First COVID-19 Death in U. S. Is In Washington State. King County Press Conference At 4 PM Mtn Today. New Cases in Washington, Oregon and California Could Be “Community Spread.” U. S. 66 Confirmed Cases. World Death Total Now 2,942 and 86,021 Cases.

“It is a sad day in our state as we learn that a Washingtonian has died from COVID-19. Our hearts go out to his family and friends. We will continue to work toward a day where no one dies from this virus.” — Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, February 29, 2020 1 PM Mtn Update  …

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World Health Organization Today: Risk of COVID-19 Spread and Impact Is Now “Very High At A Global Level.”

“We have now increased our assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of COVID-19 to very high at a global level.” — Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020 February 28, 2020 Albuquerque, New Mexico – In a press conference today, the Director-General of …

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Cellphone Carriers Face $200 Million Fine for Not Protecting Location Data

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NSF and AFGE sign new collective bargaining agreement

NSF and AFGE sign new collective bargaining agreement

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3403 announced today that they have signed a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA).  The new agreement codifies, clarifies, and updates current agency practices and policies in the context of current rules, laws, and regulations for approximately 1,000 NSF bargaining-unit employees. The last collective bargaining agreement was signed in 1982.

“The completion of ...

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The Week in Tech: Coronavirus Disrupts the Industry

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Cellphone Carriers May Face $200 Million in Fines for Selling Location Data

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Unions Push F.T.C. to Study if Amazon Warps the Economy

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CDC Confirms First “Community Spread” COVID-19 Case in California, Which Means No Clue Where Coronavirus Came From.

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed on February 26, 2020, that an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 in California in a person who reportedly did not have relevant travel history or exposure to another known patient with COVID-19. At this time, the patient’s exposure (how infected) is unknown.” — …

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Facebook, Google and Twitter Rebel Against Pakistan’s Censorship Rules

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Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared

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Founder of 8chan Faces Arrest on ‘Cyberlibel’ Charge

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Microsoft Issues Financial Warning Because of Coronavirus

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How Delivery Apps Are Eating Up Your Budget

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As the Start-Up Boom Deflates, Tech Is Humbled

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Digital Edits, a Paid Army: Bloomberg Is ‘Destroying Norms’ on Social Media

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Google Reaches Document Protection Deal in Antitrust Fight

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The Week in Tech: Coronavirus Hits Apple’s Financial Forecast

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New Mexico Sues Google Over Children’s Privacy Violations

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Lawrence Tesler, Pioneer of Personal Computing, Dies at 74

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Your Doorbell Camera Spied on You. Now What?

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7:00 AM Mtn Feb. 19th Update: 75,216 COVID-19 Cases, 2,011 deaths. Diamond Princess Quarantined American Ship Passengers Were Evacuated On Chartered Flight with 14 Americans Confirmed Positive with COVID-19 Separated only by Plastic Sheet in Plane. Lung Biopsy of China Patient Shows Severe SARS-like Damage.

“The quarantine on the Diamond Princess cruise ship ended up being an unprecedented failure. We should learn from this lesson that a quarantine on a ship is impossible, and we should not repeat this in the future.” — Eiji Kusumi, M. D., Infectious Disease Specialist, Navitas Clinic, Tokyo, Japan 50-year-old male COVID-19 fatality in China  …

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Aircraft, Big and Small, Are Changing Our Relationship With Flight

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Kickstarter Employees Vote to Unionize

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Apple Warns That Coronavirus Will Hurt Revenue

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Jeff Bezos Commits $10 Billion to Address Climate Change

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Silicon Valley Heads to Europe, Nervous About New Rules

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1:30 PM Mtn COVID-19 Update: China Has Locked Down 48 Cities and 4 Provinces = 500 Million People, 6.5% of World’s Population. Egypt in Africa Has First Confirmed Case. Death Toll Now 1,486 and More Than 65,000 Confirmed Cases.

“Citizens cannot leave the cities of Wuhan, Huanggang, Ezhou and others in Hubei province … and other communities have instituted curfews or only allow people to exit and enter at particular times” or by registration controls. — The New York Times, February 14, 2020 “China says over 1,700 medical workers have been infected by the …

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Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop

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The Week in Tech: Are Smartphones Interesting Again?

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Siding With Amazon, Judge Halts Work on Microsoft’s Pentagon Contract

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U.S. Charges Huawei With Racketeering

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New Yorkers Face a Training Gap for Tech Jobs, but a Study Finds Hope

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Andy Rubin’s Start-Up, Essential Products, Shuts Down

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A Thorn in YouTube’s Side Digs In Even Deeper

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Britain to Create Regulator for Internet Content

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Foldable Phones Are Here. Do We Really Want Them?

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F.T.C. Broadens Review of Tech Giants, Homing In on Their Deals

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She Wants to Break Up Big Everything

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National Science Foundation presents FY 2021 budget request

National Science Foundation presents FY 2021 budget request

Today, President Donald J. Trump's Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget request for the National Science Foundation (NSF) was presented to Congress. More information on the FY 2021 budget request is available beginning today from the White House Office of Management and Budget. NSF Director France Córdova issued the following ...

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White House Earmarks New Money for A.I. and Quantum Computing

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Amazon Looks to Question Trump in Pentagon Contracting Case

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Ransomware Attacks Grow, Crippling Cities and Businesses

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In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich

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He Combs the Web for Russian Bots. That Makes Him a Target.

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U.S. Divided Over Chinese Drone Bans

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The Week in Tech: Companies Make Their Pitch to the Police

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Uber Posts Faster Growth, but Loses $1.1 Billion

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Feb. 6th Update 10 AM Mtn – Wuhan Coronavirus Infections Now in 28 Countries: 28,018 Cases and 563 Deaths. U.S.A. Now 12 Cases in 5 States.

 “This Wuhan coronavirus has literally only existed on planet Earth in humans for maybe two months. There is so much we don’t know about it that it leads us to take additional precautions.” —  Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, Acting Dep. Secy., Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D. C., February 5, 2020   U. S. 12 Confirmed …

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An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away

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Child-Welfare Activists Attack Facebook Over Encryption Plans

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Data Driving New Approaches to Transportation

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How to Take Control of Your Notifications

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Data Driving New Approaches to Transportation

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Epoch Times, Punished by Facebook, Gets a New Megaphone on YouTube

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The Only Safe Election Is a Low-Tech Election

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NSF selects 7 winners from its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea Machine prize competition

NSF selects 7 winners from its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea Machine prize competition

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today the selection of four grand prize and three meritorious prize winners for its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea Machine prize competition. The awardees are being honored today at a ceremony at NSF headquarters in Alexandria, Va.

The NSF 2026 Idea Machine encouraged individuals from all walks of life, age 14 or older, to submit pressing “grand challenges” requiring fundamental research in science, engineering, or STEM education ...

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