Scientists and volunteers who have spent the last month gathering data on how much plastic garbage is floating in the Pacific Ocean returned to San Francisco on Sunday and said most of the trash they found is medium to large-sized pieces, as opposed to tiny ones. Volunteer crews on 30…
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For the 37 million people who signed up for profiles on Ashley Madison , one of the website’s selling points was the opportunity to have a discreet extramarital affair. While there is no telling how many made the connections they were looking for, what has unfolded this week in the…
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U.S. officials knew of the potential for a catastrophic “blowout” of toxic wastewater from an inactive gold mine, yet appeared to have only a cursory plan to deal with such an event when government contractors triggered a 3-million-gallon spill, according to internal documents released by the Environmental Protection Agency ….
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FILE – A June 10, 2015 photo from files showing Ashley Madison’s Korean web site on a computer screen in Seoul, South Korea. Hackers claim to have leaked a massive database of users from Ashley Madison, a matchmaking website for cheating spouses. In a statement released Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015,…
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<> <> This view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn’s icy moon Dione, with giant Saturn and its rings in the background, just prior to the mission’s final close approach to the moon on August 17, 2015. <> NASA ‘s Cassini space probe swooped in for its final close…
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The release of the names and personal information of millions of potentially cheating spouses around the world will undoubtedly have disastrous consequences for many couples, but Ashley Madison members might think twice before suing over the website’s hacking. Those who decide to take legal action will likely out themselves as…
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It’s a bad day for millions of cheaters. Personal data believed to have been stolen from the adultery website Ashley Madison has been posted on the dark Web, apparently exposing names, email addresses and phone numbers for some of the website’s 37 million members, among other information. The data dump…
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Hundreds of new Internet address suffixes that are alternatives to “.com” have been coming on the market since early 2014 and more are on the way. Companies and organizations are buying domains, or website addresses, with suffixes like “.coffee”, “.energy” and “.legal.” Some details about domains and suffixes: ——— WHERE…
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Hackers claim to have leaked a massive database of users from Ashley Madison, a matchmaking website for cheating spouses. In a statement released Tuesday, a group calling itself Impact Team said the site’s owners had not bowed to their demands. “Now everyone gets to see their data,” the statement said….
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The federal government on Monday gave Royal Dutch Shell the final permit it needs to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast for the first time in more than two decades. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced that it approved the permit to drill…
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