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Star Queensland casino licence suspension pushed back again

Star Entertainment has been given more time to prove it is suitable to operate land-based casinos in Queensland after the Australian state announced a further delay in a planned licence suspension. Star was sanctioned in Queensland in December 2022 over a series of failings in the state. The operator was slapped with a fine of AU$100.0m (£52.6m/€61.4m/US$66.7m) and

NASA selects proposals for new line of Earth science missions

Science & Nature NASA has picked four Earth science mission proposals for further study while separately selecting a smaller Earth science technology demonstration mission...

The whistleblowers | Science

Science & Nature A bioethicist probes the costs of exposing wrongdoing in medical research...Read MoreThomas Menjivar

Defense Department signs $65 million contract with startup that makes jet fuel from CO2

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In context: As more companies focus on lowering their own carbon emissions, one startup is looking to take CO2 out of the atmosphere and create sustainable aviation fuel. It already has a small-scale working process and says that if it

Justice department alleges Google tried to ‘eliminate’ ad market rivals in lawsuit

The DoJ and eight states have filed a complaint against the tech company for violating antitrust lawsThe US justice department and eight states filed a lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday over allegations that the company abused its dominance of the digital advertising business, according to a court document.“Google has used anticompetitive...

U.S. Justice Department, 8 states sue Google over digital ad dominance

Image: Rawpixel/Shutterstock.com The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states, including California, filed suit against Google in a Virginia federal court on Tuesday, claiming that the company illegally used its market powers to dominate Internet advertising. In a court filing originally reported on by CNN, the DOJ and the states asked the court to, “at

The Justice Department is suing Google to break up its ad business

Alongside eight states, the US Department of Justice is suing Google to break up the company’s advertising business. In a complaint filed Tuesday with a federal court in Virginia, the agency accused Google of illegally monopolizing the digital advertising market. “Google’s anticompetitive behavior has raised barriers to entry to artificially high levels, forced key competitors

US Department of Agriculture approves first-ever vaccine for honeybees

The humble honeybee hasn’t had an easy go of things recently. Between climate change, habitat destruction, pesticide use and attrition from diseases, one of the planet’s most important pollinators has seen its numbers decline dramatically in recent years. All of that bodes poorly for us humans. In the US, honeybees are essential to about one-third

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Star Queensland casino licence suspension pushed back again

Star Entertainment has been given more time to prove it is suitable to operate land-based casinos in Queensland after the Australian state announced a further delay in a planned licence suspension. Star was sanctioned in Queensland in December 2022 over a series of failings in the state. The operator was slapped with a fine of AU$100.0m (£52.6m/€61.4m/US$66.7m) and

NASA selects proposals for new line of Earth science missions

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Building on NIH’s data sharing policy | Science

Science & Nature In 2023, the National Institutes of...