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250 million-year-old marine reptile 'evolved pebble-shaped teeth to crush prey'

Experts believe they are more closely related to crocodiles and dinosaurs and birds than they are to lizards and snakes




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Scientists get 'lucky' with new image of Jupiter that could help solve mystery of its powerful swirling storms

Pictures are some of the sharpest infrared images of Jupiter ever taken from the Earth




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China's new experimental spacecraft returns to Earth – after experiencing mysterious malfunction

Chinese space agency hopes capsule can one day carry six astronauts into space




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U.S. Industries Are Taking A Massive Toll During The Coronavirus Pandemic

The pandemic has devastated the job markets across the U.S. The April jobs report reveals the massive toll the crisis took on industries — from restaurants and retail to health care and automotive.




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Two Men Are Arrested And Charged With A Murder Of Ahmaud Arbery

Georgia State Bureau of Investigation has arrested suspects in the shooting death of an unarmed black jogger, Ahmaud Arbery. It would have been Arbery's 26th birthday on Friday.




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Coronavirus Update: The U.S. Health Care Industry Is Challenged By The Pandemic

The health care sector has cut 1.4 million jobs in April. And as COVID-19 has consumed health care resources, other essential routine procedures — like screenings for strokes — have gone down.




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What One Needs To Know Before Starting Gardening

While staying at home during the pandemic, people are now trying gardening to find out if they have a green thumb. But gardening is not an easy hobby and requires some research.




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Civilian Coronavirus Corps Aims To Get Pennsylvania Back To Work

Gov. Tom Wolf hopes a New Deal-inspired plan will help get the state's more than 1.7 million unemployed residents working again.




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More Census Workers To Return To Rural Areas In 9 States To Leave Forms

The Census Bureau says it plans to continue its relaunch of limited 2020 census operations on May 13, when the next round of workers is set to resume hand-delivering paper forms in rural communities.




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Tyson's Largest Pork Plant Reopens As Tests Show Surge In Coronavirus Cases

The Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, Iowa, reopened Thursday after a coronavirus outbreak there. Black Hawk County Sheriff Tony Thompson says he'd support a second shutdown if the changes aren't enough.




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What Happened Today: Health Care System Crumbles, Testing Questions

Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, answers questions about access to testing for COVID-19, false-negative results and the challenges of mass testing.




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Public Health Experts Say Many States Are Opening Too Soon To Do So Safely

By Monday at least 31 states will be open or partially open. This as President Trump pushed for the country to get back to work despite public health experts warning that it's too soon.




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Chief Medical Officer's Handling Of Coronavirus Inspires Alaskans To #ThinkLikeZink

Dr. Anne Zink works from a yurt 40 miles north of Anchorage. She has the ear of the Republican governor and has helped keep the state's COVID-19 deaths the lowest in the nation.




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Reopening After COVID: The 3 Phases Recommended By The White House

President Trump wants businesses to start reopening after the coronavirus forced shutdowns. Here's what the White House task force recommends for states.




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How The Approval Of The Birth Control Pill 60 Years Ago Helped Change Lives

Before the pill was approved by the FDA on May 9, 1960, there were few contraceptive options available to young women. It revolutionized family planning and the sex lives of millions of Americans.




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A Realtor Reflects On The Impact Of Lockdown On Her Business

Marilyn Rivera Torres, a realtor in Puerto Rico, says the lockdown has dried up her finances. Confusion over the governor's executive orders also make it unclear how to resume her business.




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Runners Across U.S. Pay Tribute To Ahmaud Arbery With #IRunWithMaud

People across the country dedicated 2.23 miles to show solidarity for Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot and killed on Feb. 23 while jogging in Georgia. Two men have been charged with murdering Arbery.




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A Salon Owner Worries About The Lockdown's Impact On Her Business

Christine Maccarone of New Jersey styles hair in nursing homes and hospitals. She's worried about her business surviving the state lockdown, and the well-being of her elderly clients.




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‘Finding light:’ High school gay-straight alliances go virtual amid coronavirus

Students, teachers and community groups are working to ensure that support is still available as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps kids out of school.




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Coronavirus: Apple, Google to ban location tracking in joint contact tracing system

Both companies said privacy and preventing governments from using the system to compile data on citizens was a primary goal.




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Quebec police investigate 4 cellphone tower fires, possible link to conspiracy theory

Police have no suspects in connection with the fires.




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Facebook removes accounts linked to QAnon far-right conspiracy theory

In addition to the QAnon accounts, Facebook also removed accounts linked to VDARE, a U.S. website known for posting anti-immigration content.




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Provinces eye technology-enhanced contact tracing in next phase of COVID-19 fight

Alberta is currently the only Canadian jurisdiction to have a contact-tracing app available to download, but several other provinces, including Ontario, B.C. and New Brunswick, have said they are investigating this technology.




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COVID-19 tracing apps come with privacy risks to Canadians, watchdogs warn

Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says the health crisis calls for some flexibility when it comes to the application of privacy laws.




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Google data suggests Canadians following COVID-19 rules, but experts wary over privacy

While location-tracking technology is nothing new, privacy and ethics experts have been wary about its use on such a large scale — especially by governments.




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Uber sees ride bookings recovering slowly, pins hopes on food delivery demand

Uber on Wednesday said it would lay off 3,700 full-time employees, or roughly 17 per cent of its head count.




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First at-home saliva test to detect coronavirus authorized by U.S. FDA

Rutgers received the U.S. FDA's permission last month to collect saliva samples from patients at test sites and Friday's decision expands the permission to sample collection at the convenience of people's homes.




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Kids are online more than ever during the pandemic, creating ‘opportunity’ for predators

Cybertip.ca, an online sexual exploitation of children tipline, says it saw a 66 per cent spike in reports in April.




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Trials of Mana demo taken down after crackers use it to enable piracy

Workaround tricked Steam to get past Denuvo's DRM protection.




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Stadia’s latest woe: Its PUBG port is overrun with official, crappy bots [Updated]

If 98 painfully stupid bots fall onto a PUBG island, do they make a sound?





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War Stories: How Prince of Persia slew the Apple II’s memory limitations

We're resurfacing our interview from last month now that Mechner's book is out.




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Sony says major The Last of Us Part 2 leak didn’t come from employee [Updated]

No spoilers here, but details about character relationships, fates are out there.






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Review: Sagrada, a top dice-drafting board game, goes digital

Get yer glass on with this great version of the board game hit.




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SXSW on Amazon—French electronica, Dark Web subcultures, and two great shorts

SXScreeners: Shorts and soundtracks rule this Amazon-hosted digital film fest



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Billy Mitchell takes his Donkey Kong high-score cheating case to court

Newly revealed Twin Galaxies defamation suit has been quietly proceeding for months.




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The Half-Life effect on PC-VR is the biggest Steam has ever seen

A big jump, but if you were expecting a jolt that would “save” the PC-VR space, well...




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Generating Game of Thrones characters in Skyrim’s character creator

Watch a professional (non-gaming) illustrator adapting to a new medium.





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How Animal Crossing’s fake industries let players afford real rent amid COVID-19

Amid quarantine, New Horizons provides an outlet for creativity and commerce.




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Beyond emulation: The massive effort to reverse-engineer N64 source code

It's about much more than just enabling PC ports.



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Prince of Persia concept video appears—and confirms why series has been dormant

PoP: Redemption video has hid in plain sight since 2012, elicits former devs' response.




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Microsoft shows off 13 “launch window” games for Xbox Series X

Majority of titles will be available across generations with “Smart Delivery.”



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Sniff Petrol’s wonderfully interesting book of boring car facts: A review

A Medium-Sized Book of Boring Car Trivia is inaccurately named.




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The pandemic ‘unicorn’: Canadian startup dependent on travel joins $1-billion-plus club

Platform connects international students to universities, colleges and high schools with one application system




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Apple borrows on the cheap to fund buybacks, dividends

Apple capitalized on the Federal Reserve's emergency measures in response to the coronavirus outbreak to issue its cheapest bonds in year