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An Anonymous Coward writes:NASA lays out $28 billion plan to return astronauts to the moon in 2024:

An Anonymous Coward writes:A German rocket startup seeks to disrupt the European launch industry:

Fnord666 writes:Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network, coming to Echo and Tile devices soon – TechCrunch:

Fnord666 writes:This dangeous Firefox glitch can let hackers into your entire network:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Sea sponge skeletons inspire stronger, lighter load-bearing structures:

An Anonymous Coward writes:The Genetic Engineering Genie Is Out of the Bottle:

An Anonymous Coward writes:China to Launch Space Mining Bot:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Should You Trust Apple's New Blood Oxygen Sensor?:

kazzie writes:News from the BBC of a SHINE (single high-level impulse noise)[*] that interfered with a Welsh village's internet connection on a daily basis.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Ecologists confirm Alan Turing's theory for Australian fairy circles:

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

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martyb writes:US has topped 200,000 COVID-19 deaths:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Bing user data exposed – includes location, search terms, sites visited

Fnord666 writes:Popular password manager could have a critical vulnerability:

Fnord666 writes:Why there is no speed limit in the superfluid universe:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:QR code use grows in popularity but poses hidden risks:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:A 48,000 years old tooth that belonged to one of the last Neanderthals in Northern Italy:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Here are the winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Prizes to make you laugh, then think:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:New high-speed test shows how antibiotics combine to kill bacteria:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Bp Says We'Ve Already Reached Peak Oil:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny:IBM promises 1000-qubit quantum computer:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Highly efficient perovskite solar cells with enhanced stability and minimised lead leakage:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Rio Tinto expected to destroy 124 more Aboriginal sites:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Senate's encryption backdoor bill is 'dangerous for Americans,' says Rep. Lofgren – TechCrunch:

takyon writes:Microsoft purchases Bethesda Softworks in industry-changing acquisition

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Sweden: man goes on trial for 2004 murder after DNA matched to genealogy site:

upstart brings us the IRC submission:Dismay as huge chunk of Greenland's ice cap breaks off:

takyon writes:Traders set to don virtual reality headsets in their home offices

takyon writes:Leak reveals $2tn of possibly corrupt US financial activity

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Fnord666:Cop arrests apparently sleeping Tesla driver going 93mph:

hubie writes:For several decades there have been various incarnations of the idea of using lasers to zap flying insects, particularly mosquitoes. One of the systems in active development is the Photonic Fence from Intellectual Ventures Laboratory. Researchers from the laboratory recently published their findings on determining the optimal dosage to kill mosquitoes using the least amount of energy. One of the criticisms of their system has been that the areas in greatest need for mosquito eradication provide unreliable power, so their system would most likely need to operate by providing its own power.Their research found that the optimal pulse duration for the lasers they are considering in their design is 25 ms. A significant difference between this research and their previous work is that this study was conducted on in-flight mosquitoes as opposed to previous work that used anesthetized specimens, which demonstrated their vision-based track and targeting system. An added bonus is the four slow-motion videos provided in the Supplemental Information section showing mosquitoes being zapped.Keller, M.D., Norton, B.J., Farrar, D.J. et al. Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight, Sci Rep 10, 14795 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71824-yOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:Accepted to appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Earth's Future, a group of researchers from National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boeing, and the University of Illinois looked at the potential effects that a future commercial Hypersonic Transport (HST) fleet would have on the ozone layer. Given the designs under consideration and that these vehicles would fly above the ozone layer, they considered the effects of water vapor and nitrogen compounds on the ozone layer as a function of the altitude they are released.

HudsonLunatic writes:The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season continues to shatter records with Tropical Storm Beta churning in the Gulf of Mexico. When the normal list of names is exhausted, the Greek alphabet is used for storm names. The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season also went into the Greek alphabet and Beta became a major hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph at the storm's peak intensity. Hurricane Beta (2005) didn't form until October 26, 2005 making the 2020 season over a month ahead of the pace of the record breaking 2005 season. This raises the conundrum of whether to retire letters of the Greek alphabet if a storm is particularly damaging. It appears the name would not be fully retired but a storm could be retired with a name like "Beta 2020" with the Greek letter remaining in use for future seasons. The extremely active hurricane season can probably be attributed significantly to climate change.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Lord of the Rings special effects company Weta Digital launches inquiry into toxic workplace claims:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Court blocks Trump's WeChat ban from taking effect today:

Booga1 writes:Kotaku reports disgruntled streamers are complaining about Twitch adding ads to the middle of live streamed videos.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Exclusive: AT&T considers cellphone plans subsidized by ads:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:YouTube Rippers 'Flvto' and '2Conv' Will Take Legal Battle to US Supreme Court * TorrentFreak:

canopic jug writes:David Rosenthal discusses the last 25 years of digital preservation efforts in regards to academic journals. It's a long-standing problem and discontinued journals continue to disappear from the Internet. Paper, microfilm, and microfiche are slow to degrade and are decentralized and distributed. Digital media are quick to disappear and the digital publications are usually only in a single physical place leading to single point of failure. It takes continuous, unbroken effort and money to keep digital publications accessible even if only one person or institution wishes to retain acccess. He goes into the last few decades of academic publishing and how we got here and then brings up 4 points abuot preservation, especially in regards to Open Access publishing.

hubie writes:Homemade and small scale chocolate making has followed an arc similar to the beer industry where a "golden age" declines through consolidation to industrial dominance from which an "artisan" resurgence grows. In the early 20th century there were a relatively large number of chocolate makers where most of them were small-scale producers. As the century progressed, a number of factors drove the industry to consolidate where essentially all the small-scale makers were bought, or they went out of business. The global industry today is dominated by the "big five": Hershey's, Mars, Ferrero Rocher, Cadbury, and Nestlé. However, over the last 15 or so years, a number of small but dedicated "bean to bar" chocolate makers have been springing up.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Teen 'Blasts Away' Parts of Retina by Staring Into a Pet's Laser Pointer:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Cheap, innovative venom treatments could save tens of thousands of snakebite victims:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Fnord666:Wayback Machine and Cloudflare team up to archive more of the Web:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy: Now everyone's a statistician. Here's what armchair COVID experts are getting wrong.:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:plug in, check outPlugging in a strange USB drive – What could possibly go wrong?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Scientists discover a new crustacean species in one of the hottest places on Earth:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:NASA finds evidence of "fresh ice" on Saturn's moon Enceladus: