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Review: 2019 Range Rover Sport SVR is 575 horsepower worth of luxurious OMG:
The Rover Sport is a midsized SUV that's a bit smaller than the Discovery and a little larger than the Evoque.
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21 August 2019.
Cop's Bogus Defamation Lawsuit Nearly Puts A Small Iowa Newspaper Out Of Business:
Sometimes the goal of a libel lawsuit isn't to win.
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22 October 2019.
Rice study assesses college leadership training programs:
A new study from psychologists at Rice University found they teach students about leadership, but additional measures are needed to evaluate how they impact students' real-life leadership skills.
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22 October 2019.
8chan Is Trying To Come Back As '8kun.' Its Founder Is Trying To Stop It.:
For deep-state conspiracy theorists, 8chan's return could bring “the second coming” of QAnon.
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21 October 2019.
Car Radar Detectors – Everything you need to Know in 2019:
Do you remember the rush you had when you first bought a car? Priceless right? Well, at that moment, no one would even blame you for speeding.
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02 September 2019.
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow:
Databricks is a SaaS business built on top of a bunch of open source tools, and apparently it’s been going pretty well on the business side of things.
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22 October 2019.
CS classes can break down cultural barriers, study shows:
Computational education can break down and expose cultural barriers in unexpected ways, a new study from Cornell researchers has found.
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21 October 2019.
Space, The Boring Frontier:
Suppose you randomly go 1 million miles somewhere away from our Sun.
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20 October 2019.
UK queries Facebook decision to exempt political statements from fact-checking:
Commons committee demands explanation ‘given constraints it will place on combatting disinformation’The UK parliament has demanded to know why Facebook has decided to exempt political statements from its fact-checking programme – removing all bars on political candidates lying in paid adverts.
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22 October 2019.
New gene editing tool could fix most harmful DNA mutations:
‘Prime editing’ more precise than Crispr-Cas9, but still needs time before use on humansScientists have raised fresh hopes for treating people with genetic disorders by inventing a powerful new molecular tool that, in principle, can correct the vast majority of mutations that cause human genetic diseases.
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22 October 2019.
Amazon deal: Buy a Tile four-pack and get a free $50 Amazon Echo Dot:
For a limited time, there are four Tile bundle deals on Amazon that include a free Amazon Echo Dot.
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22 October 2019.
How space affects women and men differently:
BBC Radio 5 Live speaks to a space gynaecologist about the impact of space travel on female astronauts.
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21 October 2019.
Today’s Cartoon: Alexa, Give That Back:
It was an inside job.
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22 October 2019.
VIDEO: The Military Discovered A Way To Boost Soldiers' Memories, And We Tried It:
Researchers have found that giving your brain an electrical stimulation while you sleep can lead to quicker learning and improved memory.
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22 October 2019.
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01 January 1970.
Extreme biomimetics – the search for natural sources of materials engineering inspiration:
Biologically inspired engineering to produce biomimetic materials and scaffolds typically occurs at the micro- or nanoscale.
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22 October 2019.
Facebook Finds New Disinformation Campaigns and Braces for 2020 Torrent:
The company also announced several new steps to reduce the spread of false information, including an effort to label posts from state-sponsored media.
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22 October 2019.
Five Ways The Forbes Under 30 Summit Startup Showcase Expanded Into The Best Startup Competition Ever:
At this year's Under 30 Summit in Detroit, Forbes will curate guaranteed 1-on-1s with relevant VCs.
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10 September 2019.
Facebook probe by U.S. states expands to 47 attorneys general:
A New York-led probe of Facebook Inc into allegations that the company put consumer data at risk and pushed up advertising rates has expanded to include attorneys general from 47 U.
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22 October 2019.
Amazon deal: Buy a Tile four-pack and get a free $50 Amazon Echo Dot:
For a limited time, there are four Tile bundle deals on Amazon that include a free Amazon Echo Dot.
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22 October 2019.
The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash:
The Chicxulub event was as damaging to life in the oceans as it was to creatures on land, a study shows.
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21 October 2019.
Hospitals Around The World Have A Dire Shortage Of Blood:
The first global analysis of blood supply and demand finds that many developing countries are relying on risky emergency donations.
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22 October 2019.
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01 January 1970.
Australia's Chris the sheep, the world's woolliest, dies:
An Australian sheep who made headlines in 2015 for the record-breaking weight of his fleece has died, according to the carers of the Merino named Chris.
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22 October 2019.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Will Tell Congress That Embattled Libra Crypto Project Will 'Extend America's Financial Leadership':
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, telling lawmakers that the Facebook-backed libra cryptocurrency "will extend America's financial leadership as well as our democratic values and oversight around the world.
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01 January 1970.
First statewide earthquake alerts now available in California:
When an earthquake occurs, the new system will immediately warn users of incoming waves, allowing them a moment to prepare for any shaking.
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17 October 2019.
Facebook and Google urged to set up independent regulator to avoid internet laws:
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25 January 2018.
Giant Plasma Guns Could Be the Answer to Limitless Fusion Power:
Los Alamos physicists want to combine two fusion-power techniques and finally harness the energy source that powers the sun.
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22 October 2019.
The three challenges keeping cars from being fully autonomous:
Technical, regulatory, and business obstacles are still in the way of safe, useful, and affordable self-driving vehicles.
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22 October 2019.
Dems ask: did Trump 'compromise classified information' with phones?:
A veteran of the Bush/Cheney team said Trump's use of unsecured phones "may be the largest, most significant breach of White House communications in history.
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22 October 2019.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
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