Alyse Stanley
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Facebook VP Disputes Reports That Company Ignored Platform-Wide Issues Harming Users
Facebook on Saturday pushed back against recent reports from the Wall Street Journal that cited a trove of leaked company documents to outline how Facebook executives have been slow to respond to known problems across its platforms that harm users. In a company blog post, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said the…
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Tropical Storm Henri Makes Landfall, Drenching New England
Heavy rains, storm surges, and dangerous winds from Tropical Storm Henri have left more than 120,000 people without power across the Northeast. After touching down in Rhode Island early Sunday afternoon, the storm is weakening quickly as it moves northwest, but the National Hurricane Centre warns that heavy rains and flooding are expected to continue…
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Go on a Panoramic Video Tour of Mars With the Curiosity Rover
Just because you can’t catch a shuttle to Mars quite yet doesn’t mean you can’t still tour the Red Planet. This week, NASA released a video showcasing a panoramic tour of the planet’s surface using images snapped by its Curiosity rover, which celebrates its ninth year on Mars this month.
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Wildfires Continue to Rage Across Greece, Cutting Island in Half and Forcing Thousands to Flee
Flames tore through residential areas and threatened historic sites as wildfires burned across Greece for a fifth day on Saturday, a scene so apocalyptic that one local official described it as “a biblical catastrophe,” the Associated Press reports.