For a moment, it looked like Qualcomm had to stop forcing phone makers to pay extra license fees for their patents to get modem and processor chip shipments for their gadgets – because a U.S. judge ruled that “no-license, no chips ”practice was anti-competitive in May 2019. But today, the …
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San Quentin COVID-19 disaster shows ‘challenge of herd immunity’
For critics of aggressive stay-at-home orders, the solution seems clear: the economy will reopen and enough people will eventually be infected by the new coronavirus to achieve ‘herd immunity’, even before a vaccine is available. The idea is that eventually a sufficient percentage of the COVID-19 population will have survived …
Read More »Video: Police try to cuff young boy at school in Florida
Civil rights lawyers are suing police and school district in Key West over their arrest of a screaming 8-year-old boy who allegedly hit a teacher 11 August 2020, 17:59 hours 4 min reading Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail this article KEY WEST, Fla. Civil rights lawyers on Tuesday put the …
Read More »Dangerous chemicals remain in the port of Beirut
BEIRUT (AP) – Chemical experts and firefighters are working to secure at least 20 potentially hazardous chemical containers at the explosion-ravaged port of Beirut, after finding one that was leaking, according to a member of a French cleaning team. Some of the containers were punctured when last week’s deadly explosion …
Read More »Dwarf planet Ceres has an ‘ancient ocean’ with salt water, researchers confirm
Researchers have discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres has an “ancient ocean” with salt water, which means that the space object may still be geologically active. Using data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, seven research papers were published Monday in the scientific journals Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience and Nature Astronomy looking …
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