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Month: April 2020

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Sailor dies from Covid-19 and almost 600 test positive after outbreak on USS Theodore Roosevelt

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Death of first US active duty military member comes 11 days after captain was fired for voicing concerns over safety of his crew on ship off Guam A member of the crew of the coronavirus-infected USS Theodore Roosevelt has died of complications related to the disease, 11 days after the aircraft carriers captain was Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/sailor-dies-from-covid-19-and-600-test-positive-after-outbreak-on-uss-theodore-roosevelt-guam

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As We Spend Easter at Home This Year, Every Christian Needs to Declare This Message About Our King from Their Rooftops

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ShareTweetPin Without a doubt, your Easter is looking a little different this season than it has in years past. Like never before, we’re forced to strip down the manmade version of the holiday filled with fancy Sunday dresses, Easter egg hunts, and big family gatherings, to the bare essentials: the cross, an empty tomb, and our Risen Lord. Yes, this Easter, more than ever, will be about intimate time with our Savior—a time to reflect on the life that conquered death, triumph over hell, the greatest prophecy ever fulfilled, and…

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PopSockets Pop-Up Phone Grips Are on Sale for $5

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Have you ever seen a round disc emblazoned with a splashy logo jutting out from the back of a friend's smartphone? Maybe they use it to stabilize their selfies, or maybe the kids like to play with it, popping it up and down incessantly. I'm talking about PopSockets grips, the omnipresent grips adhered to millions of phones around the world. PopSocket phone grips are popular for good reason. They're easy to use, aesthetically pleasing, and undeniably useful. As WIRED put it back in 2018, PopSocket grips are life-changing. They're also…

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Gig Work Relief, Auto Care, and More Car News This Week

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WIRED is usually about solutions, which has been hard in the past few weeks as Covid-19 continued its deadly trek across the world. For a while there, it felt like the biggest questions were: What is going on? And when will it end? This week, the tech and science folk we usually lean on for ideas started to roll some big ones out. Researchers looked at whether it’s possible to prevent more coronavirus outbreaks by using mobile location data to track the whole country’s movements—without putting every bit of our…

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You Can Help Shift & Gig Workers Affected By The Coronavirus Pandemic

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Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images News/Getty Images Here’s How To Help Laid-Off Shift & Gig Workers During The Coronavirus Pandemic By Madhuri Sathish March 24, 2020 With more than 49,000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, also referred to as COVID-19, across the United States as of March 24, more cities and states are taking measures to contain the spread of the virus. More than two dozen states have closed bars and restaurants to dine-in customers, and a wide range of retail stores have temporarily closed their doors as well. But because…

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The New Math Bridge Beyond Fermats Last Theorem

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When Andrew Wiles proved Fermat’s Last Theorem in the early 1990s, his proof was hailed as a monumental step forward not just for mathematicians but for all of humanity. The theorem is simplicity itself—it posits that x n + yn = zn has no positive whole-number solutions when n is greater than 2. Yet this simple claim tantalized legions of would-be provers for more than 350 years, ever since the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat jotted it down in 1637 in the margin of a copy of Diophantus’ Arithmetica. Fermat,…

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