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upstart writes:Revealed: Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in UK every year:

takyon writes:Elon Musk's $50K TX house is a humble prefab home that can be towed by a Model X

takyon writes:USA's efforts to stop relying on Russian-built rocket engines derailed by issues with Blue Origin's BE-4

isostatic writes:I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror Software creator John McAfee was found dead in his Spanish jail cell Wednesday evening. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the SoylentNews community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.Netcraft confirms it, as does NYPost - an "apparent suicide".Frosty Piss writes:John McAfee was found dead in his cell in a prison near Barcelona on Wednesday. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year. McAfee was arrested in Spain in October after being indicted in the United States for tax evasion months earlier. He allegedly failed to file taxes for four years despite earning millions in income between 2014 and 2018 from promoting cryptocurrencies.Also at the Associated Press, The Register, CNN, and CNBC.See also: How To Uninstall McAfee AntivirusPreviously: John McAfee Announces He Will Run For President of the United States

upstart writes:How does the one-humped Arabian camel survive without drinking?:

upstart writes:Early agreement reached in dispute over Suez Canal ship:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Attack Surface Analyzer:

upstart writes:The absorption of an individual electron captured on film:

takyon writes:Testing AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR): Image Analysis and Preliminary Performance

upstart writes:Tesla Unveils Its New Supercomputer (5Th Most Powerful In The World) To Train Self-Driving Ai - Electrek:

upstart writes:Boston Dynamics is officially part of Hyundai Motor Group:

upstart writes:Mars helicopter Ingenuity nails 8th flight on the Red Planet:

upstart writes:The problem isn't remote working – it's clinging to office-based practices:

takyon writes:The ISRG wants to make the Linux kernel memory-safe with Rust

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upstart writes:Kill the 5-Day Workweek:

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upstart writes:mRNA vaccine yields full protection against malaria in mice:

upstart writes:'Mosquito smoothie' innovation boosts future malaria vaccine potential:

upstart writes:Bacteria converts degraded plastic bottles into vanilla flavoring:

upstart writes:Tasmanian devils wipe out thousands of penguins on tiny Australian island:

upstart writes:Researchers develop urine test capable of early detection of brain tumors with 97% accuracy:

upstart writes:Facebook Researchers Say They Can Detect Deepfakes And Where They Came From:

Booga1 writes:Self-healing concrete eats CO2 to fill its own cracks in 24 hours:

iPhone bug breaks WiFi when you join hotspot with unusual name:

takyon writes:Europa volcanism & interior heating modeled in detail, offers research targets for upcoming missions

takyon writes:ESA/NASA complete ISS spacewalk to install first new solar array

takyon writes:Mass-produced floating nuclear reactors use super-safe molten salt fuel

Anti-aristarchus writes:Maybe. Maybe not. New study, reported on at SciTechDaily,

martyb writes:The Earth Has a Pulse—A 27.5-Million-Year Cycle of Geological Activity:

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upstart writes:Second Space Rock Struck Earth After the One That Killed the Dinosaurs:

upstart writes:How Do Constantly Swimming Sharks Ever Rest? Scientists Just Figured It Out:

Booga1 writes:The headline at WFAA reads: 'Woke up sweating': Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were raised remotely

martyb writes:Team describes science-based hiccups intervention:

upstart writes:In the visual thalamus, neurons are in contact with both eyes but respond to only one:

gawdonblue writes:The South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT) failed to be Touched by His Noodly Appendage in a decision on Adelaide woman Tanya Watkins' claim that FSM was formed for a "religious, educational, charitable or benevolent purpose".

upstart writes:Memory helps us evaluate situations on the fly, not just recall the past: Widely known as crucial for long-term memory, hippocampus also supports short-term memory:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/06/ukraine-arrests-ransomware-gang-in-global-cybercriminal-crackdown/

takyon writes:Backscatter Radio at Gigabit Speeds

takyon writes:Rocket Mining System Could Blast Ice from Lunar Craters

DannyB writes:Windows 11 Look Inspired by KDE Plasma and GNOME?

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/18/tech/estonia-cyber-security-lessons-intl-cmd/index.html

upstart writes:Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ widespread in top makeup brands, study finds:

Anti-aristarchus writes:From China, where all the new science seems to be occuring, reported in Gizmodo.

An Anonymous Coward writes:WSJ: What Keeps People From Using Password Managers?No pay wall: https://archive.is/HCtcT

Eratosthenes writes:'Great Dimming' of Betelgeuse star is solved

Freeman writes:World Bank slams bitcoin, declines to help El Salvador's cryptocurrency plan:

MostCynical writes:Channel 9 Australia and the Guardian are reporting major outages of several banks in Australia.Outages are being reported by CBA, NAB, ANZ, Westpac and St George customers, according to DownDetector.Virgin Australia has also been affected by the outage.Twitter users are suggesting that Hosting and CDN provider Akamai is the company experiencing the issues and outages this afternoon. This is a global problem, of course the timezone makes it worst for us.There is no official word from any impacted banks as to the root cause.Additional coverage at Reuters and the BBCOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.