Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”. The editors described the arguments for a ban as “centred on the Daily Mail’s reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication”.

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Submitted on February 9th 2017 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

By age 45, most of us will need glasses at least for reading. That’s because our eyes’ ability to accommodate—to change focus to see objects at different distances—degrades with age. In young eyes, the eyeball’s crystalline lens changes shape easily, allowing this accommodation. But as we get older, this lens stiffens. Objects in close range suddenly look blurry. Hence the “readers” most middle-aged adults begin wearing on a chain or tucking in a handbag, or the bifocals worn by those who already had vision problems.

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Submitted on February 11th 2017 by aj0690 with 2 comments

Working with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), NASA is pioneering the development of tiny spacecraft, each made from a single silicon chip, that could slash interstellar exploration times. Speaking at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco last December, NASA’s Dong-Il Moon detailed this new technology, which is aimed at ensuring such spacecraft survive the potentially powerful radiation they’ll encounter on their journey.

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Submitted on February 13th 2017 by ppp

The Russian government has blocked porn site Brazzers over claims it is damaging to the “human psyche”.  Roskomnadzor, the country’s media watchdog, blacklisted the site, preventing access from Russian servers.  It follows a ruling by a district court in the Samara region that Brazzers has a “negative impact” and “violated citizens’ rights”, reports the TJ Journal.

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Submitted on February 9th 2017 by hxxp with 3 comments

China is to start fingerprinting foreigners who arrive in the country.  The Ministry of Public Security announced that it would begin screening foreign passport holders who arrive Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in the Guangdon Province later this week.  It will be rolled it out across the rest of the country by the end of the year. 

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Submitted on February 10th 2017 by jedlicka with 2 comments

Middle East city eyes Chinese-made drones to fly people across its skies.

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Submitted on February 13th 2017 by jedlicka

The world's top AI researchers met to consider the threats posed by their research. The global economy could be the first casualty.

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Submitted on February 11th 2017 by drunkenninja with 1 comments

The 2017 Tesla Model S P100D is the quickest car Motor Trend has ever tested! Get the exclusive story only at Motor Trend.

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Submitted on February 8th 2017 by sjvn

The desk I’m typing this on is a little wobbly. I adjusted the legs yesterday to be a little shorter after noticing the reason my wrists were hurting was because they were bent upward at an uncomfortable angle. My office at home is now clean and empty, after pending several hours the day before throwing away empty boxes of electronics that I for some reason found value in keeping. I also finally fixed our “broken” bathroom door, which for the last three months wouldn’t shut...

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Submitted on February 8th 2017 by aj0690

This year’s variation on the CEO scam goes after W-2 forms and then adds a wire fraud on top

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Submitted on February 8th 2017 by sjvn

Apple CEO Tim Cook wants the tech industry to take action against "fake news" stories that are polluting the web. "There has to be a massive campaign. We have to think through every demographic," Cook said in a rare interview. Speaking with The Daily Telegraph newspaper, Cook also said "all of us technology companies need to create some tools that help diminish the volume of fake news."

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Submitted on February 14th 2017 by distant with 1 comments

"Burn, baby! BURN!"

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Submitted on February 14th 2017 by sjvn

US Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has informed Congress that the DHS is considering requiring refugees and visa applicants from seven Muslim-majority nations to hand over their social media credentials from Facebook and other sites as part of a security check. "We want to get on their social media, with passwords: What do you do, what do you say?" he told the House Committee on Homeland Security on Tuesday. "If they don't want to cooperate, then you don't come in."

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Submitted on February 9th 2017 by grandsalami

A study by a British think tank, Reform, says that 90% of British civil service workers have jobs so pointless, they could easily be replaced by robots, saving the government around $8 billion per year. The study, published this week, says that robots are “more efficient” at collecting data, processing paperwork, and doing the routine tasks that now fall to low-level government employees. Even nurses and doctors, who are government employees in the UK, could be relieved of some duties by mechanical assistants.

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Submitted on February 9th 2017 by kong88

Online tracking gets more accurate and harder to evade.

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Submitted on February 14th 2017 by Appaloosa with 1 comments

Your home Wi-Fi performance will soon get much better thanks to new Wi-Fi chips that Qualcomm announced today, the IPQ8074 system-on-chip (SoC) for broadcasters (routers and access points) and the QCA6290 SoC for receivers (Wi-Fi devices). They belong to the first end-to-end commercial Wi-Fi portfolio to support the all-new 802.11ax standard.

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Submitted on February 13th 2017 by manix

At the Consumer Electronics Show this year, most of the talk from automakers was about autonomous cars. That’s not surprising, given the CES audience and the rapid development of self-driving technology. Depending on the automaker, the promises of completely self-driving cars ranged from imminent to cautious, but all agreed that completely or mostly autonomous cars would hit our roadways in the next 10 years.

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Submitted on February 13th 2017 by spacepopper

Fortunately, the people hard at work on this problem are willing to cut corners.

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Submitted on February 11th 2017 by hiihii

How a fake story about Angela Merkel led to a far-right cluster on Reddit. Germany holds elections in late 2017. Analysts have already reported that Chancellor Angela Merkel is being targeted with fake news and online attacks, espceially from hyperpartisan and conspiracy sites. In this report, the DFRLab tracks one fake story about Merkel posted on Reddit, revealing a cluster of sites supporting populist and far-right politicians in Europe.

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Submitted on February 11th 2017 by hxxp with 1 Related Links:

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Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new flow battery that stores energy in organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH water. This new chemistry allows for a non-toxic, non-corrosive battery with an exceptionally long lifetime and offers the potential to significantly decrease the costs of production.

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Submitted on February 13th 2017 by Dominik80 with 1 Related Links:

1. HARVARD CREATES A RENEWABLE BATTERY THAT CAN LAST FOR 10 YEARS Added by Dominik80 on February 13th 2017.