Carriers at Bottom of EFF's "Who Has Your Back?" Scorecard (opens the source in a new tab)
Unsurprising. Uber and Lyft both got a 5, which surprised me
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Recreating an Extinct Virus (opens the source in a new tab)
Team did it with $100k. Implications for warfare are obvious...
Electrified Droplets Create Mini Saturn Planets (opens the source in a new tab)
Doesn't say what the effect might be on larger Saturn planets
Oculus Drops Price Again (opens the source in a new tab)
May indicate sales issues or other problems.
Red Meat is Health Food (opens the source in a new tab)
Mangan looks at the evidence. I'd want to believe this regardless.
Gravitational Waves Might Be Just Noise (opens the source in a new tab)
LIGO has two sites - the signal is correlated - but so is the noise
Robert Recorde, Inventor of the Equals Sign (opens the source in a new tab)
Good read - had never heard of the man, though perhaps I should have
Incurable Gonorrhea Popping Up (opens the source in a new tab)
We might be nearing the end of the age of antibiotics
Cambrian Explosion of Robots (opens the source in a new tab)
Burger-making robots = Skynet ? At least it didn't spit on my burger
iTunes Share of Sales Cratering (opens the source in a new tab)
With competition from Amazon and Comcast - perhaps unsurprising
Just as Marvel Gives Up Wrecking Things, DC Goes All In (opens the source in a new tab)
Sure, Marvel sales tanked. But hey, lets make Batman a villain!
New Denisovan Fossil Found (opens the source in a new tab)
Only the fourth one found, this one from a young Denisovan girl
Tim Berners-Lee Now Supporting DRM in HTML (opens the source in a new tab)
Anything pushed by the MPAA is questionable
US to Test THAAD Missile Defense (opens the source in a new tab)
North Korea slowly getting more dangerous
Microsaurs (opens the source in a new tab)
Kind of the opposite of Godzilla
Uranus Has Strobe-Like Magnetic Field (opens the source in a new tab)
Is magnetic reconnection a thing? Don't remember it from physics class
XCOR Aerospace Just About Dead (opens the source in a new tab)
Laid off the last remaining employees, will continue funding efforts
Compelling Argument for a High Price iPhone Pro (opens the source in a new tab)
Gruber looks at the iPhone price structure, sees $1200 iPhone in Sep
Apple Releases first macOS High Sierra Public Beta (opens the source in a new tab)
I suppose I should upgrade from Snow Leopard
Quantum Supremacy Looms (opens the source in a new tab)
Can quantum computers w/o error correction exceed classical devices?