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Better Touch Screens Could Let You Feel Stuff Before You Buy It

October 25, 2021 admin No Comments

Researchers are working on touch screen technology that would allow people to “feel” physical objects—including, for example, the texture of an item of clothing’s fabric while shopping online. Cynthia Hipwell, a professor in the mechanical engineering department at Texas A&M University, is leading a team working to better define how the finger interacts with a device with…

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Jan. 6 investigators privately question Bannon associate

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 By Betsy Woodruff Swan No Comments

Dustin Stockton, a conservative activist linked to Steve Bannon, is fielding questions Monday from congressional investigators scrutinizing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to two sources familiar with the interview. A spokesperson for the committee declined to comment. Stockton did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Stockton previously drew national media…

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Manchin gets closer to 'yes' on Dems' $1T-plus social spending plan

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 By Marianne LeVine and Burgess Everett No Comments

Joe Manchin, one of Democrats’ two centrist holdouts on a $1 trillion-plus social spending bill, says a deal is close — while acknowledging he still has problems with several provisions even after a weekend meeting with the president. The West Virginia senator told reporters Monday that reaching a framework to execute the bulk of President…

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Manchin speaks out: Deal on ‘conceptual framework’ could happen this week

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 admin No Comments

Manchin speaks out: Deal on ‘conceptual framework’ could happen this week Source: Politico-Congress 31 total views, 14 views today

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What's still in the Dem megabill? Cheat sheet on 12 big topics

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 By Jennifer Scholtes

Democrats are making big sacrifices to slash the price tag of their social spending bill from $3.5 trillion to roughly $2 trillion as they close in on a deal that can satisfy both the party’s moderate and progressive factions. Promises like free community college are dead altogether. Dreams of paid leave and expanding Medicare to…

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There’s another big Dem agenda holdup: A stalled China competitiveness bill

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 By Andrew Desiderio and Gavin Bade

President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda isn’t the only stalled-out priority that’s driving congressional Democrats mad. A key national security initiative, a bill aimed at boosting U.S. competition with China and easing the supply-chain backlog, has languished on Capitol Hill amid disagreements between the Senate and the House, even as both parties acknowledge the need to…

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Jan. 6 panel seeking information from Facebook and following the money, chair says

October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 By Jordan Wolman

The chair of the special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol said on Sunday that his panel is working with Facebook to obtain information and has a team looking into the financing of the rally before the attack. "We think the potential for co-mingling restricted funds for this purpose might…

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Facebook is being deceitful, Sen. Blumenthal says

October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 By David Cohen

Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Sunday tore into Facebook, calling the company’s stated attitudes on regulation a sham. Speaking on “Reliable Sources” on CNN, Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said, “What we are hearing from Facebook is platitudes and bromides. When it says it wants regulation, at the same time it is fighting that regulation tooth and nail, day…

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6 things to know about the Jan. 6 committee

October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 admin

6 things to know about the Jan. 6 committee 1 00:00:07,080 –> 00:00:12,270 >> The select committee has held closed door interviews with witnesses they’ve subpoenaed people and 2 00:00:12,270 –> 00:00:17,700 requested what looks like thousands of pages of documents from companies from people 3 00:00:17,700 –> 00:00:25,240 involved in the January 6 attack….

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Dems weigh ditching Medicare expansion and paid leave in eleventh hour of social spending talks

October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 By Heather Caygle

Democrats are haggling over whether to drop two of the most popular elements of their social spending bill as negotiations reach the zero hour, according to a half-dozen sources close to the discussions. While high-level talks on the $1 trillion-plus package are ongoing, lawmakers, staffers, advocates and lobbyists said that a plan to expand Medicare…

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Looking to Modernize? Better Have a Plan, Federal Officials Say

October 22, 2021 admin

Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the nation, the Small Business Administration spearheaded a key recovery program processing over $1 trillion in loans and grants for small business entities that continues today. In a normal year, SBA issues somewhere between $25 billion to $35 billion in loans and grants, many of which go to small…

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Working Group Breaks Down the Keys to Securing Mobile Devices

October 22, 2021 admin

Even before the pandemic, the government was working hard to integrate mobile devices into its networks. The sudden need to send employees home to work—often on their own devices—stepped up that effort to bolster security. The Federal CIO Council, through its Federal Mobility Group, or FMG, has now released its Mobile Security Capability Ecosystem Overview…

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Meet the donors at the heart of the latest indictment of a member of Congress

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 By Hailey Fuchs and Olivia Beavers

Not long after Toufic Baaklini settled a case with the Justice Department involving illegal campaign donations to members of Congress, a Republican lawmaker took more contributions from him. An associate of the Nigerian-born billionaire at the heart of a scandal threatening to bring down Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), Baaklini agreed to pay $90,000 and cooperate…

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Biden huddles with Pelosi as Dem dealmaking intensifies

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 By Burgess Everett

President Joe Biden had breakfast with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday as Democrats close in on a deal on Biden’s social spending plan, though a final agreement with the party’s two Senate centrist holdouts is unlikely to come this week. Several sources with knowledge of the intensifying talks said they doubted a deal could come…

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Trailblazing Women Who Broke into Engineering in the 1970s Reflect on What’s Changed – and What Hasn’t

October 21, 2021 admin

Engineering in the U.S. has long been – and continues to be – a male-dominated profession. Fifty years ago, it looked like that might change. In 1970, the percentage of women majoring in engineering was less than 1%. In 1979, that number was 9%. Many hoped women would continue to enter the field at the…

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'Bulls—': How a Manchin-Bernie blowup helped unstick Dems' agenda

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 By Burgess Everett and Marianne LeVine

Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders tangled in a private Democratic meeting this week that helped set the stage for growing progress on President Joe Biden’s agenda. As Democratic leadership gathered Monday ahead of a pivotal week of negotiations on the party’s social spending bill, Manchin (D-W.Va.) laid out what he could accept to Senate Majority…

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Attorney General: DOJ 'will apply the facts and the law' when considering Bannon referral

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 admin

Attorney General: DOJ ‘will apply the facts and the law’ when considering Bannon referral 1 00:00:00,420 –> 00:00:05,730 >> So I ask you Mr. Attorney General regardless of politics. Will the department follow the facts and 2 00:00:05,730 –> 00:00:10,760 the law and expeditiously consider the referrals put forth by the select committee. 3 00:00:10,800…

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House antitrust leaders meet with Facebook whistleblower

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 By Emily Birnbaum and Leah Nylen

The leaders of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee met with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen on Thursday afternoon, two people familiar with the meeting told POLITICO. Subcommittee Chair David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and ranking member Ken Buck (R-Colo.) talked with Haugen about Facebook and the social network’s competition-related issues, the people said. Haugen’s inside knowledge could help…

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Dem divisions linger in last lap of spending talks

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 By Sarah Ferris

Congressional Democrats are down to a handful of key disputes in their frenetic effort to draft President Joe Biden’s roughly $2 trillion social spending package by the end of the week. But the remaining hurdles will likely be the trickiest to clear, and it remains an enormous question mark whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate…

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McCarthy counters Trump's message that voters sit out future elections

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 admin

McCarthy counters Trump’s message that voters sit out future elections 1 00:00:01,780 –> 00:00:07,080 >> Donald Trump put out a statement recently where he talked about the election fraud. He said Republicans will 2 00:00:07,080 –> 00:00:12,720 not be voting in 2022 or 2024 if you do not fix these issues. Is 3 00:00:12,720 –>…

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