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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:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Frequent, rapid testing could cripple COVID-19 within weeks, study shows: Research shows test turnaround-time, frequency far more important than sensitivity in curbing spread:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Star Wars novelist says Disney won't pay him royalties it owes him:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Hot spring chicken: 3 cited for Yellowstone culinary caper:

martyb writes:China plans to bring back the first Moon rocks for 40 years:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Apple drops its cut of App Store revenues from 30% to 15% for some developers:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:A biochemical random number:

DannyB writes:See this page Dev Fonts.Which one of these fonts, or alternately, what other font not appearing on that page is "the true one and only" programming font?Let the (friendly!) battles begin!(Please include, if possible, a link from which it can be downloaded.--Ed.)Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:The Caribbean islands poisoned by a carcinogenic pesticide:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Hidden world of bacteria and fungi discovered on Leonardo da Vinci's drawings:

c0lo writes:From the horse's mouth

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Hackers can use just-fixed Intel bugs to install malicious firmware on PCs:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Judge dismisses Apple's "theft" claims in Epic Games lawsuit:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Google Photos is the latest "Unlimited" plan to impose hard limits:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:RadioShack will live forever as a zombie brand:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Astronaut: SpaceX Dragon beats shuttle, Soyuz for launching:

An Anonymous Coward and pTamok write:NSF begins planning for decommissioning of Arecibo Observatory's 305-meter telescope due to safety concerns

[2020-11-20 02:51:10 UTC; Had used worldwide daily death count (10,970); correct value for US single-day deaths was 2,065.--martyb][How many Soylentils personally know of someone who has contracted or died from COVID-19? Please accept my condolences for your loss. --martyb]The terrorist attacks of 9/11 — the deadliest in world history — killed 2,977 people:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:S&P 500 adds Tesla, sending stock price soaring:

NASA's Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness from Colossal Explosionaristarchus writes:NASA announces the Hubble Space Telescope captured images of the source of a Gamma-ray Burst.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:GM to leverage driver data as it jumps back into the insurance business – TechCrunch:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956_:Faster magnetic switch with lower energy consumption developed: