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Charter Will Pay Customers Up to $150 Each in Record $174 Million Fraud Settlement
Photo: Jeff Roberson (Associated Press) Charter has agreed to pay a record $174.2 million to settle fraud charges brought by the New York Attorney General’s Office. As a part of the settlement, the telecommunications company will have to refund $62.5 million to more than 700,000 customers because it allegedly promised speedier and more reliable internet…
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The Pixel 3 Is Proof That Google Doesn’t Care About Hardware
Year In ReviewWe look back at the best, worst, and most significant moments of the year, and look forward to next year. After a rocky start with the Pixel 1 (which remains one of the ugliest phones made this decade), a big—but still not fully realized—improvement on the Pixel 2, the Pixel 3 came…
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Scientists Retract Study that Found Americans Had Given Up on Losing Weight
Image: lloorraa (Pixabay) It’s well known that Americans have steadily become more overweight and obese over the years. A widely reported 2017 study even found that overweight Americans were giving up on losing weight altogether—but, as it turns out, that conclusion wasn’t quite right. On Tuesday, the authors of the study retracted and corrected their…
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Turning Off Location Tracking Doesn’t Stop Facebook From Tracking You
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Hell Yes, NASA’s New Horizons Will Buzz Right Past Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day
This image of Ultima Thule was made by combining hundreds images taken between August and mid-December by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI). The inner circle represents the close course, and the outer circle the farther path. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute. Earlier today, and with no immediate threats detected, NASA…
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The Year Workers Stood Up to Big Tech
Meredith Whittaker, a research scientist at New York University who leads Google’s Open Research Group, addresses hundreds of Google employees during a protest rally on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, in New York.Photo: AP Year In ReviewWe look back at the best, worst, and most significant moments of the year, and look forward to next year.…
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Look at These Incredible Dinosaur Footprints Found in England
Two large iguanodontian footprints with skin and claw impressions.Image: Neil Davies A trove well-preserved dinosaur footprints has been uncovered on a beach in southern England. Dating back to the Cretaceous Period, the prints still show traces of skin, scales, and claws. Paleontologists from the University of Cambridge have uncovered 85 dinosaur footprints from at least…
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The 2018 Events I Completely Forgot About Until I Played Google’s ‘Game of the Year’
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Saturn’s Rings Could Be Gone in Just 100 Million Years
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute With its extensive system of rings, Saturn is among the most beautiful planets in the Solar System. Sadly, it’s beauty may be fleeting, according to new research. Saturn’s rings are dissolving faster than scientists expected, according to the study, and they could be gone in 100 million to 300 million years—a…
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Freigegeben Bildqualität Flaggschiff Huawei P30 P30 und Pro
Hersteller von Abdeckungen oft zu einer Quelle von Informationen über das Design zukünftiger Smartphones, diesmal рендерами Vorbereitung auf die Entlassung Smartphones Huawei P30 P30 und teilte Pro Hersteller Olixar.