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Lifehacker

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  Transition Into Spring With the Backyard Smash

  Some mornings I don’t need to look out the window to know it’s going to be a lousy weather day. The grayness can be felt before it’s visually perceived and confirmed. Maybe it’s the precipitation that makes the air heavy with dread, but...

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  How Much Money Do You Really Save By Unplugging Appliances?

  You obviously know that turning off lights and powering down electronics is one way to lower your electricity usage and, as a result, money. But what about leaving your phone on its charger overnight, or leaving your devices plugged in while...

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  The Best Way to Answer 'Tell Me About a Mistake You Made' During an Interview

  Most of have had to face the dreaded, “Tell me about a time you made a mistake” question while interviewing for a new job. And while the whole point of an interview is to put your best foot forward—and nobody relishes disclosing past work...

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Pesticide Action Network

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  Celebrating Farmworkers

  Despite decades of effective organizing, farmworkers still face inadequate legal protections with ineffective enforcement for the minimal protection they’ve won. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider...

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  California's climate strategies ignore pesticides (Part II)

  Profiles of four California farmers leading the way with innovative ecological pest management strategies that result in concrete pesticide reductions. Learn more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider

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  Celebrating Farmworkers

  PAN is joining farmworkers and farmworker advocates around the country as they celebrate National Farmworker Awareness Week (March 25 - 31).  I would like to invite you to participate by putting the focus on the individuals who plant, cultivate...

  16 days ago

BBC News - Home

• Ukraine: Six weeks of devastation and defiance as world grapples with the crisis

  In his final despatch, Jeremy Bowen takes stock of the war and its significance for the world.

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• Kramatorsk: At least 1,000 at railway station when rockets hit - witness

  An aid worker says Kramatorsk station was crowded with evacuees at the time of the blasts.

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• 'Mariupol is a graveyard': Evacuees recount terror of Russian assault

  Survivors from the besieged city say they wondered at times if the rest of Ukraine had fallen.

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The Register

• Finnish govt websites knocked down as Ukraine President addresses MPs

  Online attacks follow suspected airspace violation by Russian aircraft Cyberattacks took down Finnish government websites on Friday while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Finland's members of parliament (MPs).…...

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• Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears

  Microsoft OneDrive: Missing documents? Hold my beer Atlassian is still scrambling to recover from a recent software script fiasco and is hoping no customer data gets lost, which may be more than Microsoft can manage if OneDrive, as some have...

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• SpaceX launches first totally private mission to the International Space Station

  Saturday rendezvous planned for historic commercial orbit ride A retired NASA astronaut and three space tourists are right now tucked inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule above Earth for the first-ever purely commercial mission to the International...

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BBC News - Technology

• Elon Musk to answer Twitter staff questions

  Employees will be able quiz the entrepreneur as he joins the board of Twitter, after share purchase.

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• Google removes apps for secretly copying phone numbers

  More than a dozen apps were taken out of its Play Store for harvesting users' phone numbers.

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• Mystery of alleged Chinese hack on eve of Ukraine invasion

  A western intelligence official believes the aim was espionage - but questions remain.

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Further

• Who We Are, Or At Least Aspire To Be

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• Welp There You Go: Workers Led By Fired Regular Bro Bust Open Bezos' Evil Empire

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• Unspeakable

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ForceChange

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  Dog Reportedly Beaten at Gas Station Deserves Justice

  An unidentified man was reportedly caught on video beating his dog at a gas station. Help secure justice for this innocent animal.

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  Stop Farmers From Killing Seals With Explosives, Darts, and Lead Shot

  Seals are being attacked by salmon farmers with explosives, darts, and lead shot. Demand the government stop the attacks on seals by greedy and inhumane farmers.

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  Success: Lynching Victims Get Justice

  After a century and more, lynching has finally been recognized as a federal hate crime. Applaud the decisive condemnation of these horrific murders and the pursuit of justice for victims taken by prejudice-fueled violence...

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Unexplained Mysteries

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  Scientists knock 30 years off the age of a woman's skin

  A new age reversal technique has proven capable of rejuvenating the skin cells of a 53-year-old woman. We might not be able to turn back the clock jus...

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  Mystery recordings to be heard for first time in 100 years

  Many fragile 19th-Century wax cylinders contain audio recordings that have, until now, been impossible to listen to. What's the most old-fashioned met...

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  Surprisingly little is known about how sharks sleep

  Elasmobranch sleep expert Michael Liam Kelly reveals new research into this intriguing mystery. Sharks used to figure prominently in my nightmares: co...

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All Things Considered : NPR

• A Paris exhibit highlights the work of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide

  Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide has won international renown for her portraits of indigenous and marginalized peoples across the globe. A Paris exhibition is currently highlighting that work.

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• French voters will decide whether to give Macron a 3rd term this weekend

  French voters go to the polls this weekend to decide whether to give president Emmanuel Macron a third term. He's in the lead, but far right leader Marine Le Pen is right behind and closing the gap.

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• 2 found not guilty in Michigan governor kidnapping plot

  Jurors in Michigan acquitted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gove Gretchen Whitmer. The jury deadlocked over charges of two other defendants and the judge declared a mistrial for them.

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Science@NASA Headline News

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  Winners Selected for the NASA SOHO Comet Search with Artificial Intelligence Open-Science Challenge

  Scientists at NASA want to improve existing methods and build new open-science tools to improve their ability to detect very dim comets. Enter the NASA SOHO Comet Search with Artificial Intelligence Challenge – and the resulting discovery...

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• Hubble Spies a Serpentine Spiral

  Portal origin URL: Hubble Spies a Serpentine SpiralPortal origin nid: 478679Published: Friday, April 8, 2022 - 08:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The lazily winding spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 5921...

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  Discovering Antarctica's Invisible Forest with FjordPhyto

  FjordPhyto citizen scientists collect seawater and phytoplankton samples to investigate the changing polar marine environment. The FjordPhyto citizen science project has joined the NASA family! This project is a collaboration between...

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How to of the Day

• How to Pack an Emergency Kit for the House

  In case an emergency happens in your area, you want to be ready. Here are some tips on how to create an emergency kit for your home. Remember to also prepare a kit in the event that you may need to evacuate; keep it in your car...

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• How to Organize a Birthday Party for Kids

  Kids' parties can be more fun than adult parties -- you don't have to be so serious and you can let your inner child out with them. Plus, by the end of the day when all the kids' energy has come to a halt, and they fall asleep, you're right there, laying...

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• How to Grow Mint in a Pot

  Mint plants are the perfect starting point for a herb garden. They are usually contained in a pot because they are extremely invasive, sending out runner roots to take over the surrounding soil. Choose one of the 600 varieties of mint, and give...

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Democracy Now!

• Trita Parsi: War Could Be on Horizon If Iran Nuclear Deal Is Not Restored Soon

  Will the U.S. and Iran revive the 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by the Trump administration? President Biden is facing heat from lawmakers in both parties who oppose the deal, which would relax U.S. sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits on...

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• End the Double Standard: U.S. Accuses Russia of War Crimes While Continuing to Oppose the ICC

  The United Nations General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday, a resolution that accused Russia of committing human rights abuses in Ukraine. We speak with human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck...

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• Law Professor Michele Goodwin Condemns Wave of "Unprecedented & Unfathomable" Anti-Abortion Laws

  Anti-abortion legislation is sweeping the U.S., including in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri. We speak with Michele Goodwin, author of “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood,” about the links between...

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News : NPR

• A man shot by police after disarming a gunman during a brawl files a civil rights suit

  K'aun Green, a college student, took a weapon from a patron at a restaurant who was brandishing it at others inside, a lawsuit says. But police shot Green when they arrived.

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• LA sheriffs inadvertently free the man suspected of shooting Lady Gaga's dog walker

  After attending court proceedings on Tuesday, James Howard Jackson was released from custody the next day "due to a clerical error." Authorities are working to rearrest him.

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• A former Goldman Sachs banker is found guilty in a plot to loot Malaysia's 1MDB fund

  Roger Ng was convicted in a New York federal court of bribery and other corruption charges accusing him of participating in a $4.5 billion scheme to ransack the Malaysian state investment fund.

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WebMD Health

• New Documentary Probes ‘the Pill’

  In The Business of Birth Control, a documentary available digitally and in theaters this week, the filmmakers argue that while hormonal birth control was considered a huge step toward women’s reproductive freedom when doctors began prescribing...

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• Omicron Symptoms 2 Days Shorter Than Delta

  The COVID-19 symptoms caused by the Omicron variant tend to last about two days shorter than symptoms from the Delta variant, according to a new study published in The Lancet.

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• ‘No-Antibiotics’ Beef Tests Positive, Study Says

  A new study in Science shows that Some of the beef cattle in a no-antibiotics program tested positive for antibiotics, which could call into question the “raised without antibiotics” label on products...

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Niskanen Center

• Down to the wire(s): the next generation electricity grid needs next generation technology

  Using advanced conductors can reduce costs and land impacts, but existing policies don’t support change The post Down to the wire(s): the next generation electricity grid needs next generation technology appeared first on Niskanen Center...

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• Lessons from the Pandemic: Why Testing, Tracing, and Isolation Never Got off the Ground

  In the United States, efforts to develop and scale-up tests for the new virus stumbled out of the gate and never recovered. Glen Weyl of Microsoft joins Brink Lindsey to discuss this early and decisive failure in the U.S. pandemic response...

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• Descriptive Representation in Supreme Court Nominations

  At her nomination hearings, Judge Jackson faced the usual reception colored by partisanship as well as her race and gender. What did we learn from those hearings? The post Descriptive Representation in Supreme Court Nominations appeared...

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Opinion | The Guardian

• The Guardian view on Ukraine: same war, new dilemmas | Editorial

  Russia’s retreat from Kyiv marks a change in the dynamics and the military balance, but the conflict is far from overThousands of civilians, including many children, were waiting to be evacuated to safety in the Kramatorsk railway station...

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• The Guardian view on learning to socialise: getting to know you | Editorial

  The pandemic has underlined the degree to which humans can only develop and thrive in relation to other humans“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face,” says Duncan, about the duplicity of the first Thane of Cawdor...

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• Putin still has friends in the west – and they’re gaining ground | Jonathan Freedland

  The EU’s united response to the war may not last long with Viktor Orbán around. We must hope he’s not joined by Marine Le PenThat picture of Vladimir Putin, alone at the end of a long Kremlin table, may prove one of the enduring images of this...

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CTVNews.ca - Top Stories - Public RSS

• Psychedelics use linked to a lower risk in opioid addiction, study says

  Psilocybin, the substance found in magic mushrooms, has been connected to a lower risk in opioid addiction, a recent study conducted in the U.S. suggests.

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• Concerns grow over sixth COVID-19 wave affecting Ontario school absences

  As provinces continue to push toward living with COVID-19, teachers and staff in Ontario are raising concerns over the rise in absentees in schools across Ontario amid a sixth wave.

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• Two arrested after Halifax RCMP respond to Preston shootings; N.S. emergency alert cancelled

  Two suspects were arrested and police were looking for a third after shootings in the Preston area prompted an emergency alert in Nova Scotia Friday night.

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Tallbloke's Talkshop

• Government says half of all new UK cars should be electric by 2028

  The availability of new hybrids after 2030 is also thrown into question, as the government puts its foot on the climate obsession accelerator. Sales figures of full EVs will now be part of that policy decision. Basically freedom of choice will...

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• French winemakers fan flames to save 2022 crop after unexpectedly sharp frosts

  ‘Climate change’ gets the blame of course, which is code for human activities in the media, politics etc. How trace gases might cause warmth one month and frosts the next in a particular region of the world is not explained. Short video via...

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• Simulations explain Greenland’s slower summer warming, say researchers

  ‘Temperatures and rates of ice sheet melting both peaked in 2012’ – interesting quote from the report. The researchers assume that natural factors are merely impeding the inevitable warming they expect from carbon dioxide emission...

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Zee News :Technology News

• Twitter introduces ALT badge, improved image descriptions globally

  Twitter announced the rollout of the ALT badge and improved image descriptions for all users globally.

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• ‘Twitter’s next board meeting is gonna be lit’, Elon Musk jokes about smoking weed at upcoming meet

  Musk shared a photo of him smoking, what appears to be, weed, in a post saying, "Twitter’s next board meeting is gonna be lit." 

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• Sending late night emails? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has a special message for you

  Microsoft recently conducted a study to understand the impact of remote work on employees. 

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Zee News :Sci-Tech

• SpaceX gives rocket ride to ISS to 3 paying space enthusiasts; Check cost of each seat

  Their tickets for the rocket ride include access to all but for the Russian portion of the space station space tourists will need permission from the three cosmonauts on board. 

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• 'Now or never': UN report suggest growing forests, eating less meat to avoid climate extremes

  At this point, only severe emissions cuts in this decade across all sectors, from agriculture and transport to energy and buildings, can turn things around, the report says.

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• NASA breaks record after Hubble discovers farthest individual star ever- Watch

  The newly detected farthest star has been nicknamed 'Earendel' which means 'morning star' in old English and it exists at 12.9 billion light-years away from us which means it took 12.9 billion years for the star's light to reach us. However...

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Zee News :World

• Moderna recalls thousands of Covid-19 vaccine doses in Europe, here's why

  No safety issues have been identified, Moderna said about the lots that were distributed in Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden in January.

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• Covid-19 fourth wave: Pandemic far from over, next variant not a question of 'if' but 'when', warns UN

  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has cautioned that the Covid-19 pandemic is not over. "We're seeing 1.5 million new cases each day. Large outbreaks are spreading in Asia. A new wave is sweeping across Europe," Guterres said...

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• Imran Khan praises India in his speech ahead of the no-trust vote - key quotes

  Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed the nation on Friday a day ahead of the crucial no-trust motion against him.

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Zee News :India National

• Kashmir witness record tourist footfall, highest in 10 years

  Kashmir, also called the “Heaven on Earth” has had a record-breaking tourist footfall this year, the highest in 10 years. The valley in this season, received more than 3.5 lac tourist arrivals.

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• Jolt to AAP! Himachal Pradesh President Anup Kesari, 2 others join BJP

  Himachal Pradesh AAP chief Anup Kesari and two other party workers joined BJP ahead of upcoming state Assembly elections. 

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• Covid-19 booster dose for all adults from Sunday, check how to book appointment, cost of jab - All you need to know

  All those who are more than 18 years of age and have completed nine months after the administration of the second dose, would be eligible for precaution dose, said the Union health ministry. 

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Channel NewsAsia World News

• Fifty-two dead in station bombing as civilians flee eastern Ukraine

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• Must watch: Better ‘a beggar here than an emperor there’ — life after Hong Kong, and the struggle to resettle

  They left Hong Kong for Britain, a land they had never been to before. The CNA documentary One Way, which made YouTube’s top 10 list in Hong Kong and Singapore, follows the Chow family as they navigate harsh realities as new immigrants...

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• Commentary: Why does Turkey want to play mediator between Russia and Ukraine?

  Ankara has emerged as the principal mediator in the war between Kyiv and Moscow. This researcher says it is trying to recoup some credibility with NATO partners.

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Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News

• Must watch: Better ‘a beggar here than an emperor there’ — life after Hong Kong, and the struggle to resettle

  They left Hong Kong for Britain, a land they had never been to before. The CNA documentary One Way, which made YouTube’s top 10 list in Hong Kong and Singapore, follows the Chow family as they navigate harsh realities as new immigrants...

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• 'I desire to try my luck': Indonesian domestic workers see hope for jobs in new MOU with Malaysia

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• US jury convicts ex-Goldman banker in 1MDB scandal

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Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

• Engineer dies after falling 30m at CapitaSpring building

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• Boon Lay slashing: Two men charged with causing hurt with a dangerous weapon

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• Elective egg freezing: A welcome initiative or just more gender bias? Here’s what Singapore women think

  Women across different age groups weigh in on the recent White Paper on Singapore Women’s Development which allows those aged 21 to 35 to choose social egg freezing, regardless of whether they’re married or not. *Some names in this article...

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8 April - iG Tab - Mainstream Narrative

 

SpaceNews.com

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  Vega C to launch Sentinel-1C in 2023

  The European Space Agency will launch its Sentinel-1C radar imaging satellite on a Vega C rocket in 2023 as the agency continues to study potential impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on that launch vehicle. The post Vega C to launch Sentinel-1C...

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  SpaceX launches commercial mission to ISS

  SpaceX launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft April 8 carrying four commercial astronauts to the International Space Station for Axiom Space. The post SpaceX launches commercial mission to ISS appeared first on SpaceNews...

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  BlackSky looks to expand its military business amid growing interest in commercial satellite imagery

  Amid a surge in demand for satellite imagery, BlackSky is looking to expand its national security and defense business. The post BlackSky looks to expand its military business amid growing interest in commercial satellite imagery appeared...

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  Private astronaut mission cleared for launch

  The first commercial mission by an American spacecraft to the International Space Station is ready for launch as a pathfinder for a new era of commercial orbital human spaceflight. The post Private astronaut mission cleared for launch appeared...

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  Astroscale to restart debris-removal demo with half the thrusters

  Astroscale plans to resume an attempt to capture a satellite acting as a piece of debris in low Earth orbit despite losing half the servicer’s eight thrusters. The post Astroscale to restart debris-removal demo with half the thrusters appeared...

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Yahoo News - Top Stories

• Ukraine: A killing ground for Russian armor. Are tanks now obsolete?

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• Audio records the alarming moments as an Air France pilot struggles to control his Boeing 777 and has to abort his landing in Paris

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• Police: Alabama Man Bashes His Black Friend’s Head In with a Shovel, Claiming He Thought Man Was a Burglar, Then His Story Quickly Fell Apart

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UK news | The Guardian

• Sunak’s wife to pay UK tax after outcry

  Akshata Murty says she realises many felt her arrangements were not ‘compatible with my husband’s job as chancellor’• Sunak defends wife’s tax status as Labour and No 10 deny leakRishi Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty, bowed to pressure...

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• Sunak’s wife to pay UK tax after outcry, as PM denies non-dom knowledge

  Akshata Murty says she realises many felt her arrangements were not ‘compatible with my husband’s job as chancellor’• Sunak defends wife’s tax status as Labour and No 10 deny leakRishi Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty, bowed to pressure...

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• Sunak under pressure over holding US green card while chancellor

  By holding cards chancellor and his wife undertook a legal commitment to ‘make the US your permanent home’• Sunak defends wife’s tax status as Labour and No 10 deny leakRishi Sunak’s position was under increasing threat after Boris...

  10 hours ago

CNN.com - Top Stories

• Missile strike on train station a 'war crime': Zelensky

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• Tiger Woods makes cut at the Masters in extraordinary return following long injury layoff

  Tiger Woods teed off for his second round at the Masters on Friday following an excellent return to competitive golf.

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• New satellite image of tunnel in North Korea has the US worried. Here's why

  CNN's Barbara Starr reports that US State Department officials are "worried" North Korea may resume nuclear testing after new satellite images show a new tunnel being constructed at a remote testing site...

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Washington Post: Breaking News

• U.S., allies vow more aid, denounce killings of fleeing civilians

  People who saw the attack recalled a large explosion followed by four or five “cluster bombs” that tore into a crowd of people who had gathered to catch an arriving train.

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• Hogan vetoes increased abortion access, paid family leave in Maryland

  The Republican governor allowed a ghost gun ban and an aggressive climate change plan to become law without his signature.

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• Tiger Woods makes the cut, Scottie Scheffler holds lead

  Scottie Scheffler separated himself from the field with a five-shot lead, and Tiger Woods made the cut after a full day of second-round action at the Masters.

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PCWorld

• Watch: 5 crucial things to know about the Steam Deck

  Valve’s portable PC powerhouse is the biggest-smallest thing to hit PC gaming in years. In fact the Steam Deck is so popular that if you don’t have one now, you’ll probably be waiting until the tail end of this year to get your hands on one...

  9 hours ago

• Rivals call foul on the “fix” for Windows 11’s atrocious default browser options

  Windows has been pushing hard on Edge, Microsoft’s first-party browser, for years now, culminating in Windows 11 making you jump through some pretty extreme hoops in order to switch browsers. “Microsoft makes this vastly more difficult...

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  Nomad Base Station Hub Edition review: Wireless charging with hidden functionality

  At a glanceExpert’s Rating ProsCan charge up to four devices at onceMagnetic coils help ensure proper alignmentWell designedConsIt’s not an official MagSafe device, so charging speed is slower Our VerdictNomad’s latest Base Station...

  12 hours ago