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Europe Plans to End American Monopoly in Data Storage

When it comes to data storage using cloud services, American companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft dominate the global market. Europe plans to take on America’s cloud service dominance through its GAIA-X project, which aims to ensure that European companies use European cloud services. The European Gaia-X project The project is a collaboration between Germany, ...

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Gaia-X.

Flu Vs. the Wuhan Coronavirus: Know Your Illness

While China is suffering through a coronavirus outbreak, American citizens are braving both influenza and the Wuhan coronavirus. Even though some believe that both flu and coronavirus are similar, the fact is that there are big differences in the way they are transmitted, their mortality rates, preventive measures, and so on. Flu vs. the Wuhan ...

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A man with the sniffles.

Kids Using TikTok at Risk of Being Abused by Pedophiles

In a matter of just a few years, TikTok has become one of the fastest-growing and most popular mobile apps in the world. However, its popularity has also made it a target of pedophiles, who often use the platform to get in touch with its younger users. Pedophile dangers on TikTok “TikTok is a social ...

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The TikTok logo.

The Interesting World of Quarks and Gluons

When it comes to matter, it’s not just protons, neutrons, and electrons that pique the interest of scientists the world over. These subatomic particles are said to be made up of something that is much tinier — quarks. Quarks and gluons “Like electrons and other leptons, quarks don’t seem to have any structure and appear ...

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Quarks and gluons.

Biology: How the Body Fights Infection

Your body remains healthy most of the time despite the fact that microbes and germs infect it regularly. This is largely thanks to your immune system, which is automatically triggered every time it detects infection by bacteria, viruses, parasites, or other microbial organisms. Fighting infection There are three types of blood cells — red, white, ...

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White blood cells fighting an infection.

Reddit CEO Says TikTok Is Parasitic

Steve Huffman, the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, had some harsh words for the Chinese app TikTok during a recent conference of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors. He accused the app of being parasitic due to its invasive nature. The dangers of TikTok When discussing the feature innovations of TikTok, Huffman took a strong stand ...

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Steve Huffman.

How Are Automation and Robotics Different?

Technology is a big industry, and it only grows bigger every day. You may hear terms like automation and robotics more frequently as technology continues to spread from field to field and enter our daily lives. However, you may have a few questions. If you’re new to the sector, you might ask, what are automation and robotics, ...

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A robotic arm.

The Gulag Archipelago: An Expose of Soviet Communist Repression

The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation is a book written by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Published in 1973, it exposed the terrible conditions of Soviet Russia’s forced labor camp system that is popularly known as the gulag. The book ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ The Gulag Archipelago was published in three volumes. The first two ...

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book ‘The Gulag Archipelago.’

Movie Review: ‘Parasite’

When the South Korean movie Parasite won the Best Picture award at the recent Oscars, many people were shocked. This was the first time in history that a non-English movie won the prestigious award. The movie received four awards in total. Made with a budget of approximately US$11.4 million, the movie has gone on to ...

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The Park family in the movie 'Parasite.'

The Way of Archery in Ancient China

Archery has a long history in China. It was listed as one of the Six Noble Arts during the time of the Zhou Dynasty (1146 to 256 B.C.). Philosophers like Confucius and Lao Zi are known to have been skilled in archery. In the 17th century during the Ming Dynasty, the practice came to be ...

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Two ancient Chinese archers.