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Google Chrome Will Soon Nuke Ads On Extra-Shitty Websites
Image: Google, Adblock Plus Google’s Chrome browser is making further changes to eliminate annoying or malicious ad practices and punish the bottom lines of sites that use them. Early in 2017, Google’s long-term plans to clean up advertising online first began trickling out. We’ve seen the browser mute videos that autoplay with sound and incorporate…
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How to Get Free and Discounted Rides to the Polls on Election Day
Photo: Getty Images Have you registered to vote? Good. Now all you need to do is get to the polls on Tuesday, November 6. Thankfully, over 50 cities around the country are making that easy with free bus rides. And some private companies, like Lyft and Uber, are offering discounted rides to your polling station.…
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Amazon Starts Hiring Its Own Drivers for the Holiday Season
Photo: Ted S. Warren (AP) As the latest part of Amazon’s campaign against UPS, FedEx, and USPS, the company has been staffing up its own internal shipping service, a spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider today. The job listings for “Seasonal Delivery Associates” began appearing a few weeks back, promising between $15.50 and $17.25 an hour…
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Don’t Cross Revamped AirPods Off Your Holiday Wish List Just Yet
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The Startup That’s Trying to Make It Easier to Figure Out What the Hell You’re Actually Voting On
Photo: Getty If you think things are messed up right now, you’re not alone: For years, polls have shown that trust in U.S. political institutions is either at rock-bottom levels or damn near close to it. And while elections are supposed to be the way Americans can push through actual, sustainable change, a lagging voting…
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Scientists Weighed the Earth Using Ghostly Particles From Space
The South PolePhoto: Eli Duke (Flickr) Scientists have to use some roundabout methods to weigh the Earth and measure what’s inside it—typically, they’ve used sound waves and the strength of gravity to make their calculations. But one team has weighed the Earth in a whole new way: by measuring mysterious cosmic particles that pass through…
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FCC Tells Phone Companies to Figure Out a Way to Stop the Damn Robocalls by Next Year or Else
Photo: Getty The United States Federal Communications Commission is calling upon the top telephone and wireless service providers to create a system to hinder the plague of illegal robocalls that is driving the majority of Americans bonkers. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai wrote a letter Monday to the telecommunications chief executives, demanding they provide a response…
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Drones to find lost people in the woods, quickly and without GPS
Drones can be highly effective search-and-rescue tool, but not in dense forests, where tree cover can block the GPS signals. Fortunately, MIT has developed a clever solution: use the same technology that drives Autonomous vehicles. Scientists have developed drones that use LIDAR to map forests without the use of GPS. Each drone generates a two-dimensional…
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As your digital incarnation will live after your death? Will you?
Digital life after death may soon become a reality. But if you need it? Accumulation of data that we create, may soon make possible digital avatars that will live on after us, after our death, consoling loved ones, or sharing the experience with future generations. Some of this may seem less attractive than the vision…
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Fish rich diet will help in the fight against asthma
A clinical study conducted by the University of La Trobe, showed that eating fish — salmon, trout and sardines — as part of a healthful diet may reduce asthma symptoms in children. During the international study found that children with asthma who adhered to a healthy Mediterranean diet rich in oily fish, lung function improved…