Post Overview
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2 weeks ago+4 4 0FBI: Pranksters are hijacking smart devices to live-stream swatting incidents
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says pranksters are hijacking weakly-secured smart devices in order to live-stream swatting incidents. "Recently, offenders have been using victims' smart devices, including video and audio capable hom ...
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3 weeks ago+23 23 0Reddit clone Voat, home to hate speech and QAnon, has shut down
The platform was a haven for communities deemed too racist or hateful for Reddit.
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1 month ago+13 13 0Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduces activation in brain regions related to self-blame in patients in remission from depression
New research suggests mindfulness-based cognitive therapy protects remitted depressed patients from relapse by reducing tendencies toward self-blame. The findings were published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.
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Review
1 month ago+4 4 0HBO’s “How To with John Wilson” Captures the Weird, Wondrous New York City That’s Never on TV
As a documentarian, Wilson has a receptive spirit and a fascination with arcane institutions and subcultures.
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1 month ago+16 16 0How to turn your Xbox Series X/S into an emulation powerhouse
Console “Developer Mode” offers a way in for RetroArch’s dozens of emulation cores.
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1 month ago+12 12 0‘A pivotal moment’: Democracies urged to band together to resist China
Top national security, foreign policy officials and activists this weekend issued a call for democratic nations to revitalize international institutions and pursue new, more flexible ways for governments to band together to confront China’s economic ...
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2 months ago+13 13 0Plate tectonics may have begun a billion years earlier than thought
Plate tectonics may have begun 4 billion years ago, almost a billion years earlier than we thought, according to a new analysis of ancient rocks. The claim has earned a mixed response from geologists. Many argue that Earth was too hot at the time for ...
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2 months ago+18 18 0Great Fox-Spider Assumed Extinct in UK Found at British Army Training Area After 27 Years
One of Britain's largest spiders, the Great Fox Spider, once thought to have gone extinct, has been spotted for the first time after 27 years at a Ministry of Defence training ground in Surrey. After being untraceable for more than a quarter of ...
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3 months ago+11 11 0Exxon denies Trump called CEO for money. But Big Oil is donating way more to Trump than Biden
President Donald Trump is a fierce backer of the fossil fuels industry. And that support is paying off big time in the money race. Trump is crushing Joe Biden in campaign donations from the embattled oil-and-gas industry. The president and outside gr ...
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4 months ago+9 9 0Bloomberg: two Apple Watches, new iPad Air coming in a month
Apple has asked its suppliers to manufacture at least 75 million 5G-enabled iPhones as it anticipates 80 million shipments of its next-gen iPhones this year, reports Bloomberg citing people familiar with the situation. The Cupertino-based tech giant ...
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4 months ago+20 20 086% of US states increased internet speeds during COVID-19 lockdown
Logic may have you believe that with the dramatic increase of use and reliance on the internet during the coronavirus crisis that internet speeds slowed. However, the average internet speed in the US increased from 84.9Mbps to 94.6Mbps. This may surp ...
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5 months ago+16 16 0Uber and Lyft had time to comply with the law. They did not.
Uber and Lyft continue to fight back against laws that would require them to treat drivers as employees. The law is not on their side.
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5 months ago+31 31 0 x 1Instagram Retained Deleted Photos and Messages on Its Servers for Over a Year
Instagram has awarded a security researcher a $6,000 bug bounty payout after he found photos and private direct messages on the platform's servers that he had deleted more than a year ago (via TechCrunch).
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5 months ago+14 14 0iOS 14 lets users grant approximate location access for apps that don't require exact GPS tracking
An iOS 14 feature that has gone a bit under the radar is the Precise Location toggle for Location Services. This new toggle gives the user more control over which apps can access your current location, and to what granularity.
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Analysis
5 months ago+4 4 0How understanding nature made the atomic bomb inevitable
Atomic bombs hastened the end of World War II. But they launched another kind of war, a cold one, that threatened the entire planet with nuclear annihilation. So it’s understandable that on the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb explosion that devas ...
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5 months ago+4 4 0Divisive Trump nominee gets new Pentagon post, despite snub by Congress
After failing to secure a Senate confirmation hearing, U.S. President Donald Trump’s most divisive nominee for a Pentagon position so far has taken a different, less-senior policy role at the Defense Department, a spokeswoman said on Sunday.
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5 months ago+4 4 0A Clue to van Gogh’s Final Days Is Found in His Last Painting
A researcher says he has uncovered the precise location where the artist painted “Tree Roots,” thought to be the last piece he worked on the day he suffered a fatal gunshot wound.
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5 months ago+3 3 0Is Belief in God Necessary for Good Values? Global Survey on Religion and Morality
A median of 45% across 34 surveyed countries say it is necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values. However, public opinion on this question, as well as the role of God, prayer and religion varies by country, region and economic deve ...
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6 months ago+13 13 0High-tech glove translates sign language into speech in real time
A glove that translates sign language into speech in real time has been developed by scientists -- potentially allowing deaf people to communicate directly with anyone, without the need for a translator. The wearable device contains sensors that run ...
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7 months ago+23 23 0Game-Changing New Smart Sponge Soaks Up Oil Spills, Saving Water And Wildlife
A team from Northwestern University has developed a highly porous smart sponge that can selectively soak up oil spills in water. With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in oil, the sponge could be used to inexpensively and efficiently ...