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February 25,2017
by Associated Press
Mark Zuckerberg’s long-term vision for Facebook, laid out in a sweeping manifesto , sometimes sounds more like a utopian social guide than a business plan. Are we, he asks, “building the world we all want?”
While most people now use Facebook to connect with friends and family, Zuckerberg thinks that the social network can also encourage more civic engagement, from the local to the global ....
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Wisconsin
February 21,2017
by Associated Press
A former gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin has unveiled a big project she’s been working on — a mobile app, aimed at empowering women.
The Building Brave mobile app is a social media platform that functions as the cornerstone of the identically named nonprofit that Mary Burke launched last fall, The Capital Times reported.
“Our message to women is to be bold, to be brave, but most i....
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January 31,2017
by Lisa Neff
For every hour that some doctors devote to direct patient care they may spend about five hours on other tasks, often because they’re tied up with computer work, a new study suggests.
The results are based on observations of just 36 doctors-in-training at one hospital in Switzerland. But research dating back more than half a century has documented physicians dedicating a similar amount of the....
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Wisconsin
January 30,2017
by Associated Press
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have received federal approval to start testing driverless cars at sites around Wisconsin.
The U.S. Department of Transportation recently designated UW-Madison’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory as one of 10 groups nationwide as proving grounds for the vehicles, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
The lab does not have any driver....
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Tracking Trump
January 26,2017
by Reuters
Employees from more than a dozen U.S. government agencies have established a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump to muzzle federal climate change research and other science.
Seizing on Trump's favorite mode of discourse, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and other bureaus have privately launched Twi....
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January 10,2017
by Associated Press
The Chevy Bolt has been named top car in North America, a milestone for a car General Motors hopes will finally get Americans hooked on electric vehicles.
The Honda Ridgeline grabbed the honor for top truck.
Utility vehicles were honored separately for the first time, with the Pacifica minivan from Fiat Chrysler snagging that award.
The honors were announced at Detroit’s Cobo Center as ....
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December 29,2016
by Associated Press
GOP leaders are planning a vote on a set of rules changes when Congress convenes in January that includes fines for members who use electronic devices to take pictures or video from the House floor.
The proposal comes six months after Democrats live-streamed a sit-in on the House floor for 26 hours last June to call attention to their demand for votes on gun-control bills.
Republican leaders shu....
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December 26,2016
by Lisa Neff
Water is life.
And we’re going into 2017 resolved to continue standing with the water protectors at Standing Rock, battle government efforts to sell public water to Wall Street, challenge the proposed leasing of public land and take over of private land for fracking operations and champion regulations aimed at keeping pollutants out of our waterways and removing contaminants from our water su....
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December 02,2016
by Associated Press
Netflix subscribers can now binge on many of their favorite shows and movies even when they don’t have an internet connection.
The long-awaited offline option announced this week gives Netflix’s 87 million subscribers offline access to videos for the first time in the streaming service’s decade-long history.
Netflix is matching a downloading feature that one of its biggest rivals, Ama....
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World
November 23,2016
by Reuters
By the end of 2016, almost half of the world's population will be online as mobile networks grow and prices fall, but their numbers will remain concentrated in the developed world, a United Nations agency said.
In the world's developed countries about 80 percent of the population use the internet. But only about 40 percent in developing countries and less than 15 percent in less-developed coun....
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