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Regulators halt plans to capture and burn leaked methane in Southern California

On Saturday, regulators in California decided to hold off on a plan to capture and burn the natural gas that is leaking from a broken storage well just north of Los Angeles, citing the risk of a “catastrophic explosion,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

The well at the Aliso Canyon storage facility has been leaking since October 23, belching massive amounts of methane, an...

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Twitter’s reported plans to remove Twitter’s defining feature are terrible

Some dude named Shakespeare once wrote: brevity is the soul of tweet. Smart fellow. The 140-character limit is not merely some incidental feature of Twitter; it's the very essence of the service. The mandate to be concise means that Twitter distinguishes itself from abundant conventional blogging platforms. Tweets can be observations, jokes, questions, or carefully distilled ideas, but they cannot be lengthy treatises or...

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Google’s new data-only Project Fi tablet plans don’t charge device fees

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Google's invite-only Project Fi MVNO experiment is still small, but today Google is expanding it beyond phones for a small subset of devices. Existing Project Fi subscribers (so, people who have received an invite and are using a Nexus 6, 5X, or 6P) will soon be able to add tablets to their plans using new data-only...

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