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  • Ajit Pai har Lige Fået Sit Andet ‘Courage’ Tildeling af Året

    FCC-Formand Ajit Pai taler under en nyheder konference for at afsløre Cox Connect2Compete program på National Press Club, oktober 1, 2018 i Washington, DC.Foto: Getty/Mark Wilson FCC-Formand Ajit Pai modtaget en pris på onsdag fra et konservativt medie-organisation for hans “mod den offentlige service.” Det er anden gang, Pai er blevet tildelt for “courage” i…

  • Rare Brain-Eating Amoeba Kills Woman Who Filled Her Neti Pot With Tap Water

    Microscopic image of a sample taken from the woman’s brain, with arrows indicating the amoebas.Image: K. J. Piper et al., 2018/International Journal of Infectious Diseases A 68-year-old Seattle woman who died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba used regular tap water to rinse her sinuses, according to new research. As noted in a new International…

  • These Birders Flock to Google Street View to Spot Birds Around the World

    A bald eagle in a tree in Texas, spotted by Nick Lund.Screenshot: Google Street View I noticed something in the distance while clicking along rural U.S. Route 59 in Minnesota, 80 miles southeast of Fargo, North Dakota. Two grainy heads appeared out of the water like a pair of Loch Ness monsters. I couldn’t make…

  • Sen. Mark Warner Calls for U.S. to Adopt New ‘Cyber Doctrine’

    Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) arrives for a committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill March 21, 2018 in Washington, DC.Photo: Getty In a speech on Friday, Democrat Mark Warner, vice chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee, presented what he called “a new cyber doctrine,” advocating not only…

  • I Have a Few Questions About This Bacon Vending Machine

    Photo: Ohio Pork Council It’s come to our attention that the Ohio State University now features a bacon vending machine. The technology was installed in the Animal Sciences Building at the university’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, and it dispenses servings of ready-to-eat bacon for $1 each. These basic facts have led me…

  • How to Spot Genuine Discounts During Your Holiday Shopping

    Photo: David Nield (Gizmodo) It’s shopping season, and you’re likely to be on the look-out for gifts for friends and family in the next few weeks. To limit the damage to your bank balance, you will, of course, want to do your business as cheaply as possible—but how can you spot the genuine discounts from…

  • Chinese Spacecraft Launches on Mission to the Far Side of the Moon

    NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite took this shot of the far side of the moon in July 2015, at a distaince of 1 million miles from Earth.Photo: NASA China launched its Chang’e 4 lander and rover today (December 8, 2:22 a.m. local time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, as part of a mission…

  • Top 5 Most Worrying AI Trends of 2018, According to Top Researchers

    Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi (Getty) Artificial intelligence is already beginning to spiral out of our control, a new report from top researchers warns. Not so much in a Skynet kind of sense, but more in a ‘technology companies and governments are already using AI in ways that amp up surveillance and further marginalize vulnerable populations’ kind…

  • Can You Spot What’s Special About This Photo of the Crescent Moon?

    That’s not a speck of dust on your screen—it’s Venus.Photo: Steven Bellavia And in close-up:

  • Childhood Antibiotics Could Raise Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds

    Image: AKuptsova (Pixabay) For all the good that antibiotics do, relying on them too much can have pretty drastic drawbacks. In particular, their overuse can help create bacterial superbugs resistant to future antibiotics. But a new study published this week in JAMA Psychiatry suggests there’s another, more subtle consequence of antibiotic use, at least in…