Instagram feed update draws backlash

Instagram rolled out an update on Thursday, and the internet exploded — and then the change seemed to be rolled back. | Continue reading


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Plane Buffs Track Air Force One's Flight to Iraq

Plane buffs monitored Air Force One's flight path, tweeting out the plane's location in real time as it made its way to Iraq. | Continue reading


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How the Oumuamua mystery shook up the search for space aliens

The interstellar visitor made it respectable to talk about alien spaceships. | Continue reading


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'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change

Extreme weather and dire climate reports are intensifying the mental health effects of global warming: depression and resignation about the future. | Continue reading


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Tech IPOs threaten to add fuel to America's hottest housing market

Uber, Lyft, Airbnb and Slack are reportedly making plans to go public, meaning their employees will be in line for a major windfall of cash. | Continue reading


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An undersea robot delivering baby corals to the Great Barrier Reef

The project's leader hopes to eventually develop a fleet of the submersibles that would be used to save reefs around the world. | Continue reading


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USA added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists

At least 63 professional journalists were killed doing their jobs in 2018, a 15 percent increase over last year, Reporters Without Borders said. | Continue reading


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Facebook tries to explain why companies could erase your messages

"In the past day, we've been accused of disclosing people's private messages to partners without their knowledge," Facebook said. "That's not true." | Continue reading


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Nest camera hacker threatens to kidnap baby

"I’m in your baby’s room," the hacker said. But the baby was alone and safe. | Continue reading


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Despite VR's stumbles, startups bet big on out-of-home experiences

For $20, customers get geared up with a backpack, headset, and hand and feet sensors — gear worth thousands of dollars, far out of reach for ordinary consumers. | Continue reading


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Swedish professor hired mercenaries to rescue student from ISIS

The student said he was amazed to see a group of six armed men in two four-wheel drive vehicles show up to take him and his family to safety. | Continue reading


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Boys need better access to mental health care. Why aren't they getting it?

“If you can’t turn to someone in your life and say how you are really feeling, then you’re only going to end up hurting yourself somehow down the road.” | Continue reading


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How tiny backpacks are turning bees into living drones

Scientists are turning the bugs into living drones for collecting vital information about the environment. | Continue reading


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7-year-old girl who died at border did not receive medical care for 90 minutes

The incident raises questions about the Border Patrol's emergency procedures and the Trump administration's policy of delaying immigrants at legal ports of entry. | Continue reading


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Growing number of companies expanding paternity leave options for new dads

As research shows paternity leave is good for business, top companies now offer 11 weeks paid time off on average and more are encouraging employees to take that time with their families. | Continue reading


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In NC election fraud case, witness says operative held onto 800 absentee ballots

The new affidavit is the latest development in an investigation into election fraud involving absentee ballots. | Continue reading


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Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless

The on-paper assessment represents a realization that Verizon's online ad strategy, called Oath, is a bust. | Continue reading


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Earth's mysterious 'deep biosphere' may harbor millions of undiscovered species

Scientists say the underground ecosystems are a "subterranean Galapagos" just waiting to be studied. | Continue reading


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Time's 2018 "Person of Year" is killed and imprisoned journalists

Time magazine is spotlighting a handful of journalists who have one thing in common: They were targeted for their work. | Continue reading


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Heisman Trophy winner apologies for tweets made when he was 14 and 15

"I apologize for the tweets that have come to light tonight from when I was 14 and 15," the Oklahoma quarterback tweeted. | Continue reading


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Paris braces for new riots as 'Yellow Jacket' protests sweep France

The protests that began earlier this month against planned tax hikes on gas have since morphed into a wider rebuke of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency. | Continue reading


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Ex-staffers have reached out to the Texas Democrat to offer advice — and encouragement — as he weighs a bid for the White House. | Continue reading


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The Champs-Élysées in Paris became a blazing battleground. Here's why.

"The forgotten middle class" has taken to the country's streets. "They feel like the political elite is forgetting about them," one expert said. | Continue reading


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"The forgotten middle class" has taken to the country's streets. "They feel like the political elite is forgetting about them," one expert said. | Continue reading


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Marriott says data breach compromised info of up to 500M guests

The world's largest hotel chain said it determined on Nov. 19 that an "unauthorized party" had accessed the database as early as 2014. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk's L.A. freeway tunnel won't see the light of day

The Westside tunnel was the result of Musk's Twitter rants about his 17-mile commute along the 405. | Continue reading


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Elon Musk's L.A. freeway tunnel won't see the light of day

Elon Musk's Boring Company made a lot of noise about drilling a tunnel below a busy Los Angeles freeway, but in the end the idea was nixed. | Continue reading


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"Word is (Julian Assange) plans 2 more dumps...Impact planned to be very damaging," Jerome Corsi said in email to Stone, say draft court documents. | Continue reading


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Why our sense of time speeds up as we age – and how to slow it down

We can’t slow time itself down, but we can do things to pace ourselves and create more lasting impressions of times past. | Continue reading


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Apple's monopoly as the sole app store owner may end

"It's a closed loop," said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who appeared to side with the customers. | Continue reading


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Rare form of lymphoma linked to breast implants

Although doctors have linked the cancer to a specific kind of implant, manufacturers have no plans to stop making it. | Continue reading


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The country does not have "Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges," the leader of the federal judiciary said. | Continue reading


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US Diplomat speaks out about unknown electromagnetic attack in China

"I do not believe that our military, our diplomats around the world or here at home are safe," Laura Hughes told Andrea Mitchell in an exclusive interview. | Continue reading


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Fabiano Caruana could be first American world chess champion since 1972

Brooklyn-raised grandmaster Fabiano Caruana is playing Magnus Carlsen for the 2018 World Chess Championship crown. | Continue reading


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Inside Facebook, denial, tension and finger-pointing as sense of crisis builds

"It's total arrogance," one Facebook employee said of company leadership's willingness to blame its communications team for recent crises. | Continue reading


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Household debt hit a record high of $13.5T last quarter

Total household debt is now $837 billion higher than its previous peak, which was in 2008 before the recession. | Continue reading


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Facebook hired firm with 'in-house fake news shop' to combat PR crisis

Facebook’s ties to Definers Public Affairs, first reported on Wednesday in The New York Times, sparked widespread criticism and accusations of hypocrisy. | Continue reading


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Hoverbikes are finally here, but don't expect to fly cheap

California firm's long-anticipated flying motorcycle will set you back $150,000. | Continue reading


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Fewer international students coming to US for second year in row

New enrollments for the 2017-18 school year slumped 6.6 percent compared with the previous year. | Continue reading


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This new supercomputer is now the world's fastest brain-mimicking machine

SpiNNaker can simulate more neurons in real time than any other computer on Earth. | Continue reading


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Amazon's HQ2 decision met with 'outrage' by concerned residents

“If you’re going to drop 25,000 people making more than $100,000 a year in a hot housing market, pressure for housing affordability is inevitable,” said one analyst. | Continue reading


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Amazon officially announced HQ2

Amazon said it will hire more than 25,000 employees in each location and open an "Operations Center of Excellence" in Nashville that will include more than 5,000 jobs. | Continue reading


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Judge orders Amazon to hand over Echo recordings from home in murder case

A New Hampshire man is accused of first degree murder in the stabbing death of two women in Farmington in 2017. | Continue reading


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Would flooding the deserts help stop global warming?

The idea is “risky, unproven, even unlikely to work," according to Y Combinator. But if it did work, it could slow climate change. | Continue reading


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Stan Lee, creator of legendary Marvel comic book superheroes, dies at 95

Lee created comic dynamos like Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Black Panther, and the X-Men. | Continue reading


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Douglas Rain, the creepy voice of HAL in '2001,' dies at 90

Rain's sinuous, detached reading of HAL's lines made the computer's murders of four astronauts all the more shocking. | Continue reading


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Veterans haven't received GI Bill benefits for months due to IT issues at VA

"This is — to be kind — a train wreck,” said Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. | Continue reading


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Will humanity survive this century? Sir Martin Rees predicts 'a bumpy ride'

"There is the idea that we should despair and evacuate this planet and go somewhere else. That's a dangerous delusion." | Continue reading


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