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Category Archives: Science & Technology
Subsidies for fossil fuels and investing revenues
Eamon Mac Mahon, ASSOCIATED PRESS Syncrude upgrader facilities on the Athabasca river near Fort McMurray Alberta — Dec 18 2018 – Collection of articles and reports – Kevin Yaworski — Liberals announce $1.6B for Western Canada’s beleaguered energy sector It … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Nature, News and politics, Science & Technology, Sustainability
Tagged Alberta, alternative, bailout, Canada, Carbon, debt, divesting, drilling, Energy, fossil fuels, fracking, gas, global warming, green, industry, investing, Norway, oil, Pollution, rapid climate change, revenue, subsidies, tax breaks
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Trump fuel economy rollback is based on misleading and shoddy calculations, study finds
Collection of several articles and scientific research analysis. — The Trump Administration on August 2, 2018, released a proposal to freeze model year vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG) and fuel economy standards at model year 2020 levels through model year 2026, … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Nature, News and politics, Science & Technology, Sustainability
Tagged average, cars, change, climate, Donald, economy, false, Flawed, fossil, fuel, fuel economy standards, gas, global, health, mileage, misleading, oil, Pollution, rate, renewables, research, study, Trump, warming, wellness
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A Chinese scientist says he edited babies’ genes. What are the rights of the genetically modified child?
He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, spoke at a conference on human genome editing in Hong Kong in November and claimed to have helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies. (Kin Cheung/AP) By Eileen Hunt Botting The Washington Post December 6 … Continue reading
Posted in healthcare, News and politics, Science & Technology
Tagged baby, child, China, editing, embryo, enhanced, ethical, genes, genetically, genome, human, human rights, implications, international, modification, moral, scientific, UN, United Nations
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Microsoft’s “Find my Server”
While building a new Windows Server 2016 Image sysadmins discovered Windows Location Services is on by default and tracking location of the server instead of having it an option to turn on. I guess MS thinks sysadmins will need “Find … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, News and politics, Science & Technology
Tagged 2016, Data Collection, Location Services, Microsoft, Server, Windows
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MIT experiment let internet users control a human
Niccolo Pescetelli is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab who created the online game BeeMe. (Pixaby) (Pixaby) — Would you let random strangers tell you what to do over the internet? Then this game is for you! CBC Radio … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, News and politics, Science & Technology
Tagged BeeMe, cbc, game, Hive, online, spark
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