| Slashdot: |
| Consumer Reports Restores 'Recommended' Ratings to Both Tesla's Model 3 and Model S |
| Something Strange Seems To Be Causing Distant Galaxies To Synchronize |
| How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results |
| Debian Project Drafts General Resolution on Init-System Diversity |
| Pointless Work Meetings 'Really a Form of Therapy' |
| Ancestry Taps AI To Sift Through Millions of Obituaries |
| 'Algorithms Are Like Convex Mirrors That Refract Human Biases' |
| Google Chrome Experiment Crashes Browser Tabs, Impacts Companies Worldwide |
| Web Summit Cancels Next Year's Rise, One of Asia's Largest Tech Conferences, Over Tension in Hong Kong |
| Most Americans Think They're Being Constantly Tracked, Study Finds |
| US Workers Show Little Improvement In 21st Century Skills |
| Ghost Ships, Crop Circles, and Soft Gold: A GPS Mystery in Shanghai |
| Fuel Cell Drone Makes An Epic Ocean Crossing |
| Germany Forces Apple To Let Other Mobile Wallet Services Use iPhone's NFC Chip |
| Google Cancels Weekly All-Hands Meetings Amid Growing Workplace Tensions |
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| Slashdot - science: |
| Something Strange Seems To Be Causing Distant Galaxies To Synchronize |
| Pointless Work Meetings 'Really a Form of Therapy' |
| US Workers Show Little Improvement In 21st Century Skills |
| Fuel Cell Drone Makes An Epic Ocean Crossing |
| White House Unveils Rules Requiring Online Disclosure of Hospital Prices |
| Physicists Irreversibly Split Photons By Freezing Them In a Bose-Einstein Condensate |
| The Black Death Plague Just Reappeared In China |
| SpaceX Successfully Tests Crewed Dragon Launch Abort Engines |
| China Completes Crucial Landing Test For First Mars Mission in 2020 |
| Hologram-Like Device Animates Objects Using Ultrasound Waves |
| Health Websites Are Sharing Sensitive Medical Data with Google, Facebook, and Amazon |
| The Curiosity Rover Detects Oxygen Behaving Strangely on Mars |
| Physics Experiment With Ultrafast Laser Pulses Produces a Previously Unseen Phase of Matter |
| UCLA Now Has the First Zero-Emission, All-Electric Mobile Surgical Instrument Lab |
| Study Reveals How Two Strains of One Bacterium Combine To Cause Flesh-Eating Infection |
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| SoylentNews: |
| FCC Sued by Dozens of Cities After Voting to Kill Local Fees and Rules |
| Smokers and Hypertensive Individuals have Higher Risk of Sudden Death from Brain Bleed |
| Lichens Are Way Younger Than Scientists Thought |
| Brave Urges Congress to Require Ad Blocking Browsers for Govt Employees |
| TPM-FAIL Security Flaws Impact Modern Devices With Intel CPUs |
| Google Fixes White Screen Problem in Chrome, Admins Furious |
| Moscow-Contacted Rebels Charged with Downing MH17: Investigators |
| Prehistoric Ape From Germany Was a Pioneer of Two-Legged Walking |
| New Jersey Claims Uber Owes $650 Million in Taxes and Fees; Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors |
| Injectable, Flexible Electrode Could Replace Rigid Nerve-Stimulating Implants |
| Star Ejected from Milky Way's 'Heart of Darkness' Reaches Mind-Blowing Speed |
| Indian State of Odisha Releases 21 Dictionaries Under CC BY 4.0 |
| New Particle Analysis Technique Paves Way For Better Air Pollution Monitoring |
| Joker's Stash Puts $130M Price Tag on Credit Card Database |
| John Carmack Steps Down at Oculus to Pursue AI Passion Project |
| Games to Grunts Offering Free Games to Military and Veterans |
| Mated Female Mosquitoes Are More Likely to Transmit Malaria Parasites |
| Google Stadia will be Missing Many Features for Monday's Launch |
| Now a Senator is Investigating the Sexist Apple Card Interest Rate Debacle |
| .ORG TLD Sold to Investment Firm Ethos Capital |
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| Hacker News: |
| NASA finds Neptune moons locked in 'dance of avoidance' |
| The Value in Go’s Simplicity |
| Building a 64-bit aarch64 kernel and userspace for the Raspberry Pi 4 |
| Debian 10.2 |
| The Configuration Complexity Curse |
| In Defense of Utility-First CSS |
| The “No Man's Sky” Archaeology Project |
| Difference Between Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Disaster Recovery (2014) |
| Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight |
| Effectively Using Matplotlib (2017) |
| Who Will Buy Canonical and SUSE? |
| U.S. police may now be able to access online DNA database records |
| The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann |
| The “Melissa Worm” Through the Eyes of the FBI |
| Kore4 and Python |
| Google One |
| Oral History of Ken Thompson (2005) [pdf] |
| I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe |
| Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes |
| Emulated Iopl() |
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| Science daily: |
| Secret of explosive volcanism unlocked |
| Chemists map an artificial molecular self-assembly pathway with complexities of life |
| New cell therapy improves memory and stops seizures following TBI |
| How nematodes outsmart the defenses of pests |
| Direct-to-patient telemedicine cardiology follow-ups may safely save families time, cost |
| Scientists close in on malaria vaccine |
| Many patients with iNPH develop Alzheimer's disease, too |
| Researchers link sisters' paralysis to an 'extremely rare' genetic variant |
| Master regulator in mitochondria is critical for muscle function and repair |
| Lichens are way younger than scientists thought |
| Early DNA lineages shed light on the diverse origins of the contemporary population |
| Mapping disease outbreaks in urban settings using mobile phone data |
| Jackdaw mobs flip from chaos to order as they grow |
| Scientists discover how the molecule-sorting station in our cells is formed and maintained |
| Researchers develop thin heat shield for superfast aircraft |
| Smart people may learn music faster |
| People who cannot read may be three times as likely to develop dementia |
| Genetics may determine who benefits from broccoli's effects on kidney health |
| Wearable and implantable devices may transform care for patients with kidney failure |
| New state of matter: A cooper pair metal |
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| PhysOrg news: |
| Survey finds gain in endangered red squirrel population |
| Inundated Venice braced for more flooding, strong winds |
| Delhi suffocates under toxic smog but millions go without masks |
| France reverse palm oil tax break after outcry |
| Research sheds light on the underlying mechanics of soft filaments |
| A marvelous molecular machine |
| NASA looks at Tropical Depression Kalmaegi's water vapor concentration |
| NASA gets an eyeful of Typhoon Fengshen |
| Amazon deforestation and number of fires show summer of 2019 not a 'normal' year |
| Hot electrons harvested without tricks |
| New satellite measurements show how polluted Los Angeles' air really is |
| NASA identifies new Eastern Pacific tropical storm |
| Study shows digital media has damaging impact on reintegration of 'white collar' criminals |
| Bacterial protein impairs important cellular processes |
| Nearly extreme black holes which attempt to regrow hair become bald again |
| A review of the lesser known sides of the plant genus Erythroxylum |
| Researchers unlock the secret of explosive volcanism |
| Atomically dispersed Ni is coke-resistant for dry reforming of methane |
| Water could modulate the activity and selectivity of carbon dioxide reduction |
| eDNA reveals where endangered birds of a feather flock together |
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