| TECHNOLOGY |
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 Facebook Changes
Name to Meta, Moves Toward Virtual Reality
And away from legal liability. |
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Experts: Unless Drastic Action
Taken, Humans Could Become
Subservient to Machines
For starters, stop talking to smart speakers. |
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| MISCELLANEOUS |
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New Research: People Naturally
Pessimistic, Not Optimistic
Findings “hopefully not true,” says
one researcher. |
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| CONSUMER NEWS |
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 Kellogg's Sued
for Not Having Enough Strawberries in
Strawberry Pop-Tarts
Company countersues, claims plaintiff must
be addled from eating too much processed junk
food. |
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| FEATURE |
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| Globally, the average paid
maternity leave is 29 weeks. How
many weeks is it in the United
States? |
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A ) |
42 |
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B ) |
36 |
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C ) |
30 |
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D ) |
0 |
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| Hint: better give
birth on the weekend. |
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| LEXICOLOGY |
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Adds 455 New Words
Most of them unprintable. |
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| CORRECTION |
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 Last week, in a story about New
York City police chanting "Our
Bodies, Our Choice" at an anti
vaccination rally, we mistakenly
ran a picture of a reproductive
rights Pro-Choice rally. We don't
regret the error. |
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