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Leaky Amazon S3 Buckets Expose Data of Netflix, TD Bank
Threatpost - 27 Jun 2019 22:16
Netflix, TD Bank, and Ford were only a few of the companies whose data was exposed by three leaky Amazon S3 buckets owned by Attunity.
Handlers Thought This Owl Was Male for 23 Years --Then He Laid an Egg
Live Science - 27 Jun 2019 16:08Salesforce open sources research to advance state of the art in AI for common sense reasoning
ZDNet - 27 Jun 2019 15:12
Deep learning is great for many applications, but common sense reasoning is not one of them. New research from Salesforce promises to alleviate this, advancing previous results by a considerable margin.
Mysterious 'Fast Radio Burst' Traced Back to Its Home Galaxy for First Time Ever
Live Science - 27 Jun 2019 18:51Fungible raises $200 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund to help companies handle increasingly massive amounts of data
TechCrunch - 27 Jun 2019 17:00
Fungible, a startup that wants to help data centers cope with the increasingly massive amounts of data produced by new technologies, has raised a $200 million Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund, with participation from...
Apex Legends season 2 Battle Charge: Wattson, L-Star and everything we know so far - CNET
CNET - 27 Jun 2019 23:17
The battle royale game will get a new Legend, new weapons and some giant honking beasts roaming in Kings Canyon in its second season.
It came from outer space: Weird radio signal came from distant galaxy
USA Today - 27 Jun 2019 23:04
For the first time, the origin of a single radio pulse has been pinpointed to a distant galaxy several billion light years away, a new study said.
Dementia study links gene with damage to brain connections
Neuroscience News - 27 Jun 2019 19:52
Post mortem examinations of brain tissue from Alzheimer's patients revealed synapses contained clumps of clusterin, in addition to amyloid beta. The clumps were more abundant in those with genetic risk factors from Alzhe...
Dementia study links gene with damage to brain connections
Science Daily - 27 Jun 2019 17:40
Insights into how a gene that increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease disrupts brain cells have been revealed by scientists.
Huawei says it got over $1.4 billion in licensing revenue since 2015
Reuters - 27 Jun 2019 05:11
Huawei Technologies said it has received over $1.4 billion in licensing revenue since 2015 and paid more than $6 billion in royalties to legally implement intellectual property of other companies.
Candy Crush Developer Says 9.2 Million Users Play At Least 3 Hours a Day, But It's Totally Not Addictive
Gizmodo - 27 Jun 2019 04:30
Alex Dale, a senior executive at Candy Crush Saga developer King, told a UK House of Commons select committee that approximately 3.4 percent or 9.2 million users spend "three or more hours a day" playing the game, and th...
Cybersecurity firm says Huawei's telecom equipment is easier to hack
BGR - 27 Jun 2019 01:37
Another day, another shot fired in the ongoing war between the US and all things Huawei. The Wall Street Journal is out with a new story today focused on research blasting Huawei telecom equipment as more vulnerable to b...
∞ New Apple spot -- "Bounce"
The Loop - 27 Jun 2019 23:21
This is a fun ad that made me smile.
How Overeating Changes Our Brains to Make It Harder to Diet
Discover - 27 Jun 2019 22:54
(Credit: Fh Photo/ Shutterstock) Eating is one of the great pleasures of living. And knowing when to stop, a wonderful virtue. For some people, the decision to stop doesn't come easy. And can we blame them? Eating is awe...
New Compound Successfully Removes Uranium from Mouse Bones and Kidneys
Discover - 27 Jun 2019 22:07
(Credit: AlexLMX/Shutterstock) If you're a TV junkie, there's a good chance you've seen Chernobyl, HBO's show about the 1986 nuclear disaster of the same name. It shows, in horrifying detail, how the meltdown and explosi...
Pathway discovered that prevents buildup of Alzheimer's protein
Science Daily - 27 Jun 2019 20:39
Scientists have discovered a pathway that functions like a car wash to prevent the buildup of a toxic protein associated with Alzheimer's disease.
How well TB antibiotics reach their targets
Science Daily - 27 Jun 2019 20:39
Scientists have developed a new technique that enables them to visualise how well antibiotics against tuberculosis (TB) reach their pathogenic targets inside human hosts.
Researchers discriminate between mutations that promote cancer growth and those that don't
Science Daily - 27 Jun 2019 20:39
Until now, researchers believed recurrent mutations (hotspot mutations) in cancer tumors were the important mutations (driver mutations) that promoted cancer progression. A new study indicates this is not always true.
Higher salt intake can cause gastrointestinal bloating
Science Daily - 27 Jun 2019 20:39
A new study found that individuals reported more gastrointestinal bloating when they ate a diet high in salt.
Computational tool predicts how gut microbiome changes over time
Science Daily - 27 Jun 2019 20:30
A new computational modeling method uses snapshots of which types of microbes are found in a person's gut to predict how the microbial community will change over time.
How inhaled fungal spores cause fatal meningitis
Science Daily - 27 Jun 2019 20:30
Pathogenic fungal spores capitalize on host immune cells to escape the lung and gain access to the brain to cause fatal disease in mice, according to a new study. These insights into the interactions between pathogenic f...
'Shooting stars' during cell development impact risk for disease
Science Daily - 27 Jun 2019 20:30
Fleeting differences in gene expression between individuals that occur at different points in time during cell development may have consequences on the ultimate risk for disease in mature tissues and cell types.