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People keep finding late loved ones on Google Maps

For years, Google Maps has offered Street View, which stitches together panoramic camera images to recreate a digital facsimile of physical spaces in the real world that you can explore online. Some people are discovering that if they scroll through the platform long enough and use a time travel feature, they just might find the image of a late loved one captured by one of Google’s cameras — and seemingly saved in Google Maps forever. In the past few days, several posts announcing… Source link

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‘Finding hope’ Google Doodle honors Kentucky teen’s late father

A Kentucky teenager’s artwork in memory of his late father will appear on computers around the world Tuesday. Milo Golding’s “Finding Hope” was named the winner of the 2021 Doodle for Google competition, and the piece will appear on Google homepages. Golding, an 11th grader at Lexington Christian Academy, was told the good news by Google CEO Sundar Pichai after being named one of five finalists out of 54 students from every U.S. state and territory. “I can’t tell you how inspiring we found… Source link

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Yahoo Story on Florida COVID Study Misrepresented Key Finding, Study’s Author Says

A Yahoo News story warning that “Florida COVID numbers face new scrutiny” incorrectly framed the key finding of the study it profiled, according to the principal researcher of the study in question as well as other researchers quoted in the same article. “Florida is undercounting the number of people who died from COVID-19 by thousands of cases, casting new doubt on claims that Gov. Ron DeSantis navigated the coronavirus pandemic successfully,” begins the fear-mongering story,… Source link

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Postal worker’s ‘disgusting’ act after finding woman, 72, in snow

Distressing footage has shown the moment a postal worker appeared to leave an elderly woman on the ground after she asked him to help her up. The Royal Mail employee was captured on a doorbell camera telling 72-year-old Patricia Stewart he was “too knackered” to help her while making a delivery in Bainsford, a small village in Scotland, on Thursday (local time). Ms Stewart had slipped on ice and hurt her head outside her home, but when the postman approached, he looked down at her and is heard… Source link

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‘Breakthrough finding’ reveals why certain Covid-19 patients die

Dr. Megan Ranney has learned a lot about Covid-19 since she began treating patients with the disease in the emergency department in February. But there’s one question she still can’t answer: What makes some patients so much sicker than others? Advancing age and underlying medical problems explain only part of the phenomenon, said Ranney, who has seen patients of similar age, background and health status follow wildly different trajectories. Full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak “Why does one… Source link

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