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Rare Salt Formations Appear Along Utah's Great Salt Lake
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Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars
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Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer
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Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest
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Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL
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Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks
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House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Update Children's Online Privacy Law
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Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January?
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Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21
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Mysterious Drone Swarms in 3 States Prompt FAA, FBI Investigation
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Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500%
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Why is a 22GB Database Containing 56 Million US Folks' Personal Details on the Open Internet?
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800,000 Years Ago a Huge Meteorite Struck Earth. We Might Have Just Found its Crater
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Technology Can't Fix Algorithmic Injustice
aristarchus writes:So it seems that AI is a big thing, especially predictions on how it will kill us all. But the Boston Review currently has a rather interesting article on the ethics of algorithms.
Research Identifies Changes In Neural Circuits Underlying Self-Control During Adolescence
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2019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop
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Cogent Cut Off from ARIN Whois for Scraping Net Engineers' Contact Details and Sliding them to Sales
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Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd
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Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/amazons-ring-fired-at-least-four-employees-for-snooping-on-user-videos/
NYC Broadband Plan Calls for Fiber Everywhere, with ISPs Sharing Network
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AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office
RandomFactor writes:The European Patent Office has rejected two patent applications filed on behalf of an AI by researchers. The AI is named DABUS ('device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified sentience'),
Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/paul-krugmans-no-good-very-bad-internet-day/
New Guideline Discourages Testosterone Treatment for Older Men, Except to Treat Sexual Dysfunction
takyon writes:Testosterone treatment should be given only for sexual dysfunction, guideline suggests
Intel's Thunderbolt 4 Connector is Simply a Rebranded Thunderbolt 3
takyon writes:What Is Thunderbolt 4? Tiger Lake Tech Isn't Faster, Thunderbolt 3 With a New Name
Y2K Still Alive
hendrikboom writes:Thought the Y2K bug was over and done with? Read the New Scientist article A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now and think again!
How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years
Phoenix666 writes:How a chunk of human brain survived intact for 2600 years:
China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea
An Anonymous Coward writes:China has sent armed vessels and fishing boats into Indonesian waters fueling tensions between the nations in another move by China to try to claim ownership of the region. With China now deliberately sending vessels into the waters of other countries, their actions may be seen as the start of armed hostilities. For years China has made political and financial maneuvers to claim control over other nations through debt and intimidation. Indonesia has refused to negotiate with China on the matter as they see the actions as China invading their territory. With both sides bringing both sky and sea vehicles into the region the outcome of this issue may be a deciding point to determine whether or not China will be pushed out of the region. While the ruling by the UN is very clear about the region, China refuses to accept it.China appears to have forgotten why the UN was formed in the first place. Japan learned a hard lesson in 1945.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again
Phoenix666 writes:Researcher promoting red meat, sugar failed to disclose industry ties—again:
Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM
canopic jug writes:Digital Rights/Restrictions Management (DRM) technologies affecting new tractors are behind the continuing rise in popularity of the models. Particularly in the midwest, farmers are finding that 40-year-old tractors do the job with less trouble and expense.
Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes
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A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked
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Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress Against Lung Cancer
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Man with 5.5-Inch (14cm) Horn Growing on His Back Slipped “Through the Net,” Docs Say
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/5-5-inch-dragon-horn-grew-out-of-mans-back-from-unaddressed-skin-cancer/:
Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy
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Animal Life Thriving Around Fukushima
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Poverty in Children Causes Smaller Brains Throughout Life
barbara hudson writes:The Guardian is reporting that the effects of child privation are lifelong.
Travelex Offline After Sodinokibi $3m Ransomware Attack.
MostCynical writes:The Guardian is reporting that a cyber-attack forced currency exchange firm Travelex to take down all its global websites. Travelex is based in London, but is owned by Finablr, which is based the United Arab Emirates. Travelex operates in more than 70 countries with more than 1,200 branches and 1,000 ATMs worldwide.
25-Minute Test Could Simplify Initial Diagnosis Of Urinary Tract Infections
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New Evidence Shows That the Key Assumption Made in the Discovery of Dark Energy is in Error
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China's Lander Releases Data, High-Resolution Images of the Moon
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PGP Keys, Software Security, Git, and Much More Threatened by New SHA1 Exploit
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Samsung Devices Allegedly Use Qihoo 360 Spyware to Phone Home to China
Samsung Devices Allegedly Use Qihoo 360 Spyware to Phone Home to Chinatakyon writes:Samsung Phones Said to Come with Chinese "Spyware" Phoning Home
Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops
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US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide
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Software Nasties Slip into Google Play, Exploit Make-Me-Root Android Flaw for Maximum Pwnage
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Finding a New Way to Fight Late-Stage Sepsis by Boosting Cells' Antibacterial Properties
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Moon Lost its Magnetic Field 1B Years Ago After its 'Internal Dynamo' Ended, Study Finds
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Sony Unveils a Concept Entertainment System on Wheels that You Can Drive
c0lo writes:The Verge, Techcrunch, and the BBC report on Sony unveiling a (EV, what else?) concept car at the CES tech show. From The Verge:
Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie
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Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief
An Anonymous Coward writes:Which is larger? Yours, or mine? Australia or the United States of America, that is. With the bushfires in Australia out of control incinerating large swathes of the country a map was produced to visually depict how widespread the fires are. For emphasis the map was overlaid on top of America to give people an idea of the scope of the problem Australia is dealing with. Americans responded with disbelief that Australia was just as large as the USA. People were also in shock over how large an area, measured by size of US states, are currently burning. Responses on social media show how shocked and dumbfounded people were learning this.
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