On December 18th, 2013 with 18 comments
sciencehabit writes "In a report on the most complete genome of a Neandertal ever sequenced, an international team of researchers has found that the parents of...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 37 comments
coondoggie writes "In its annual look at what challenges NASA faces in the coming year, the agency's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) this year outlined...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 64 comments
SonicSpike writes with a story about the huge amount of bitcoins owned by the FBI. "In September, the FBI shut down the Silk Road online drug marketplace, and...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 168 comments
New submitter ttyler writes "It turns out a MacBook's built-in camera can be activated without turning on the green LED. An earlier report suggested the FBI...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 24 comments
astroengine writes "Astronomers scoping-out the vicinity of the famous star Fomalhaut have discovered that its mysterious stellar sister is also sporting a...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 167 comments
kthreadd writes "In their research paper titled RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis, Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir and Eran Tromer et al....
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On December 18th, 2013 with 28 comments
Rambo Tribble writes "The BBC reports on research that points to the possibility of using inkjet technology to print retinal ganglion and glial cells. While...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 163 comments
cartechboy writes "The state of California will give Tesla Motors a $34.7 million tax break to expand the company's production capacity for electric cars,...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 127 comments
hessian writes "According to a news release from Purdue University, 'Researchers are developing computers capable of "approximate computing" to perform...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 428 comments
schwit1 sends this news from the Washington Times:
"Pennsylvania police this week were pulling people to the side of the road, quizzing them on their driving...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 71 comments
CowboyRobot writes "The Software Inferno is a tale that parallels The Inferno, Part One of The Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri in the early 1300s....
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On December 18th, 2013 with 19 comments
sfcrazy writes "Apart from being involved in open source through software, Google promotes the open source model through its various media channels and...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 265 comments
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Chuong Nguyen reports that Apple is forcing developers to adopt iOS 7's visual UI for their apps, and has advised iOS developers...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 49 comments
One of the founders of the cyberpunk genre, Bruce Sterling needs little introduction to science fiction fans.
You can read what "Chairman Bruce" has to say at ...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 41 comments
The ISS has been operating at partial capacity after a coolant pump malfunctioned last week. NASA has now announced the repair mission: "NASA currently plans...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 126 comments
ananyo writes "The Guardian's technology editor, Charles Arthur, asks why researchers have remained largely silent in the wake of the revelation that the U.S....
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On December 18th, 2013 with 430 comments
An anonymous reader writes with news of the latest major fluctuation in the price people are willing to pay for Bitcoins. From the article: "China's ban on its...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 78 comments
DeviceGuru writes "Roku's popular Linux-based media players have long been criticized for their glaring omission of YouTube video support. As of Dec. 17, that...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 101 comments
theodp writes "Speaking at a memorial event for the legendary Douglas Engelbart at the Computer History Museum, Ted Nelson was pissed-with-a-capital-P. Nelson...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 206 comments
Taco Cowboy writes "Back in 1963, the Beatles did some performances for the BBC and other places. The songs were recorded, but never officially released. Now,...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 503 comments
Meshach writes "The FBI has caught the student who called in a bomb threat at Harvard University on December 16. The student used a temporary anonymous email...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 107 comments
wiredmikey writes "A mobile botnet called MisoSMS is wreaking havoc on the Android platform, stealing personal SMS messages and exfiltrating them to attackers...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 132 comments
sciencehabit writes "A dog in the house is more than just good company. There's increasing evidence that exposure to dogs and livestock early in life can...
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On December 18th, 2013 with 299 comments
deviated_prevert writes "Most instrumental music used today in television commercials, background sounds and themes even on the majority of produced shows...
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On December 17th, 2013 with 109 comments
MTorrice writes "In recent years, increasing numbers of patients worldwide have contracted severe bacterial infections that are untreatable by most available...
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On December 17th, 2013 with 303 comments
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "The Guardian reports that while President Obama tried to portray a meeting with tech leaders as a wide-ranging discussion of...
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On December 17th, 2013 with 350 comments
An anonymous reader writes "A 28-year-old man in Sweden has been fined 4.3 million SEK (~650,000 USD) for uploading one movie. 300,000 SEK of that was added...
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On December 17th, 2013 with 229 comments
An anonymous reader writes "We tend to take things like household appliances and other automation for granted, but as O'Reilly's Mike Loukides puts it: 'The...
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On December 17th, 2013 with 79 comments
Nerval's Lobster writes "Tech publications and pundits alike have crowed about the benefits we're soon to collectively reap from healthcare analytics. In...
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On December 17th, 2013 with 529 comments
schwit1 sends this excerpt from CBS:
"'Enough' with the multivitamins already. That's the message from doctors behind three new studies and an editorial that...
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