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https://7news.com.au/news/world/man-in-wheelchair-allegedly-shot-in-face-by-police-during-protest-c-1083095

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40585299 Not just any horse, Eadweard Muybridge's famous "Galloping Horse" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horse_in_Motion I looked it up, and only one gram of DNA can hold about 215 petabytes A great fact I read is that all existing current HDD storage could fit in about a candy-bar-sized amount of DNA storage. ALL OF IT!!!

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Google rescinded offers for more than 2,000 people who had agreed to work as contractors or temps, The New York Times reported Friday. Last month, CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged to employees that hiring and investments would slow as the coronavirus pandemic created uncertainty for businesses across industries. Google’s reported decision to rescind offers from contractors and temp workers once again draws attention to a vast portion of the company’s workforce that does not enjoy the same benefits and protections of its full-time employees. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/29/google-said-to-rescind-job-offers-for-thousands-of-contractors-temps.html

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Rental car icon Hertz filed going into the weekend. The airport staple is sitting on $19B in debt — most of its 700K cars haven't felt a human touch on their steering wheels in months. Hertz was hurting pre-corona, thanks to competition from peers like Avis and ride-hailing services. But near-nonexistent travel demand was the final nail in its deflated tire. https://www.wsj.com/articles/hertz-preparing-bankruptcy-filing-as-soon-as-friday-night-sources-say-11590182538

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/latam-airlines-files-bankruptcy-protection-143245744.html?utm_source=morning_brew

https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech/stories/2020/05/27/zipline-novant-health-launch-longrange-drone-deliveries-north-carolina Imagine what this will do to “Trucking” as we know it today Maybe Amazon will buy this company and set up nationwide (for now) physical warehouses called “Routers” where “Packets” (Packages w/ payloads) (under 30lbs each for now) are routed physically similar to how we route them via TCP/IP using drones/robots to make “last mile” deliveries never mind that 30lb. limit…. I’m seeing drone PLANES in this picture as well….. Woohoo…. We’re talking Jetson’s level now

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to regulate or shut down social media companies, one day after Twitter Inc. for the first time added a warning to some of his tweets prompting readers to fact-check the president's claims. Trump, without offering any evidence, reiterated his accusations of political bias by such technology platforms, tweeting: "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen." Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-social-media-twitter-fact-check-1.5586285

"The reason it's so hard for most people to understand is that most people don't really understand money. Money isn't wealth. It's an accounting system used to facilitate the exchange of wealth. (The paradox of money is that while everyone wants it, no one actually wants it - they want the stuff they can buy with it!) Many people are put off by the fact that Bitcoins are 'just data'. But that's what ALL money is, information! More precisely, money is a means for credibly conveying information about value given but not yet received (or at least not yet received in a form in which it can directly satisfy a person's wants or needs). To put it yet another way, money is a…

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Australia's western coast is being battered by a huge storm, with strong winds buffeting the main city of Perth. Torrential rains and waves of up to eight metres (26ft) are forecast in some areas. The severe weather is the result of the remnants of tropical cyclone Mangga interacting with a cold front, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. A senior official in the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) said it would be a "once-in-a-decade" storm. Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-52787152 REUTERS/ EDWIN VAN BRUGGEN

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/coronavirus-scientists-conclude-people-cannot-be-infected-twice-11981721 genetic analyses of the virus have not found any substantial changes which would effectively disguise it from the immune system.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/health/perpetual-crisis-now-who-telling-us-covid-19-may-never-go-away The truth is that this pandemic could still potentially be in the early chapters. The Spanish Flu pandemic lasted for three full years, and we could possibly be facing a similar scenario. And this week WHO official Mike Ryan warned that this virus could even become “endemic”, and if that happens it “may never go away”… In other words, Ryan is saying that this virus could become like a flu that keeps reappearing year after year. So what are we going to do if that happens? Are we supposed to have shutdowns every year whenever a new wave of COVID-19 in…