Amazon's growing ties to oil industry irks some employees
Amazon is getting cozy with the oil industry—and some employees aren't happy about it.
Business
Apr 10, 2019
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Too many pets are packing on too many pounds
Pets make us healthier. They can raise our spirits, extend our lives, lower our blood pressure and make us more active, research shows.
Veterinary medicine
Apr 10, 2019
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Yahoo to pay $117.5M in latest settlement of massive breach
Nearly 200 million people who had sensitive information snatched from their Yahoo accounts will receive two years of free credit-monitoring services and other potential restitution in a legal settlement valued at $117.5 million.
Business
Apr 10, 2019
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Seeing is believing: Four lessons of the new black hole image
Black holes are cosmic prisons, where nothing escapes, not light or even data. But lots did come out of Wednesday's first image of the shadowy edge of a supermassive black hole. Here are four things we learned:
Astronomy
Apr 10, 2019
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The heartland always a place of global connection, not isolation, author says
A persistent heartland myth paints the rural and small town Midwest as local, insular, isolationist—the ultimate national safe space, walled off from the rest of the world," says University of Illinois historian Kristin ...
Social Sciences
Apr 10, 2019
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Democrats want feds to target the 'black box' of AI bias
Congress is starting to show interest in prying open the "black box" of tech companies' artificial intelligence with oversight that parallels how the federal government checks under car hoods and audits banks.
Machine learning & AI
Apr 10, 2019
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Facebook ordered to pay 30,000 euros in France over 'abusive' usage terms
A French court has ordered Facebook to pay 30,000 euros ($34,000) over "abusive" terms-of-use agreements that people had to accept in order to access their social media accounts, the consumer group which filed the lawsuit ...
Internet
Apr 10, 2019
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Ridding space of old satellites and debris
With constellations of thousands of telecommunication mini satellites expected to orbit Earth in the near future, the risk of space-debris collisions will grow. For Nobu Okada, it's an opportunity.
Space Exploration
Apr 10, 2019
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Uber steers toward blockbuster IPO as road looks rocky (Update)
Uber could become a $100 billion company with a massive share offering that will be a bellwether for tech startups looking toward Wall Street.
Business
Apr 10, 2019
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Battle for space more stealth than Star Wars
At tens of thousands of kilometers above the Earth, a Russian satellite slowly approached the French-Italian satellite Athena-Fidus in October 2017, a move France later denounced as "an act of espionage."
Space Exploration
Apr 10, 2019
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