The list of high-profile ransomware attacks grows longer and more alarming by the week, impacting everything from gas pipelines and meat supplies to ferries. Those companies and agencies that...

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NPR: Jeff Bezos Is Going To Space (For A Few Minutes)

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Jeff Bezos has already selected a hobby for his post-CEO life: space travel. Just two weeks after he steps down as...

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CNN:Apple is giving Zoom a run for its money

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Apple kicked off its annual developers conference on Monday by unveiling new features on iOS 15 that cater to our lives as...

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NPR: Scientists Say These Monkeys Use An ‘Accent’ To Communicate With Their Foe

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In the Brazilian Amazon, a species of monkey called the pied tamarin is fighting for survival, threatened by habitat loss and urban...

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npr: AT&T, Discovery Join Media Brands As Cord-Cutting Pressures Industry

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AT&T will join its massive media operations that include CNN, HBO, TNT and TBS in a $43 billion deal with Discovery, the...

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npr: Microsoft Board Investigated Bill Gates’ ‘Intimate Relationship’ With Employee

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Microsoft's board of directors hired a private law firm to investigate a decades-old "intimate relationship" Bill Gates had with a company employee....

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CNN: Verizon offloads Yahoo and AOL in $5 billion dea

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Verizon is exiting the media business, announcing Monday that it's selling the unit for $5 billion to private equity firm Apollo Global Management.

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npr: SpaceX Wins $2.9 Billion Contract For Next Lunar Lander

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NASA will pay Elon Musk's SpaceX $2.9 billion to build a lunar landing system to ferry astronauts to the surface of the...

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CNN: The realities of climate change are pushing big businesses to focus on sustainability

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A consensus appears to be taking root in Corporate America: What's good for the environment can also be good for business.

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AP: ‘Tantalizing’ results of 2 experiments defy physics rulebook

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Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that...

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CNN: Forget SUVs. These auto makers think tiny electric cars are the next big thing

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Americans have long had a love affair with big SUVs that can carry more people and stuff than they usually need to...

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VOA: High Court Sides with Google in Copyright Fight with Oracle

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The Supreme Court sided Monday with Google in an $8 billion copyright dispute with Oracle over the internet company's creation of the...

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Science & Technology

REUTERS: Tesla plans to open its charging network to other EVs later this year

BBC: Mars rover: Nasa’s Perseverance prepares to drill first rock sample

BBC: Virgin Galactic: Richard Branson’s long, winding path to space

BBC: First seabed mines may be step closer to reality

BBC: Rare black hole and neutron star collisions sighted twice in 10 days

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