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Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer owner of 'extortion and blackmail'

Emails published by Bezos appear to show that the tabloid publisher threatened to publish embarrassing photos if Bezos didn't back off an investigation.

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What does Wall Street have against Twitter?

Despite reporting its first full year of profitability since going public, Twitter stock tanked 10 percent on Thursday.

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Global warming will cause the world's oceans to change color. Here's why.

Declining populations of phytoplankton, the basis of the marine food chain, will alter the seawater hues, potentially decimating fisheries.

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Hot streak: NASA warns global warming shows no signs of slowing

New data finds that "global warming shows no sign of slowing down or stopping."

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Disability-themed emojis coming to platforms this year

Disability-themed emojis coming to platforms this year.

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Instacart changes policy, will not use tips to subsidize worker pay

On Monday, NBC News reported that Instacart and other delivery companies including Doordash were using customer tips to subsidize the fees the company paid to drivers.

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NYPD demands Google stop revealing drunken driving checkpoints

"Revealing the location of checkpoints puts those drivers, their passengers and the general public at risk," the police department wrote.

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Apple paid its retail head $170M to transform its stores. Did she do it?

Angela Ahrendts said Apple's "largest product" was retail, and envisioned the stores becoming "town squares" with plenty of green space.

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Mysterious space object could be 'monstrous' hunk of comet dust

New scientific paper adds chapter to story that has captivated astronomy buffs.

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Spotify jumps into the podcast industry with two acquisitions

Spotify's entry into the podcast world comes as the company continues to build its business amid competition from Apple and Amazon.

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'Trump effect' on climate may be dimming, new polls shows

Among liberal and moderate Republicans, 70 percent said they believed that global warming was occurring, a seven percentage point increase from 2017.

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New 3D map of the Milky Way shows we live in a warped galaxy

The research brings our galactic home into sharper focus.

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Euroviews. The EU’s “softball” approach to AI will lose to China’s “hardball”

China is not just playing catch-up with the West [...]. It is planning to leap over Western economies and seize nothing less than global AI dominance. China is developing a sophisticated national AI strategy and it is allocating massive government funding to capture global market share in AI.

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How swarms of steam-powered robots could map the solar system

The little spacebots could help make it routine for people to work in the asteroid belt or vacation at Saturn.

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A hole big enough to fit two-thirds of Manhattan has formed under critical glacier

Scientists say if Thwaites collapses, it could trigger a catastrophic rise in global sea levels, flooding coastal cities around the world.

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You've been breached: Hackers stole nearly half a billion personal records in 2018

Companies use nebulous language to describe the nature of the breach, saying 'other data' or 'employee records' have been stolen — which makes it hard for victims to know how (and when) to react.

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Instacart and Doordash workers don't always receive the tips you add on

"For a consumer to somehow glean that this tip is in fact just subsidizing what the company would have paid on the back end is a completely deceptive practice," said one consumer advocate.

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Women take center stage in this year's Super Bowl commercials

This year's crop of Super Bowl ads reflects the #MeToo movement, increased social activism, and corporate efforts at gender equality.

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Meet the hacker mom big companies hire for cyber security

From an office in scenic Missoula, Montana, Sherri Davidoff and an all-female management team run a national consulting firm called LMG Security.

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Russian troll accounts purged by Twitter pushed Qanon, other conspiracies

The accounts' tweets featured the hashtag #MAGA, usually in support of President Trump, almost 38,000 times — the most of any hashtag.