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1. Human composting may soon be legal in Washington state
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On Friday, the Washington state legislature passed a bill legalizing the "recomposition" of human remains, defined as the "contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil." If signed by Governor ...

2. Not just Apple: Microsoft has been quietly lobbying to kill Right to Repair bills
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... was going around telling our members that they wouldn’t sell Surface Tablets in Washington any longer if we passed the bill,” he said. Microsoft named as stopping “Right to Repair” in Washington ...

3. After denial, Trump says he's considering dumping migrants in sanctuary cities
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... on Twitter. Trump's tweet came a day after The Washington Post reported the White House tried to pressure immigration authorities into releasing captured immigrants into sanctuary cities, particularly ...

4. Stunning photo of the media reflected in Trump's eyes
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...  The media are seen reflected in eye of President Trump as he answers questions on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, before boarding Marine One helicopter, . (AP Photo/Pablo Martínez Monsiváis) ...

5. 'Yuri's Night' space parties in L.A. Sat April 6th, then DC, Seattle, Colorado, Space Coast April 12-13, 2019
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The annual space party 'Yuri's Night' happens in L.A. on Saturday April 6th, and then in a bunch more cities the following weekend: Washington, DC, Seattle, Colorado Springs, Kennedy Space Center on the ...

6. The Polygonia Design Suite, a web app for easily creating symmetrical, repeating patterns and designs
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... a project to make it easy to create symmetrical patterns for laser cutting. It all started in May 2017 when I visited the Smithsonian Museum, in Washington, DC, where I saw an exhibit by an artisan from ...

7. Twitter may label notable tweets that violate its terms
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... Gadde said in a Washington Post interview such a labe... Read all  ...

8. Microsoft device stores digital info as DNA
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Microsoft is on its way to replacing data centers with DNA. The company and researchers from the University of Washington have successfully automated the process to translate digital information into DNA ...

9. NYC! I'm coming to The Strand tonight at 7PM with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco...
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... Portland/Ft Washington, Seattle, and Anaheim! I hope you'll come out and say hi! Read the rest “NYC! I'm coming to The Strand tonight at 7PM with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Toronto, Chicago, ...

10. Arcimoto's latest three-wheeled EV is designed for deliveries
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You might remember Arcimoto as the company behind the "Fun Utility Vehicle" (FUV) -- a three-wheeled, electric vehicle that's scheduled to hit the streets in Oregon, California and Washington ...

11. A New Zealand shooting video hit YouTube every second this weekend
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In the 24 hours after the mass shooting in New Zealand on Friday, YouTube raced to remove videos that were uploaded as fast as one per second, reports The Washington Post. While the company will not say ...

12. Report: U.S. Dept. of Transportation and Justice Department investigating FAA over Boeing 737 MAX
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... safety approvals of the new plane. A grand jury in Washington, D.C., issued a broad subpoena dated March 11 to at least one person involved in the 737 MAX’s development, seeking related documents, including ...

13. Reddit bans gore-, death-focused channels following NZ mosque attack
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... banned for hosting links to it. Washington Pos... Read all  ...

14. Palmer Luckey wins secretive Pentagon contract to develop AI for drones
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... Republicans. In an opinion column for the Washington Post, Luckey and Stephens sharply criticized Google for abandoning the U.S. government by rejecting Project Maven. “We understand that tech workers ...

15. Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison in Virginia trial, sentencing in Washington DC case next week
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Trump's former campaign chief faced up to 25 years in prison, was sentenced to less than four. Read all

16. Measles outbreak sends 800 Washington students home
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Measles is no joke. Anti-vaxxers are dangerously inviting infectious disease back into our society. NBC: In the Washington county that is home to one of the nation’s largest measles outbreaks, the effects ...

17. US Army email mistake puts hundreds of immigrant recruits at risk
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Accidental exposure of sensitive data is a major problem by just about anyone's standards, but it could be genuinely dangerous when the military is involved. The Washington Post has learned that ...

18. NH GOP lawmakers mocked gun violence survivors by wearing clutchable pearl necklaces to gun control hearing
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... wore pearls while gun violence victims testified. Activists were outraged. [Reis Thebault/Washington Post] (Thanks, Tim Soman!) Read the rest Read all  ...

19. GOP lawmaker driven mad by bill that would decriminalize children who take naked photos of themselves, delivers a frenzied rant about anal sex on legislature's floor
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Washington State is contemplating HB 1742, legislation that would end the practice of charging children who exchange consensual sexts with child porn offenses that can lead to prison and a lifetime on ...

20. From Bears Ears in Utah, a 2,000-year-old tattooing tool is rediscovered
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... in southeastern Utah within the Greater Bears Ears Landscape, and curated at the Washington State University (WSU) Museum of Anthropology for 40 years. Based on morphological attributes, we identify this ...

21. Study that claimed majority of Copyright Directive opposition came from the US assumed all English-language tweets came from Washington, DC
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... tweet is reported as originating in Washington, DC. The opposition to the Directive's Article 13 is correlated with technical knowhow, and that is correlated with privacy consciousness (hence opponents ...

22. Popping a balloon in a nuclear power plant's cooling tower
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A thunderous pop. What it sounds like inside a nuclear power plants cooling tower. Matt Ballos and Kevin Peterson of WSDG were out in Elma, Washington this week to visit NWAA acoustic test labs. The lab ...

23. Cohen implicated Trump in at least 14 felonies today
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Ken Gude, senior fellow at Center for American Progress in Washington DC, wrote a Twitter thread listing all the felonies Trump may have committed, based on Michael Cohen's congressional testimony yesterday. Thread ...

24. Videos of Mark Meadows saying "send Obama home to Kenya" resurface hours after he denied being a racist at Cohen hearing
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... about five minutes or so. However, just hours later, videos of Meadows resurfaced that show that yes, sir, you ARE a racist. The Washington Post put together the video above, where we can hear Meadows ...