Energy & Green Tech
Heating and cooling buildings is a large part of global energy demand and a significant source of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions, and in the coming decades the energy demand for heating and cooling—also known as thermal ...
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Business
Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon as an online bookstore and built it into a shopping and entertainment behemoth, will step down later this year as CEO, a role he's had for nearly 30 years, to become executive chairman, the ...
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Facebook will start to issue a prompt to users of its app on iPhones and iPads to request whether they will allow the social network to track their activity.
Feb 2, 2021
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Washington state's richest residents—including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates—would pay a wealth tax on some financial assets under a bill proposed by a lawmaker who says she is seeking a fair tax code at a time when so many ...
Feb 2, 2021
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Business
The first thing you spot on the home page of subreddit r/WallStreetBets is a banner featuring a cartoon character in a suit riding on a yacht, with a street sign reading "Wall St" sitting on top.
Feb 2, 2021
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Internet
Despite repeated charges of anti-conservative bias from former President Trump and other GOP critics, Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube are not slanted against right-leaning users, a new report out of New York University ...
Feb 2, 2021
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Automotive
New drivers between the ages of 15 and 25 account for nearly half of the more than one million road deaths that occur worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Educational programs often use fear-based ...
Feb 2, 2021
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Hi Tech & Innovation
When talking about Elon Musk, we must be prepared to talk about big numbers. The world's richest man—he's currently worth about $209 billion, give or take a billion—has designed electric powered cars that can drive (with ...
Computer Sciences
University of Sussex academics have established a method of turbocharging desktop PCs to give them the same capability as supercomputers worth tens of millions of pounds.
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Business
Amazon on Tuesday unveiled what it called a "nature-infused" design for the second phase of its second headquarters, being developed just outside Washington.
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