| Slashdot: |
| Facebook Suspends Tens of Thousands of Apps Following Data Investigation |
| Why Prescription Drugs Cost So Much More in America |
| Traders Who Can't Code May Become Extinct, Goldman's Tech Pioneer Warns |
| They Want To Believe: People Gather Near Area 51 To 'See Them Aliens' |
| Secret FBI Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies |
| 47% of Organizations Have Cyber Insurance, Up From 34% in 2017: Study |
| French Court Rules that Steam's Ban on Reselling Used Games is Contrary To European Law |
| Silicon Valley Is Terrified of California's Privacy Law |
| Experts Warn World 'Grossly Unprepared' For Future Pandemics |
| Japan's Hayabusa 2 Targets Final Asteroid Landing |
| World's Most Destructive Botnet Returns With Stolen Passwords and Email In Tow |
| Bill Gates: Don't Break Up Tech Giants, It Won't Stop Anticompetitive Behavior |
| Authorities Consider Taking Legal Action Against Facebook Over Storm Area 51 Event |
| Two Years Later, Hackers Are Still Breaching Local Government Payment Portals |
| Instagram's Opioid Recovery Hashtags Are Full of Drug Dealers |
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| Slashdot - science: |
| Why Prescription Drugs Cost So Much More in America |
| Experts Warn World 'Grossly Unprepared' For Future Pandemics |
| Japan's Hayabusa 2 Targets Final Asteroid Landing |
| Vaping Criminal Probe Announced By FDA As Illnesses Rise To 530 |
| North America Has Lost 3 Billion Birds in 50 Years |
| Research Finds Black Carbon Breathed By Mothers Can Cross Into Unborn Children |
| C-Section Babies Have More Potentially Infectious Gut Bacteria |
| India Bans E-cigarettes as Global Vaping Backlash Grows |
| A Lunar Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible and Inexpensive, Scientists Find |
| AI Learned To Use Tools After Nearly 500 Million Games of Hide and Seek |
| Massive, Blimplike Experiment Lowers Weight Limit On Neutrino |
| Earth Warming More Quickly Than Thought, New Climate Models Show |
| Millions of Americans' Medical Images and Data Are Available On the Internet |
| Comet Visitor From Outside Our Solar System Will Wow Scientists For Months |
| Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT |
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| SoylentNews: |
| Researchers Alter Mouse Gut Microbiomes by Feeding Good Bacteria Their Preferred Fibers |
| The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning |
| Alcohol-Producing Gut Bacteria Could Cause Liver Damage Even in People Who Don't Drink |
| TFlower Ransomware - the Latest Attack Targeting Businesses |
| Iowa Officials Claim Confusion Over Scope Led to Arrest of Pen-Testers |
| Investigating the Self-Attention Mechanism Behind BERT-Based Architectures |
| Impossible Burger Lands in Some California Grocery Stores |
| AT&T Considers Getting Rid of DirecTV as TV Business Tanks, WSJ Reports |
| AMD Says TSMC Can Meet Epyc Demand; Launches New, Higher-Clocked 64-Core CPU |
| Abortion Bill Faces Resistance In Australia's New South Wales |
| Hulu Hackathon Leads to Eye-tracking Controls for Roku |
| Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth |
| Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions |
| Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives |
| US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos |
| Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation |
| Using an Optical Tweezer Array of Laser-Cooled Molecules to Observe Ground State Collisions |
| New Augmented Reality Head Mounted Display Offers Unrivaled Viewing Experience |
| WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent |
| Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues |
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| Hacker News: |
| Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe |
| Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari |
| Common Systems Programming Optimizations and Tricks |
| Secret FBI Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data from Scores of Companies |
| The BeagleBone AI is Available |
| A Chinese Social Credit Song |
| Anxious tech workers are going to therapy |
| Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are increasing so fast |
| Reconstructing Denisovan Anatomy Using DNA Methylation Maps |
| Increased sedentary behaviour alters metabolism and body composition (2018) |
| French high court rules that Steam can’t ban users from reselling digital games |
| Come Home and Work for Taplytics (YC W14) in Toronto. All Eng Roles. React/Node |
| Zelda Games on the Philips CD-i |
| Extremism Researchers Confront The Unseen Toll Of Their Work |
| Lectures in Quantitative Economics with Python [pdf] |
| U.K. offshore wind park may generate power cheaper than by burning coal |
| Breaking Pills |
| Conference Speakers, Check Your Egos |
| Ask HN: How to Keep Yourself Accountable? |
| Git Blame-Someone-Else |
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| Science daily: |
| Corrosion resistance of steel bars in concrete when mixed with aerobic microorganisms |
| Staying at elementary school for longer associated with higher student attainment |
| Electric tech could help reverse baldness |
| Researchers alter mouse gut microbiomes by feeding good bacteria their preferred fibers |
| Alcohol-producing gut bacteria could cause liver damage even in people who don't drink |
| Hub linking movement and motivation in brain identified |
| Cellular hitchhikers may hold a key to understanding ALS |
| Researchers hone in on the elusive receptor for sour taste |
| Division by subtraction: Extinction of large mammal species likely drove survivors apart |
| Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures |
| Key similarities discovered between human and archaea chromosomes |
| The brain may actively forget during dream sleep |
| New study opens the door to flood resistant crops |
| Wild animals' immune systems decline with age, sheep study finds |
| Appreciating the classical elegance of time crystals |
| Engineers create ways to keep stone waste out of landfills |
| Investments to address climate change are good business |
| Antimicrobial resistance is drastically rising |
| Physicists discover topological behavior of electrons in 3D magnetic material |
| Researchers relate neuropsychological tests with real-life activity in multiple sclerosis |
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| PhysOrg news: |
| Weathering Antarctic storms: Weather balloon data boost forecasting skill |
| Clarification of a new synthesis mechanism of semiconductor atomic sheets |
| Oil futures volatility and the economy |
| Making math relevant to the climate strikes |
| Image: Clarence Strait, Australia |
| Economists are downplaying many major climate risks, says report |
| Surface melting causes Antarctic glaciers to slip faster towards the ocean, new research shows |
| New app to assess agricultural soil and improve its quality |
| HD microscopy in milliseconds |
| A dissertation brought new hi-precision mass measurements for atomic masses of isotopes heavier than iron |
| 'Always sticking to your convictions' sounds like a good thing, but it isn't |
| What is the cryosphere? Hint: It's vital to farming, fishing and skiing |
| An origin story for the queer community |
| It's high time someone studied marijuana taxes—so we did |
| News cutting-edge laser technology that gets under your skin |
| Evolution of learning is key to better artificial intelligence |
| Researchers build a quantum dot energy harvester |
| Vampire bats help unravel the mystery of smell |
| Companies on 'strike' for the climate: action or advertising? |
| Multicultural millennials respond positively to health 'edutainment' |
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