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Women’s soccer fans are online, organized, and refuse to be ignored

The Verge

These are typical responses from fans of the National Women’s Soccer League, which was the first contact sports league to return to play during the COVID-19 pandemic with its Challenge Cup. So you’re watching games online,” says Meg Linehan, who covers the NWSL and the US Women’s National Team (USWNT) for The Athletic. “If

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How to celebrate Earth Day 2021

The Verge

Earthday.org’s second annual “ Earth Day Live: Restore Our Earth ” online live stream event will be broadcast on April 22nd beginning at noon, parallel to the Biden administration’s global climate summit (see below). Image: University of Utah. National Geographic’s Earth Day Eve. National Geographic’s Earth Day Eve 2021.

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The airwaves of Navajo Nation

The Verge

During the pandemic, two radio stations broadcast vital information about COVID-19 to remote stretches of the country’s largest Indigenous territory. Michaels, Arizona is less than ten minutes away from the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock, but its reach encompasses all 27,000 square miles of the Nation across four different states.

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We’re never going to get meaningful data on self-driving car testing

The Verge

Since 2012, at least 41 states and DC have considered legislation related to autonomous vehicles, and 29 states and DC have enacted those measures, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. As a result, the reports have become reflections of how much the individual companies feel like broadcasting their self-driving message.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

You wrote the National Broadband Plan in 2008. You have a new updated approach of that called the National Broadband for the Future Act of 2020. How do we make sure that we develop a national economy and that’s universal access? Well, my ally was Jack Danforth, Republican from Missouri, Orrin Hatch from Utah.