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Your growing bump may be the elephant in the room, but if handled correctly, you can still land the job.

Pregnancy is an incredibly exciting time, but if you’re looking for a job while you’re expecting, you may find your growing bump an interview hurdle. But Vicki Salemi, career expert for Monster Jobs, says interviewing for a job while pregnant can be done successfully. In fact, she’s recently seen two pregnant women successfully land the job. It may not be the ideal situation, but if done correctly, there’s no reason why you—and your little one—can’t land the job.

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Uber’s lower prices hurt both Uber drivers and taxi drivers, so they’re teaming up to protest and organize.

Last year, taxi drivers in Belgium threw eggs at Uber drivers’ cars and blocked them from picking up passengers during a protest against the ride-hailing company. In France, during another day of protests, taxi drivers attacked Uber drivers, in a couple of cases even setting their cars on fire. Footage from a protest against Uber in Toronto shows a man banging on the window of someone he suspects is driving for Uber, only to be dragged 20 feet before letting go. And in cities across the U.S., Uber drivers and taxi drivers have faced off on opposite sides of protests over Uber regulations.

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Now if they could only do the same thing for trolls.

Twitter recently announced that since mid-2015 it has suspended 125,000 accounts that were threatening or promoting terrorist acts, with many of those suspended accounts primarily related to the militant group ISIS. Now independent research shows that the suspensions are having the intended effect, reducing the spread of the terror group’s propaganda on the social networking site.

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Recreational drone owners who fail to register their devices by today could face steep fines.

In December, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ruled that anyone who owns a drone weighing between 0.55 pounds and 50 pounds must register it before February 19, 2016 and pay a registration fee of $5. That day has come, and those who fail to register their devices by today could be subject to $27,500 in civil penalties—or face jail time and $250,000 in criminal penalties.

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The new SpaceShipTwo replaces the one that broke apart during a fatal crash in 2014. We’re updating live from Mojave, California.

On October 31, 2014, Virgin Galactic’s race to be the first company to take largely-untrained tourists to space took a calamitous detour when its SpaceShipTwo exploded in mid-air and then crashed in the Mojave Desert during a test flight, killing the copilot and seriously injuring the pilot.

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In a letter to retailers, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission outlined a set of safety standards that all hoverboards must meet.

Hoverboards, we hardly knew ye. The Back to the Future-inspired gadget has come under fire—at times literally—for months, due to numerous reports that the devices can explode without warning. Now the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has officially deemed the hoverboard “an imminent hazard,” in a letter that outlines new safety standards for the product.

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The Department of Justice filed a motion Friday saying that Apple should be required to comply with the FBI’s court order.

The Department of Justice has filed a legal motion backing the FBI in its iPhone encryption dispute with Apple. The motion urges that Apple comply with an FBI-won court order and help unlock the iPhone of the deceased San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook.

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16 months after the tragic accident that halted Virgin Galactic’s efforts, Richard Branson’s company is nearly ready to resume test flights.

You can’t tell Richard Branson he’s grounded.

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