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Visa Plans To Give Artificial Intelligence 'Agents' Your Credit Card Info

Some people might want an agent that “just powers through it and automatically goes and does stuff for us.”

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New Analysis: Cascadia Quake Could Cause Some Northwestern Coastal Areas To Sink More Than 6-Feet

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Source: nbcnews.com

UC Riverside scientists found that Saharan mustard invades desert seed banks, reducing native biodiversity and harming wildlife

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California Deserts Are Under Attack By Invasive Weed

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Source: scitechdaily.com

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with a payload of 27 of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet satellites lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

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Amazon Now Competing With SpaceX Starlinks. Astronomers Not Happy.

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EPA Allows Sale Of Cheaper, Higher-Ethanol E15 Gasoline This Summer

Trump administration officials said Monday's action will lower consumers' costs and give them more choices at the pump while also increasing the demand for corn. They also described it as reducing America's reliance on imported energy.

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NASA's Oldest Astronaut Felt The Decades Melt Away In Space Before Returning On His 70th Birthday

"All that kind of stuff heals up because you’re sleeping, you're just floating and your body, all these little aches and pains and everything heal up."

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Technician Heather Browning packages a color sample made of beet powder for a customer at Sensient Technologies Corp., a color additive manufacturing company, in St. Louis

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With FDA's Elimination Of Many Artificial Food Dyes, Natural Concepts Are In The Works (Beet Juice, Insects - yep)

The cautionary tale of Trix cereal

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SafeTown Programming: The SafeTown kit guides engineering students to construct an autonomous robot themselves, learning principles of programming and engineering foundations as they construct their own robot

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Christian Student-Created Robot Kits See International Interest

SafeTown is a robot kit designed to teach engineering students the basics of working with details of electrical components and programming.

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Ready For Liftoff: Christian Engineering Students Set for High-Powered NASA Competition

“NASA Student Launch, simply put, is real rocket science on a slightly smaller scale.” - Dave Combs has served as Cedarville’s mentor for the last four years.

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More Risk Than Thought? Earthquake Fault Zones Far Wider Than Previously Realized

Earthquakes often involve not just a single fault strand but a complex web of branching faults.

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Scientists Want To Dim The Sun To Challenge 'Global Warming'

Trials could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere or brightening clouds.

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Source: dailymail.co.uk

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Looks Like Newly Discovered Green Comet Is Breaking Up And Won't Be The Sky Show Hoped For

Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, has been visible through telescopes and binoculars over the past few weeks

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Instagram Using AI To See If Teens Are Pretending To Be Adults

If it is determined that a user is misrepresenting their age, the account will automatically become a teen account, which has more restrictions than an adult account.

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FILE - Audience members gather at Made By Google for new product announcements at Google on Aug. 13, 2024, in Mountain View, Calif.

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Google Digital Ad Network: Illegal Monopoly, Says Federal Judge

The ruling comes after a separate decision that concluded Google’s namesake search engine has been illegally leveraging its dominance to stifle competition and innovation.

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