A Brigham Young University student was fermenting homemade rocket fuel on a stove in a dorm when the mixture suddenly exploded into a huge “fireball,” according to campus police. The explosion caused by the faulty experiment set off fire alarms and sprinklers in the Heritage Halls at around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, flooding parts of the building, BYU . police said. Campus police and the Provo Fire Department responded to the scene. “The flame from the explosion engulfed the walls and ceiling around the stove and the intense heat disabled the…
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All the ways you’re being monitored for COVID-19
The days of working from home while lounging in your sweat and cuddling your pandemic pet might be over. Now, employers want to make sure you’re as productive as possible – using monitoring technology. Since the beginning of the epidemic, he has demanded employee monitoring measures jump 54%According to research by online privacy review site Top10VPN. Big companies are trying to force task tracking with new technologies – like Amazon Truck Monitoring Technology or Microsoft . Productivity Record Software – which has been widely criticized. Some employers have Implemented virtual…
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Frustrated at the way modern universities stifle free thought and academic diversity, a group of writers and entrepreneurs announced Monday the launch of their own institute of higher learning: the University of Austin. Joe Lonsdale, partner at 8VC and founder of Palantir, Addepar, Resilience Bio and other multi-billion dollar tech companies, is one of the founders. Here, in an exclusive to The Post, he outlines the school’s mission. In the twentieth century, American universities attracted exceptional thinkers in every field and produced an unprecedented wealth of knowledge. Our universities have…
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