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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:An anniversary for great justice: Remembering "All Your Base" 20 years later:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Mutation in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein renders virus up to eight times more infectious:

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[2021-02-18 21:02:56 UTC; UPDATE: Landing successful! Picture received from the surface!]7 Minutes to Mars: NASA's Perseverance Rover Attempts Most Dangerous Landing YetEratosthenes writes:Video at NASA on YouTube on the Perseverance landing.Helicopter!!NASA's Perseverance Rover Prepares for Mars Landingupstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA's Perseverance rover prepares for Mars landing:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Unlocking the mystery behind skeletal aging:

takyon writes:Samsung's New HBM2 Memory Thinks for Itself: 1.2 TFLOPS of Embedded Processing Power

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:iOS 14.5 wants to keep your internet use well away from Google:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Dr. Fauci wins $1 million Dan David prize for 'defending science':

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes: A tiny crystal device could boost gravitational wave detectors to reveal the birth cries of black holes:

martyb writes:On Monday February 17 2014, at 02:06AM SoylentNews announced itself to the world!(That's exactly seven years ago from the time this story posts.) Does it seem possible? I know it certainly amazes me.A lot can happen in a year. Here are some items of note. As always, if you are not interested in this kind of stuff, ignore this post — a new story will be along shortly. Otherwise, this story continues below the fold.

takyon writes:Pine64 unveils Quartz64 SBC powered by Rockchip RK3566 SoC

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In Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have 'Hair'upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:what-color-is-the-virtual-hair-of-black-holesIn Violation of Einstein, Black Holes Might Have 'Hair':

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Scientists prove that deepfake detectors can be duped:

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Liberia on Alert for Ebola After Neighbouring Guinea Reports Outbreakupstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Liberia on Alert for Ebola After Neighbouring Guinea Reports Outbreak:

[UPDATE (2021-02-16 14:46:07 UTC): mea culpa! Corrected temperature comparison of Boca Chica vs. Chicago. Also, noted and corrected temperature error in quoted text. --martyb]Boca Chica, Texas is located at the southernmost point in Texas and is where SpaceX builds and launches its next-generation Starship orbital rockets. At 2:30 PM local time, the predicted high temperature for the day was 17°F (-8.3°C) which was colder than nearly as cold as Chicago, Illinois where the day's high temperature was predicted to reach 15°F (-9.4°C) .upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Millions without power in Texas as snow storm slams US:

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DannyB writes:Parler is back online after a month of downtime:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Australia's eSafety Commissioner will be able to force platforms to get rid of BDSM and fetish content:

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hubie writes:Wind speed is something that is hard to qualitatively describe from person to person. One person's playful breeze is another's biting annoyance. For a very long time this was a problem in the maritime domain so a couple of centuries ago Francis Beaufort came up with the Beaufort Scale. This scale ties wind speed to objective observations. It was first applied to sea state, but it was later extended for observations on land.There is a research field growing up around the idea of "social sensing", where social media platforms, particularly Twitter, can be used for real-time detection and tracking of natural events, such as earthquakes, forest fires, air quality, etc. A group of researchers from the University of Exeter have established a social Beaufort scale using Twitter. They looked at 110k weather-related tweets in the UK spanning two years to see if they could detect wind-related effects and estimate the wind magnitudes by looking at the language and emojis used, similar to what is done with the Beaufort scale (well, except for the emojis). They found that a simple text classifier can be used to detect high-wind events fairly accurately and the severity of these events can be inferred by considering the tweet volume.Journal Reference:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Cold sores: Discovery reveals how stress, illness and even sunburn trigger flareups:

An Anonymous Coward writes:The Russian company said the employee sold access to 4,887 user email accounts.https://www.zdnet.com/article/yandex-said-it-caught-an-employee-selling-access-to-users-inboxes/

Mass Brewery Uncovered in Egypt May be Oldest in the Worldupstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Mass brewery uncovered in Egypt may be oldest in the world:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Marvel At UAE Hope Orbiter's First Image Of Mars:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:NASA On The Cusp With $967 Million Mission To Weird 'Psyche' Asteroid Worth 75,000 Times Our Global Economy:

[2021-02-14 15:53:00 UTC: UPDATE added need to check apache log before doing a slash -restart]martyb writes:We seem to have experienced some difficulties with the SoylentNews site.I've noticed that both the number of hits and comments for each story do not seem to be updating.Corrective measures taken:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Report: NASA's only realistic path for humans on Mars is nuclear propulsion:

martyb writes:Donald Trump acquitted by Senate in second impeachment trial:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series laptop shortages likely as Ethereum hunters in China turn to mobile mining:

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hubie writes:Biological swarms are fascinating and even mesmerizing things to watch, as hundreds or even thousands of individual entities behave in a manner such that their collective behavior can act almost as a great organism that responds to its immediate environment. A large and diverse number of organisms exhibit collective behavior, so it is generally assumed that this permits tasks to be achieved that are well beyond what a single individual can achieve while operating without the need for top-down control. There has long been significant interest in understanding how to exploit this in engineered systems such as drone or bot swarms.The challenge in understanding collective behavior is that one normally has to assume a priori a mathematical model to simulate, which means trying to extract rules for how the individual entities interact, and their relative interactions can change depending upon their changing environment. A new paper studied swarms of midges and they argued the case for not worrying about the individual particles, but treating it as a thermodynamics problem.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:World's First 3D Bioprinted And Cultivated Ribeye Steak Is Revealed: