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6 years ago+15 15 0Trump Rhetoric Empowers Dangerous Fringe Violence
President Donald Trump on Tuesday returned to his stance that there is “blame on both sides” for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia at a white nationalist rally.
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6 years ago+2 2 0Comp sci world shock: Bonn boffin proposes P≠NP proof, preps for prestige, plump prize
Potential math challenge solution greeted with skepticism
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6 years ago+15 15 0Google-sponsored private moon race delayed for the fourth time
Competitors in the Google Lunar X Prize now have until 31 March 2018 to land a spacecraft on the moon
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6 years ago+8 8 0Naturalist David Attenborough earns his wings
David Attenborough finally earned his wings Wednesday after scientists named a 100-million-year-old damselfly after the veteran British broadcaster and naturalist.
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6 years ago+19 19 0This Was the Alt-Right’s Favorite Chat App. Then Came Charlottesville.
Discord, a chat app for video game players, became a digital home for the alt-right before deciding to ban their chat rooms on Monday.
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6 years ago+10 10 0A glimpse of life under President Zuckerberg? Facebook CEO's boffins censor awkward Q&A
Human cell study AMA on Reddit all cleaned up
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6 years ago+13 13 0Chap behind Godwin's law suspends his own rule for Charlottesville fascists: 'By all means, compare them to Nazis'
Mike Godwin, creator of Godwin's law, has rescinded his own rule for those outraged by vile fascists marching the streets of Virginia, USA, at the weekend.
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6 years ago+9 9 0High-quality online video with less rebuffering
CSAIL’s machine-learning system enables smoother streaming that can better adapt to different network conditions.
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6 years ago+13 13 0US military spies: We'll capture enemy malware, tweak it, lob it right back at our adversaries
Collateral damage in 3, 2, 1…
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6 years ago+24 24 0If you think an eclipse means doomsday, you're not the first
There's a long and fascinating history of people believing that eclipses are a sign of the apocalypse. (Hopefully they're wrong about the one occurring in the US next week.)
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6 years ago+16 16 0Antarctica declared world's most volcanic region as 91 new cones found beneath ice
Awaken not the Elder Things, lest they and their shoggoths again battle foul Cthulhu
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6 years ago+15 15 0The English Premier League is experiencing a textbook case of hyperinflation
Summer spending across English Premier League football clubs has been jaw-dropping.
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6 years ago+25 25 0NASA Reignites Program for Nuclear Thermal Rockets
In its pursuit of missions that will take us back to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond, NASA has been exploring a number of next-generation propulsion concepts.
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6 years ago+17 17 0OpenAI bot bursts into the ring, humiliates top Dota 2 pro gamer in 'scary' one-on-one bout
In the past hour or so, an AI bot crushed a noted professional video games player at Dota 2 in a series of one-on-one showdowns.
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6 years ago+15 15 0The secret lab hidden inside a famous monument
The Monument is one of London’s most famous landmarks. But this tribute to an epic fire also has a secret second use – as a giant piece of scientific equipment.
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6 years ago+15 15 0RAVAN CubeSat measures Earth’s outgoing energy
An experimental small satellite has successfully collected and delivered data on a key measurement for predicting changes in Earth’s climate.
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6 years ago+21 21 0Revealed: The naughty tricks used by web ads to bypass blockers
A behind-the-scenes look at the cat and mouse game played by publishers and devs
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6 years ago+18 18 0This new squad of Internet experts will try to bring order to international cyber conflict
The United Nations has failed to get countries to agree how international law applies to cyberspace, so a new group is stepping up.
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6 years ago+21 21 0One Small Step Toward Supercomputers in Space
While it is not likely we will see large supercomputers on the International Space Station (ISS) anytime soon, HPE is getting a head start on providing more advanced on-board computing capabilities via a pair of its aptly-named “Apollo” water-cooled ...
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6 years ago+21 21 0GCHQ techie deputisation powers conundrum: The thick plottens
Home Office response like a riddle wrapped in an enigma