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YouTube viewers to help uncover how users are sent to harmful videos
Extension on Firefox browser will allow users to record information about videos recommended by site
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The key to happiness: Friends or family? The answer might surprise you
Think spending time with your kids and spouse is the key to your happiness? You may actually be happier getting together with your friends, said SMU psychology professor Nathan Hudson. Hudson's research finds that people report higher levels of well-being while hanging with their friends than they do with their romantic partner or children. In fact, being around romantic partners predicted the least amount of happiness among these three groups, reveals a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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At this point, 5G is a bad joke
Thinking of buying a new phone, just for high-speed mmWave 5G? Do yourself a favor: Don't.
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The first commercial airlock is heading to the International Space Station later this year
A closer look at Nanoracks’ Bishop.
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Japanese Military Announces It Will Track UFOs
The move comes days after Japan and the United States spoke about unidentified aerial phenomena.
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Breaking up is hard to do: Chrome separates from Chrome OS
It may sound odd, but for old Chromebook users, this may prove a blessing.
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New Windows exploit lets you instantly become admin. Have you patched?
Researchers have developed and published a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Windows vulnerability that can allow access to an organization’s crown jewels—the Active Directory domain controllers that act as an all-powerful gatekeeper for all machines connected to a network.
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First funeral held using ‘living coffin’ made of mushroom fibre
Netherlands-based startup company behind eco-friendly fungi mycelium casket
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TikTok rejects Microsoft bid at eleventh hour
Microsoft has said that its offer to buy the US operations of hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok has been rejected, paving the way for Oracle to secure a last-minute deal. US President Donald Trump gave a 15 September deadline for the Chinese-owned app to sell or shut down. The Trump administration claims TikTok and other Chinese apps are national security threats.
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The rise of ultra-processed foods and why they're really bad for our health
We looked at 37 studies which show eating ultra-processed foods is bad for our health. So why are we eating more of them than ever before?
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A fired Facebook employee wrote a scathing 6,600-word memo detailing the company's failures...
A recently fired Facebook employee wrote a memo on her last day at the company detailing how the tech giant routinely ignored or did not prioritize efforts to manipulate elections and political climates around the world, according to a Monday Buzzfeed report. The 6,600-word memo was written by Sophie Zhang, a data scientist whose job while at the company was to identify fake accounts used to manipulate political outcomes.
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"I Have Blood On My Hands": A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political...
Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections and political affairs around the world, according to an explosive memo sent by a recently fired Facebook employee and obtained by BuzzFeed News.
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Scientists find possible sign of life on Venus
Astronomers have found phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus, possibly indicating life.
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What to expect from Apple’s "Time Flies" event: Apple Watch Series 6, a redesigned iPad...
Seems likely we’ll be seeing new Apple hardware.
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Hacking satellite internet connections is a lot easier than you'd think
Satellite internet may be convenient but it's also easy to intercept
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Amazon Says It Was Not Price Gouging During the Pandemic When It Sold Toilet Paper for $36
Amazon and its third-party sellers saddled customers with astronomical price increases on essential products such as toilet paper, face masks, and hand sanitizer after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year, according to a report published Thursday by consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Citizen.
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California skies glow orange as wildfires continue – in pictures
Dozens of blazes continue to rage in California with a record 2.2m acres burned. Bay Area residents awoke on Wednesday to orange skies
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Your Smartphone Can Tell If You’re Drunk-Walking
In a recent study, scientists could tell if people were intoxicated just by looking at their phones’ motion data.
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China says it landed a reusable spacecraft after a two-day flight
China says it has landed a reusable spacecraft after two days in orbit, possibly helping it compete with the US Air Force's X-37B.
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Most cyber-security reports only focus on the cool threats
Academics: Only 82 of the 629 commercial cyber-security reports (13%) published in the last decade discuss a threat to civil society, with the rest focusing on cybercrime, nation-state hackers, economic espionage.
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Trump told Bob Woodward he knew in February that COVID-19 was ‘deadly stuff’ but wanted to ‘play...
"It's not just old people," Trump told Woodward, acknowledging the gravity of the disease, the Washington Post reported.
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Tech giants are the 'winners' of the coronavirus crisis and should pay more tax, Europe...
Tech giants have to pay a "fair amount" of taxes, a top European official said Saturday, amid an ongoing rift between the U.S. and Europe over levies on companies such as Apple, Alphabet and Amazon.
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Julian Assange Lays Out His Case Against US Extradition
The argument hinges in part on psychiatrists' testimony that Assange is a high suicide risk.
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A Freelance Writer Learns He Was Working for the Russians
A man who had written for a site that officials say was a front for a Russian group said his mysterious editor “had a different kind of agenda.”
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New treatment may help slow ALS, thanks to the Ice Bucket Challenge
The research was supported in part by donations from the Ice Bucket Challenge.
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It’s Past Time for Coinbase to Issue Transparency Reports
EFF has become increasingly concerned that payment processors are being asked to turn over information on their customers, without any mechanism for the public to know who is making those requests, or how often. That’s why we are calling on Coinbase—one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in...
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Are You Ready To Eat Lab Meat?
Fancy a burger made from meat grown in a laboratory? Lab-burgers are coming to a supermarket or restaurant near you soon and are going to be big business, predicts entrepreneur and author Paul Cuatrecasas. “The next major revolution–on a scale with moving from the horse and cart to the automobile–is going to be in food,” says Cuatrecasas, CEO of mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory firm Aquaa Partners.
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Scientists develop new compound which kills both types of antibiotic resistant superbugs
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed a new compound that is able to kill both gram-positive and gram-negative antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria have different cell wall structures, but the new antibiotic compound is able to pass through the cell wall of both forms of bacteria and then bind to the DNA.
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Donald Trump campaign repeatedly doctoring videos for social media ads
Analysis shows footage of Biden edited to make him look olderTwitter flags Trump campaign videos as ‘manipulated media’
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This Drone Made It Rain Cannabis as Hundreds of Bags Fell in Tel Aviv
A drone dumped hundreds of cannabis bags in Tel Aviv after its pilots published a COVID-19 message.




















