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California Senator’s Half-Baked Net Neutrality Bill Is a Dangerous Mess
California Is Halfway to Restoring Net Neutrality A California bill that would hold internet service providers accountable for violating net… Read more Read The groups consider SB 460 deficient in a number of key areas: First, it does not prohibit ISPs from charging so-called access fees. This raises the possibility that an ISP could charge…
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Black Holes Can Maybe Turn Into Dark Matter Lasers
An artist’s conception of a black hole shooting a jet of plasmaIllustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech Black holes are already some of the strangest objects in the universe, and scientists sometimes dream up some pretty wild theories about their behavior. Like maybe they can accumulate dark matter particles and turn into black hole lasers, beaming radiation out into…
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Here’s How Limited Your Carrier’s ‘Unlimited’ Phone Plans Really Are
At this point, anytime you see the word unlimited in relation to phone plans, you should probably just assume you’re being misled. And after seeing the hijinks Verizon is trying to pull with its latest “unlimited” cell phone plan, it seemed like a good time to check in on the other major carriers to get…
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Senators Ask Jeff Bezos Just How Many Complaints Amazon’s Received About Eavesdropping Echoes
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NIH Pulls the Plug on Controversial Drinking Study Funded by Big Alcohol
Image: Lernestorod (Pixabay) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has abruptly halted its $100 million study meant to examine whether moderate drinking can be good for your heart. The decision, announced Friday, comes in the wake of a report commissioned by the federal agency that reaffirmed allegations first reported by the New York Times this…
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Most Deepfake Videos Have One Glaring Flaw
Image: University at Albany, SUNY The rate at which deepfake videos are advancing is both impressive and deeply unsettling. But researchers have described a new method for detecting a “telltale sign” of these manipulated videos, which map one person’s face onto the body of another. It’s a flaw even the average person would notice: a…
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Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Reportedly Indicted on Wire Fraud
Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former key executives of blood-testing startup Theranos, have been indicted by a grand jury on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, The Washington Post reports. The news comes three months after news that both were charged…
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Chinese Satellite Captures a Cool View of Earth from Lunar Orbit
Image: CNSA After a 20-day journey, China’s Queqiao lunar communications relay satellite has made it to lunar orbit. Its companion, the Longjiang-2 microsatellite, wasted no time, taking some neat pics of Earth and the lunar surface. Queqiao, meaning Magpie Bridge, is a key component of the upcoming Chang’e 4 lander and rover mission, at which…
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Fortnite Is Bad But Sony’s Refusal to Play Nice Is Worse
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Huawei will teach Android-smartphones to start using the cloud
Huawei showed at CES Asia in 2018, which runs from 13 to 15 June in Shanghai, its new development. We are talking about the cloud service Huawei Cloud PC, which will allow you to run Windows 10 on smartphones with Android. With Cloud PC, the user can view the desktop of Windows 10 on the…