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Feb 27, 2021Feb 2021

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Is the Net Neutrality Debate a Pointless Distraction ?

The long, painful path of net neutrality Where the war over net neutrality stands, and why it (sort of) matters today. [nytimes.com] [thenwire.com]

Mar 1, 2021Mar 2021

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Biden expresses support for Amazon union vote in Alabama: ‘Make your voice heard’

Mar 1, 2021Mar 2021

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EU Law Requires Companies To Fix Electronic Goods For Up To 10 Years

All Things Astronomy

Mar 5, 2021Mar 2021

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Astronomically hard: French stargazers hunt for meteorite the size of apricot The space debris was spotted falling to Earth near Bordeaux but astronomer admits to ‘needle in a haystack’ search

Oddities and Anomalies

Mar 5, 2021Mar 2021

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'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

General & Hellos

Mar 5, 2021Mar 2021

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Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea

Academic (e.g., Science)

Mar 6, 2021Mar 2021

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How CRISPR can create more ethical eggs

Mar 6, 2021Mar 2021

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Elon Musk Is Creating a City in Texas. It Will Be Called Starbase and It Will Be Ruled by 'The Doge' The SpaceX CEO's new project would take over the city of Boca Chica, where Elon Musk is building his Starship rocket.

General & Hellos

Mar 8, 2021Mar 2021

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Can WhatsApp stop spreading misinformation without compromising encryption ?

Mar 8, 2021Mar 2021

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Preparing for Retaliation Against Russia, U.S. Confronts Hacking by China

Mar 9, 2021Mar 2021

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Biden taps another Big Tech trustbuster

Mar 9, 2021Mar 2021

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France has underestimated impact of nuclear tests in French Polynesia, research finds

Academic (e.g., Science)

Mar 10, 2021Mar 2021

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Universe's oldest known quasar discovered 13 billion light-years away Astronomers have found the farthest known source of radio emissions in the universe: a galaxy-swallowing supermassive black hole.

Mar 10, 2021Mar 2021

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Traffic congestion dropped by 73 percent in 2020 due to the pandemic US drivers averaged 73 fewer hours in traffic in 2020 because of the pandemic.

Mar 10, 2021Mar 2021

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Xi’s Gambit: China Plans for a World Without American Technology Beijing’s leaders plot a path to go it alone, vowing to spend big to fill gaps in innovation and avoid dependence on the United States and others. ...

Mar 11, 2021Mar 2021

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Australia extends tech giant probe to Google and Apple browser domination The ACCC is concerned with the choice of browser options afforded to Australians.

Mar 16, 2021Mar 2021

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Wikipedia Is Finally Asking Big Tech to Up The Big Four all lean on the encyclopedia at no cost. With the launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, the volunteer project will change that—and possibly itself too.

General & Hellos

Mar 19, 2021Mar 2021

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When should Twitter cut off rule-breaking world leaders ?

Twitter asks: when should we cut off rule-breaking world leaders? [reuters.com]

Mar 23, 2021Mar 2021

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UFO report details ‘difficult to explain’ sightings, says US ex-intelligence director US military pilots and satellites have recorded ‘a lot more’ UFO sightings than have been made public, John Ratcliffe says

Academic (e.g., Science)

Mar 25, 2021Mar 2021

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Atomic clocks compared with astounding accuracy Three atomic clocks based on different atoms have been compared with record accuracy. The findings bring a redefinition of the second a step closer and aid the search for dark matter — an elusive ...

Mar 29, 2021Mar 2021

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Stanford Scientists Reverse Engineer Moderna Vaccine, Post Code on Github The secrets of the Moderna vaccine are there for all to see, they run about two pages.

Academic (e.g., Science)

Mar 30, 2021Mar 2021

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Scientists Get Closer To Redefining The Length Of A Second

Mar 31, 2021Mar 2021

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A Cautionary Tale For China's Ambitious Chipmakers

Academic (e.g., Science)

Mar 31, 2021Mar 2021

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Antimatter atoms can be precisely manipulated and cooled with lasers

Apr 1, 2021Apr 2021

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Data withheld from WHO team probing COVID-19 origins in China: Tedros

Apr 1, 2021Apr 2021

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Amtrak unveils vision of expanded rail map Biden's infrastructure plan

Apr 1, 2021Apr 2021

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Supreme Court Lets F.C.C. Relax Limits on Media Ownership The justices said the commission had adequately considered whether easing rules on cross-ownership of radio and TV stations and newspapers would hurt female and minority ownership of media ...

Apr 2, 2021Apr 2021

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India's second wave hits the whole world through vaccine export curbs

Apr 3, 2021Apr 2021

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Uber ordered to pay $1.1m to blind passenger who was denied rides 14 times Arbitrator rebuffed the company’s position that it wasn’t liable for drivers’ behavior given their status as contractors

Apr 4, 2021Apr 2021

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Biden’s infrastructure plan aims to turbocharge U.S. shift from fossil fuels

Apr 5, 2021Apr 2021

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Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years Russian-language film posted on YouTube delights fans with its rudimentary sets and ludicrous special effects

Apr 8, 2021Apr 2021

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Amazon warns Texas: Don’t pass bill that would drive up wind power costs Bill would "directly assign" grid stability costs to renewable power providers.

Apr 9, 2021Apr 2021

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Critical Zoom vulnerability triggers remote code execution without user input

Apr 12, 2021Apr 2021

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New electrical flaw grounds more than 60 737 MAXs, adding to Boeing’s woes

Apr 16, 2021Apr 2021

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon The company beat out Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Dynetics, a defense contractor

Apr 16, 2021Apr 2021

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Defense Department confirms leaked video of unidentified aerial phenomena is real

General & Hellos

Apr 20, 2021Apr 2021

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Open source goes to Mars

Music, Movies & Books

Apr 23, 2021Apr 2021

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Apple must face lawsuit alleging that 'buying' media on iTunes is misleading

Apr 24, 2021Apr 2021

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SpaceX successfully launches astronauts with a re-used Dragon spacecraft for the first time

Academic (e.g., Science)

Apr 25, 2021Apr 2021

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Mars helicopter achieves fastest, furthest flight yet

Apr 26, 2021Apr 2021

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China Censors ‘Nomadland’ Director Chloé Zhao’s Oscar Win After filmmaker becomes first Chinese woman to win top honor at Academy Awards, news disappears from search engines, social media and state outlets

Health & Happiness

Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

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Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide during the COVID Pandemic The public health measures that slow the spread of the novel coronavirus work really well on influenza

May 3, 2021May 2021

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The Slander Industry

Oddities and Anomalies

May 4, 2021May 2021

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Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border

May 5, 2021May 2021

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Biden team may partner with private firms to monitor extremist chatter online

May 5, 2021May 2021

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Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever

May 5, 2021May 2021

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College student sues Proctorio after source code copyright claim Lawyers claim Erik Johnson made fair use of Proctorio’s software code in a critical Twitter thread

General & Hellos

May 5, 2021May 2021

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Signal tried to run a very honest ad campaign on Instagram. Facebook said no.

General & Hellos

May 6, 2021May 2021

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Google will automatically enroll users in two-factor authentication soon Google hates passwords, so it's trying to replace them with two-factor authentication.

May 10, 2021May 2021

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FDA permits use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine in kids ages 12 to 15

May 14, 2021May 2021

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FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder’s Apple Account, Email Claims

May 19, 2021May 2021

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Colonial Pipeline CEO Tells Why He Paid Hackers a $4.4 Million Ransom Joseph Blount says he needed to quickly restore service after cyberattack threatened East Coast supply

May 20, 2021May 2021

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A Fungus Is Pushing Cicada Sex Into Hyperdrive And Leaving Them Dismembered

Academic (e.g., Science)

May 26, 2021May 2021

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Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang

Health & Happiness

May 31, 2021May 2021

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Nestlé document says majority of its food portfolio is unhealthy Internal company presentation acknowledges more than 60% of products do not meet ‘recognised definition of health’

General & Hellos

Jun 1, 2021Jun 2021

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Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors Amazon's experiment wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs.

Jun 3, 2021Jun 2021

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Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban 7 comments Going forward politicians will be treated more like everyone else

Academic (e.g., Science)

Jun 9, 2021Jun 2021

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Carbon Dioxide, Which Drives Climate Change, Reaches Highest Level In 4 Million Years

Academic (e.g., Science)

Jun 13, 2021Jun 2021

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Are your neuro-rights protected ?

'This is not science fiction,' say scientists pushing for 'neuro-rights' [reuters.com] [nri.ntc.columbia.edu]

Jun 19, 2021Jun 2021

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A Pill to Treat Covid-19? The U.S. Is Betting on It.

Health & Happiness

Jun 20, 2021Jun 2021

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The same mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines could help treat cancer

Academic (e.g., Science)

Jun 26, 2021Jun 2021

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Mars helicopter takes it to the limit with more groundbreaking flights

Jul 1, 2021Jul 2021

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0 nations agree to support U.S. proposal for global minimum tax on corporations

Jul 2, 2021Jul 2021

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U.K. Will Stop Using Coal Power in Just Three Years A decade ago, 40 percent of the country’s electricity was generated with coal

Jul 3, 2021Jul 2021

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Judge blocks Florida law aimed at punishing social media A federal judge has blocked a new law in Florida that sought to punish large social media businesses like Facebook and Twitter if they remove content or ban politicians

Jul 8, 2021Jul 2021

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India discovers new plant species in Antarctica

General & Hellos

Jul 15, 2021Jul 2021

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What are FB users thinking ?

Facebook is ditching plans to make an interface that reads the brain The company's research into a consumer mind-reading device is over, for now. Some scientists said it was never possible anyway. [technologyreview.com]

Academic (e.g., Science)

Jul 16, 2021Jul 2021

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NASA revives ailing Hubble Space Telescope with switch to backup computer

Academic (e.g., Science)

Jul 17, 2021Jul 2021

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Exploding stars may have assaulted ancient Earth

Jul 17, 2021Jul 2021

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Huge study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns The preprint endorsing ivermectin as a coronavirus therapy has been widely cited, but independent researchers find glaring discrepancies in the data ...

Jul 21, 2021Jul 2021

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EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable

Academic (e.g., Science)

Jul 23, 2021Jul 2021

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Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries Form Energy’s iron-air batteries could have big ramifications for storing electricity on the power grid . . . Alternative

General & Hellos

Jul 23, 2021Jul 2021

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A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn Stories on major news sites like ‘The Washington Post,’ and ‘New York Magazine’ currently have porn embedded in them because of an site called Vidme.

Jul 26, 2021Jul 2021

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Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database

Jul 27, 2021Jul 2021

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NASA taps SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to launch Jupiter moon mission Europa Clipper will investigate an icy world with a hidden ocean that might be favorable for life.

Jul 28, 2021Jul 2021

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YouTube Just Punished Brazil's President for Spreading Lies About COVID The move is the strongest yet from the social media giants to censor the outspoken, right-wing Jair Bolsonaro, who is already fighting back.

Academic (e.g., Science)

Jul 30, 2021Jul 2021

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A YouTuber bet a physicist $10,000 that a wind-powered vehicle could travel twice as fast as the wind itself — and won

Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

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Can the US gov't mandate vaccinations ?

On this day, the Supreme Court rules on vaccines and public health [constitutioncenter.org]

Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

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‘The war has changed’: Internal CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta infections likely more severe The internal presentation shows that the agency thinks it is struggling to communicate on vaccine efficacy amid increased breakthrough ...

Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

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Justice Department says Russians hacked federal prosecutors

Health & Happiness

Aug 1, 2021Aug 2021

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Robotic police dogs: Useful hounds or dehumanizing machines?

Aug 2, 2021Aug 2021

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Russia disconnects from internet in tests as it bolsters security - RBC daily

Aug 3, 2021Aug 2021

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Can an AI can be considered an inventor ? Why/Not ?

Australian court rules an AI can be considered an inventor on patent filings IP lawyer says decision is bad because the last thing we need is robot patent trolls [theregister.com]

Academic (e.g., Science)

Aug 4, 2021Aug 2021

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Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet Old Babylonian tablet likely used for surveying uses Pythagorean triples at least 1,000 years before Pythagoras

Aug 5, 2021Aug 2021

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Why the internet in Cuba has become a US political hot potato After Havana shut down online access for 72 hours, the battle is on to keep the country connected

General & Hellos

Aug 8, 2021Aug 2021

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Screw You, Microsoft Edge

Academic (e.g., Science)

Aug 10, 2021Aug 2021

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This Sweet White Flower Is Actually A Sneaky Carnivore, Scientists Discover

Aug 12, 2021Aug 2021

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The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools

Aug 21, 2021Aug 2021

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Gig workers -- Employees or Contractors ?

Court rules California gig worker initiative is unconstitutional [reuters.com]

Aug 22, 2021Aug 2021

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Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why. . . . Alternative source

Health & Happiness

Aug 30, 2021Aug 2021

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Five Decades Later, Medicare Might Cover Dental Care . . . alternative source :

Sep 14, 2021Sep 2021

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Uber drivers are employees, not contractors, says Dutch court

Academic (e.g., Science)

Sep 19, 2021Sep 2021

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Scientists created the world's whitest paint. It could eliminate the need for air conditioning.

Sep 24, 2021Sep 2021

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Is your Software up-to-date ?

It's not just you: Emergency software patches are on the rise [nbcnews.com]

Sep 29, 2021Sep 2021

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YouTube Will Remove Videos With Misinformation About Any Vaccine Rule change has caveats, but will zap big anti-vax channels Google unit has scrubbed over 130,000 Covid-19 vaccine videos

General & Hellos

Sep 29, 2021Sep 2021

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Russia Threatens Retaliation After YouTube Deletes RT Germany Account RT Germany's YouTube account was deleted for spreading misinformation about covid-19.

General & Hellos

Sep 29, 2021Sep 2021

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New Windows 11 install script bypasses TPM, system requirements

Oct 4, 2021Oct 2021

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The World Wants Greenland’s Minerals, but Greenlanders Are Wary . . . alternative source :

Oct 5, 2021Oct 2021

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Singapore passes foreign interference law allowing authorities to block internet content Experts have raised alarm the bill is a tool to crush dissent, with media watchdog saying it carries ‘the seeds of the worst totalitarian leanings’ ...

Oct 8, 2021Oct 2021

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Intel not considering UK chip factory after Brexit

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