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1. 15 Years Ago, Her Killer Strangled Her And Then Posed Her Unclothed Body 30 Miles From Her Home In 2007, But There’s Virtually No Evidence That Can Help Solve Her Case
(English/ChipChic)

In 2007, Karen Bodine of Olympia, Washington, was thirty-seven years old. She had three children and was known as a warmhearted mother and friend. But, early that year, the Bodine family’s lives ...

2. New Comprehensive Review Finds That Depression Is Not Caused By Low Serotonin Levels, Calling Into Question The Effect Of Antidepressants
(English/ChipChic)

... such as Zoloft, Prozac, and Lexapro– have primarily been based on unclear evidence, according to a new comprehensive review conducted by researchers at the University College […] Read all  ...

3. Meta slams FTC for blocking its acquisition of Within
(English/Neowin)

Meta has responded to the FTC's lawsuit against its acquisition of VR fitness studio Within in strong words, saying that the regulator's claims are based on speculation and ideology, not evidence. ...

4. Evolution of lactose tolerance probably driven by famine and disease
(English/newscientist)

Archaeological and genetic evidence casts doubt on the idea that the ability to digest lactose after infancy evolved gradually Read all  ...

5. Dental X-rays likely to be used to assess asylum seeker ages in UK
(English/newscientist)

A Home Office report on supposed scientific methods for estimating ages is likely to recommend the use of dental X-rays, among other techniques, despite a lack of evidence to support them Read all  ...

6. Coronavirus may enter the brain by building tiny tunnels from the nose
(English/newscientist)

How the virus behind covid-19 enters the brain was somewhat of a mystery, but new evidence hints it may build tiny tubes from nose cells to brain cells that it can shuttle through Read all  ...

7. No link between depression and serotonin, finds major analysis
(English/newscientist)

A review of 17 previous studies finds no evidence for a link between depression and low serotonin levels, which SSRI antidepressants focus on – though not everyone is convinced by the findings Read all ...

8. What we know so far about how covid-19 affects sperm
(English/newscientist)

Evidence suggests covid-19 infections can lower sperm counts for months, and that the virus can occasionally be found in semen and may even directly bind to sperm cells Read all  ...

9. Ancient DNA adds to evidence for Native Americans' east Asian ancestry
(English/newscientist)

Genetic analysis of a woman’s skull from 14,000 years ago found in south-west China suggests she was related to an ancient population that migrated to North America from east Asia Read all

10. Teenagers Held An Insane Party In An $8 Million Dollar Mansion That They Broke Into And They Posted Evidence Of What They Did On Snapchat
(English/ChipChic)

A rager thrown by teenagers in a suburban Florida neighborhood was disrupted by the police after a neighbor had called in a noise complaint. However, this was not your typical teenage party. The Walton ...

11. This Woman Shared Video Evidence Of Her Ex-Husband Poisoning Her On TikTok
(English/ChipChic)

Another woman recently went viral after sharing yet another devastating act caught on a Ring security camera. This time, though, the woman named Sarah believes she caught her ex-husband poisoning her. ...

12. Her Family Wants Her To Leverage Her Friends With Benefits Situation To See If She Can Gather Evidence That Will Help Her Brother Battle For Custody Of His Kids
(English/ChipChic)

A woman has a brother who is in the middle of fighting for custody of his kids, and she’s convinced he’s just about to lose this battle. “This all started because my brother decided to ...

13. Amazon gives Aukey the boot!
(English/the-gadgeteer)

NEWS – A security researcher recently found evidence that several China retailers have been gaming their ratings on Amazon.  They offered free products for good reviews and money for removing bad reviews. ...

14. Leaked documents suggest Huawei violated Iran sanctions
(English/engadget)

Internal documents reviewed by Reuters show that Huawei shipped computer equipment made by Hewlett-Packard to Iran's largest mobile operator in 2010. The documents provide strong evidence that Huawei ...

15. Nearly every top-selling smartphone in 2019 was an iPhone or Galaxy
(English/engadget)

It's almost a cliché to say that Apple and Samsung dictate the tempo of the smartphone market, but there's now more evidence to support that claim. Counterpoint Research has calculated ...

16. Bipartisan consensus is emerging on reining in Big Tech
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... Glass-Steagall of the internet. It’s kind of an interesting idea because people go to a platform thinking, somehow, when they do a search, there’s some neutral way that evidence is reviewed, and you’re ...

17. 'Absurd,' Saudi Arabia calls claims MBS hacked Bezos phone
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... will report on Wednesday that there is enough evidence suggesting that Saudi Arabia had hacked Bezos’ phone and both the kingdom and the United States should investigate, a person familiar with the matter ...

18. Dentist who pulled tooth while on hoverboard convicted of 46 crimes
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... fraud for billing Medicaid for procedures that were either unnecessary or not properly justified and theft of $25,000 or more by diverting funds from Alaska Dental Arts, among dozens of others. The evidence ...

19. Evidence that a car isn't a pedestrian and probably shouldn't use the pedestrian lane
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Yesterday in New York, police spent hours attempting to remove this Honda from the pedestrian lane of the Pulaski Bridge connecting Brooklyn and Queens. Apparently, it was a stolen car and the driver ...

20. The three biggest Chinese business scams that target foreign firms
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... mark for ever-larger sums, concluding with fake evidence of registration that leaves the target company vulnerable to future counterfeiting). The computer networks of many Chinese companies are ...

21. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicted on corruption charges
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... motives.” The delegitimization "was meant to create the impression that any decision taken would be wrong. The investigations are based on broad-based evidence and testimony, which were professionally ...

22. Mayor Pete: Obama should have left Chelsea Manning to rot in prison for 35 years
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... freeing her from the prison where she had been tortured and incarcerated for upholding her oath to defend the Constitution by revealing evidence of US war crimes. He also dislikes Ed Snowden. Buttigieg ...

23. Objectivity is a myth, and a single tweet explains why
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... of the evidence to form a conclusion, if you don't actually have firsthand knowledge of the social, financial, and emotional toll of incarceration? What biases might you be missing that you never even ...

24. Cute "mouse-deer," long lost to science, has been photographed again
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

This is a silver-backed chevrotain, aka "mouse-deer," from Vietnam. Until this and other camera trap photographs were taken in the last two years, no scientific evidence of the rabbit-sized animal had ...

25. ​Twitter is awash in disinformation bots tweeting lies about the Kentucky gubernatorial election results
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... was swiftly shuttered, a screenshot of the tweet was retweeted by a botnet army, and then far-right commentators started to cite it as evidence of electoral fraud. The disinformation campaign has also ...