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Cryptocurrency investors locked out of $190m after exchange founder dies
QuadrigaCX, Canada’s largest exchange, was unable to access password or recovery key after Gerald Cotten died last December
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Drones Help Rid Galapagos Island of Invasive Rats
Fast and efficient, drones are a versatile new tool against invasive species
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The Rise of the Robot Reporter
Fast, accurate and no typos! Bloomberg News, The Washington Post and The Associated Press test out machine-generated journalism.
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Secret Files Show How Trump Moscow Talks Unfolded While Trump Heaped Praise On Putin
Ahead of Michael Cohen’s testimony, read the original paper trail behind the campaign to build Europe’s tallest tower in Moscow — and how it played out alongside Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
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How Diderot’s Encyclopedia Challenged the King
The encyclopedists’ plan to catalog knowledge seemed harmless enough. But what they intended was far more subversive: to restructure knowledge itself.
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"Down The Rabbit Hole I Go": How A Young Woman Followed Two Hackers' Lies To Her...
Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.
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Why I created a robot to write news stories
Guardian Australia has just published its first automated article but reporters fear not – you’re still needed for a while yet.
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Our Language Affects What We See
A new look at “the Russian Blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception
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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
Unsolicited volume can be a great source of distraction and frustration for users of the web. So we are making changes to how Firefox handles playing media with sound.
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Let Children Get Bored Again
Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency.
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Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult
Demonstrating you’re not a robot is getting harder and harder
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Captain Marvel - "Big Game" TV Spot
Marvel Studios
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The Magazines Publishing One Another’s Work
Polarization is everywhere. But it’s being challenged in Poland by a handful of magazines across the political spectrum. They’ve begun sharing articles, to show readers a variety of viewpoints.
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How to Be Creative
Great news! You can be a creator. Follow these steps to find your inner writer, composer, finger-painter, chef, lyricist, entrepreneur or professional Tweeter.
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Trump Inaugural Committee Ordered to Hand Over Documents to Federal Investigators
Prosecutors in Manhattan demanded documents about the committee’s donors, including whether it received illegal foreign donations.
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If You're Often Angry Or Irritable, You May Be Depressed
Physicians have been taught to look for signs of hopelessness, sadness and lack of motivation to help them diagnose depression. But anger as a depression symptom is less often noticed or addressed.
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One Lawyer, One Day, 194 Felony Cases
The Constitution guarantees poor defendants a lawyer. It doesn’t say the lawyer will have enough time to actually work their cases.
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Can It Be Right to Commit Suicide?
The Roman Catholic Church has long argued that one’s life is the property of God and thus that to commit suicide is to deride God’s prerogatives. The counterargument, by philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is that, if such is the case, then to save someone’s life is also to deride God’s prerogatives. Most religions share the Church’s belief in the sanctity of life, although a few have come to regard at least some suicides as honourable.
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As rocket companies proliferate, new enabling tech emerges as the next wave in the space race
Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Slingshot Aeropsace, SpaceX and Virgin Orbit have raised billions of dollars to create new vehicles to launch payloads into space, but as the private space industry develops in the U.S. investors are beginning to back enabling technologies boost the next wave of innovation. Whether it’s satellite manufacturers, new propulsion systems for satellites, antennae for data transmission or actually building out the networks themselves, the new space race will be building the next generation of services that the increasing access to space provides.
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Scientists solve the mystery of Rembrandt’s “impasto” paint recipe
A lead mineral called plumbonacrite was used to create a thick, paste-like paint.
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The real lesson of Facebook's Apple dust-up shows why Zuckerberg's 'hacker...
That Facebook was willing to defy Apple is a telling sign — and one that regulator should keep in mind as they try to get a handle on the company.
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Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts
Motherboard has identified a specific UK bank that has fallen victim to so-called SS7 attacks, and sources say the issue is wider than previously reported.
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Something mysterious is blocking vehicle key fobs from working in a small Alberta town
Key fobs that suddenly won't unlock vehicles. Cars that won't start. Alarms that go off for no reason. Something mysterious is thwarting drivers outside a grocery store in the small Alberta town of Carstairs — and it's sparking all kinds of theories.
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Your digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them
What story does your data tell about you?
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Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
I don't mind letting your programs see my private data as long as I get something useful in exchange. But that's not what happens. A forme...
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‘The devastation of human life is in view’: what a burning world tells us about climate change
I was wilfully deluded until I began covering global warming, says David Wallace-Wells. But extreme heat could transform the planet by 2100
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In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business
At the Angoulême International Comics Festival, there was a sense that the best days for comic books may be yet to come — in the French-speaking world, at least.
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The 500-Year-Long Science Experiment
In 2014, microbiologists began a study that they hope will continue long after they’re dead.
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'Metallic wood' has the strength of titanium and the density of water
Researchers have built a sheet of nickel with nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter.
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Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park
If you think traffic in city centers is bad now, just wait until self-driving cars emerge on the scene, cruising around to avoid paying hefty downtown parking fees.
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