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Oct 9, 2020Oct 2020

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AT&T plans thousands of layoffs at HBO, Warner Bros., rest of WarnerMedia AT&T’s WarnerMedia cuts jobs, blames pandemic’s impact on entertainment industry.
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Oct 9, 2020Oct 2020

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A fool and his money . . .
Robinhood Users Say Accounts Were Looted, No One to Call Brokerage says systems not breached, criminals targeted emails The SEC has reached out to customers in response to complaints
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Oct 9, 2020Oct 2020

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Twitter Will Turn Off Some Features to Fight Election Misinformation The platform is trying to address growing concern that falsehoods could lead to instability. Most of the changes will start on Oct. 20.
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Oct 9, 2020Oct 2020

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Yelp Says It Will Mark Pages of Businesses Accused of Racist Conduct The online review company said that it would raise flags when there was “resounding evidence” and that it would link to articles detailing racist reports. ...
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Oct 9, 2020Oct 2020

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Apple pays $288,000 to white-hat hackers who had run of company’s network Hacker team led by 20-year- finds 55 vulnerabilities, 11 of them critical.
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Oct 8, 2020Oct 2020

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Judge Orders Twitter To Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy
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Oct 8, 2020Oct 2020

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Microsoft app store playbook swipes at Apple, Google
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Oct 8, 2020Oct 2020

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Waymo starts to open driverless ride-hailing service to the public
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Oct 8, 2020Oct 2020

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Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show Court records in an arson case show that Google gave away data on people who searched for a specific address.
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Oct 8, 2020Oct 2020

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Apple made ProtonMail add in-app purchases, even though it had been free for years Remember Hey and WordPress? ProtonMail was forced into IAP too.
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Oct 8, 2020Oct 2020

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A NASA mission is about to capture carbon-rich dust from a former water world
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Oct 8, 2020Oct 2020

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Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

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New Tinnitus Treatment Alleviates Annoying Ringing in the Ears A noninvasive device designed to rewire brain circuits reduced symptoms of tinnitus in a large, exploratory clinical trial
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Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

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H-1B visa: Trump administration issues major rule change Moves by administration likely to end up in court, immigration law firm says
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Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

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Scientists win historic Nobel chemistry prize for 'genetic scissors'
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Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

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EU lawmakers ask Jeff Bezos whether Amazon spies on politicians Concern over job ads referring to monitoring of ‘hostile leaders’ and union ‘threats’
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Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

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Did Google infringe Oracles' code copyrights in the Android operating system? why/not ?
Google Gets Mixed Reception in High Court Clash With Oracle Android creator seeks to avoid billions of dollars in damages Copyright case evokes analogies to safe-cracking, restaurants [bloomberg.com]
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Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

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I’m a software engineer at Uber and I’m voting against Prop 22
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

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Dogs’ brains ‘not hardwired’ to respond to human faces Study of brain activity shows no difference when dogs see back or front of a head
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

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Do Black Holes 'Matter' ? :)
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Black Holes The prize was awarded half to Roger Penrose for showing how black holes could form and half to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering a supermassive object at the Milky Way’s center. [nytimes.com]
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Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

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Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms The change is a significant escalation over its previous actions targeting QAnon and one of the broadest rules the social media giant has put in place in its history.
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Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

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How the Late Rock God Eddie Van Halen Hacked His Guitar The legend didn't just transform the guitar forever—he even patented his game-changing innovations. Here's how he redefined rock and roll, in his own words.
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Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

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The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant The IRS used smartphone location data from a contractor to try and track Americans without a warrant.
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Health & Happiness
Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

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Facebook removes Trump post falsely saying flu is more lethal than Covid
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Music, Movies & Books
Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

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Regal Movie Chain Will Close All 536 U.S. Theaters On Thursday
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Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

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Venice holds back the water for first time in 1,200 years
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Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

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Safety panel has “great concern” about NASA plans to test Moon mission software “Flight systems should be developed for success with a goal to test like you fly.”
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Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

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Europe’s top court confirms no mass surveillance without limits
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Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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Covid: 16,000 coronavirus cases missed in daily figures after IT error
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Music, Movies & Books
Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ Delays Release Date
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Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for
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Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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U.S. indicts anti-virus software creator John McAfee for tax evasion
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Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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Exxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents Internal projections from one of world’s largest oil producers show an increase in its enormous contribution to global warming
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News & Links
Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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More than 14m tonnes of plastic believed to be at the bottom of the ocean Thirty times more plastic on ocean floor than surface, analysis suggests, but more trapped on land than sea
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Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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CDC revises coronavirus guidance to acknowledge that it spreads through airborne transmission
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C Virus Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice were jointly honored for their decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global ...
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News & Links
Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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Trump Cracks Down on Visas. Indian Firms May Benefit. As the president clashes with the courts, some companies and investors say tougher limits on temporary work visas will help push jobs overseas.
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News & Links
Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to to Talk to You
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General & Hellos
Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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Facebook leak hints at its defense against a government-ordered breakup Instagram and WhatsApp are supposedly too integrated to leave.
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

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Radiation levels on moon more than double those on space station
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News & Links
Oct 4, 2020Oct 2020

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Does Apple not care about recycling ?
Apple Sues Canadian Recycling Firm for Reselling 100,000 Devices Instead of Destroying Them [iphoneincanada.ca]
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News & Links
Oct 4, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
Clinical Trials Hit by Ransomware Attack on Health Tech Firm No patients were affected, but the incident was another reminder of the risks in the increasingly common assaults on computer networks. alternate source : ...
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Music, Movies & Books
Oct 4, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
Cinema giant Cineworld to shut after 007 fiasco The decision to push back the release of the new Bond film again could bring down the curtain on struggling cinemas
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Oct 3, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
The first black hole image helped test general relativity in a new way The Event Horizon Telescope’s snapshot of M87’s black hole once again shows Einstein was right
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Oct 3, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
I like people who don't get COVID-19 :)
Twitter Says You Cannot Tweet That You Hope Trump Dies From COVID "Content that wishes, hopes or expresses a desire for death, serious bodily harm, or fatal disease against an individual is against our rules." [vice.com]
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News & Links
Oct 3, 2020Oct 2020

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E-scooters should be legalised says Transport Committee
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Oct 3, 2020Oct 2020

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Potty training: NASA tests new $23M titanium space toilet
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Oct 2, 2020Oct 2020

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How the brain handles the unknown
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Music, Movies & Books
Oct 2, 2020Oct 2020

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Publishers Worry as Ebooks Fly off Libraries' Virtual Shelves Checkouts of digital books from a popular service are up 52 percent since March. Publishers say their easy availability hurts sales.
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Oct 2, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
Palantir: The controversial data firm now worth £17bn
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Oct 2, 2020Oct 2020

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Physicists witness time crystals interacting for the first time ever
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News & Links
Oct 2, 2020Oct 2020

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China contained Covid-19. Now, hundreds of millions of people there are about to go on vacation at the same time
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Oct 2, 2020Oct 2020

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Google to pay publishers $1 billion over three years for their news
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Oct 1, 2020Oct 2020

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Indian startups explore alliance and alternative app store to fight Google’s ‘monopoly’
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Oct 1, 2020Oct 2020

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For Subway, A Ruling Not So Sweet. Irish Court Says Its Bread Isn't Bread
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Politics
Oct 1, 2020Oct 2020

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At White House’s urging, Republicans launch anti-tech blitz ahead of election Trump has allies in the Senate dialing up their offensive against Silicon Valley's liability protections
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Oct 1, 2020Oct 2020

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Ransomware Victims That Pay Up Could Incur Steep Fines from Uncle Sam
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General & Hellos
Oct 1, 2020Oct 2020

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YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop YouTubers are using AI to bring history to life. But historians argue the process is nonsense
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News & Links
Oct 1, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
Apple removes two RSS feed readers from China App Store
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Oct 1, 2020Oct 2020

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Serious injuries at Amazon fulfillment centers topped 14,000, despite the company’s safety claims
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Sep 30, 2020Sep 2020

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Astronauts to Vote in Space
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Sep 30, 2020Sep 2020

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Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers The ride-hailing services will be required to pay their drivers at least $16.39 under the new law.
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Sep 30, 2020Sep 2020

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China preparing an antitrust investigation into Google
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Sep 30, 2020Sep 2020

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US intelligence sources discussed poisoning Julian Assange, court told Extradition hearing told spying operation at Ecuador embassy included plot to take baby’s nappy
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Sep 30, 2020Sep 2020

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Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS The Windows XP source code that leaked last week is incomplete, lacking some components, but is authentic. "Windows XP Source Code Reportedly Leaked, Posted to 4chan There&039;s no putting this genie back in ..."
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Sep 30, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
Uber’s self-driving car unit has made little progress despite $2.5B price tag
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Sep 30, 2020Sep 2020

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Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is ‘Very Likely to Work,’ Studies Suggest A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable.
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Sep 30, 2020Sep 2020

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Amsterdam and Helsinki launch algorithm registries to bring transparency to public deployments of AI
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Sep 30, 2020Sep 2020

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Denmark: We can slash CO2 by 70% in a decade and still have welfare
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Politics
Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

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Biden campaign blasts Facebook for "regression"
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Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

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Apple Accused of Delaying Masimo Legal Fight to Gain Watch Sales Masimo says Apple stole blood-oxygen technology for new Watch Apple is challenging Masimo patents and wants the case stayed
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Health & Happiness
Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
N Brazil's Amazon a COVID-19 resurgence dashes herd immunity hopes
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Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

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Washington emergency responders first to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet in the field: ‘It’s amazing’
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Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

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Amnesty International to halt India operations
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Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

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New racial justice target: Defund the police foundations Racial justice advocates are calling on corporations to sever their relationships with police foundations.
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Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

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Uber can continue operating in London after winning court appeal
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Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

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UK risks losing contract for new climate research centre because of Brexit Proposed centre with up to 250 jobs is linked to EU Copernicus satellite programme
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Health & Happiness
Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

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Healthcare giant UHS hit by ransomware attack
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Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

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Ransomware Attacks Take On New Urgency Ahead of Vote Attacks against small towns, big cities and the contractors who run their voting systems have federal officials fearing that hackers will try to sow chaos around the election.
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
Water on Mars: Discovery of Three Buried Lakes Intrigues Scientists Researchers say they have detected a group of lakes hidden under the Red Planet's icy surface
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Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

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YouTube celebrates Deaf Awareness Week by killing crowd-sourced captions 500,000 signatures aren't stopping YouTube from shutting down accessibility feature.
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Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
How many get their 'news' from comedians ?
Many Americans Get News on YouTube, Where News Organizations and Independent Producers Thrive Side by Side Americans are as likely to often turn to independent channels as they are to established news organization channels; videos from independent news producers are more likely to cover subjects negatively, discuss conspiracy theories [journalism.org]
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Sep 29, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
A Police Charity Bought an iPhone Hacking Tool and Gave it to Cops Private companies such as Target fund police foundations, which then purchase technology for police departments.
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Sep 28, 2020Sep 2020

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In Internet Dead Zones, Rural Schools Struggle With Distanced Learning
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Sep 28, 2020Sep 2020

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Astronomers discover possible 60s-era Moon rocket booster heading back to Earth
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Sep 28, 2020Sep 2020

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Physicists Argue That Black Holes From the Big Bang Could Be the Dark Matter
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Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
This is how police request customer data from Amazon
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
Can you imagine a phone charge that lasts for months ?
Metal wires of carbon complete toolbox for carbon-based computers [news.berkeley.edu] [science.sciencemag.org]
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Linux Users
Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
Lenovo to roll out Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS across nearly 30 ThinkPads, ThinkStations First, Fedora, and now, Ubuntu Linux. Lenovo is getting serious about the Linux desktop, with support for almost 30 ThinkPads and ThinkStations. ...
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Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
The IRS Sets a Trap for Cryptocurrency Tax Cheats . . . Alternate source :
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Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

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Singapore in world first for facial verification
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Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

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NASA's new $23 million space toilet is ready for launch The upgraded toilet could be used on moon flights one day.
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Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

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Photographing Earth from the Cupola on the International Space Station
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Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

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Space Force to start flying on reused SpaceX rockets
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Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

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Why Modeling the Spread of COVID-19 Is So Damn Hard
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Linux Users
Sep 26, 2020Sep 2020

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DOS Subsystem for Linux breaks cover
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Sep 26, 2020Sep 2020

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Apple backs down on taking 30% cut of paid online events on Facebook Apple says the 30 percent Apple tax will return at the end of the year.
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Sep 26, 2020Sep 2020

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When the pandemic quieted San Francisco, these birds could hear each other sing As urban bustle ground to a halt this spring, white-crowned sparrow songs improved surprisingly fast, a new study says.
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Health & Happiness
Sep 26, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating Side-effects of bexarotene rule out use but trial suggests other drugs may halt multiple sclerosis
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Academic (e.g., Science)
Sep 26, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by FearlessFly
Kitty see, kitty do: cat imitates human, in first scientific demonstration of behavior
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