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Jan 28, 2021

Facebook’s ‘Oversight Board’ overturns four of five cases in first rulings

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“The board’s first rulings concerned five cases in which Facebook had removed posts for violating its policies. And in four out of the five cases reviewed, the board voted to overturn Facebook’s original decisions. The board also called on Facebook to give users greater clarity over its policies and how it intends to enforce them.”


“For all board members, you start with the supremacy of free speech,” Alan Rusbridger, a board member and former editor-in-chief of The Guardian, said.

Jan 28, 2021

Mysterious, 20-million-year-old tunnels in the ancient ocean floor came from 6-foot-long carnivorous worms, a study found

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Bobbit worms ambush prey from tunnels under the sand. A new study shows their ancestors haunted the ocean floor 20 million years ago.

Jan 28, 2021

GameStop: Why social media-driven traders are beating Wall Street

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GameStop, a struggling US video game retailer, has seen its share price surge from below $3 in April 2020 to more than $373 on Wednesday. Here’s how this happened👇


Retail traders using Reddit have quickly overturned conventional wisdom about who holds sway in US equity markets.

Jan 27, 2021

Scientists develop a reusable mask that can last for a month

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Better masks!

Jan 27, 2021

Inside NYC’s new high-tech, COVID-19-proof office towers

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COVID-19 may have shocked the city’s commercial market but that hasn’t stopped developers from doing what they do best. In fact, a bevy of newly constructed and redeveloped towers are poised to hit the market in Manhattan.

Industry experts told The Post that it will be those new buildings, designed with cutting-edge tech and with future pandemics in mind, that will have the greatest advantage on the market.

“There is no question the buildings provisioned for the 21st century-plus are going to be in a better position to cash in on the leasing opportunities ahead,” said David Goldstein, vice chairman of real estate services provider Savills. “It could be an older building reimagined, or a new one under construction or in planning stages.”

Jan 26, 2021

‘Gas is over’, EU bank chief says

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We need to face the reality that the future is no longer in fossil fuels and need to show credibility on that, said President of the European Investment Bank, Dr Werner Hoyer on Wednesday (20 January).

Jan 26, 2021

Worm Regeneration May Lend A Hand in Human Healing

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Circa 2012

Livescience.com | By LIVESCIENCE


This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

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Jan 25, 2021

Social Networks Are the Next Big Decentralization Opportunity

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We have the core tech to enable radically more ethical and beneficial social media networks. Here’s what we’ll need.

Jan 25, 2021

H.266 Codec Promises to Reduce Video File Sizes

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The H.266/VVC codec will deliver the same visual quality from SD right up to 8K, but with only 50 percent of the data requirements, making it an instant hit with video streaming services.

Jan 24, 2021

Scientists Produce Metals Four Times Harder than Naturally Occurring Structures

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Their metal coins had virtually the same electrical conduction and light reflectance properties as standard ones, but their optical properties were dramatically changed. Why? Learn inside.