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Hashtag Trending – iMac updates; TikTok tensions continue; Google’s new Pixels TikTok

Hashtag Trending – iMac updates; TikTok tensions continue; Google’s new Pixels

The iMac gets new updates, there are more developments on the fiasco surrounding TikTok, and Google’s pouring out new pixels.It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending. It’s Wednesday, Aug. 5 and I’m your host, Baneet Braich.It is about time! The 27-inch iMac is available…
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August 5, 2020
Spectre of atomic bomb still looms over N.W.T. community 75 years after Hiroshima Hiroshima

Spectre of atomic bomb still looms over N.W.T. community 75 years after Hiroshima

Seventy-five years after two nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan — killing hundreds of thousands of people in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — one small community in the Northwest Territories is still haunted by its connection to the blasts. Cindy Gilday, an environmentalist and Indigenous rights activist, is still concerned about…
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August 5, 2020
SpaceX’s Starship SN5 prototype successfully performed a 150-meter hop test SpaceX

SpaceX’s Starship SN5 prototype successfully performed a 150-meter hop test

After several delays and complications, SpaceX has successfully performed the first flight tests of the Starship SN5 prototype from SpaceX’s Boca Chica test site in Texas, marking a step forward in Journey to send humans to Mars. During testing, the company’s first full-scale prototype achieved an initial flight of around…
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August 5, 2020
TLK protein inhibition activates the innate immune system Blastoma

TLK protein inhibition activates the innate immune system

IMAGE: TLK inhibition show replication intermediates (green) at chromosome ends (red) view more  Credit: (IRB Barcelona) Tousled-like kinases (TLKs) are a potential therapeutic target for cancer treatment due to their central role in DNA repair and replication. The latest work by IRB Barcelona's Genomic Instability and Cancer Laboratory, led by Travis…
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August 5, 2020
Virtual reality improves game-based navigational efficiency Virtual Reality

Virtual reality improves game-based navigational efficiency

IMAGE: Explores the psychological and social issues surrounding the Internet and interactive technologies view more  Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 5, 2020--Individuals playing a virtual reality (VR)-based game showed a higher navigational efficiency and less disorientation than those playing a non-VR immersive desktop version, according to…
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August 5, 2020
Waning attention to climate change amid pandemic could have lasting effects Climate Change

Waning attention to climate change amid pandemic could have lasting effects

On Sept. 23, 2019, then-16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg stood before a sea of news cameras at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York City and told world leaders: "People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing...How dare you continue to look away." Within days, web…
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August 5, 2020