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A winter storm in the western US has a multi- day threat in the South.
A winter storm is predicted to hit Duluth, Minnesota on Tuesday, which will likely see 6 inches of snow and will be under a winter storm watch. Duluth could also see 6 inches of snow and will be under a winter storm watch starting Tuesday morning. The city is expected to receive up to 1.3…
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At least 16 people are dead and 17 are missing after a slide at a campground in Malaysia.
At least 16 people have died and 17 others are still missing after a landslide at a tourist campground in Malaysia on Friday evening. Authorities said that 94 people were sleeping at the campsite when the dirt tumbled from a road about 30 metres above them and covered about 3 hectares. A mother and her…
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New York and California voted to protect the planet.
New York state voters have approved an environmental bond measure that aims to cut air pollution by 71% and gas emissions by 85% to below-1990 levels. The bond measure will provide more than $4 billion in funding for projects related to the environment. New York is the first state to require all of its school…
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I’m done with the social networking site.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Thursday said he has lifted the suspensions of some high-profile journalists from the platform, including BBC’s Nick Paton Walsh, who were suspended last week. However, he didn’t reveal the journalists’ real-time location. Earlier, a poll asked if Musk should “Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time”. Over 58.7%…
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The first rock samples for delivery to Earth will be taken by the NASA Mars rover.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has deposited samples in its “Sample Depot” in the Jezero Test Area to begin a process that will create a cache of back-up samples that will be safe if something goes catastrophically wrong as the rover continues to explore Je zero. “The samples for this depot, and the duplicates held aboard Perseverance,…
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CNN, NYT and WaPo journalists were banned by Musk on his social media accounts.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Twitter’s decision to restore banned accounts of former US President Donald Trump and other users is not a way to “make money”. “This isn’t a way to make money,” he added. Musk earlier said the decision was made due to a “huge drop in revenue” that Twitter has…
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Technology products and gadgets of the year.
Amazon is offering discounts on select items, including laptops, TV sets and headphones, as part of its Prime Day sale. Amazon announced that it’s offering up to 20% off select items, including an Intel Core i5 MacBook with 16 GB RAM for $1,199 (around 11,000). Other deals include Google’s Pixel 6A, Bose’s Buds Pro, Apple’s…
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A medieval ship is in the biggest lake in Norway.
Archaeologists have identified the shipwreck of a ship in Lake Eels’om as the first Norwegian technology vessel used to map the lake’s bottom. The ship, likely built using a Norse technique, is believed to be between 1300 and 1850, archaeologists said. “The freshwater environment…kept the vessel in pristine condition, except for the iron nails at…
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Nature’s 10.
Astronomers who have studied the early universe with the James Webb Space Telescope have found that many galaxies formed so early that it has been a surprise that many of them formed so early. “That is challenging ideas of how galaxies formed early in the Universe,” said Jeyhan Kartaltepe, an astronomer at the Rochester Institute…
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Musk has sold 22 million of his Tesla shares for billions of dollars.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is buying Twitter in a deal valued at about $4 billion, will reportedly keep Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. Musk and Twitter had first announced their plans to sell the platform in June, with Musk saying that he wanted to buy Twitter for the second time in his career. Twitter was…
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Do Right by Our Afghan Allies.
US President Donald Trump has said that the country is planning to send all its troops home from Afghanistan by the end of this year. “I’m going to be sending all of our troops back home by the end of 2021,” he added. The US has sent over 90,000 Afghan refugees to America since the…
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There were thousands of big tech layoffs.
Over 118,000 people have lost their jobs in tech this year, according to Layoffs.fyi, a site that tracks publicly reported job cuts in the industry. At the same time, companies like Amazon and Apple have slowed or froze hiring, reducing the number of open roles in Big Tech that can soak up people suddenly out…
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The aquarium in Berlin had a burst of fish and two people were hurt.
A 46-foot-high aquarium burst in central Berlin, causing at least two people injuries and sending a flood of water and debris onto a nearby street. The disaster took place around 5:45 am local time, sending one million litres (more than a quarter of a million gallons) of salt water and fish into the hotel’s atrium…
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The account tracking Musk’s flights was banned, then came back and was banned again.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk had earlier said that the company’s new policy would be “freedom of speech and not freedom of reach”. This comes after he announced a “general amnesty” for accounts that have been suspended by the company. Musk had earlier defended the decision saying it was taken “in part” to ensure that “people…
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He says he won’t return as Superman.
‘Man of Steel’ writer-director James Gunn, who was recently named as the Co-chair of DC Studios, has said he is writing a new Superman movie. He added that it will not be an origin movie. “My turn to wear the cape has passed, but what Superman stands for won’t change,” Gunn said. The upcoming Superman…
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The newest satellite is going to survey a lot of Earth’s water.
NASA has announced the launch of KaRIn, a new satellite that will help scientists track currents, swirling eddies and the ebb and flow of tides using high-resolution measurements provided by the system. The satellite will be able to measure water’s height from almost 900 kilometres away from the surface. The previous space-based satellites had a…
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The account of West was locked for anti-Semitic comments.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has suspended several high-profile journalists who cover the billionaire and his chaotic leadership of Twitter. Musk said that he would reverse the ban if he was to become the company’s owner, vowing to reverse the ban were he to become the company’s owner. Several users reported that the platform began intervening…
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A huge storm causes tornadoes in the South and threatens central U.S.
A major winter storm is set to hit the US on Tuesday with heavy snowfall and winds gusting to 100kmph. The system will also bring “moderate to heavy rain along and ahead of a cold front passage”, the US National Weather Service (NWS) said. “Very heavy snowfall rates reaching 12 inches/hour will be likely across…
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Russia is threatening “unpredictable consequences”, while the missiles could protect Ukraine’s power grid.
Russia’s defence ministry on Tuesday said that four of its troops were killed in an attack on a Russian convoy near the border with Crimea. The ministry further said that the military personnel were attacked “without any provocation” and that there are no reports of casualties or deaths on the Russian side. This comes amid…
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Immigration policy failures of Biden lead to finger-pointing.
White House chief of staff Ron Klain called Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday to discuss the situation at US-Mexican border. Schumer raised concerns over the government’s response to migrant caravans, as per reports. “He expressed concern about the capacity of the Department of Homeland Security to manage an influx of migrants,” a White…
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The first car Honda will sell is the Accord.
Honda has said that it will add Google-built-in functions to used cars in the future. “It can change the dynamics of the used-vehicle market. It would be a fairly new concept for Honda, and many other automakers, to improve owner experiences and add functionality through software updates after purchasing the vehicle,” American Honda’s VP of…
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The plan for lifting Title 42 is being released by the Biden administration.
US President Joe Biden has asked for $3 billion to prepare for the surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border, according to a document released by the White House. It includes ramping up ground and air transportation capabilities to transport migrants for processing and removal, leaning on a CBP One mobile application to process asylum…
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There are parental controls on social media.
TikTok may surface potentially harmful content related to suicides and eating disorders to teenagers within minutes of them creating an account, according to a study by Center for Countering Digital Hate. It can take less than three minutes for someone to sign up for a TikTok account, the report added. The study also claimed that…
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Apple’s MagSafe can be used on Android phones.
A new wireless charger, called TheCharge, uses magnets to hold and charge a mobile phone instead of batteries. The wireless charger holds the device on the vent of a car seat and charges it at 10W, more than enough to charge the iPhone 12. It is also compatible with MagSafe, so users can charge both…
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The era of fast, cheap genome research is here.
Researchers say the next decade will see “the era of genomic medicine going mainstream” in Asia and Africa, however, they added the prices must come down to provide more medicine and tests. Ten years ago, it cost about $10,000 for researchers to Sequence a Human Genome. A few years ago, that fell to $1,000.