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The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M. Itβs Collected $6,790
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WSJ
The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208 Million. Itβs Collected $6,790.
Telecommunications regulators have levied hefty financial penalties against illegal robocallers and demanded that bad actors repay millions to their victims. But years later, little money has been collected.
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A woman who doesn't feel pain
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Bbc
The woman who doesn't feel pain
Jo Cameron is one of two people on Earth known to have a mutation that means she feels almost no pain.
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Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair
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Vice
Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation
A leaked internal document obtained by Motherboard outlines a program that looks almost exactly like the requirements of right to repair legislation that has been proposed in 20 states.
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Stellarium v0.19.0 has been released
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stellarium.org
Stellarium v0.19.0 has been released!
The major changes of this version: 5 new sky cultures Refactoring the code: many improvements and fixes Added many DSO textures Many improvements for Scripti...
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Wikimedia Foundation Joins the World Wide Web Consortium
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Wikimedia Foundation
Joining the World Wide Web Consortium
Weβre excited to announce that weβre becoming a member of the W3C, the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded by Tim Berners-Lee in 1994, W3C works wiβ¦
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Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
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Fastly
Lucet Takes WebAssembly Beyond the Browser | Fastly
Today, we're thrilled to announce the open sourcing of Lucet, our native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. WebAssembly is a technology created to enable web browsers to safely execute programs at near-native speeds, and it's been shipping in the four majorβ¦
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The Worldβs Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
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Andrew Yang and Pete Buttigieg Have Blown Up on Twitter, and in Betting Markets
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The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of the Clicker Game Universal Paperclips
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The New Yorker
The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of Clicker Games
The game represents the way human activity is constantly mediated by screens, our lives made up of fleeting words and images and rising numbers.
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Kong Raises $43M in Series C Funding
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KongHQ
Kong Raises $43 Million in Series C Funding Led by Index Ventures
Weβre announcing today that Kong has raised $43 million in Series C financing led by Index Ventures, deliver the industryβs first service control platform.
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U.S. Sues Facebook for Housing Bias, Citing Ad and Data Practices
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NY Times
Facebook Engages in Housing Discrimination With Its Ad Practices, U.S. Says
The Department of Housing and Urban Development sued the company for violating the federal Fair Housing Act by limiting who sees ads based on characteristics like race, religion and national origin.
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GΓΆdel Machine
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An amphibian fungus has become βthe most deadly pathogen knownβ
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NY Times
The Plague Killing Frogs Everywhere Is Far Worse Than Scientists Thought (Published 2019)
As a threat to wildlife, an amphibian fungus has become βthe most deadly pathogen known to science.β
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βThe China Studyβ and Longevity
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Steemit
The China Study and longevity β Steemit
The China Study and longevity Today I want to revisit a subject I did a post on earlier. I recently started using⦠by engineerdiet
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Google partners to fund new local media sites
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Axios
Exclusive: Google partners to fund new local media sites
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook are often blamed for the demise of the local news business model.
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Plagiarism detectors are a crutch, and a problem
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Nature
Plagiarism detectors are a crutch, and a problem
Nature - Academics and editors need to stop pretending that software always catches recycled text and start reading more carefully, says Debora Weber-Wulff.
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The Enormous Numbers Behind Amazonβs Market Reach
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What did Google+ get right?
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Erik I
What did Google+ get right β Erik I
Google+ got some things awfully wrong. They lost and they were hated. But many of us thought it was the best social network that existed...
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In Beijing, itβs often cheaper to have food delivered than to get it yourself
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Forget Bribery. The Real Scam Is Pretending That Degrees Have Value
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Go 2018 Survey Results
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