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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:NASA Says There Are Still Easter Eggs on Its Mars Rover That Nobody Has Discovered:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956 (emphasis elided):Uber ordered to pay $1.1m to blind woman refused rides:

takyon writes:Quantum Motion unveils 9-second silicon qubit

Freeman writes:Amazon colluded with publishers to fix book prices, class-action suit alleges:

canopic jug writes:LBRY, an MIT-licensed, decentralized protocol competing against the likes of YouTube, has an accompanying cryptocurrency. After a three year investigation, the SEC is now suing LBRY Inc, the developer, for $11 million. The SEC is making the accusation that the tokens amount to unregulated security, or tradable financial assets. The LBRY protocol is used by services like Odysee and others.Apparently the SEC complaint fails to acknowledge steps LBRY has been taking to comply with the law. So far LBRY has spent more than $1 million in legal fees and that, despite multiple attempts to get advice on legal operation from the SEC, none were given.

Freeman writes:Factory mix-up spoils 15 million doses of J&J COVID vaccine:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Concerns raised over safety of common food preservative:

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Formerly Homeless Man Moves Into the First 3D-Printed Tiny Homeupstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Formerly Homeless Man Moves Into the First 3D-Printed Tiny Home:

Newly discovered T. rex lookalike with an unusual skull terrorized Patagonia 80 million years agoAnti-aristarchus writes:Patagonia, the fine article is from CNN, kinda South of the Border.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Supreme Court's pro-Facebook ruling could unleash "flood" of robocalls:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Judge equates encrypted chats with private thoughts in would-be kidnapping case:

Freeman writes:FDA slams “Real Water” linked to liver failure; water plant manager MIA

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/lineageos-18-1-brings-android-11-to-over-60-smartphones/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:A Scientist Taught AI to Generate Pickup Lines. The Results are Chaotic.:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Aussie private school bans mullets:

Anti-aristarchus writes:There is one city famous for building bridges across city streets, so the squirrels do not get run over. But no one took a survey before. Story at Phys.org. (Why, I have no idea. It is figuratively driving me nuts.)

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Four Major Vehicle Manufacturers Agree on Swappable Battery Specification:

Anti-aristarchus writes:According to Space.com, it is true, Uranus is putting out, X-rays. Chandra space telescope involved.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Falling sperm counts 'threaten human survival', expert warns:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Protein Discovery in the Development of New Hearing Hair Cells Could Lead to Treatments for Hearing Loss:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:VW accidentally leaks new name for its U.S. operations: Voltswagen:

DannyB writes:SpaceX is adding a glass dome on Crew Dragon for 360° views of space:

AnonTechie writes:The Radioactive Diamond Battery That Will Run For 28,000 Years:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Feared Apophis Impact Ruled Out – Asteroid Will Pass Close Enough to Earth to See With Naked Eye:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:EMPLOYERS CAN MANDATE A COVID-19 VACCINECOVID-19: An Employer's Role in Vaccination:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Samsung's 512GB DDR5 module is a showcase for the future of RAM:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Maybe. Story at "Extreme Tech", which is either extreme, or tech, but not both?

Anti-aristarchus writes:For the photos, take a look at The New York Times article on

AnonTechie writes:Godzilla vs. Kong: A functional morphologist uses science to pick a winner:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting of ballots in pivotal union vote:

We had a few hours this evening where there were issues we didn't notice with new submissions. We had been mothballing (setting the number of matches necessary beyond what would ever match anything) some spam filters exclusive to submissions and managed to somehow confuse one of the Apache web frontends. The offending filters are now just deleted entirely and incapable of confusing even MS Paint.Please excuse the embuggerance. We now return you to your regularly scheduled arguments.TMBRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

takyon writes:Mafia fugitive caught after posting YouTube cooking video

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzardCryptos Stride Further Into Mainstream As New Paypal Feature Lets Users Pay With Bitcoin, Ethereum & More:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Intel accused of wiretapping because it uses analytics to track keystrokes, mouse movements on its website:

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:OpenAI's Text-Generating System Gpt-3 Is Now Spewing Out 4.5 Billion Words A Day:

t-3 writes:https://www.nber.org/papers/w28600

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Researchers discover how animals grow their pointy body parts:

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for TheMightyBuzzardBackdoor Disguised as Typo Fix Added to PHP Source Code:

takyon writes:High anxiety over federal weed loophole

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/att-lobbies-against-nationwide-fiber-says-10mbps-uploads-are-good-enough/

takyon writes:Consent to being surveilled or risk getting fired, says Amazon

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:As the Arctic warms, lightning strikes are more frequent -- even near the North Pole:

martyb writes:According to real-time updates, the container ship "Ever Given" has now been freed and is under way:You can follow its progress at VesselFinder.com. (The web site seems to be struggling under the load.) At the moment of this writing, it is headingon a Course of 349.2° (nearly due north) at a speed of 2.3 knots.It is headed to Great Bitter Lake. Once there and out of the path of other shipping, it will undergo technical inspections.According to various reports, the Suez Canal carries anywhere from 10-15% of the world's shipping. The effort to dislodge the ship is led by Smit Salvage who is renowned in the ship salvage industry. They successfully took on the task of raising the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk. Powered by two nuclear reactors, it sank August 14, 2000 while a full complement of torpedoes and missiles.What Next?

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:These techniques may help reduce the acrimony in the comments.Bad at public speaking? The trick is to distill your message to these 15 words, says speech trainer:

Anti-aristarchus writes:The people over at Ars Technica have an interesting, in-depth article.Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call:

An Anonymous Coward writes:APT Encounters of the Third Kind:

Eratosthenes writes:SciTechDaily reports that there is a moon in the sky, and it is waxing dangerously!