| Slashdot: |
| Demand and Salaries For Data Scientists Continue To Climb |
| The 'Fortnite' Economy Now Has Its Own Black Market |
| We'll Likely See a Rise in Internet Blackouts in 2019 |
| Uber is Exploring Autonomous Bikes and Scooters |
| AI is Sending People To Jail -- and Getting it Wrong |
| Why High-Fidelity Streaming is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For |
| Online Casino Group Leaks Information on 108 Million Bets, Including User Details |
| Chinese Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies Fired by University |
| Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide |
| Cable Outage Sees Tonga Fall Back To Satellite Internet |
| In an Attempt To Tackle Spread of Fake News, Facebook's WhatsApp Puts Limit on Message Forwarding |
| A Large Number of Top Free VPN Apps Either Have Chinese Ownership or Are Based in China |
| Paris Will Make Public Transportation Free for Kids |
| Bug Bounties Aren't Silver Bullet for Better Security |
| Total Lunar Eclipse Set To Wow Star Gazers, Clear Skies Willing |
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| Slashdot - science: |
| Chinese Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies Fired by University |
| Total Lunar Eclipse Set To Wow Star Gazers, Clear Skies Willing |
| Ask Slashdot: Why Are Scientists Constantly Surprised By What They Discover? |
| Asteroid Strikes 'Increase Threefold Over Last 300 Million Years,' Survey Finds |
| Researchers Created Artificial Cells That Can Communicate With Each Other |
| Identical Twins Test 5 DNA Ancestry Kits, Get Different Results On Each |
| Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua |
| World's Oldest Periodic Table Chart Found At University of St Andrews In Scotland |
| Bioacoustic Devices Could Help Save Rainforests |
| Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible |
| Saturn Put A Ring On It Relatively Recently, Study Says |
| Amazon Launches re:MARS Event Focusing on AI, as Second Stage To Invite-only MARS |
| Fasting Can Improve Overall Health By Causing Circadian Clocks In the Liver and Skeletal Muscle To Rewire Their Metabolism, Study Finds |
| Key West Moves To Ban Sunscreens That Could Damage Reefs |
| Researchers Report Breakthrough In Ice-Repelling Materials |
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| SoylentNews: |
| Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case |
| China Confirms That He Jiankui Illegally Edited Human Embryo Genomes |
| Civil Rights Group Calls for Creation of a National ID Card |
| Men React to Repeated Painful Experiences Differently Than Women Do |
| Death of Google+ Causing Angst |
| Researchers Come Face to Face With Huge Great White Shark |
| Tiny Silicon Particles Could Power Lithium Ion Batteries with 10 Times More Capacity |
| Mini-Monsters with Multiple Heads Created in the Lab |
| One of Debian's Developers Takes Vacation from Packaging systemd |
| Q2VKPT: An Open Source Game Demo with Real-Time Path Tracing |
| French Government Seeks Integration of Renault and Nissan Automakers |
| Netflix Claims Fortnite is Now a Bigger Competitor than HBO |
| Religion's Smart-People Problem: The Shaky Intellectual Foundations of Absolute Faith |
| Mortal Kombat 11 has Rousey as Sonya Blade |
| NASA's Juno Spacecraft Captures Jupiter's Massive Storms, Revealing Planet's "Striking Blemish" |
| Teen Bedridden for Life after Selling Kidney for an iPhone |
| Elastic Microrobots Can Adapt to Different Fluids |
| Scientists ID Another Possible Threat to Orcas: Pink Salmon |
| Exomoon Confirmation Remains Elusive |
| Robot Designed Using 290-Million-Year-Old Fossil of an Extinct Animal |
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| Hacker News: |
| Genode OS: A tool kit for highly secure special-purpose operating systems |
| Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS |
| On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality |
| If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? |
| Intro to hacking MicroSD cards (2013) |
| New Scooter Removal Service Appears |
| Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times |
| Why does APT not use HTTPS? |
| Hive. co (YC S14) is hiring full-stack developers in Kitchener-Waterloo |
| CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google |
| A Lifetime of Systems Thinking |
| How McSema Handles C++ Exceptions |
| Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? |
| Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human intelligence |
| Paradox of tolerance |
| Insulin Wars: How insurance companies farm out dirty work to doctors patients |
| Schumpeter on Strategy |
| Sharon Van Etten found the drive to make music again |
| Night of a cascading failure |
| Jeff Bezos Realized He Was Not Bright Enough to Be a Theoretical Physicist |
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| Science daily: |
| How our brains distinguish between self-touch and touch by others |
| Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree |
| Greenland ice melting four times faster than in 2003 |
| Mice pass on brain benefits of enriched upbringing to offspring |
| New nanoparticle targets tumor-infiltrating immune cells, flips switch |
| Secret to sepsis may lie in rare cell |
| Energizing the immune system to eat cancer |
| Early prediction of Alzheimer's progression: Blood protein |
| On Facebook and Twitter your privacy is at risk -- even if you don't have an account, study finds |
| North Sea rocks could act as large-scale renewable energy stores |
| Mechanical engineers develop process to 3-D print piezoelectric materials |
| Unexpected link found between feeding and memory brain areas |
| Genetic study reveals possible new routes to treating osteoarthritis |
| Shedding light on spinal cord injuries |
| In China, a link between happiness and air quality |
| Some pregnant women don't believe cannabis is harmful to their fetus |
| Ancient carpet shark discovered with 'spaceship-shaped' teeth |
| Ecological benefits of part-night lighting revealed |
| Fecal transplants: The 'super-donor' phenomenon |
| Our genes affect where fat is stored in our bodies |
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| PhysOrg news: |
| How hot are atoms in the shock wave of an exploding star? |
| Having stressed out ancestors improves immune response to stress |
| China seems to confirm scientist's gene-edited babies claim |
| EU countries split over copyright overhaul |
| Greenland ice melting four times faster than in 2003, study finds |
| Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree |
| Leaf age determines the division of labor in plant stress responses |
| Netflix is in a battle royale with Fortnite in the fight for your screen time |
| Despite controversies, Facebook apps were the most used and downloaded in 2018 |
| Europeans contemplating moon mission by 2025 |
| Spanish taxi strike against app services spreads to Madrid |
| Following accidents, Dutch Uber lifts minimum driver age |
| Ancient climate change triggered warming that lasted thousands of years |
| Scientists warn of climate 'time bomb' for world's groundwater |
| France hits Google with 50 million euro data consent fine |
| Facebook to expand Ireland operations with 1,000 staff |
| New nanoparticle targets tumor-infiltrating immune cells, flips switch |
| Mechanical engineers develop process to 3-D print piezoelectric materials |
| In China, a link between happiness and air quality |
| Toward ultrafast spintronics |
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