New Year’s Eve Cheers for 2020 from Earthfiles.com and More Mars News!

New Year’s Eve Message to Earthfiles.com News and YouTube Broadcast viewers from Reporter and Editor Linda Moulton Howe:  From ancient archaeology deep under ice in Antarctica and military whistleblowers who have walked there — to mysterious, unexplained UFOs, unidentified aerial drones and persistent, baffling jet sounds, loud booms, metallic scrapings and trumpet sounds around the …

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California Wanted to Protect Uber Drivers. Now It May Hurt Freelancers.

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Uber and Postmates File Suit to Block California Freelancer Law

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The 2019 Good Tech Awards

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Part 2: Keys to the Cosmos: Fractal Math, Frequencies and Wave Patterns

“Space-time — it’s the Planck constant times frequency equals mass times the speed of light squared. Think about how the universe is Planck pixels, the frequency of which things are vibrating on those pixels, and at the very quantum, fundamental level, all of that would describe what people consider their souls.” – Jason Padgett, co-author Struck by …

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What Does California’s New Data Privacy Law Mean? Nobody Agrees

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Prime Anchor: An Amazon Warehouse Town Dreams of a Better Life

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The Week in Tech: What 5 Billion Means to Amazon

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Part 1: Is Our Universe Also A 3-D Hologram?

“It doesn’t seem like the universe cares so much about fairness as it does care that all things that can happen — do.” – Jason Padgett, co-author Struck by Genius Reposted December 27, 2019 – February 24, 2017 Federal Way, Washington – Even though Thomas Campbell seems convinced that our universe, if simulated, is not holographic …

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Part 2: In A Simulated Universe, Why Avatars and Reincarnation?

“Every time you go through a lifetime, you decrease your entropy if you’re successful.” – Thomas Campbell, author and applied physicist Return to Part 1. Reposted December 25, 2019 – February 24, 2017 Huntsville, Alabama – Continuing from Part 1.   Interview: Thomas Warren Campbell, 73, M.S. Physics and Author, My Big T.O.E. (Theory of Everything) …

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Get Those Records, Tapes and CDs Onto Your Smartphone

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Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age

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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Leaves Board, Severing Last Tie

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NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps)

NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps)

I-Corps offers researchers unique opportunities to learn how to turn discoveries into new technologies and to participate in the national innovation ecosystem.

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Science Zone

Science Zone

Whether you're a teacher, student, or just fascinated by science, the NSF Science Zone app will ignite your imagination. Featuring hundreds of exciting videos and high-resolution photos from a dozen areas of science, you can spend hours absorbed in discoveries that take you from the depths of space, to the wonders of the unimaginably small, to the far corners of our own planet.

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NSF's 10 Big Ideas

NSF's 10 Big Ideas

Since 2017, NSF has been building a foundation for the Big Ideas through pioneering research and pilot activities. In 2019, NSF will invest $30 million in each Big Idea and continue to identify and support emerging opportunities for U.S. leadership in Big Ideas that serve the Nation's future.

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Part 1: A Physicist Thinks Our Universe Is Simulated

“You look into reality close enough and what you find is that it’s not material. It’s information based. Information based means it’s computed. Computed means there is computer code and if there’s computer code, you’re going to find error correction!” – Thomas Campbell, author and applied physicist Reposted December 23, 2010 – February 24, 2017 …

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The Week in Tech: How Is Antitrust Enforcement Changing?

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Randy Suess, Computer Bulletin Board Inventor, Dies at 74

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At the Edge of the World, a New Battleground for the U.S. and China

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What Is Aerial Mystery Over Las Vegas, Nevada, Early Evening of December 19, 2019?

“Now it is definitely over the Nellis AFB area. I see one light and a second flashing light right next to it.” – Steve Barone, retired resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, recording unidentified aerial objects with night-vision monocular, December 19, 2019   December 19, 2019  Las Vegas, Nevada – Near 5:20 PM Pacific time tonight, …

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CHEOPS Launches to Search for Earthlike Worlds.

“CHEOPS will help us reveal the mysteries of these fascinating worlds out there, and take us one step closer to answering one of the most profound questions we humans ponder: are we alone in the Universe?” — Kate Isaak, CHEOPS Mission Project Scientist, European Space Agency December 19, 2019   Kourou, French Guiana – CHEOPS is …

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How a Top Antitrust Official Helped T-Mobile and Sprint Merge

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Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study

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Prime Power: How Amazon Squeezes the Businesses Behind Its Store

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Where Are the Tech Zillionaires? San Francisco Faces the I.P.O. Fizzle

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Statements on Sethuraman Panchanathan's nomination as NSF director

Statements on Sethuraman Panchanathan's nomination as NSF director

On December 18, 2019, President Donald J. Trump announced his intention to nominate Dr. Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan to serve as the 15^th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Panchanathan has been a member of the National Science Board, which establishes NSF policy and advises both the agency and the president, since 2014. Currently, Dr. Panchanathan leads the knowledge enterprise development at Arizona State University (ASU), which advances research, ...

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Uber Settles Federal Investigation Into Workplace Culture

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Gadget of the Year: The Toaster Oven

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What We Learned About the Technology That Times Journalists Use

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Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground

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Internet Giants, Defied by Bitcoin, Now See Its Tech as a Remedy

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A Surveillance Net Blankets China’s Cities, Giving Police Vast Powers

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Online Sex Trafficking Law Shows Difficulty of Reining In Big Tech

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Uber in Talks to Sell Its Food-Delivery Business in India

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The Decade Tech Lost Its Way

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2020 Campaigns Throw Their Hands Up on Disinformation

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Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World

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Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World

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Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies at 94

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The Week in Tech: Countdown to the California Consumer Privacy Act

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Killer Robots Aren’t Regulated. Yet.

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A.I. Is Making it Easier to Kill (You). Here’s How.

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UPDATE: Fuel Tank Debris Allegedly from Missing C-130 Found Floating On Drake Passage Waters.

“Floating pieces of sponge could be part of the remains of the sponges in the internal fuel tanks of the C-130.” — Chilean Air Force statement, December 11, 2019   December 12, 2019  Drake Passage between Chile and Antarctic Peninsula – At near 6 PM local time on December 10, 2019, after only one hour …

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F.T.C. Said to Consider Injunction Against Facebook

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George Laurer, Who Developed the Bar Code, Is Dead at 94

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NSF Speakers Bureau

NSF Speakers Bureau

The NSF Speakers Bureau is a volunteer group of scientists, engineers and other professionals who represent the agency and are passionate about sharing information on NSF's mission, programs and the exciting breakthroughs that have come from NSF-funded research.

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Protecting Research and Facilitating Collaboration

Protecting Research and Facilitating Collaboration

NSF is committed to safeguarding the integrity and security of science while also keeping fundamental research open and collaborative

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Apple AirPods Pro Review: The ‘Hearable’ at Its Best

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Open international research collaboration essential, must have safeguards, independent report finds

Open international research collaboration essential, must have safeguards, independent report finds

As part of its ongoing effort to keep international research collaboration both open and secure, the National Science Foundation (NSF) today released a report by the independent science advisory group JASON titled “Fundamental Research Security.”

NSF commissioned the report to enhance the agency’s understanding of the threats to basic research ...

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YouTube Takes Tougher Stance on Harassment

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This Is Not About How Young People Use Tech

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Chilean Military Plane Disappeared Dec. 10th En Route to Antarctica.

  “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of the 38 crew members and passengers of the FACh (Air Force) C-130 plane. … We are making every effort humanly possible in the search operation for the plane.” — Chilean Defense Minister, Alberto Espina, on Twitter, December 10, 2019     December 10, 2019  Santiago, Chile …

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America’s Top Foundations Bankroll Attack on Big Tech

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On Data Privacy, India Charts Its Own Path

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Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages

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Big Tech’s Critics, Flush With Cash, Try to Build a Movement

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Amazon Accuses Trump of ‘Improper Pressure’ on JEDI Contract

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This Man May Be Big Tech’s Biggest Threat

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