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An Anonymous Coward wrote in with a story which inspired:Among U.S. States, New York's Suicide Rate Is The Lowest. How's That?

upstart from IRC writes:Ancient poop reveals what happened after the fall of Cahokia:

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Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

chromas from IRC writes:Private equity firms are gobbling up data centers:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.npr.org/2020/02/04/802502709/iowa-dem-party-says-delay-due-to-reporting-issue-county-chairs-blame-malfunction

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Bytram from IRC writes:As seen in movies, new meta-hologram can be used as a communication tool:

martyb writes:First childhood flu helps explain why virus hits some people harder than others:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200128/10284943817/cbs-gets-angry-joes-youtube-review-picard-taken-down-using-26-seconds-shows-trailer.shtml

Both c0lo and martyb write in with news of a new form of "traffic jam":How to create a virtual traffic jamc0lo writes:Load 99 Androids in a cart and walk slowly

martyb writes:NASA reports that the Parker Solar Probe[*] Completes Fourth Closest Approach, Breaks New Speed and Distance Records:

Phoenix666 writes:Ars Technica:

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RandomFactor writes:Researchers have published an update to the "Heisenberg Limit."

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

upstart from IRC writes:A deep dive into the Apollo Guidance Computer, and the hack that saved Apollo 14:

upstart from IRC writes:PETA wants to replace Punxsutawney Phil with an animatronic AI:

takyon writes:Vulkan is coming to Raspberry Pi: first triangle

upstart from IRC writes:Skimming heist that hit convenience chain may have compromised 30 million cards:

upstart from IRC writes:Ajit Pai promised faster broadband expansion:

upstart from IRC writes:Blizzard now claims full copyright for player-made "custom game" mods:

upstart from IRC writes:The Twitch streamer behind Tfue's custom $3,500 mechanical keyboard:

upstart from IRC writes:Dozens of companies have data dumped online by ransomware ring seeking leverage:

upstart from IRC writes:LastPass is discontinuing its native Mac app and replacing it with a more universal web app:

RandomFactor writes:According to a letter to congress from Ajit V. Pai, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communication Commission (FCC), carriers broke federal law by selling customer location data. Pai intends to followup with "Notice(s) of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture."

Peloton's countersuit against music publishers over song copyrights just got thrown out:

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upstart from IRC writes:DOJ sues US telecom providers for connecting Indian robocall scammers:

martyb writes:The "other" game of football has its championship today. On the docket are:Athletics: Super Bowl LIV - Wikipedia:

upstart from IRC writes:Video: How Myst's designers stuffed an entire universe onto a single CD-ROM:

upstart from IRC writes:Grubhub is faking which restaurants it actually partners with:

RandomFactor writes:After going into Fault Protection Mode on January 28th, Voyager 2 will soon return to normal operation.On January 25th, Voyager 2 was instructed to perform a magnetometer calibration maneuver which would cause the spacecraft to rotate itself a full 360 degrees, however the maneuver was delayed causing two power hungry systems to be on simultaneously. The maneuver was not completed.

RandomFactor writes:A concept paper published in ACS Photonics, describes a photovoltaic cell that works at night.According Jeremy Munday, one of the paper's authors and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis

upstart from IRC writes:DOD launches swarming drone in test of C-130 "drone mothership" concept:

takyon writes:Next-Gen NVIDIA Teslas Due This Summer; To Be Used In Big Red 200 Supercomputer

legont writes:A350 engine shutdown incidents linked to cockpit drink spills

An Anonymous Coward writes:In the wake of the Coronavirus spreading across the world Australian airline Qantas has cancelled flights from China as the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced "new control measures" to prevent anyone traveling from China to Australia. The official advice is now that Australians "do not travel" to mainland China. This comes as the number of infected people rose to 12 on Saturday with three new cases across Victoria and South Australia.

RandomFactor writes:ScienceNews reports on a new study in the journal Science on using engineered gut bacteria to fight the Varroa Mite as well as deformed wing virus, two of the biggest threats to honeybees.

canopic jug writes:The European Parliament (EP) just voted 582 to 40 to require one standard for chargers for all mobile phones. The EP cited the goals of reducing both frustration and electronic waste. The next step would be for the European Commission to draft a law and vote on it in July. Currently most of the industry uses micro-USB and is slowly adopting USB-C, however there are also phones using other connectors.From the European Parliament resolution on a common charger for mobile radio equipment (2019/2983(RSP)):

upstart from IRC writes:Microsoft will now pay up to $20k for Xbox Live security exploits – TechCrunch:

upstart from IRC writes:How a $300 projector can fool Tesla's Autopilot:

Coward, Anonymous writes:In a change that will cause mixed reactions, UK research funding proposals no longer need "impact" statements.

canopic jug writes:DMA attacks have never really gone out of fashion and, contrary to popular belief, do not necessarily require physical access. DMA is a misfeature designed provide peripherals with direct, unconstrained, high-speed read-write access to the whole of a system's RAM. Firewire (IEEE-1394) and Thunderbolt are two of the more infamous avenues for attacks, but network cards and other peripherals can also have this capability. One example of abuse would for the peripheral to read and exfiltrate private encryption keys as they rest in memory.

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upstart from IRC writes:UPS is buying thousands of electric vans and teaming up with Waymo to accelerate the future of delivery:

upstart from IRC writes:FCC wants to fine one man almost $13 million for making 6,000 robocalls:

upstart from IRC writes:MoviePass is deader than ever as parent company officially files for bankruptcy: