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takyon writes:Developer faces prison time for giving blockchain talk in North Korea

Freeman writes:Google workers fired amid organization efforts file retaliation complaint:

mhajicek writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2019-12-world-artificial-neurons-chronic-diseases.html:

takyon writes:Amazon Announces Graviton2 SoC Along With New AWS Instances: 64-Core Arm With Large Performance Uplifts

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337AWS launches Braket, its quantum computing service – TechCrunch

martyb writes:Günter Born: Here's why the free upgrade from Win7 to Win10 still works

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337Librem 5 backers have begun receiving their Linux phones

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337Riot Games will pay $10 million in discrimination settlement

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for chromasInternet Society says opportunity to sell .org to private equity biz for $1.14bn came out of the blue. Wow, really?

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337Homeland Security wants airport face scans for US citizens

martyb writes:SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch: How to Watch CRS-19 Mission to the Space Station

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramEFF warns of 'one-way mirror' of web surveillance by tech giants - led by Google

martyb writes:NASA (USA's National Aeronautics and Space Administration) reports that India's Vikram Lander has been Found:

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramJudge says class action over Apple's MacBook butterfly keyboards can continue

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Seems that Leonardo designed a 280 meter single-span bridge in response to a sultan's request. The configuration is a very flat arch, with wide "feet" at each end to spread the loads. Nothing in antiquity was remotely close to this in a single span, at that time bridges were built with circular arches with columns at each end (many columns sitting in the riverbed). While the shape of this bridge has been approximated with modern materials, this time the researchers wanted to determine if it could have been built with what was on site -- big, cut stone. Story is here, http://news.mit.edu/2019/leonardo-da-vinci-bridge-test-1010

RandomFactor writes:Free of Earth generated interference and orbiting Starlink satellites, the far side of the moon now has a space based telescope in a halo orbit taking observations.

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC for Runaway1956.Measles cases in Samoa more than double over past week as death toll rises - National

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for Runaway1956.[Ed. note: For those who are unfamiliar with DuckDuckGo, it is a search engine that can be reached either via https://duckduckgo.com/html/ or via https://ddg.com/html/ --martyb.]I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo. Here's why you should too

jmichaelhudsondotnet writes:https://reclaimthenet.org/china-lead-un-wipo-copyright-domains/

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337New Chrome Password Stealer Sends Stolen Data to a MongoDB Database

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.With ultracold chemistry, researchers get a first look at exactly what happens during a chemical reaction

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956New Strawberry-Flavored H.I.V. Drugs for Babies Are Offered at $1 a Day

RandomFactor writes:Starting December 1st, China now requires telecom operators to collect face scans for new phone users.

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956World-first mobile phone detection cameras rolled out in Australia

RandomFactor writes:A high school in Florida is switching from real to synthetic frogs for dissection in biology classes.

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956Canadian islanders angry over US mail searches

hendrikboom writes:The emissions gap report for 2019 is out.

Anonymous Coward in the Ocean writes:https://news.sky.com/story/prozac-pollution-making-fish-less-aggressive-says-study-11860507

barbara hudson writes:Once upon a time in a strange land (actually, Indiana in 1897) the government tried to pass a law making pi = 3.2.Ohio is now trying to pass a law doing the impossible — require the implanting of ectopic pregnancies.

RandomFactor writes:According to new research published Wednesday in the journal Cell, scientists using a combination of gene splicing and accelerated evolution techniques have made E. coli into an autotroph that produces its biomass using atmospheric carbon.The study was carried out at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956How Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires

RandomFactor writes:15,000 light years from earth, astronomers have discovered a black hole, designated LB-1, that is 70 times the mass of the Sun — over twice the mass scientists thought was possible to exist in the Milky Way.Scientists generally believe black holes come in two broad categories.

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An Anonymous Coward writes:It seems that China has done it again, they have a history of dropping rocket parts on their own people. This time no one was hurt, but Tech Review mentions some previous events that didn't have a happy ending.

stormwyrm writes:There have been many rumblings about scientific fraud in China, and now there are rumbles that the problem is systemic, and goes all the way to the top. Cao Xuetao (曹雪涛), one of China's top immunologists, former president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, president of Nankai University, and most importantly Chairman of research integrity for all Chinese research, has himself been implicated in scientific fraud and misconduct. A careful examination of Chairman Cao's published scientific papers seems to show how some of his data was fabricated or falsified. This was noticed since much of his papers have pictures, either of western blots, gels, flow cyclometry images, and microscopy images. Some of the fabrication appears to have been done by sending the same sample multiple times through analysis, producing images that are similar but not completely identical, while others are clear Photoshop cut and paste jobs. From the For Better Science article:

canopic jug writes:Challenge yourself with short coding puzzles and design topics from now until Christmas. Which other Advent calendars are missing from the list below?

canopic jug writes:Fedora developer and Program manager, Ben Cotton, opens up about what happened when he fat-fingered a script to automatically close bugs as Fedora 29 reached End-Of-Life the other day. When version 29 reached EOL, he accidentally also closed several thousand other bugs which should have remained open. He writes about how that happened.

canopic jug writes:Technologist Daniel Aleksandersen writes about a newsletter syndication system he has written. One of the itches he chose to scratch was the matter of being able to cull fake subscriptions which are problematic when commercial service charge per subscriber. Another was that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) made it more advantageous to self-host. Several other interesting capabilities stand out.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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Twitter Delays Inactive Account Purge (It Forgot About Dead People)RandomFactor writes:Twitter has delayed its planned purge of inactive accounts.

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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.lpi.org/articles/linux-professional-institute-releases-bsd-specialist-certification