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Amazon Is Failing to Keep White Supremacist Garbage Off Its Platforms
Photo: Matt Cardy (Getty) Amazon has policies against hateful products, but a new report finds that it could be doing far more to enforce its own rules and tamp down hate-based merchandise on its platform. The report, published on Friday by the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) and Partnership for Working Families,…
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Report: Doctors Who Recommend Drugs for Approval Often Get Big Pharma Money After
Image: TBIT (Pixabay) The Food and Drug Administration is doing a poor job of making sure the doctors who review drugs for possible approval are free of bias, alleges a new investigative report published this week in Science. Many of these reviewers, while having no clear financial conflicts of interest prior to their work for…
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How Will Future Civilizations Survive the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe?
Galaxy cluster Abell 370 and beyond.Image: NASA, ESA, Jennifer Lotz and the HFF Team STScI If you think we have problems now, just wait a few billion years, when the accelerating expansion of the Universe triggers an energy crisis of cosmological proportions. Sounds grim, but as a new paper points out, an advanced civilization faced…
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The Tech Gods Won’t Save You
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I Survived Navigating Los Angeles Using Only This Ancient Technology
Photo: Melanie Ehrenkranz (Gizmodo) When I was in high school, before phones and cars directed you to your destination, I would sharpie directions on the tops of my hands so I could read them as I drove. It was an effective (if problematic) way to get from point A to point B without looking down…
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Hobbyists Lose Fight to Escape the FAA’s Toy Drone Rules
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Weird New Quantum Diamonds Offer Hope for a Quantum Internet
The SiV0 diamondPhoto: Brendon Rose “Diamonds are forever” is a cliche that fails to fully encapsulate the many strange properties of diamonds. But a new kind of diamond, one loaded with impurities, relies on a sort of foreverness that could be useful in future quantum technology—maybe even a quantum internet. That probably sounds meaningless, so…
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There’s a New Resource List for Domestic Abuse Victims Targeted Through the Internet of Things
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Network Outages at Disney Make ‘Happiest Place on Earth’ Kind of a Bummer
Fireworks explode under cloudy skies as Disney dignitaries and characters appear in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle at the close of ceremonies for the 50th anniversary of Disneyland May 5, 2005 in Anaheim, California.Photo: Getty Disney’s massively popular resorts on both coasts of the United States are in a state of meltdown, as a company-wide…
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Declassified prices for the best Xiaomi smartphone
In the network appeared new details about the upcoming flagship frameless smartphone Xiaomi Mi 3 Mix. Information about versions and prices shared core resource AndroidPure. According to the source, the company plans not only the standard model and version in a ceramic package, but the version of the Ferrari Edition. One of the versions will…