martyb writes:UCI researchers identify a connection between early life adversity and opioid addiction:[Note: UCI is the University of California, Irvine. --Ed.]
An Anonymous Coward writes:How do you beat the content producers at their own game? By creating a new model. Kanopy is a streaming service that charges Australian libraries for content — instead of users — making for a sustainable model for distributing content locked by copyright laws. By charging government-backed entities for distribution rights, the content makers obtain the money they are after while the public has limited access to the movies they want to see making for a win-win situation.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Xerox names the 11 directors it hopes will oust most of HP's board and put $33bn hostile takeover to shareholders:
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny which was the inspiration for this story.China Battles Coronavirus Outbreak: All the Latest Updates:
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:10nm woes, CPU supply shortages, competition from AMD... What? Sorry? Intel can't hear you over the cash register going bonkers:
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:YouTube moderators are being forced to sign a statement acknowledging the job can give them PTSD:
An Anonymous Coward writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/directv-races-to-decommission-broken-boeing-satellite-before-it-explodes/:
RandomFactor writes:Previously collected ice cores taken from a Tibetan glacier have revealed 28 new genera of viruses according to researchers from Ohio State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.A genus (plural genera) in biology encompasses multiple species. For example, Lions and Tigers (not bears) belong to the genus PantheraThe ice cores had not been protected from surface contamination when collected from the Guliya ice cap (northwestern Tibetan Plateau, China), so it was first necessary to establish "ultra-clean microbial and viral sampling procedures for glacier ice."
RandomFactor writes:Research published in the journal Protein and Cell shows a combination of two experimental drugs reversing the effects of osteoarthritus in rats (as well as in human cartilage cell cultures).