| Slashdot: |
| Los Angeles is Finally Ditching Coal -- and Replacing It With Another Polluting Fuel |
| How To Escape the 'Hyperactive Hivemind' of Modern Work |
| Machine Learning Has Been Used To Automatically Translate Long-Lost Languages |
| Scientists Could Use Aerogel Sheets To Make Mars Surface Fit For Farming |
| Elon Musk's Neuralink Will Detail Progress in Computer-Brain Interface |
| Social Media, But Not Video Games, Linked To Depression In Teens, Says Study |
| Jet-Powered Flyboard Soars Over Paris For Bastille Day Parade |
| Broadcom and Symantec End Buyout Talks |
| Colleges Graduate 10,000 This Year With Masters In Data Science Degrees |
| Ajit Pai's New Gift To Cable Companies Would Kill Local Fees and Rules |
| Scotland Produced Enough Wind Energy To Power All Its Homes Twice Over |
| Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Could Be Misused By Terrorists, Says Treasury Chief Mnuchin |
| Amazon Warehouse Workers Around the World Are Striking For Prime Day |
| To Break Google's Monopoly On Search, Make Its Index Public |
| AI Has a Compute Dependency Problem, Facebook VP Says |
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| Slashdot - science: |
| Machine Learning Has Been Used To Automatically Translate Long-Lost Languages |
| Scientists Could Use Aerogel Sheets To Make Mars Surface Fit For Farming |
| Elon Musk's Neuralink Will Detail Progress in Computer-Brain Interface |
| Intel's Pohoiki Beach is a Neuromorphic Computer Capable of Simulating 8 Million Neurons |
| A Cell Tower In the Swiss Alps Is Struck By Lightning More Than 100 Times a Year |
| NASA Funds Company To 3D-Print Spacecraft Parts in Orbit |
| India Plans Historic Launch of a Rocket to the Moon |
| Doing Five Things Could Decrease Your Risk of Alzheimer's By 60% |
| IQ Test Scores Increased For a Century. But Did it Help? |
| Amazon's Alexa Will Deliver NHS Medical Advice in the UK |
| Inside 'Starshot', the Audacious Plan To Shoot Tiny Ships To Alpha Centauri |
| Carbon Nanotube Device Channels Heat Into Light |
| A New Study Uses Camera Footage To Track the Frequency of Bystander Intervention |
| Billions of Air Pollution Particles Found in Hearts of City Dwellers |
| Fatal Accident With Metal Straw Highlights a Risk |
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| SoylentNews: |
| Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations |
| The Way a Single Neuron Processes Information is Never the Same |
| Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction |
| Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People |
| SpaceX and NASA Investigation Identifies Cause of Crew Dragon Explosion |
| NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction |
| New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software |
| Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free |
| Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid |
| French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade |
| Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought |
| `Agent Smith' Infects 25 Million Android Devices Globally; Makes WhatsApp, Opera and SwiftKey Clones |
| Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming |
| Astronomers Think They’ve Spotted a Moon Forming Around an Exoplanet |
| European Satellite-Navigation System Galileo Experiences Outage |
| Mini-Model of Stonehenge Reveals How Voices Would Have Carried in Original Ancient Monument |
| Novel Nanoparticles Deliver CRISPR Gene Editing Tools Into the Cell With Much Higher Efficiency |
| The FBI Plans More Social Media Surveillance |
| QNAPCrypt Malware Targets NAS Servers |
| 101 Million Evite Accounts Breached |
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| Hacker News: |
| Google Protest Leader Meredith Whittaker Is Leaving the Company |
| Show HN: OctoSQL – Query and Join multiple databases and files, written in Go |
| Going Quiet: More States Are Hiding 911 Recordings |
| Raspberry Pi 4 Review |
| Jeison: An Emacs library for declarative JSON parsing |
| Apollo 11 50th Anniversary |
| Elsa: Emacs Lisp Static Analyzer |
| Vugu: Modern UI Library for Go+WebAssembly |
| The helicopter team that films the Tour de France is one of a kind |
| IndieAuth – a federated login protocol using one's own domain name |
| Tesla employees say they took shortcuts, worked through harsh conditions |
| Lunar Eclipse: An Email to a Daughter and Son-in-Law |
| Before Silicon Valley got nasty the Pirates of Analog Alley fought it out (2014) |
| In search of the sea wolf along Canada’s coast (2015) |
| Memory Checking |
| A material way to make Mars habitable |
| We can't get enough of audiobooks |
| Ownership and Borrowing in D |
| The Murderer, the Writer, the Reckoning |
| King – Man + Woman = King? |
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| Science daily: |
| The protein that gives identical cells individuality |
| VR lullaby machine shown to induce tranquil pre-sleep states |
| Scientists uncover mechanism behind development of viral infections |
| Black plastics could create renewable energy |
| Flies may also spread disease among monkeys and apes |
| Backed in black: How to get people to buy more produce |
| Private land conservation research underrepresents geographical regions and stakeholders |
| Tracking down climate change with radar eyes |
| New Hubble constant measurement adds to mystery of universe's expansion rate |
| Gut microbes protect against neurologic damage from viral infections |
| Study identifies potential markers of lung cancer |
| Electrical engineers develop 'beyond 5G' wireless transceiver |
| A genomic barcode tracker for immune cells |
| Human pancreas on a chip opens new possibilities for studying disease |
| Differences in genes impact response to cryptococcus infection |
| Flood prediction model developed |
| Effectiveness of using natural enemies to combat pests depends on surroundings |
| Genetic study reveals metabolic origins of anorexia |
| Thirty years of unique data reveal what's really killing coral reefs |
| Dietary quality influences microbiome composition in human colonic mucosa |
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| PhysOrg news: |
| Earthquake damage: Americans unaware of risk, focus on response instead of prevention |
| Ion wind technology breakthrough takes flight |
| Private land conservation research underrepresents geographical regions and stakeholders |
| War's physical toll can last for generations, as it has for the children of the Vietnam War |
| As flood risks increase across the US, it's time to recognize the limits of levees |
| When migrants go home, they bring back money, skills and ideas that can change a country |
| Interlayers help perovskite crystallisation for high-performance light-emitting diodes |
| New species of tree discovered in Tanzania mountains |
| Four Corners' forced labour exposé shows why you might be wearing slave-made clothes |
| Direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide using TS-1 supported catalysts |
| Megadrought caused mega biodiversity loss |
| When and where Nile crocodiles attack |
| Birds of a feather flock together to keep their options open, say scientists |
| Vast subsidies keeping the fossil fuel industry afloat should be put to better use |
| ATLAS Experiment finds evidence of charge asymmetry in top-quark pairs |
| Ancient DNA extracted from Neanderthal fossils of Gibraltar for the first time |
| A layer of 'aerogel' could make Mars habitable and even enable life to develop there |
| Radiation from atomic testing in Marshall Islands still too high for human habitation |
| How tech firms make us feel like we own their apps—and how that benefits them |
| Gaia's biggest operation since launch |
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