice To Help Impress Friends And Family

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Shopping For Shoes? These Tips Can Help You Find Your Perfect Pair

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McDonald's Just Revealed the New Menu Item Everyone's Been Waiting For, and It's the Start of a New Era

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Seattle Day Tour - Mt Rainier National Park - Travel Explored

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BUSINESS

Jumia Closes Shop In Rwanda Days After Exiting Cameroon, Tanzania

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kahawatungu.com - Jumia has closed its shop in Rwanda after six years of operation, days after exiting Tanzanian and Cameroonian market. In a message to its customers the New York-listed e-commerce platform said it wi…

Analysis | African Americans are the only racial group in U.S. still making less than they did in 2000

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washingtonpost.com - (iStock) By Heather Long close Heather Long Economics correspondent Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow September 15, 2017 at 8:28 AM EDT African Americans were worse off financially in 2016 than they we…

Cryptocurrency Exchange OKEx to Launch Options Trading This Month

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cointelegraph.com - Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx announced that it will launch crypto options trading on Dec. 27. In a press release on Dec. 9, the exchange said that the addition of options makes OKEx the “…

90 percent of growth in high-tech jobs happened in just 5 metro areas

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vox.com - Technology jobs and the economic prosperity they bring are being concentrated in fewer US cities, according to a new report from The Brookings Institution. Since 2005, five metro areas — Boston, the …

SignalFire, just six years old, has raised $500 million across two new funds – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - SignalfFire, a six-year-old, San Francisco-based venture firm that prides itself on mining what it says is more actionable data about, well, the world, has just raised a pair of funds that total $500…

US VC investment in female founders hits all-time high – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Venture capital investment in all-female founding teams hit $3.3 billion in 2019, representing 2.8% of capital invested across the entire U.S. startup ecosystem this year, according to the latest dat…

Airbnb invests as Zeus corporate housing raises $55M at $205M – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - As Airbnb absorbs more and more of the demand for housing, it’s exploring how to monetize opportunities beyond vacation rentals. A marketplace for longer term corporate housing could be a huge busine…

Singapore’s Neuron Mobility raises $18.5M to bring its electric scooters to more international markets – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Neuron Mobility, a Singapore-based startup, has closed an $18.5 million new financing round as it looks to scale its e-scooter startup in international markets. The new financing round, dubbed Series…

Almost half of all Americans work in low-wage jobs

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cbsnews.com - America's unemployment rate is at a half-century low, but it also has a job-quality problem that affects nearly half the population, with a study finding 44% of U.S. workers are employed in low-wage …

The wild story behind the NBA's most unlikely heist

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Evaluating the risks of Africans opting for coal power

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arstechnica.com - In most developed economies, carbon emissions have flattened out or are trending downward. More efficient technology, a correspondingly lower demand, and an increasing reliance on renewable energy ha…

Red Alert: Is Your Small Business on the Verge of Failure?

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Ethereum Istanbul — Faster, But Still Not the World Computer

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cointelegraph.com - Vitalik Buterin has claimed that Ethereum will support 3,000 transactions per second after the upcoming Istanbul fork. Will this unleash a new wave of Ethereum creativity? Might we expect a surge in …

Top-5 Cryptos This Week: XTZ, ATOM, XRP, XMR, BNB

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cointelegraph.com - The New York Digital Investment Group LLC (NYDIG) has received approval from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offer its shares to institutional investors, including regis…

Americans are moving less and less—and it could dramatically reshape society

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fastcompany.com - The story of America is one of moving. A total of 13.6% of Americans today were born in another country, and most of us are descended from immigrants. This story of migration also includes moving wit…

Robots in Finance Could Wipe Out Some of Its Highest-Paying Jobs

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bloomberg.com - Robots have replaced thousands of routine jobs on Wall Street. Now, they’re coming for higher-ups. That’s the contention of Marcos Lopez de Prado, a Cornell University professor and the former head o…

Paul Volcker, the Carter-Reagan Fed chairman who beat inflation, dies at age 92

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Rep. Doug Collins - Georgia District 09

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opensecrets.org - grand total of contributions Doug Collins has reported in the current election cycle. Number of Contributions from Individuals (of $200 or more): 344 grand total of contributions Doug Collins has rep…

Company signs $1.38 billion logistics contract with US Defense Department

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Performance Data Has Value Only When It's Used

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govexec.com - Every few years new legislation revises the framework for planning and managing agency performance. The latest is the 2018 Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. In a recent report, the Gov…

NJ Man Gets 3 Years for $3.2 Million Food Stamp Fraud | Breitbart

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breitbart.com - A New Jersey man and former Connecticut supermarket employee has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for his role in a $3.2 million food stamp fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. …

The Circular Economy

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frankdiana.net - In a recent Article via the World Economic Forum, author Alexandre Lemille – Co-founder and general secretary, African Circular Economy Network – describes the Circular Economy – a future scenario on…

Crowdfunding disaster Coolest Cooler is shutting down and blaming tariffs for its downfall

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theverge.com - The company behind the Coolest Cooler, widely known as one of the biggest Kickstarter failures, is officially going out of business. An update sent to backers from the company’s CEO Ryan Grepper this…

Crypto Analyst Calls Big Bitcoin Breakout in Three Days – BTC, XRP, Ripple, Litecoin Newsflash | The Daily Hodl

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Dollar General Set To Roll Out More Fresh Produce & Healthier Options

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mindbodygreen.com - In a win for healthy eaters across the country, national brand Dollar General has announced that it will continue to add fresh produce to stores in the new year. It is currently offered in 600 stores…

You Can Succeed With Affiliate Promotion

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New Software has the potential to make you millions… overnight!

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Hard Time Understanding The World Of Gold? Check Out These Tips!

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Deutsche Bank Strategist Predicts Crypto Could Replace Fiat Money - Bitcoin News

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news.bitcoin.com - Deutsche Bank analysts have made some predictions regarding the future of cryptocurrency. Strategist Jim Reid explained why cryptocurrencies are inevitable and how the existing fiat money system coul…

Digital Ad Sales Increase, but Show Signs of Leveling Off

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What's next for podcast advertising

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3D Display Market Outlook 2019: Business Overview And Top Company Analysis Forecast By 2028 - My Industry Planning

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myindustryplanning.com - The Global 3D Display Market report scrutinizes the market status and standpoint of the 3D Display market over the globe, from various prospects, like from the 3D Display key player’s angle, topograp…

Combinatorial Disruption and Underdogs

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NSW Ambulance staff reach $275K settlement over data breach

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cio.com.au - The NSW Supreme Court has accepted a $275,000 settlement for the class action brought against NSW Ambulance over the access and sale of personal data of 130 staff in 2013. Laywers for the lead plaint…

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WORLD

A New Report on Family Separations Shows the Depths of Trump’s Negligence

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newyorker.com - In June of 2018, at the height of the family-separation crisis at the southern border, Emily Kephart, an advocate at Kids in Need of Defense, was spending her days trying to locate children in govern…

Inspector general thoroughly demolishes George Papadopoulos’s claim that the FBI set him up

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rawstory.com - Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with foreign agents during the 2016 presidential campaign, has long claimed that he was set u…

Finnish minister, 34, to be world's youngest PM

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bbc.com - Finland's Sanna Marin is to become the world's youngest prime minister at the age of 34. The transport minister was picked by her Social Democratic party after its leader, Antti Rinne, quit as PM. Sh…

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination

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washingtonpost.com - By Shane Harris, close Shane Harris Intelligence and national security reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Greg Miller and close Greg Miller National security reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow F…

FBI Director Christopher Wray's Response to Inspector General Report | Federal Bureau of Investigation

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fbi.gov - Director Christopher Wray provided the following letter to the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General in response to the report titled "Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Asp…

Confidential documents reveal U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan

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washingtonpost.com - The Afghanistan Papers A secret history of the war At war with the truth U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it, an exclusive Post investigation fou…

There’s now a chatbot to give refugees instant legal aid

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fastcompany.com - For a Syrian refugee in Lebanon who is trying to navigate the legal path to resettlement, it can be difficult to find answers—and overstretched humanitarian organizations can take as long as three mo…

Navy Needs Leaders to Keep Eye to the Future

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townhall.com - December 7 is a solemn day for the U.S. Navy and in our nation’s history. This year marked the 78th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, when our nation entered a World War with a devastated n…

Inside the Cutthroat World of Billion-Dollar Military Supply Contracts

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foreignpolicy.com - The U.S. Government Accountability Office is expected to rule soon on a disputed contract worth more than a billion dollars to supply food to American forces in the Middle East. The big-dollar decisi…

N. Korea conducts 'important test' at once-dismantled site

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apnews.com - SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Sunday that it carried out a “very important test” at its long-range rocket launch site that it reportedly rebuilt after having partially dismantled it at t…

NATO Is “Brain Dead”. Institutionalized Killing as the "New Normal" - Global Research

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globalresearch.ca - The two-day London NATO conference just ended – and calling it a NATO “crisis” is an understatement. The crisis is such that President Trump canceled the Press Conference at the end of the summit, of…

Why Ukraine: How it ended up triggering US political tumult

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politifact.com - Thanks to geography, Ukraine lies on the fault line between east and west. Now, it finds itself at the center of an American political battle over impeachment. Part of the reason lies with the tug-of…

Defense Secretary: 'We've Been Very Aggressive with Regard to Russia'

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breitbart.com - Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday that the Trump administration has been “very aggressive” with Russia, contrary to critics’ assertion. “I think we’ve been very aggressive with regard to Rus…

Sunday Talks: Adam Schiff Justifies Partisan Political Coup – Now Claims President Trump is an Asset of Saudi Arabia…

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Mayors Ask Trump to Import More Refugees to U.S. for 'Cultural Diversity'

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breitbart.com - Nearly 100 mayors across the United States are begging President Trump to import as many refugees to the country as possible in order to “bring cultural vibrancy and diversity” to American communitie…

South African Given U.S. Citizenship After Allegedly Killing Alaskan Women

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breitbart.com - A South African man was able to become a naturalized American citizen weeks after allegedly murdering two native Alaskan women, Breitbart News has learned. Brian Smith, a 48-year-old native of South …

FBI Thinks Saudi Shooter Acted Alone

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newsmax.com - Investigators believe a Saudi Air Force lieutenant acted alone when he killed three people and wounded eight at a U.S. Navy base in Pensacola, Florida, before being fatally shot by a deputy sheriff, …

Dick Morris: 'A Good Shot' Hillary Clinton Enters 2020 Race | Breitbart

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breitbart.com - During Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” on New York AM 970 radio, political commentator and former Bill Clinton adviser Dick Morris said there is “a good shot” 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hill…

Joe Biden Contradicts Top Adviser, Claims Was Never Warned About Burisma

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breitbart.com - Joe Biden is claiming staffers never warned that his youngest son’s role with Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas conglomerate, posed a conflict of interest — contradicting one of his top advis…

Congress just kicked Trump's trade deal in the teeth for all the right reasons

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businessinsider.com - If — and it's a big if — Donald Trump gets his "Phase 1 trade deal" with China, there will be no "Phase 2." He'll suffer this loss, in part, because Congress passed two bills standing up for human ri…

With Paris Peace Talks, Putin And Zelenskiy Meet For First Time

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npr.org - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a meeting on Ukraine with German Chancellor at the Elysee Palace on Monday in…

US Embassy says Khamenei’s wealth worth $200 billion

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irannewswire.org - The US Embassy in Baghdad estimates Iran’s Supreme Leader, Khamenei’s wealth to be around $200 billion. In a statement posted on its Facebook page today, the US embassy in Iraq said that financial co…

Finland's Social Democrats name Marin to be youngest ever prime minister - Reuters

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reuters.com - HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland’s transportation minister Sanna Marin was selected by her Social Democratic party on Sunday to become the country’s youngest prime minister ever, taking over after the re…

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ART & ENTERTAINMENT

René Auberjonois, actor featured in ‘Star Trek’ and Altman films, dies at 79

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washingtonpost.com - Actor John Ritter, left, checks out the bicycle of fellow actor René Auberjonois following a performance of the Broadway musical “Big River” in 1985. (Ron Frehm/AP) By Andrew Dalton December 8, 2019 …

Instagram influencer sentenced to 14 years for violent plot to steal domain name

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theverge.com - A social media influencer has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for concocting a scheme to violently coerce a stranger into giving up a web domain name, the US Department of Justice announ…

Madison Anderson, Miss Puerto Rico, es recibida por todo lo alto en su Isla

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telemundo.com - Miss Puerto Rico, Madison Anderson, fue la primera finalista de Miss Universo 2019 y al llegar a su Isla obtuvo un caluroso recibimiento. David Ortiz regresa a República Dominicana luego de ser tirot…

Roku to stream first season of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ for free – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Roku is unlocking premium content from HBO for the first time without a subscription, with its second-annual holiday streaming fest, Stream-a-thon. The promotion will see Roku offering the full first…

How the founder of Pocketwatch sees the future of children’s entertainment – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - When Chris Williams founded entertainment platform Pocketwatch in 2017, he was certain that no one had yet found the right way to work with the generation of children’s talent finding its audience on…

Snapchat Cameos edit your face into videos – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Snapchat is preparing to launch a big new feature that uses your selfies to replace the faces of people in videos you can then share. It’s essentially a simplified way to deep-fake you into GIFs. Sna…

Nine Ways to Deepen Your Relationships (Including with Yourself) - Mindful

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mindful.org - We all crave love, intimacy, and genuine connection, but our unconscious habits and reactions can get in the way of our most important relationship skill: mindful communication. When we practice bein…

Let Me Show You the World

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longreads.com - Iman Sultan | Longreads | November 2019 | 16 minutes (4,062 words) In Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin, released back in May, Princess Jasmine finds herself in the clutches of the palace guards after Jafar has …

Natasha Romanoff gets the origin story she deserves in Black Widow trailer

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Radiolab co-host to depart podcast after 15 years

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Why are we so bad at predicting what will happen to us in the future?

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How STAR TREK's First Movie Formed the Franchise's Future - Nerdist

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nerdist.com - Robert Wise’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released forty years ago today, on December 7th, 1979. And it essentially began the Star Trek franchise as we know it. “But wait!” – you might be yelli…

Pete Frates, inspiration behind ALS 'Ice Bucket Challenge,' dies at age 34, family says

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foxnews.com - Pete Frates, the man who inspired thousands to participate in the 'Ice Bucket Challenge,' has died at age 34 following a battle with ALS. The viral sensation raised over $220 million for ALS research.

Why You Should Forgive Yourself… by Randy Gage

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randygage.com - We’ve been discussing transformation. Making the decision to release or even kill off the old you, to create a new and improved model. I cautioned you that there was one more tripwire that could prev…

Big Bird, Ronstadt, Sally Field Celebrated at Kennedy Center

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newsmax.com - Actress Sally Field, singer Linda Ronstadt and the disco-funk band Earth Wind and Fire shared the spotlight Sunday night as part of the latest group of recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors for lif…

Simple And Effective Tips On Learning Guitar

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Let’s get off our knees and abolish the monarchy | Suzanne Moore

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What happens when incarcerated people get a world-class education?

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Dollar General Set To Roll Out More Fresh Produce & Healthier Options

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mindbodygreen.com - In a win for healthy eaters across the country, national brand Dollar General has announced that it will continue to add fresh produce to stores in the new year. It is currently offered in 600 stores…

Boost Skin Collagen & Radiance With These Inflammation-Reducing Tips

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Parents Who Talk More Affectionately Have Better Sex, Study Finds

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mindbodygreen.com - Having a great sex life isn't always easy for parents. Past research has shown that couples with children have less satisfying sex lives and a greater sex drive disparity than their nonparent counter…

Can A Weighted Blanket Decrease Your Muscle Soreness?

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mindbodygreen.com - The theory that weighted blankets could assist muscle recovery stems from the fact that compression is a tool often used for injuries. (Ever heard a doctor say RICE? Rest, ice, compression, elevation…

This Reddit Hair Trick Made My Curls Shinier & Healthier — And It's So Easy

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3 Healthy Aging Tips From Functional Medicine Doctor Frank Lipman

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Scale Your IoT Architecture with AI at the Edge

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iotworldtoday.com - Thanks to the proliferation of IoT devices, enterprise data volumes are exploding. Traditionally, the sensitive data IoT devices gather has largely been stored in the cloud. But given the latency bet…

How to Let Facebook Automatically Present the Best Ad Text: Multiple Text Options

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Some Helpful Tips For Effective Facebook Marketing.

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