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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Huawei denies receiving billions in financial aid from Chinese government:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:One year in, NASA's Parker Probe returns clues to long-held mysteries about solar wind, sun's atmosphere- Technology News, Firstpost:

barbara hudson writes:From The Guardian: Russia has deployed world's first manoeuvrable hypersonic cruise missile.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Intel may be responding to AMD Ryzen with a hyperthreaded Core i3 processor (archive)

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Space and Astronomy in 2019: Unforgettable findings and events in space exploration, the universe- Technology News, Firstpost:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:A Programmer Lost A Game He Made As A Kid, Until Someone Streamed It On Twitch:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Galactic cosmic ray model works without physics, and that is bad:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:The surprisingly complicated physics of why cats always land on their feet:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Driver training was reportedly too much of "a bottleneck" for Amazon:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:https://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/us-colleges-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-devices-tracking-locations-of-hundreds-of-thou-2154310:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Bring the charging port to you:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Tencent details how its MOBA-playing AI system beats 99.81% of human opponents:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Google Chrome impacted by new Magellan 2.0 vulnerabilities:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every console explained:

takyon writes:The US officially raises the tobacco buying age to 21

takyon writes:NASA mission to track near Earth objects takes shape

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Russia claims it has successfully tested its own internet:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Amazon wants to patent technology that could identify shoppers by their hands:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:FAA announces new system for remotely identifying and tracking drones:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:How birds drop 'unnecessary' genes can help us understand evolution:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Certain bacteria can override programmed cell death:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Dutch Filmworks Takes Quest to Identify Alleged Pirates to the Supreme Court - TorrentFreak:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Investigation Claims United Arab Emirates Uses The ToTok App To Spy:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Proposed CO2 capture system could reduce truck emissions by 90 percent:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Travis Kalanick quits Uber's board, sells off all his Uber stock:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Personal computer CPU pioneer Chuck Peddle dies at 82:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:How Cruise Ships Bring 1,200 Tons of Toxic Fumes to Brooklyn a Year:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Researchers want to use Mega Man 2 to evaluate AI:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:I Tried Two New Upstart Social Networks. I Found ... Very Little.:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI:

An Anonymous Coward writes:You know the time of the year when it's all winding down, people are going on holidays, and there's not much left to do but clock people on for overtime coverage through the lazy holidays. Not so much for one intrepid IT worker who found a newly acquired company IT team had installed a database application into a Dropbox account which was failing due to lack of space. It doesn't end there, with the Dropbox being used as version control and the DEVs syncing the data locally for changes making updates extremely slow. This is a classic example of simple decisions landsliding into a complete cluster ferk.What's the worst you've dealt with right before the holidays?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Reports of patients' deaths linked to heart devices lurk below radar:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Judge blocks NYC's law limiting Uber drivers 'cruising' for new passengers:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:DJI patents an off-road rover with a stabilized camera on top – TechCrunch:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:New Gene-Edited Tomatoes Can Now Be Grown In Grape-Like Bouquets:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Today in Christmas miracles: a failed electric scooter company is getting bailed out:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Twitter bug used to match millions of user phone numbers – TechCrunch:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Apple will start enforcing its Mac app security policy in February:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that gave them PTSD:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Huawei says its replacement for Google services will soon launch in India:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.codeblueprint.co.uk/2019/12/23/linux-preemption-latency-throughput.html

requerdanos writes:Voluntary DNA tests fall somewhere between "bad idea" and "danger, stay away" as documented pretty well here previously. It's not surprising that tech- and privacy- minded people might hold this position, but now that position is being echoed by the U.S. Pentagon.

barbara hudson writes:I know, yet another Boeing story. But it's like herpes — the gift that keeps on giving.The same day that Boeing CEO Muilenburg crashed and burned as Boeing CEO, the criminal investigation into Boeing heated up, with Boeing's test pilot hiring criminal lawyers and refusing to turn over documents to the Department of Justice under the 5th amendment, saying in effect that turning them over "may tend to incriminate him."