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Earth Is Running Out of Sand, Apparently
Image: Aurora Torres, German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research Summer is coming to an end, and you may be thinking fondly back to times spent lounging on a beach, soft white sand flowing between your fingers and toes as you napped under the Sun. Well, forget relaxing and start worrying, baby! Researchers writing in the…
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Hollywood’s Movies Suck, and It Doesn’t Want You to Know
Image Source: Rotten Tomatoes Hollywood is struggling through a particularly rough financial patch at the moment, and it’s throwing blame in every direction. Its favorite target over the last ten years has been technological disruption. Netflix, home theaters, and MoviePass have all been cited as box office grim reapers. The latest target, Rotten Tomatoes, is…
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Google Employees Organize Their Own Study of Gender Pay Gap
Photo: Getty In April, the US Department of Labor accused Google of gender pay discrimination. The tech behemoth denied the allegations, and when the DoL requested historical salary records from the company, Google argued that the endeavor was too expensive. Lucky for Google, good samaritans at the company have led efforts to compile the wage…
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Virginia Is Getting Rid of Its Vulnerable Voting Machines
Photo: Getty Virginia’s Board of Elections voted unanimously to decertify all of the state’s touchscreen voting machines, which are considered by cybersecurity experts to be vulnerable to manipulation by hackers. The race is now on to replace the machines, which are used in 22 counties, before Virginia’s elections in November. Industry experts and and the…
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Congress Isn’t Happy About the Equifax Breach
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Vladimir Putin wants fewer foreign software
MOSCOW – Russian tech risk in addition to overheidsklussen to intervene if they are foreign software continue to use. Therefore warned the Russian president Vladimir Putin, who, according to news agency Interfax suggested that such computer programs could constitute a threat to the security of the state. Putin said that authorities did not in all…
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Death toll after earthquake in Mexico runs on
MEXICO-CITY – In Mexico the death rate as a result of the heavy earthquake early Friday morning has risen to 45. At least 250 people have been seriously injured by the strongest quake in the country in eighty years. That has José Calzada Rovirosa, the Mexican minister of Agriculture, announced after a visit to the…
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After ’armageddon’ on Barbuda follows José: race against the clock
CODRINGTON – The island of Barbuda is threatening for the second time in a few days to be hit by a devastating hurricane. Helicopter pilots and skippers are engaged in a race against the clock to remaining residents to evacuate before José Saturday arrives. Neil Dickinson and his two helicopters play according to news agency…
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How to make the medicines more effective?
One of the main problems of the effective action of drugs is that while they are to the body substances simply destroyed our defense system. In addition, medications are often toxic and cause no little harm. Has long been developing targeted (that is directly to the site of the lesion) drug delivery. But what if…
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10 unexpected downsides of rapidly evolving technology
Technology is evolving very fast, and many look forward to crazy new gizmos that appear and appear. Scientists along with industry leaders want to give (well, sell) us self-driving cars, to immerse us in a virtual reality more deeply, to speed up travel, send in commercial space flight and so on. And while the majority…