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4 days ago
Video/Audio jasontKomodo Venom and its Effects
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6 days ago
Current Event jasont
Fingerprint sensors are still better than facial recognition
Alongside the various Android phones I've tested, I've been using the iPhone X for about two months now. One of the most noteworthy changes to the iPhone X over previous models is the removal of the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, now replaced with a high-tech face unlock function Apple calls Face ID. Some Android phones have similar features; the OnePlus 5T, Huawei P20 Pro, and the Galaxy S9 all feature facial recognition in some form, but all maintain the fingerprint sensor, too. Why?
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6 days ago
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Russia hacked Yulia Skripal's emails for five years and tested Novichok on door handles, bombshell intelligence dossier reveals
Russian intelligence agents hacked Yulia Skripal's emails for at least five years before the Salisbury poisonings, a bombshell Government dossier has revealed. Cyber specialists from the GRU - Moscow's Main Intelligence Directorate - targeted email accounts belonging to Miss Skripal as long ago as 2013, and possibly even before that, according to newly-declassified British intelligence.
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7 days ago
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Airbnb agrees to help Vancouver enforce new short-term rental rules
Hosts will be blocked from registering unless they have a city business-licence number
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8 days ago
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Oregon troopers investigating after three bald eagles shot to death
Law enforcement officials in Oregon are on the hunt for a bald-eagle killer. Oregon State Police issued a release Tuesday saying they were investigating after three bald eagles were found shot to death near Tangent, just south of Albany. Troopers believe the eagles were killed around March 16. No suspects have been identified.
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2 weeks ago
Started that way right from the beginning. This shitstorm was a looong time coming.
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2 weeks ago
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U.S. states vow to defend auto fuel efficiency standards
Nearly a dozen U.S. states and Washington D.C. on Tuesday promised to defend federal automobile efficiency standards against a rollback proposed this week by Scott Pruitt, the embattled head of the Environmental Protection Agency. “All Americans ... deserve to enjoy fuel-efficient, low-emission cars and light trucks that save money on gas, improve our health and support American jobs,” the attorneys general from 11 states said in a statement responding to Pruitt’s proposal on Monday to eas...
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2 weeks ago
Analysis jasont
The road to Alzheimer’s disease is lined with processed foods
The popular conception of Alzheimer's is as an inevitable outcome of aging or bad genes. But much of the risk is related to behavioral and lifestyle factors.
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3 weeks ago
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She Survived the Holocaust, to Die in a 2018 Hate Crime
An 85-year-old woman who as a child narrowly escaped France’s most notorious wartime roundup of Jews has been murdered in Paris, and the authorities are calling it a hate crime. The body of the woman, Mireille Knoll, was found on Friday in her apartment in the city’s working-class 11th Arrondissement. She had been stabbed to death, and her body was partly burned after her attackers apparently tried to set fire to the apartment.
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3 weeks ago
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Arctic sea ice hits second-lowest winter peak on record
Arctic sea ice has experienced its maximum extent for the year, reaching 14.48m square kilometers on 17 March – the second smallest in the 39-year satellite record.
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3 weeks ago
Comment jasont
Not enough. 10x it at least.
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3 weeks ago
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Car companies hire climate science denier to do hit job on clean cars
Car companies like GM, Ford, and Toyota are getting great publicity for touting a future of green cars. But at the same time, new reports show their lobbying group is pushing science denial to weaken U.S. clean car standards. “General Motors believes the future is all-electric. A world free of automotive emissions,” GM’s product chief Mark Reuss said in an October press call.
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1 month ago
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Facebook Just Lost More Than Tesla's Entire Market Cap in Two Days
Facebook Inc.’s privacy crisis has turned into a shareholder crisis. The social media giant has lost over $60 billion in market value over the past two days, following revelations that personal data of millions of users was obtained by a data analytics firm. That’s more than the market capitalization of Tesla Inc. at around $52 billion or three times that of Snapchat owner Snap Inc. at about $19 billion.
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1 month ago
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SpaceX indicates it will manufacture the BFR rocket in Los Angeles
“A facility to manufacture large commercial transportation vessels.”
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1 month ago
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Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750,000 Meant To Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House
A sheriff in Alabama took home as personal profit more than $750,000 that was budgeted to feed jail inmates — and then purchased a $740,000 beach house, a reporter at The Birmingham News found. And it's perfectly legal in Alabama, according to state law and local officials. Alabama has a Depression-era law that allows sheriffs to "keep and retain" unspent money from jail food-provision accounts.
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1 month ago
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Parcel addressed to New Zealand ‘farm up a long driveway, near pub’ finds its way
A parcel sent to a couple in New Zealand addressed only with “a farm, situated up a long driveway with cows, opposite a pub or thereabouts” has reached its rightful owners. The letter was initially received by a service centre in the rural village of Cust in the South Island of New Zealand, located between Oxford and Rangiora. The centre has a post centre attached to it that services Cust’s 450 residents.
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1 month ago
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EA Details New Progression System For Battlefront II
EA and DICE have detailed the changes being made to Star Wars: Battlefront II's progression system after hastily turning off the ability to buy virtual currency at the game's launch last year. The most fundamental change is that progression is now linear, meaning that star cards and all gameplay-impacting items are now earned as set rewards for leveling up. Experience points are doled out for characters, classes, and ships that give you skill points at level ups to unlock or upgrade st...