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Google Doodle celebrates pioneering physicist Hedwig Kohn – CNET
The courageous physicist, who fled Germany during World War II, helped develop techniques to identify and…
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Cannabis banking reform is smart, necessary and politically viable
Pressure is steadily mounting on U.S. lawmakers to implement comprehensive cannabis banking reform at the federal…
BMW’s V12 engines will soldier on for a few more years, report says – Roadshow
In a world where elephantine V12s are going extinct on the regular, BMW can't make enough…
Turing-winning AI researcher warns against secretive research and fake ‘self-regulation’
Yoshua Bengio, who last month won the prestigious Turing award, alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun,…
Tesla’s Elon Musk avoids a federal contempt charge, for now – Roadshow
US District Judge Alison Nathan has given Musk and the SEC two weeks to come to…
Tesla Is Better at Making Cars. Delivering Them? Not So Much.
The always-exciting electric carmaker suffers its biggest drop in deliveries yet in the first quarter.
Amazon reportedly readying its Alexa-powered answer to Airpods
Amazon is ready to challenge Apple with a cheaper, Alexa-powered set of wireless earbuds. If successful…
Mayor Bill de Blasio weighs in on BuzzFeed union dispute
An apparent breakdown in talks between BuzzFeed management and the company’s newsroom union spurred expressions of…