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      The Oscars decides Netflix is OK after all, following DOJ warning

      Academy will keep existing eligibility rule requiring one week in LA theater.
      Netflix and other streaming platforms won't be banned from the Oscars as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has rejected calls from Steven Spielberg and others to restrict eligibility for the annual awards.

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        The Oscars decides Netflix is OK after all, following DOJ warning

        Academy will keep existing eligibility rule requiring one week in LA theater.
        Netflix and other streaming platforms won't be banned from the Oscars as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has rejected calls from Steven Spielberg and others to restrict eligibility for the annual awards.

        That is freaking awesome, go DoJ for recognizing a total abuse of power for a worthless director trying to cheat the system to create a perception of remaining relevant. What a total jerk and cheater than guy is.

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          The stars of the next James Bond movie have been revealed

          No title yet, but still supposed to release in 2020.

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            AT&T says 5G will be priced like home Internet—pay more for faster speeds

            Users "are willing to pay a premium" for 500Mbps or 1Gbps, AT&T CEO says.
            AT&T says 5G will be priced like home Internet—pay more for faster speeds | Ars Technica.

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              Airbnb wants to create TV shows to convince people to travel more

              The hotel and rental platform is looking into building an original video studio
              Even Airbnb is getting into the TV game.

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                2019 has seen the most measles cases in 20 years, CDC says

                A dangerous comeback
                Measles just hit a major milestone as it spreads across the country, infecting the most people since the year 2000, when public health officials declared the virus eliminated in the US.

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                  NASA’s InSight spacecraft detects its first possible ‘marsquake’ on the Red Planet

                  Sadly, it was smaller than what NASA needs
                  NASA’s InSight lander, which has been sitting on the surface of Mars since November, just detected its first possible quake on the Red Planet.

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                    North Korea summit: Putin says Kim 'needs guarantees'

                    Russian President Vladimir Putin has said North Korean leader Kim Jong-un needs international security guarantees if he is to end his nuclear programme.

                    Such guarantees would need to be offered within a multinational framework, he added, following talks near Vladivostok in Russia's far east.

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                      Antarctica: Thousands of emperor penguin chicks wiped out

                      Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were being raised was destroyed in severe weather.

                      The catastrophe occurred in 2016 in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

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                        US election 2020: Joe Biden launches presidential bid, joining crowded field

                        Former US Vice-President Joe Biden has declared a presidential bid, putting an end to months of speculation.

                        In a video announcement, Mr Biden argued that the "core values of the nation... our very democracy, everything that has made America America, is at stake".

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                          Tenerife cave: Son leads police to bodies of mother and brother

                          A little German boy's testimony led Spanish police to the bodies of his mother and 10-year-old brother in a cave on the island of Tenerife.
                          Police arrested the German father, suspected of killing the two victims.

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                            Egypt Coptic monks sentenced to death for killing bishop

                            Two former Coptic Christian monks have been sentenced to death in Egypt over the murder of a bishop last year, officials have confirmed.

                            Bishop Epiphanius, 64, was found dead in a pool of blood in July 2018 at a desert monastery north-west of Cairo.

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                              @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              AT&T says 5G will be priced like home Internet—pay more for faster speeds

                              Users "are willing to pay a premium" for 500Mbps or 1Gbps, AT&T CEO says.
                              AT&T says 5G will be priced like home Internet—pay more for faster speeds | Ars Technica.

                              I think that's all fine and good until you start trying to put data caps on your users.

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                                @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                AT&T says 5G will be priced like home Internet—pay more for faster speeds

                                Users "are willing to pay a premium" for 500Mbps or 1Gbps, AT&T CEO says.
                                AT&T says 5G will be priced like home Internet—pay more for faster speeds | Ars Technica.

                                I think that's all fine and good until you start trying to put data caps on your users.

                                Yeah, which you hit SO much faster now.

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                                  Cautious rollout of the world’s first malaria vaccine, which is 39% effective

                                  The vaccine will be used in pilot programs in three countries, under careful watch.
                                  Sometimes, a vaccine is a slam dunk. Take the 97.5-percent-effective Ebola vaccine, for instance, or the 97-percent-effective measles vaccine.

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                                    Massachusetts offshore wind project gets green light at roughly 8.9 cents/kWh

                                    The Vineyard Wind project will also commit $15 million to battery development.
                                    Last May, Massachusetts chose companies representing a project called Vineyard Wind to negotiate long-term contracts for an 800 megawatt (MW) offshore wind project that would serve some 400,000 homes.

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                                      Signature of changing fundamental constants may hide in copper block

                                      Simple as using an interferometer to measure length change in block of material.
                                      Once upon a time, I was involved in an abortive attempt to measure the variation of the fundamental constants.

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                                        NSA reportedly recommends retiring phone surveillance program

                                        Program that analyzed Americans' calls and texts has become too burdensome, sources tell The Wall Street Journal.
                                        The National Security Agency has recommended the White House abandon a controversial program that collects and analyzes data on millions of Americans' domestic calls and texts, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

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                                          @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                          NSA reportedly recommends retiring phone surveillance program

                                          Program that analyzed Americans' calls and texts has become too burdensome, sources tell The Wall Street Journal.
                                          The National Security Agency has recommended the White House abandon a controversial program that collects and analyzes data on millions of Americans' domestic calls and texts, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

                                          Because they are tired of only listening to grandparents and hipsters, presumably.

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                                            Check out the first pics of the asteroid crater made by a Japanese spacecraft

                                            Hayabusa2 found its explosive creation
                                            In the first week of April, a Japanese spacecraft blasted a small crater into an asteroid more than 180 million miles from Earth — and now we’ve finally got the first images of its explosive handy work.

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