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A new driverless, but *not* autonomous, taxi service is starting in Las Vegas, according to https://www.autonomousvehicleinternational.com/news/v2x-news/halo-and-las-vegas-launch-driverless-car-service-powered-by-t-mobile-5g.htmlThis was a new category for your AC submitter--turns out these cars have remote drivers:

upstart writes:Adobe Patches 11 Critical Bugs in Popular Acrobat PDF Reader:

upstart writes:A 'wobble' in the moon's orbit could result in record flooding in the 2030s, new study finds:

upstart writes:Surface of Jupiter's Moon Europa Churned by Small Impacts:

upstart writes:Climate Changed the Size of Our Bodies – And Our Brains:

upstart writes:Harvard-MIT Quantum Computing Breakthrough – “We Are Entering a Completely New Part of the Quantum World”:

upstart writes:FCC speed standard that Ajit Pai never updated is too slow, GAO report says:

An Anonymous Coward writes in with a Hackaday article that points to Analogist:Decoding radio pH capsules with rtl_433:

upstart writes:Johnson & Johnson vaccine linked to rare cases of autoimmune disorder:

upstart writes:The FBI’s honeypot Pixel 4a gets detailed in new report:

upstart writes:Incredible Moment Teen Golfer'S 88Mph Ball Is Struck By Lightning Just After He Hits It During Terrifying Storm:

upstart writes:The FTC is reportedly investigating Amazon's purchase of MGM:

upstart writes:Wanna Delay Aging? Get Castrated, Scientists Say:

martyb writes:A copy of 'Super Mario 64' sold for over $1.5 million, the most ever paid for a video game:

upstart writes:Linux 5.14 Can Create Secret Memory Areas With memfd_secret:

upstart writes:Historic Power Plant Decides Mining Bitcoin Is More Profitable Than Selling Electricity:

upstart writes:Microsoft Teams is bringing back Clippy and all your old favorites:

TheMightyChickadee writes:Death Valley reached 130 F, is it the world record?How the highly unusual Death Valley temperatures just got more complicated:

upstart writes:Raytheon wins $2B contract for new nuclear cruise missile:

upstart writes:Scientists Identify Specific Human Brain Circuit for Spirituality:

upstart writes:'Legend of Zelda' auction sets bar for the most expensive video game at $870,000:

[2021-07-11 16:18:14 UTC; UPDATE 2]Launch, separation from carrier plane, self-powered rocket flight, re-entry, and landing were all successful. Official video stream had several drop-outs. There are sure to be on-ship recordings that will be edited and uploaded for later viewing.Congratulations to all involved for a safe and successful flight![2021-07-11 11:07:52 UTC; UPDATE 1]The launch has been delayed ~1.5 hours "Due to prior weather".

An Anonymous Coward writes:If you've been using v2 .onion, now is the time to update your bookmarks!The new v3 .onion for DuckDuckGo search via Tor is:https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion/htmlPlease note the "html" at the end, which for some reason makes searches work when they otherwise wouldn't without it.This news comes from this post by a DDG staff member.it is important to update today, as soon v2 .onion services won't work!See, also: https://support.torproject.org/onionservices/#v2-deprecation.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

TheMightyChickadee writes:Hubble Space Telescope may not be down for the count.Story at Slashgear:

takyon writes:Busted Cryptominers Might Have Mined on 3,800 PS4 Consoles

takyon writes:President Joe Biden's latest executive order is a huge win for right to repair

upstart writes:FAA begins use of system to reduce impact of launches on airspace - SpaceNews:

upstart writes:Continental pirouettes: Supervolcano fed from Earth's mantle caused crustal plates to rotate:

upstart writes:Amid firestorm of criticism, FDA narrows use of $56,000 Alzheimer's drug:

upstart writes:WSJ News Exclusive | WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Wouldn't Go to Supermax if Extradited, U.S. Says:

upstart writes:After We Found Biden's Account, Venmo Will Let You Make Your Friend List Private:

upstart writes:EU fines VW and BMW £750m for colluding with Daimler on fumes:

upstart writes:Supreme Court Overturns Overbroad Interpretation of CFAA, Protecting Security Researchers and Everyday Users:

Eratosthenes writes:Story at Ars Technica

Freeman writes:New fabric passively cools whatever it's covering—including you

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/all-fans-banned-from-tokyo-olympics-as-covid-cases-rise-delta-spreads/

upstart writes:500-year-old skulls with facial modification unearthed in Gabon:

upstart writes:Early Earth was bombarded by series of city-sized asteroids:

DannyB writes:GitHub’s automatic coding tool rests on untested legal ground:

DannyB writes:Community Broadband Dominates List Of Fastest US ISPs

upstart writes:Charlotte flight to Bahamas canceled when Boston-area high schoolers refuse to wear masks:

upstart writes:A giant 3D cat has taken over one of Tokyo's biggest billboards:

upstart writes:China bans construction of tallest skyscrapers following concerns about safety:

upstart writes:Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better than commercial approach:

upstart writes:“Broadcom is a monopolist”: FTC orders chipmaker to stop illegal tactics:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Posted on NASA Spaceflight, James Webb Space Telescope one step closer to launch.

upstart writes:Early humans were sheltered from worst effects of volcanic supereruption:

TheMightyChickadee writes:From the Weather section of WOWK TV,

upstart writes:‘A scourge of the Earth’: grasshopper swarms overwhelm US west:

upstart writes:Manchester University sparks backlash with plan to keep lectures online: