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Current Event jasontBeing bionic: how technology transformed my life
I was born with the usual set of limbs. When I was nine months old, I contracted meningococcal septicaemia, a dangerous infection of the blood, which very nearly killed me. I survived, but because I had sustained major tissue damage, it became necessary to amputate my right leg below the knee, all of the fingers on my left hand and the second and third digits on my right hand. I learned to walk on a prosthetic leg at the age of 14 months, and have gone through my life wearing a succession of art...
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1 day ago
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Fallout 76 Power Armor glitch turns players into naked monsters
Not only are Bethesda games notorious for being glitchy, the company warned fans that players could expect “spectacular” bugs in Fallout 76. Most players will probably encounter some low-level jank, but some unlucky vault dwellers are encountering a specific hiccup that either ruins or enhances one of Fallout’s central gameplay mechanics, depending on how you look at it. Players are reporting that using souped-up Power Armor — equipping or storing it — will sometimes result in a bizarr...
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3 days ago
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SpaceX's Falcon 9 certified to launch NASA's flagship scientific spacecraft
NASA has certified SpaceX’s Falcon 9 (likely F9 v1.2) to launch the space agency’s most valuable and critical scientific spacecraft, opening up the floor for SpaceX to routinely compete for missions comparable to Hubble Space Telescope, the Curiosity Mars rover (Mars Science Laboratory), Cassini (a Saturn orbiter), and James Webb Space Telescope, among many others.
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4 days ago
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Riverdale’s return to the ’90s is the show at its nonsensical batshit best
Every week, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episode of the week for November 4 through 10 is “Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club,” the fourth episode of the third season of The CW’s Riverdale. Since its first episode, Riverdale has been an ultra-meta fever dream of a show, a vast, churning stew of winking pop culture references and plot lines that play as though the writers’ room ...
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2 weeks ago
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Alec Baldwin arrested in New York parking-spot punchout; Trump says 'I wish him luck'
Baldwin, who has appeared in such films as "Working Girl" "The Departed," and "Glengarry Glen Ross," more recently has made news for his frequent scathing impersonations of President Donald Trump on NBC's "Saturday Night Live."
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2 weeks ago
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Incredible New Test Can Screen Your Blood For Every Single Known Bacterial Infection Simultaneously
Each year, Americans develop over 1.5 million cases of sepsis as a result of bacterial infections. More than a quarter of a million of these cases prove fatal.
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2 weeks ago
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Istanbul Vending Machines Offer Subway Credit for Recycled Bottles and Cans
The city has installed “reverse vending machines” at metro stations that crush, shred and sort the materials as a way of paying for travel.
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2 weeks ago
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James Cameron Likes Blomkamp's Alien 5 Idea, Says Sigourney Weaver
According to Sigourney Weaver, James Cameron was a fan of Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 plans. Blomkamp’s plans for the sequel ultimately fell through, but not due to any lack of support from the director of Aliens. If anything, Weaver and Cameron would still like to see Blomkamp’s vision make it onto the big screen. Back in 2015, Blomkamp – who is best known for District 9 – was signed on by Foxto create Alien 5. The film would have been a direct sequel to Aliens, thereby eliminat...
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2 weeks ago
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Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin
Proponents of the chips say they're safe and largely protected from hacking, but one scientist is raising privacy concerns around the kind of personal health data that might be stored on the devices.
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3 weeks ago
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‘Superlungs’ gave dinosaurs the energy to run and fight
In the oxygen-poor air of the Mesozoic era, nothing should have been able to move very fast. But Velociraptors could run 64 kilometers per hour. Their secret weapon: superefficient, birdlike lungs, which would have pumped in a constant supply of oxygen, according to a new study. This unique adaptation may have given all dinos a leg up on their competition.
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3 weeks ago
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Opinion | Who Will Teach Silicon Valley To Be Ethical?
I think we can all agree that Silicon Valley needs more adult supervision right about now. Is the solution for its companies to hire a chief ethics officer? While some tech companies like Google have top compliance officers and others turn to legal teams to police themselves, no big tech companies that I know of have yet taken this step. But a lot of them seem to be talking about it, and I’ve discussed the idea with several chief executives recently. Why? Because slowly, then all at once, it f...
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3 weeks ago
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Tesla's future 'dog mode' would prevent humans from panicking
Tesla already has a feature to prevent its electric car interiors from overheating. Not everyone knows that, though, and that's a problem when people may call the cops or break into your ride to rescue a pet that's actually quite safe. You might not have to post a please-don't-worry sign on your window for much longer, however. Elon Musk has signaled that he'll implement a "dog mode" in future Tesla software that would tell passers-by not to panic. While he only jus...
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1 month ago
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Imagine looking at jupiter from that close with the naked eye.
Posted in: Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
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1 month ago
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Exclusive: American Mercenaries Went To Yemen To Carry Out Targeted Killings
Cradling an AK-47 and sucking a lollipop, the former American Green Beret bumped along in the back of an armored SUV as it wound through the darkened streets of Aden. Two other commandos on the mission were former Navy SEALs. As elite US special operations fighters, they had years of specialized training by the US military to protect America. But now they were working for a different master: a private US company that had been hired by the United Arab Emirates, a tiny desert monarchy on the Persi...