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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow639:Google announces crackdown on in-app billing, aimed at Netflix and Spotify:

RandomFactor writes:Discover has an article up discussing ongoing work on the the coming quantum internet.

RandomFactor writes:Plastic in landfills, like nuclear waste, is notoriously long lived. However in the past 50 years, bacteria have evolved to be capable of eating it. Now researchers have collaborated to improve on what nature started.

MrPlow wrote in with a submission, via IRC, for SoyCow639.Spammers Add Random Text To Shortened Links To Evade Detection:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for guy_:New study sheds light on 'dead water' phenomenon -- Sott.net:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Researchers unveil sensor that rapidly detects COVID-19 infection:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2020/09/color-blindness-is-inaccurate-term.html

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for guy_:'Never shoot with a wonky pea!': meet the alternative world champions:

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U.S. Army releases its first digital UH-60V helicopter:

RandomFactor writes:Astronomers have used microlensing to detect an approximately Earth-mass planet wandering between the stars.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Fnord666:For Subway, A Ruling Not So Sweet. Irish Court Says Its Bread Isn't Bread:

takyon writes:3D Printing Industry ICON partners with NASA to develop 3D printed Moon infrastructure in 'Project Olympus'

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Watch a meteroid bounce off the Earth's atmosphere:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow639:Quantum entanglement realized between distant large objects:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Parrots removed from British wildlife park after swearing at visitors:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:H&M fined more than $40 million for spying on employees:

RandomFactor writes:A team of physicists at the University of Arkansas has published an article on harvesting energy from the brownian motion in a single atom thick layer of graphene.

AnonTechie writes:The Secretive Networks Used to Move Money Offshore:

Phoenix666 writes:BBC:

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

Phoenix666 writes:Why Walmart Plus thinks it can challenge Amazon:

Phoenix666 writes:Corals have a secret weapon against a warming climate:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:US military eyes nuclear thermal rocket for missions in Earth-moon space:

JoeMerchant writes:Bold new claims from an "open Fusion" development team. They claim a compact design utilizing newly available high temperature superconductors will combine to allow them to demonstrate 10:1 energy returns from fusion reactions within the next four to five years, add 10 more years to build a practical electrical generation station around it. Stories have been all over the popular press for days now:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/climate/nuclear-fusion-reactor.htmlhttps://news.mit.edu/2020/physics-fusion-studies-0929

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Soycow_Lover:Tech giants are ignoring questions over the legality of their EU-US data transfers:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Second alignment plane of solar system discovered:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Soycow_Lover:Salute the venerable ensign wasp, killing cockroaches for 25 million years:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow639:"Joker"—the malware that signs you up for pricey services—floods Android markets:

[20201002_054327 UTC: Added c|net link and quote.--martyb]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849

Freeman writes:Sourcegraph: Devs are managing 100x more code now than they did in 2010:

hubie writes:As far as insect flight goes, landings can be very complicated. Successful landings require matching the relative speed of the target, which could be static like a wall, or moving like a flower in the breeze. The insect must execute complicated coordinated maneuvers based on visual, thermal, acoustic, and olfactory signals. These landings occur over a range of velocities and surface types. Mosquitoes need to manage all of this and land softly enough that the host can't feel them.One major difference between flying insects and vertebrates is that insects have immobile eyes with fixed focal lengths which prevents them from utilizing stereoscopic vision to judge distances, so they have to rely on image motion such as changes in object size. Different insects have different techniques: honeybees come to a hover 16 mm from a surface before initiating touchdown; houseflies approach objects at constant velocity and once the object reaches a certain relative size on its retina, it decelerates, pitches the body and extends its legs; and fruit flies accelerate towards their landing, extend their legs, and stick the landing like a gymnast with nearly instant deceleration. Mosquitoes have much less mass than a honeybee, but much more mass than a fruit fly, so their landing dynamics were expected to be much different.Researchers from the University of Central Florida set up an experiment to monitor mosquito flight and landing. They used a high-speed camera and filmed mosquito landings and extracted the physical dynamics using the Open Source Physics Tracker software. Their results, which are published in a Nature Scientific Reports article, found that mosquitoes typically careen in for a head-first landing, they make initial contact with their proboscis before making contact with their legs, then their legs act as underdamped springs resulting in one or two bounces before they come to rest. They determined that the mosquitoes strike the surface with an impact velocity about half of what is perceptible by humans.The paper provides entertaining slow motion videos.Journal Reference:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:First Compelling Evidence of Organisms That Eat Viruses as a Food Source:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:U.S. Army gets one step closer to laser gun system:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Senator asks DHS if foreign-controlled browser extensions threaten the US:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow0495:After breach, Twitter hires a new cybersecurity chief – TechCrunch:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Study: Neanderthal genes may be liability for COVID-19 patients:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:The Global Semiconductor Market: China Deploys Sun Tzu to Prevail in the Chip War - Global Research:

takyon writes:The Subtle Effects of Blood Circulation Can Be Used to Detect Deep Fakes

Freeman writes:SpaceX Starlink brings Internet to emergency responders in wildfire areas:

takyon writes:Toyota Research Demonstrates Ceiling-Mounted Home Robot

Freeman writes:Nikola’s deal with GM was supposed to close today—it didn’t:

Phoenix666 writes:Researchers develop dual-wavelength ocean lidar for ocean detection:

Phoenix666 writes:Green shoots: Rooftop farming takes off in Singapore:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:No bones about it: Wild gorillas don't develop osteoporosis like their human cousins:

Phoenix666 writes:Tea bud "robots" used to kill and clear bacteria:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://news.err.ee/1140442/head-of-ms-estonia-investigation-estonia-sank-on-collision-with-submarine:

Phoenix666 writes:Mars Express finds more subsurface ponds of liquid water on Mars:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:HOTorNOT: The forgotten website that shaped the internet: