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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:

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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:

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MostCynical writes:The Guardian has a story detailing the firing of Christopher Krebs, who served as the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa)President Trump made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday, saying Krebs "has been terminated" and that his recent statement defending the security of the election was "highly inaccurate".CISA last week released a statement refuting claims of widespread voter fraud. "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," the statement read. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."Krebs, is a former Microsoft executive, and was appointed by President Trump after allegations of Russian interference with the 2016 election.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow0495:The UK moves up deadline to ban the sale of combustion-engine vehicles:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:First Covid tests that give immediate result to user at home authorised in US:

takyon writes:TOP500 Expands Exaflops Capacity Amidst Low Turnover

Rocky Mudbutt writes:Grace Mitchell Tada writes for the Hakai Magazine of Coastal Science and Societies about the damaging effects of rising groundwater due to changing sea levels. From the article

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow0495:FAA clears Boeing 737 Max to fly again after 20-month grounding spurred by deadly crashes:

Upper Stage Issue Causes Arianespace Launch Failure, Costing 2 Satellitesupstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow0495:Upper stage issue causes Arianespace launch failure, costing 2 satellites:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956_:Apple defends the role of Gatekeeper after users can't open Mac apps:

takyon writes:Firefox 83 Released With Warp'ed JavaScript, HTTPS-Only Mode Option

hubie writes:Mechanoluminescence, also known as triboluminescence, is the production of light as the result of mechanical action taken on a solid, such as by squeezing or bending it. It was first discovered in 1605 by Sir Francis Bacon when he saw light given off as he was scraping a lump of sugar with a knife (and you may have seen it yourself if you've seen the green spark given off when biting into a Wint-O-Green Lifesaver in the dark). If you stress a solid elastically, meaning that it recovers its original shape when you remove the stress, and it gives off light, this is known as elasto-mechanoluminescence. There are very few materials known with this behavior and they are a topic of interest because there are some useful things one could imagine making with such a material, such as visual stress sensors and other specialty lighting.Researchers in France found that a certain kind of glass containing mechanoluminescent crystalline particles not only gives off light when subject to mechanical stress, but it behaves in a manner suggestive of a photonic sponge. If the glass is initially charged with exposure to UV light, it emits green light as a stress is applied to it. When the applied pressure stops changing and reaches a steady-state, the light disappears. The authors call this a photonic sponge because it is analogous to after one fills a sponge with water, the water only comes out while you are squeezing it to wring it out. What was also surprising in their results was that as they removed the stress, additional light was emitted as the stress was released. The total amount of light emitted didn't depend upon the total static force applied, but rather on the change in the force, known as the deviatoric part of the stress. They used a Li,Na metaphosphate glass embedded with SrAlO particles. Provided with the paper is a video showing the experiment in action.Dubernet, M., Bruyer, E., Gueguen, Y. et al. Mechanics and physics of a glass/particles photonic sponge. Sci Rep 10, 19495 (2020). (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-75504-9)Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for FatPhil:Tesla Supercharging now more expensive than petrol refuelling:

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hubie writes:Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are cylindrical tubes made up of very thin walls of carbon atoms. They are what you get if you roll up a sheet of graphene. They come in single walled (SWCNT) and multi-walled (MWCNT) versions, and they have some very remarkable physical and electrical properties. Despite popping up from time-to-time as early has the late 19th Century, they exploded on the science scene in the early 1990s as an area of very active research.However, if one looks back into antiquity at the famed swords of Damascus, they were made from Damascus steel. This steel was recognized to be superior to all others, but the art of its manufacture was lost to time for hundreds of years; however, in 2006 an analysis of an ancient sabre was found to contain CNTs in the steel.A group of researchers from India have now pushed the appearance of CNTs back even further. They were studying black polished pottery shards from a dig site in Keeladi that could be as old as 600 BCE and they determined that the black coating consists of CNTs and graphene.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956_:Businesses With a Give-Back Mission Caught in Facebook Ad Ban:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956_:Iconic Arecibo Observatory may be on the brink of collapse after cable failures:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956_:Coating metal bone implants with bacteria found to promote healing while reducing infections:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956_:You've got 55 days left to stop using Flash before Firefox kills it entirely:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956_:Microsoft's Pluton chip upgrades the hardware security of Windows PCs:

takyon writes:Pentagon shoots down mock intercontinental missile in sea-based test

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:We can stop COVID-19: Moderna vaccine success gives world more hope: