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Today, a federal judge ruled Alphabet’s Google must defend itself against antitrust charges brought by 16 states sooner than it had hoped.Five days ago, Google settled a separate lawsuit—a $5 billion class-action privacy lawsuit claiming the company had secretly tracked consumers in “incognito” mode.Ten days before that, Google announced it would pay $700 million to settle a lawsuit in which all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands argued that Google’s app store was an illegal…

Back in the 1970s and 80s, millions of wooden buildings (both new and old) were treated with preservatives that were later found to be neurotoxic and carcinogenic. A special process is now able to neutralize those chemicals in existing buildings, saving the structures from being gutted.The two preservatives, lindane and pentachlorophenol (PCP), were used to protect against fungus and wood-eating insects. Even though the chemicals are now widely banned, wood that had already been treated with them continues to give off…

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Prepare for a celestial spectacle as NASA's Juno spacecraft gears up for an unprecedented rendezvous with Jupiter's fiery moon, Io, on Saturday, December 30. This close encounter, at a mere 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from Io's tumultuous surface, marks the closest any spacecraft has ventured to the moon in over two decades, promising a deluge of groundbreaking data.Leading the scientific charge is Juno's principal investigator, Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, who anticipates a…

Japan's SLIM space probe entered the Moon's orbit on Monday in a major step towards the country's first successful lunar landing, expected next month.The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) is nicknamed the "Moon Sniper" because it is designed to land within 100 metres (328 feet) of a specific target on the lunar surface.If successful, the touchdown would make Japan only the fifth country to have successfully landed a probe on the Moon, after the United States, Russia, China and India.On Monday, SLIM "successfully…

Ola Electric Mobility Pvt., founded by Bhavish Aggarwal, has made a significant move by filing its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for an initial public offering (IPO). This development positions Ola Electric as the first electric vehicle (EV) company to go public in India, marking a historic moment in the country’s automotive landscape. The IPO comprises a dual offering, featuring fresh shares and an offer for sale. The fresh issue component is valued at Rs…

In Denver, there are much taller buildings than the five-story, rectangular Mosque of the El Jebel Shrine in Uptown. But there are few that are as eye-catching. Or historic. Or intriguing. Those are among the qualities that caught the attention of Non Plus Ultra, a company that looks for settings where its clients can hold events: product launches, concerts, corporate holiday parties. The San Francisco-based company has added the El Jebel building to its Denver portfolio and is getting it ready for the next chapter of its…

A few weeks ago, Samsung Electronics boss Lee Jae-yong embarked on a business trip to the Netherlands to make important business deals with semiconductor chip equipment maker ASML. He joined the South Korean president on a 4-day official trip after the Dutch King Willem-Alexander invited them to the Netherlands to discuss several chip deals. Samsung is satisfied with the semiconductor chip deals it signed with ASML Yesterday, Lee Jae-yong returned from the Netherlands to Seoul, South Korea, and he expressed his…

There are many impressive historic things that we know existed due to various records and reliable witnesses and yet, aren’t able to track them down. The reasons for it may vary from the thing being destroyed, scattered at the bottom of the sea to it being stolen or purposely hidden during times of trouble.Either way, even hidden from people's eyes ancient treasures remain an important part of the world’s history and these people listed things of the sort that are still missing, answering one Redditor’s question: “What…

CLIMATEWIRE | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Climate talks in Dubai ended with a deal to curb the use of fossil fuels that was both historic and 30 years too late.The two-week conference, held in the oil-rich desert kingdom of the United Arab Emirates and presided over by an oil CEO, brought two competing realities into a painful collision. The planet is overheating, yet humanity remains inextricably reliant on coal, oil and natural gas.The talks ended Wednesday with a deal among almost 200 countries that committed to…