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For many decades the United States and almost every other country in the world have been haunted by fiscal deficits; however, normal people do not seem to realize how it can affect their lives and their well-being. Many people around the world simply do not care about how the fiscal policy of their respective country is and the governments use that lack of interest to advance their monstrous deficits. The problem seems to be that people do not think that government spending is related to them in any way. Читать дальше...

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There were few positives to take away from the Chicago Bears’ 38-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 7, and that’s reflected in this week’s Bears mailbag.

Getty Image Kit Harington says he's been falsely accused for the infamous coffee cup that got into a shot on ’Game of Thrones.‘

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Morning news and notes for Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021

When it comes to sources of information about the coronavirus vaccine, northwest Ohio residents don't put much trust in religious leaders, news reporters, even the U.S. Surgeon General or county health departments.

Caleb Larson

Navy, Americas

Hopes are high for the Gerald R. Ford-class, the Navy’s largest warship ever. Despite some initial design hiccups, the new carrier is ready to set sail. 

The Navy’s newest and largest warship, the enormous Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, will soon take to the sea on its first combat deployment following shock trials and other types of operational testing. 

“Everything is on track. We’re still looking to get out as scheduled after the six-month availability. Читать дальше...

Having problems with your Android phone or tablet? Recovery mode could be the answer.

It’s been 20 years since they first hit the digital airwaves. Here’s how they came to be part of the series’ legacy.

A first commercial test flight shows how fuel made from plants, not petroleum, could make flying cleaner.

Last year was hard, but at least the answers were straightforward.

The computer scientist Alvy Ray Smith cofounded both Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division and Pixar Animation Studios. For those achievements alone, he is one of the most important technological innovators in cinema since at least the end of the Second World War. But Smith is not a Hollywood guy, and his intriguing, foundational new book A…

Maybe it never truly went away. But these days techno-­optimism—the kind that raged in the late 1990s and early 2000s and then dried up and turned to pessimism during the last decade—is once again bubbling up. The pessimism over the real-world impacts of apps and social media has turned into unbounded hope—at least among the…

In May 2020, two months after covid-19 shut down schools and public life around the world, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that he was giving $10 million to California’s Oakland Unified School District to purchase 25,000 Chromebooks. Dorsey tweeted that his donation was intended “to give EVERY single child in Oakland access to a laptop…

Freshman year of high school, my boyfriend asked, “What’s it like having her around all the time?” He meant Kim. The bell for third period rang. I shifted against him, a combination lock pressed into my back, lockers slamming around us. Our mouths were still so close. I’d been wondering if he also felt hot…

February 1969 From “Man, Machine, and Information Flight Systems”: The flight of Apollo 8 to the moon involved obtaining and processing more bits of data than were used by all fighting forces in World War II. The technological achievement in developing advanced rockets for flying to the moon is reasonably well known. Much less understood,…

I’m Mat Honan, the new editor in chief of MIT Technology Review. This is the first issue of the magazine I’ve had the pleasure of working on. Maybe you have been reading Technology Review for years, like me. Or maybe this is your first issue. Either way, I’m excited by the opportunity to make this…

Mr. Fu, a driver in Beijing for the food delivery service Eleme, makes about a dozen deliveries per shift. But he could make more—and spill less—if he didn’t have to constantly get his phone out to update his status. “I have to log in every few minutes on the app to avoid being penalized if…

As space scientists collect more and more data, observatories around the world are finding new ways to apply supercomputing, cloud computing, and deep learning to make sense of it all. Here are some examples of how these technologies are changing the way astronomers study space.  What happens when black holes collide? As a postdoctoral student…

When Gadi Sassoon met Michele Ducceschi backstage at a rock concert in Milan in 2016, the idea of making music with mile-long trumpets blown by dragon fire, or guitars strummed by needle-thin alien fingers, wasn’t yet on his mind. At the time, Sassoon was simply blown away by the everyday sounds of the classical instruments…

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Flashback of nicotine deprivation and not poor service delivery may see a run on the polls on Monday