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Phoenix666 writes:Al Jazeera:

kazzie writes:News from the BBC

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Scientists unexpectedly witness wolf puppies play fetch:

c0lo writes:WSJ runs this story (alternative MSN same text)

canopic jug writes:The GNU/Linux-based smartphone, PinePhone, has begun shipping. It uses the same Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit System on a Chip (SOC) as the the Pine64 Single Board Computer (SBC) and thus it also runs mainstream GNU/Linux. The goal is to provide a hardware platform for a wider variety of Linux-on-Phone projects. Hardware availability is expected to be five years.Lilliputing: PinePhone Braveheart Linux smartphone begins shipping January 17th

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Researchers test hearing by looking at dilation of people's eyes:

Mozilla Lays Off 70 People as Non-search Revenue Fails to Materializeupstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Mozilla lays off 70 people as non-search revenue fails to materialize:

martyb writes:How to watch SpaceX show NASA the Crew Dragon capsule can escape if a launch goes wrong

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/comcast-accused-of-lying-about-its-prices-gets-away-with-1-3m-settlement/

canopic jug writes:The Insurance Journal is asking if the NotPetya Windows worm was an act of war. If so, that would change any potential obligations carried by insurance policies towards claimants, in this case Merck & Co. NotPetya took over Windows computers in 2017 but was apparently originally intended to target Ukrainian Windows computers. The rest of the Windows computers may have just been collateral damage.

Phoenix666 writes:New Atlas:

RandomFactor writes:University of Michigan researchers have determined that the class of proteins known as Sestrins mimic the effects of exercise in mice and flies.

c0lo writes:Guardian

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:What can we rid the world of, thinks Google... Poverty? Disease? Inequality? Yeah, but first: Third-party cookies – and classic user-agent strings:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Antibiotics could be promising treatment for form of dementia:

c0lo writes:BBC

c0lo writes:CNN

DannyB writes:Advertising Makes Us Unhappy

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Trump launches fresh attack on Apple over privacy:

c0lo writes:Gizmodo

canopic jug writes:The Paris Musées has published over 100k works under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, ensuring that even the digital editions stay in the public domain. At the same time they have published an application programming interface (API) for use in searching and retrieving high-definition, royalty-free images and their metadata.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Sen. Ron Wyden calls for an investigation of the ad-blocking industry:

takyon writes:Lawrence Lessig sues New York Times over MIT and Jeffrey Epstein interview

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://themindunleashed.com/2019/10/ex-nasa-scientist-convinced-alien-life-was-found-on-mars-over-40-years-ago.html

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

martyb writes:https://phys.org/news/2020-01-philippine-volcano-spews-lava-half-mile.html

martyb writes:An 'unknown' burst of gravitational waves just lit up Earth's detectors:

martyb writes:"Marshmallow Test" Redux: New Research Reveals Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other

martyb writes:Galaxy S20 Ultra to come with a whopping 16GB of RAM

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/amazon-asks-court-to-block-microsofts-10b-contract-with-us-defense-dept/:

takyon writes:Boeing: internal emails reveal chaos and incompetence at 737 Max factory

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/google-used-deep-learning-to-improve-short-term-weather-forecasts/:

martyb writes:Windows 10: NSA reveals major flaw in Microsoft's code:

Phoenix666 writes:BBC:

martyb writes:Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter's iPhone:

Phoenix666 writes:BBCTech:

Phoenix666 writes:The Register:

MostCynical writes:Jalopnik has a story about how the Norwegian capital, Oslo, recorded only one death on its roads in 2019.

DeathMonkey writes:Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Living robots built using frog cells: Tiny 'xenobots' assembled from cells promise advances from drug delivery to toxic waste clean-up:

canopic jug writes:The case Google v. Oracle America, previously named Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc., is being heard by the US Supreme Court. At the center of the case is whether programmers require permission to use an application programming interface (API). The outcome will determine the extent to which APIs can or should be copyrighted. If it turns out that copyright can be used to lock competitors out of using any given API, then there are severe repercussions for software development, as all programs these days rely heavily on pre-existing libararies which are then accessed via APIs.Google: The case for open innovation:

martyb writes:NASA narrows down Mars 2020 rover names: Hello, Fido?:

martyb writes:At 7 billion years of age, this stardust is the oldest material ever found on Earth

RandomFactor writes:A new theoretical framework is allowing neural networks to learn and recognize patterns on geometric surfaces.Neural networks based on the visual cortex, called

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Speech-Disrupting Brain Disease Reflects Patients' Native Tongue:

martyb writes:The observant reader will notice that we have reduced the number of stories we post on weekdays from about 15 stories per day to about 13 stories per day. We would certainly like to continue with the higher rate, but we have been struggling to do so with current staff.We try to post enough stories each day so that there is "something for everyone". Ultimately this site is for the community. It is also by the community; it does not run all by itself.We Need Your HelpPeople's lives change. They move, get married, have health issues, change jobs, etc. All of these place additional demands on their spare time. SoylentNews is not immune to this; in fact we have experienced all of these. With less free time available, more work falls upon the other staff members — whose lives are already quite full.What would help?Volunteer! Have you ever thought about being an editor at SoylentNews?You'll get to learn a super-sekret handshake, the passcode to enter our volcano-lair, and the admiration of your fellow Soylentils!Right from the start, let me point out that we — SoylentNews — aim to be impartial. If you have an agenda that you would like to push or advocate (or denigrate) then skip to the next story.On the other hand, not a great deal of time is needed. Even if you have only an hour or two per week that you could contribute, that would be greatly appreciated!An earlier request for help summarized things nicely (slightly updated here):

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:As internet pioneers fight to preserve .org's non-profit status, those in charge are hiding behind dollar signs:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Cancer: Giving entire course of radiation treatment in less than a second is feasible: Findings related to FLASH radiotherapy could pave a new path for the future for cancer therapy: