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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for FatPhil:Boston Dynamics' Spot Is Helping Chernobyl Move Towards Safe Decommissioning:

canopic jug writes:The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure has a call for donations against the Unitary Software Patent Trolls after Thursday's disastrous Bundestag vote. On Thursday in Germany, the Bundestag voted on ratification of a proposal for a Unified Patent Court, largely seen as purely a vehicle for introducing software patents into Europe. As software patents in the US were on the way out, introducing them into Europe would bring them back into the US after further "harmonization". Thursday's vote is the result of the software patent lobby changing its strategy in Europe by creating a central patent court outside of the control of the individual member states under which it would make its own rules and avoid democratically elected legislators.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

oumuamua writes:Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spreads more indoors at low humidity.

c0lo writes:Straight for the horse's mouth ESA and ClearSpace SA sign contract for world's first debris removal mission

cmdrklarg writes:Sheep counters find a monolith:https://www.cnn.com/style/article/utah-monolith-what-is-it-trnd/index.htmlSome geek on Reddit found it on Google Earth already:https://www.reddit.com/r/geoguessr/comments/jzw628/help_me_find_this_obelisk_in_remote_utah/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for aristarchus_:Missing Ink: Darwin Notebooks, Long Unseen, Now Believed Stolen:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Square Enix Launches Permanent Work-From-Home Program Next Month:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Tech giants face fines or even break-up if they breach new rules: EU's Breton:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Exclusive: Foxconn to shift some Apple production to Vietnam to minimise China risk:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Waste not, want not: Dutch students build electric car from recycled material:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Fear response neurons identified as potential anxiety treatment target:

takyon writes:Vulkan update: we're conformant!

takyon writes:These Ants Suit Up in a Protective 'Biomineral Armor' Never Seen Before in Insects

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Scientists make insta-bling at room temperature:

First off, for those of you who are celebrating Thanksgiving this Thursday, please accept our best wishes for a safe and happy holiday. For those who are struggling themselves (or who have friends or family who are), please accept our sincere and best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.For those who are not in the US, please be aware that Thursday is a national holiday. Further, it is traditional for most people, where possible, to also take off Friday, too. This allows for an extended period of time: Thursday through Sunday, inclusive.Our editorial staff has been happy to provide stories for the community's discussion. There is much that happens behind the scenes. I am taking this opportunity to publicly thank all of them for their hard work and their sacrifices of time and energy.I am encouraging the editorial staff to take a break during this holiday period. Therefore, we will be on a reduced, weekend schedule from Thursday through Sunday (UTC), inclusive. We will continue to check in during this period... we thank you in advance for continuing to send in your story submissions.Again, please accept our genuine best wishes for a safe and happy holiday!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Starship SN8 successfully completes final testing ahead of flight - NASASpaceFlight.com:

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for TheMightyBuzzard.Source: https://torrentfreak.com/amazon-patents-technology-to-track-down-streaming-pirates-201121/:

[With the upcoming Thanksgiving celebration in the US on Thursday and its history of over-indulgence, this seemed to be a timely warning.--Ed.]An Anonymous Coward writes:Do you take your phone to the loo? Spent half an hour a day in the peace and calm of the smallest room in the house safe and secure in the knowledge few will disturb you? Are you at all concerned your habit could be detrimental to your health? According to Sydney gastroenterologist Professor Chris Berney you should be. Doctor Berney has treated 16 people over the past 18 months for haemorrhoid related issues which he believes comes from spending too long on the loo. Regularly spending over 20 minutes with the rear sphincter relaxed can result in a decline in control which leads to blood clots developing. Prof Berney published his findings regarding young people spending too much time on the toilet in the Australia New Zealand Surgery journal.Where are the futuristic chairs with the built-in toilet?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Women Scientists Are Calling Bullshit On a Study Claiming That Women Make Bad STEM Mentors:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Is This Trippy Cave Painting the Result of a Hallucination:

hubie writes:Biomimicry is the concept of drawing design inspiration from the natural world, such as for materials design, structural design, process flow, etc. The idea is that Nature has spent millennia optimizing structures and designs for cohabitation within the environment. We see stories all the time here that talk about materials inspired by spider silk, sea sponges, algae, etc. These are all typically focused studies that look at only a specific aspect of the material or design.In a paper to be published in the journal Earth's Future, researchers look at current resiliant design practices and recommend several pragmatic opportunities for infrastructure managers to make improvements by incorporating biomimicry principles within the design process. These six principles, dubbed Life's Principles are: evolve to survive, adapt to changing conditions, be locally attuned and responsive, integrate development with growth, be resource efficient, and use life-friendly chemistry. They find that current resilient design theory--in theory--addresses all of the biomimicry principles, but in practice they largely ignore and sometimes contradict these principles. They note that a lot of effort has been spent addressing efficiency, but that substantial design advantages would be realized if infrastructure managers tried to align to more biomimicry principles.Journal Reference:

Fnord666 writes:OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty in criminal case:

looorg writes:PayPal appears to be vacuuming the bitcoin market. They apparently bought 70% of all mined coins last month. I guess they need a large buffer if they want to allow all their customers to convert transactions from all types of currencies into BTC. Then it's probably just a hop and a skip until EBay (the parent company) does it, too.“Bitcoin shortage”: PayPal bought 70% of all mined BTC last month:

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard'The US Piracy Watchlist is a Marketing Campaign for Pirate Sites':

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Jeopardy's first host after Alex Trebek's death is former champ Ken Jennings:

AnonTechie writes:Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero finds possible source of Wow! signal

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Starting next year, Chrome extensions will show what data they collect from users:

takyon writes:Vulkan 1.2.162 Released With Ray-Tracing Support Promoted

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Supersized wind turbines generate clean energy--and surprising physics:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Vegans are 43 percent more likely to suffer bone fractures, study shows:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Researchers identify features that could make someone a virus super-spreader:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956_:The DNA of life at its limits:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Folding of SARS-CoV2 genome reveals drug targets:

DannyB writes:Walmart-exclusive router and others sold on Amazon & eBay contain hidden backdoors to control devices

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Critical VMware Zero-Day Bug Allows Command Injection; Patch Pending:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Could a new class of antibodies treat COVID-19 in a manner that avoids resistance?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:These Algorithms Could Bring an End to the World's Deadliest Killer:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:The Trillion-Transistor Chip That Just Left a Supercomputer in the Dust:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Cisco rolls out fix for Webex flaws that let hackers eavesdrop on meetings:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Statin side effects may be 'all in your head,' study suggests:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:A solar-powered rocket might be our ticket to interstellar space:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:The latest Ebola outbreak in the DRC is over:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:How The New Copper Ban Is Affecting High-Performance Car Brakes:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Airbnb details years of losses ahead of planned IPO:

canopic jug writes:The magazine Logic has an article about the durability of COBOL, which has been reliably running mission critical systems for over 60 years.

takyon writes:Panasonic teases transparent OLED display ahead of global December launch

cosurgi writes:From the Abstract:

c0lo writes:Our Milky Way's Biggest Collision Was With The 'Kraken Galaxy' Not The 'Gaia Sausage,' Say Scientists

hubie writes:For many, one of the early signs that they are transitioning in life from a codger to an old codger is the onset of presbyopia. This is also known as "farsightedness" and is caused by loss of elasticity of the lens of the eye. Children can typically handle vision of 10 D or smaller, which is to say they can focus from infinity down to 10 cm away or less from their face. However, as a person ages that minimum distance increases until they get into their 50s and realize their arms are too short to hold their book any longer. Typical corrections are bifocal or progressive spectacles, as well as multifocal contact lenses and intra-ocular lenses. There are inherent trade-offs in all of these solutions, such as trading near or far vision enhancement at the expense of image contrast.As reported in a Nature Scientific Report paper, researchers from Spain have built a "smart glasses"-style real-time prototype presbyopia correction system: