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Glenn Greenwald: Brazil accuses journalist of cyber-crimes
BBC - 21 Jan 2020 20:20
Brazilian authorities are seeking to charge Glenn Greenwald over alleged cyber-crimes.
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su talks new Ryzen 4000 chips and out-performing Intel
The Verge - 21 Jan 2020 20:31
AMD CEO Lisa Su at CES 2020 We're still rolling out our Vergecast interviews from CES 2020 this month, and this week we have a chat with AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su. Dr. Su led AMD's press conference live at CES in Las Vegas to ...
Hands-On With Anker's Apple-Certified iPhone Camera Flash Accessory
Mac Rumors - 21 Jan 2020 23:01
Anker in December debuted a new LED flash accessory that's unique because it's the first iPhone flash option that's Apple certified with Made for iPhone approval. Anker started accepting pre-orders for the flash ea...
Scalextric DeLorean, Trotter's Robin Reliant, and Bond's DB5 hopes to bring the fun back to slot-car racing
Pocket-lint - 21 Jan 2020 17:21
Scalextric is to broaden its appeal by reaching out to millennials and those looking to have fun with a range of new cars from films and TV shows including
The New York Water Crisis That Nobody's Talking About
Motherboard - 21 Jan 2020 17:43
For years, "forever chemicals" flowed into Newburgh's drinking water. It turns out they came from a nearby air base.
China's 500-Meter FAST Radio Telescope is Now Operational
Universe Today - 21 Jan 2020 01:08
The world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope is officially open for business according to Xinhua, China’s official state-run media. The FAST Radio Telescope saw fist light in 2016 but has been undergoing te...
Skip pulls back the curtain on the high costs of electric scooter maintenance
The Verge - 21 Jan 2020 18:00
Skip, an electric scooter rental startup that operates in and around Washington, DC, said it would start disclosing details about the maintenance and repair requirements of its fleet of two-wheelers. The company's aim is...
BRAVE: Airport Near Davos Is Offering 'Green' Fuel for Rich People's Private Jets
Motherboard - 21 Jan 2020 19:34
It's part of an ongoing effort to make the 1 percent feel less bad about their unsustainable practices.
Updated Apple Watch app adds missing features we've waited years to see
BGR - 21 Jan 2020 03:08
NapBot advertises itself as a machine learning-powered sleep tracker app for Apple Watch and iPhone that packs a ton of features into the app, including giving users a detailed sleep history, presenting your sleeping hea...
The Canon EOS R II Really Needs to Feature a New Sensor
The Phoblographer - 21 Jan 2020 16:00
No matter what way you slice it, 2020 is going to be an incredibly important year for Canon. For a while now, Canon has been complaining about declining sales, but they can change all of that in 2020. Canon has been work...
What Not to Cook This Week
The New Yorker - 21 Jan 2020 14:00
Max Cohn offers a humorous list of recipes and the reasons you should totally avoid cooking them.
Autism study finds later diagnoses for girls, and high rates of co-occurring disorders
Neuroscience News - 21 Jan 2020 21:57
On average, girls on the autism spectrum are diagnosed 1.5 years later than boys. Over 50% of those on the autism spectrum exhibit co-occurring mental health and medical conditions, such as ADHD and epilepsy.
To slay Google, Huawei says: "Ads aren't important to us"
Slash Gear - 21 Jan 2020 21:39
Huawei held an event in January 2020 in London to tell developers about their strategy for a post-Google smart device ecosystem. Dr. Jaime Gonzalo, Huawei’s Europe-based vice president of consumer services, spoke at th...
Top cloud computing trends impacting IT job market
TechRepublic - 21 Jan 2020 17:01
There's less competition for cloud migration engineers and other key positions according to a new report from Indeed.com.
Source position and duration of a solar type III radio burst observed by LOFAR
Phys.org - 21 Jan 2020 16:52
Type III solar radio bursts are generated by non-thermal electron beams propagating through the solar corona and interplanetary space. In dynamic spectra, the flux of solar type III radio bursts have a time profile of ri...
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources
The Loop - 21 Jan 2020 16:49
Reuters: Apple Inc dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company's iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations, six sources familiar with the ...
Scientists study zebrafish in search of melanoma-fighting drugs
EurekAlert! - 21 Jan 2020 07:00
(Northern Arizona University) Northern Arizona University biologist Matt Salanga leads an 18-month project to find a combination of drugs to fight melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer
Vitamin D supplementation linked to potential improvements in blood pressure in children
EurekAlert! - 21 Jan 2020 07:00
(University of Pittsburgh) Overweight and obese vitamin D-deficient children who took a relatively high dose of vitamin D every day for six months had lower blood pressure and improved insulin sensitivity than their peer...
New policy reduces anti-psychotic medications in foster children
EurekAlert! - 21 Jan 2020 07:00
(Rutgers University) Rutgers researchers have found that a Texas strategy to reduce anti-psychotic medication for children can serve as a model for other state Medicaid programs.
Astronauts honor Martin Luther King, Jr. and replace ISS batteries on 3rd all-woman spacewalk
SPACE.com - 21 Jan 2020 04:30
Two astronauts completed battery replacements and honored the legacy of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. while working outside of the International Space Station on what marked the third all-woman spacewalk today (Jan. 2...
Amazon hand recognition could be the future of payments
Slash Gear - 21 Jan 2020 03:39
Plastic cards tried to make paper cash a thing of the past and phones are now trying to return the favor. All of these payment systems, however, have one thing in common. They all require you to carry something with you,...