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Ancient Jar of Roman Gold Coins Discovered Under Italian Theater
The gold coins found in the soapstone jar. Image: MiBAC Archaeologists unearthed a pot of gold coins dating back to the 5th century AD under an abandoned theater near Milan, Italy. The gold coins, about 300 of them, were found during archaeological excavations in the basement of the condemned Cressoni Theater in Como, a town located…
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How Hackers Compromised 380,000 British Airway Customer Payments
Photo: Getty A British Airways data breach that exposed as least 380,000 card payments was caused by a card-skimming malware that customers were inadvertently exposed to through the airline’s website and mobile app, according to research from security firm RiskIQ. British Airways announced last week that hackers had breached the company’s system, compromising hundreds of…
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The Large Hadron Collider Turns 10: Here’s What’s Next for Particle Physics
The LHC inside its tunnelPhoto: CERN September 10 marked the 10th anniversary of when the Large Hadron Collider first powered on. Since it’s already achieved its most well-known goal—to discover the Higgs boson—you might wonder what else is happening at the famous collider. The Large Hadron Collider, located in Geneva, Switzerland, is the world’s largest scientific…
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Google Fights Back as EU Weighs Expanding ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Worldwide
Photo: Getty Google has been subject to the EU Court of Justice’s “right to be forgotten” law—a requirement that search engines delist requested pages from results—for years. The law enables anyone in the EU to pressure companies like Google to take down search results they don’t like. But this week, Google is pushing back against…
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The EU’s Disastrous Copyright Bill Is Back to Break the Internet
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Simple Hack Turns India’s Massive Biometric Database Into a Profitable Counterfeit System
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Toddlers and Chimpanzees Share a Surprising Unspoken Language
Photo: Matt King (Getty Images) Prior to developing the capacity for speech, toddlers communicate their desires, demands, and discontent using a diverse repertoire of physical gestures. As a new study shows, there’s a significant amount of overlap between the gestures employed by human children and those made by other ape species, a finding that’s casting…
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Our Apple iPhone Event Liveblog Will Be Right Here
Image: Apple The triple threat iPhone day is upon us, and boy does it feel like a lot of information. This year, it looks like Apple will announce three new iPhone models as well as a slew of other product upgrades. There’s also a strong chance that something or several things will involve the color…
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Researchers Come Out With Yet Another Unnerving, New Deepfake Method
Image: Carnegie Mellon University Deepfakes, ultrarealistic fake videos manipulated using machine learning, are getting pretty convincing. And researchers continue to develop new methods to create these types of videos, for better or, more likely, for worse. The most recent method comes from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who have figured out a way to automatically…
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Cool Island Bullied by IMF to Abandon Digital Currency
Photo: Pixabay In what could be seen as wise financial counseling or a threat, the International Monetary Fund is urging the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) to abandon its plan to launch a cryprocurrency as legal tender. With a population of just over 50,000 people, the Marshall Islands is a tiny nation that heavily…