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#DeepSeaMining #CriticalMinerals #SustainableMining
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Mining the deep ocean
More than 13,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70-ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar tracks for a tenth of a mile -- sucking up potato-sized nodules of rock packed with copper, manganese, cobalt, and nickel.
#Astrobiology #DNA #SpaceExploration
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We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids -- what's it telling us?
On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: "again.
#Vaccines #PublicHealth #HealthPolicy
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RFK Jr.'s war on scientific expertise destroyed 27% of agency's advisor panels
In his role as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- a long-time anti-vaccine activist with no background in science, medicine, or public health -- has made headlines for his thorough perversion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel.
#AsteroidMining #SpaceExploration #Innovation
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A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid
It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a "safe" gathering point near our planet.
#AgeVerification #PrivacyConcerns #Discord
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After Discord fiasco, age-check tech promises privacy by running locally. Does it work?
Last month, Discord quickly backpedaled after it announced that an age-verification system would roll out globally.
Discord's reversal followed a widespread user backlash, which also intensified scrutiny of the platform's age-check partners.
#DataPrivacy #CaliforniaLaw #ConsumerProtection
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The nation's strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers' chagrin
Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that's among the strictest in the nation took effect at the beginning of the year.
#DataPrivacy #CaliforniaLaw #ConsumerProtection
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The nation's strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers' chagrin
Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that's among the strictest in the nation took effect at the beginning of the year.
