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Remnants of Earth’s Oldest Dirt May Have Been Found in Greenland
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DNA Testing Reveals Baffling Bird Is Three Species in One
Burket’s three-in-one warbler.Photo: Lowell Burket A Pennsylvania birder spotted the bird of a lifetime in his backyard this past spring—it was a hybrid of three species across two genera in a single bird. He’d found a three-in-one warbler. Natural hybrids can be of conservation concern, since animals mating with the wrong species can give birth…
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Sprint Offers Weak-Ass Denial in Response to Accusations of Skype Throttling
Photo: Getty A multi-university study released this week concluded that Sprint has been throttling the bandwidth of customers using Skype, Microsoft’s popular internet-based video chat service. The study was produced by researchers at the Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts using Wehe, a phone app designed to monitor the behavior of mobile network providers…
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The Wild West of Apple Products on Amazon is Dead
Nothing like the holidays to bury the hatchet with sweet, sweet cash.Photo: Getty Images Just in time for the holidays, Apple and Amazon have teamed up to stick it to the little guys. Namely, in exchange for a direct line to Apple’s goods, Amazon has agreed to cut out unauthorized third-party resellers. At the moment,…
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You Should Start Using Chrome’s Built-In ‘Read Later’ Feature
Image: Google Pocket and Instapaper ain’t cutting it anymore. Being in news means I probably save more articles than the average user. I’m always throwing something into my Pocket app for future reference or a follow-up. But I’d be willing to bet I don’t save much more than a typical web hoarder. Apps that allow…
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Healthcare.gov Breach Included Social Security Numbers and, Reportedly, Children’s Info
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Following Google’s Lead, Facebook Ends Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Harassment Claims
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Everything’s Horrible and Exhausting, So Here Are 221 Great Dogs
Photo: Adam Clark Estes It’s been a long week. There was an election and all the anxiety and malfunctions that come along with a moment of civic engagement of that magnitude. There was an awful storm. There was that terribly racist ad about Central American refugees. There were four critically endangered black rhinos that died…
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Named the first Samsung smartphone with a cut in the screens
In the network appeared the details about the first Samsung smartphone that will receive the new displays Infinity presented at the conference for developers SDC 2018. Information shared Russian journalist and analyst Eldar Murtazin. The Latvian designer Benjamin Gaskin (Benjamin Geskin), known for the organization of the leaks published through his account on Twitter a…
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Early Huawei will release a new flagship processor with 5G
Chinese sources said that Huawei is already working on the successor of the powerful Kirin CPU 980 and plans to introduce it in the first quarter of 2019. Note, the current flagship CPU Huawei, 7-nanometer Kirin 980, debuted simultaneously with the smartphone Huawei Mate Mate 20 and 20 Pro in mid-October 2018. According to the…