Activist shareholders push Amazon on everything from facial recognition to climate change
Amazon is now the No. 1 target of activist shareholders.
Business
Mar 13, 2019
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Ethiopia to send black boxes to Europe as questions mount over crash
Ethiopia said Wednesday it would send the black boxes from last weekend's deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash to Europe for analysis as demand grew for urgent answers over the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8.
Business
Mar 13, 2019
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Large area solar flares are the likely source of puzzling millimeter emission
Solar flares are sudden explosive processes that convert the energy of the magnetic field into the kinetic energy of electrons and ions. Since the beginning of the century, millimeter observations of solar flares became routinely ...
Astronomy
Mar 13, 2019
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Microlasers for photonic computing of future can be produced today quickly and cheaply
Scientists of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) together with Russian colleagues from ITMO University, researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas, and Australian National University have developed an efficient, ...
Nanophysics
Mar 13, 2019
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Researchers find fighting and mating success in giant Australian cuttlefish influenced by sidedness
A team of researchers from the University of Rennes in France, Southern Cross University in Australia and the Marine Biological Laboratory in the U.S., has found that both fighting and mating success with giant Australian ...
Researchers confirm massive hyper-runaway star ejected from the Milky Way Disk
A fast-moving star may have been ejected from the Milky Way's stellar disk by a cluster of young stars, according to researchers from the University of Michigan who say the star did not originate from the middle of the galaxy, ...
Astronomy
Mar 13, 2019
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Study identifies essential oil compounds most toxic to bed bugs
The synthetic pesticides used to control bed bug infestations face two problems: the insects are gaining a tolerance to them, and many consumers are looking for "green" alternatives they consider safer to spray in their living ...
Biochemistry
Mar 13, 2019
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Careful how you treat today's AI: It might take revenge in the future
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are becoming more like us. You can ask Google Home to switch off your bedroom lights, much as you might ask your human partner.
Machine learning & AI
Mar 13, 2019
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Blockchain could democratise banking, music – but at what cost?
Few technologies have the potential to disrupt old institutions as much as blockchain – a system that maintains records on huge networks of individual computers. As with any new technology, it could be used for social good ...
Internet
Mar 13, 2019
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Why the binding arbitration game is rigged against customers
You may have noticed it in the boilerplate of your customer contract with a bank, a brokerage firm, or just a cellular phone carrier.
Economics & Business
Mar 13, 2019
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