Senator Chuck Schumer is calling on lawmakers to make online predator blackmailing a federal crime. That’s when someone steals your personal information online and threatens you with it.
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Summit Will Promote Improved Internet Access In The Finger Lakes
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Bridging the internet access gap in the Finger Lakes is the focus of a summit today in Geneva. The Finger Lakes Digital Inclusion Coalition is meeting to discuss how a lack of internet access at home can affect communities in the region.
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SUNY Nears Completion Of Blight-Resistant American Chestnut Trees
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Scientists at SUNY ESF have been trying to bring back the American chestnut tree for decades. Three to four billion of the trees were destroyed by blight in the first half of the 20th century, but researchers are now getting close to bringing back an American chestnut resistant to blight.
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A New Disposal Method For Unused Medications Offered By PA Clinics
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A health network in Pennsylvania’s Tioga County hopes to reduce the abuse of unused medications by making them harder to find. Nationally, young people who abuse prescription opioids usually get them from friends and relatives.
‘No Evidence Of Extraterrestrial Activity,’ As New York City Is Bathed In Blue Light
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Utility company Con Edison says the light emanated from “a sustained electrical arc flash that was visible across a wide area.” Witnesses had many other ideas.
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PA Researchers Push For Answers On Carbon Capture: Will It Stay Where We Put It?
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If power plants that burn fossil fuels could capture their carbon emissions and store them somewhere, it would go a long way toward preventing greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere.
Google Will Spend $1 Billion For New York Campus On Hudson River
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“In fact, we’re growing faster outside the [San Francisco] Bay Area than within it,” says Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat, a senior vice president of both Google and its parent company, Alphabet.
New York Girls And Their Moms Get Candid About Phones And Social Media
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About half of all teens say they’ve tried to cut back on their phone use. But one of the girls we spoke with says that’s hard when “it’s obviously designed to be addictive.”
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In 2018, Harmful Algal Blooms On Cayuga Lake Increased Five-Fold Over The Year Before
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Significantly more harmful algal blooms were reported on Cayuga Lake this year than in 2017. A local non-profit reports the 2018 blooms were more likely to contain toxins harmful humans and small mammals, like cats and dogs.
Evelyn Berezin, New York Scientist Behind Groundbreaking Word Processor, Dies At 93
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Berezin studied physics but, despairing of the job market in physics, she turned to the rapidly transforming computer industry. She invented the first truly computerized system for word processing.
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New York Firm Will Build NASA’s Next-Generation Space Telescope
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Harris Corporation has been awarded a nearly $196 million contract to help build a space-based telescope. The work involves the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST, for short.