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We Now Know How Much Climate Change Contributed to Australia’s Disastrous Bushfires Global Warming

We Now Know How Much Climate Change Contributed to Australia’s Disastrous Bushfires

This is what a climate emergency looks like.Photo: GettyThe most recent Australian bushfire season from hell is one for the record books. And a new analysis published Wednesday shows all the ways humans made it worse, and it’s clearer than ever that climate change left its mark all over this…
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March 4, 2020
El Pollo’s Loco Idea: Making Its Own Plant-Based ‘Chicken’ Beyond Meat

El Pollo’s Loco Idea: Making Its Own Plant-Based ‘Chicken’

Click here for The Motley Fool's resources on Coronavirus and the market. Scratch one potential customer from Beyond Meat's menu. Hard on the heels of yesterday's announcement that Impossible Foods is cutting the wholesale price of its plant-based meat products, today brought more potentially bad news for plant-based foods phenomenon…
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March 4, 2020
The US Has Abandoned Its Leadership on Land Mines, and For What? Vietnam Veterans

The US Has Abandoned Its Leadership on Land Mines, and For What?

Defense Secretary Mark Esper says new land mines are needed to “ensure mission success” and “reduce risk to our forces.” What success? What forces? The Cold War’s last battles—in Afghanistan, Latin America, southern Africa, and southeast Asia —claimed new victims long after the fighting ended. Land mines recklessly strewn over…
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March 4, 2020
This Small Company Is Turning Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon Palantir

This Small Company Is Turning Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon

The state of Utah has given an artificial intelligence company real-time access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and “public safety” cameras, 911 emergency systems, location data for state-owned vehicles, and other sensitive data. The company, called Banjo, says that it's combining this data with information collected from social media, satellites,…
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March 4, 2020
The Wall Street Journal: General Motors hopes to convince Wall Street to bet on its electric cars Electric Car

The Wall Street Journal: General Motors hopes to convince Wall Street to bet on its electric cars

General Motors Co. is renewing its push to convince Wall Street that it is the auto maker to bet on for electric cars, as a decadeslong effort to sell the technology to customers has gained little traction. In a presentation Wednesday at the company’s engineering center near Detroit, GM executives…
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March 4, 2020
AMD To Power “El Capitan” Super Computer From HPE’s Cray Nuclear Weapons

AMD To Power “El Capitan” Super Computer From HPE’s Cray

Last fall, as Cray was being acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for $1.6B, the company announced that it had been selected by the US DOE for two more exa-scale supercomputers based on the processor-agnostic Cray Shasta architecture. The Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL) El Capitan supercomputer, costing some $600M, and planned…
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March 4, 2020
Combating Stolen Valor: Why this disservice to veterans remains an ongoing problem Vietnam Veterans

Combating Stolen Valor: Why this disservice to veterans remains an ongoing problem

(Tribune News Service) — During a ceremony at Cape Canaveral National Cemetery last March honoring Vietnam veterans, a Vietnam veteran with an impressive military record delivered the invocation. James Craig "Doc" Glynn was introduced as a retired Green Beret medic and Army master sergeant who served in Vietnam and later in Somalia,…
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March 4, 2020