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1. Google AI can spot advanced breast cancer more effectively than humans
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Google has delivered further evidence that AI could become a valuable ally in detecting cancer. The company's researchers have developed a deep learning tool that can spot metastatic (advanced) breast ...

2. Capitalism torched the world, fascism rose from the ashes
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... of dealing with climate change, treating damage to human lives and the planet we share as "unpriced negative externalities" rather than evidence that a system whose tenet was the we would achieve optimal ...

3. Against all evidence, city of Savannah claims googly eyes glued to Revolutionary War statue are "not funny"
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An extremely funny prankster glued googly eyes to the statue of Revolutionary War commander Nathaniel Greene; the City of Savannah took to its Facebook page to insist that this was "not funny" but rather ...

4. Trump's son Don Jr. promotes false smear linking Jamal Khashoggi to Osama bin Laden and terrorism
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... holding a RPG with jihadists,” Poole tweeted. “Huh,” Davis wrote. “It’s almost like reality is quite different than the evidence-free narratives peddled by media with a long history of cooperating with ...

5. The US Patent and Trademark Office is ready to hand over an exclusive trademark for "Dragon Slayer" for fantasy novels
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... thinks this has enough merit to proceed. Jason A Holt writes, "The USPTO, after receiving letters of protest containing over 100 pages of evidence that the phrase 'Dragon Slayer' is widely used in the ...

6. Senators demand answers over Chinese 'spy chip' fears
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Apple may have tried to reassure Congress that there's no evidence of China tampering with servers to spy on data traffic, but it didn't do much to quell doubts. Senators Richard Blumenthal and ...

7. Cat lover sets out to prove dogs not special
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... on intelligence barely trickled in, despite evidence to suggest that horses, chimpanzees and cats had tricks of their own. “Almost everything a dog claimed to do, other animals could do too,” Dr. Lea said. ...

8. Police were called on plane after passengers were robbed of jewelry and cash mid-flight
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... mysteriously appeared on the suspects' and robbed passengers' seats. The suspects were not arrested since there was no direct evidence. Apparently, this isn't the first mid-flight robbery of its kind. ...

9. How to make your own "Black Water" and why you probably shouldn't
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... two.) It is advertised as "Premium Alkaline Water." According to the New York Times, "there’s no evidence that water marketed as alkaline is better for your health than tap water." (Strike three). The ...

10. Apple told Congress it found no evidence of server tampering
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In a letter to Congress, Apple reiterated that it found no evidence of microchip-based server tampering by Chinese agents that was reported by Bloomberg Businessweek. The company, along with Amazon and ...

11. Using "forensic architecture" to punch Greek Nazis...in court
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... group has been called in to make sense of a welter of evidence about the crime and the cover-up, deploying their system of using "architectural techniques and technologies to investigate cases of state ...

12. Get a load of this doofus boarding Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe
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OK fine, maybe it's a napkin. Still, somebody could have told the man. But they didn't. They didn't. Video evidence below. (Washington Post) Read the rest Read all  ...

13. Why you should never return lost property in person
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... talking to the cops, you're bringing them evidence against you. Just find out who it belongs to and get it back to them anonymously. Or maybe just throw their $1000 anxiety box in a trashcan and not have ...

14. Possible exomoon reported
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... observations of a candidate exomoon associated with Kepler-1625b using the Hubble Space Telescope to validate or refute the moon’s presence. We find evidence in favor of the moon hypothesis, based on timing ...

15. Facebook: Hackers didn't access third-party sites with our sign-in
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The Facebook hack compromised 50 million users, but the damage might not be as extensive as some expected. In a statement, company security VP Guy Rosen revealed that investigators "found no evidence" ...

16. MIT Sloan Management Review suspends its paywall for two days
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Sara from MIT Sloan Management Review writes, "MIT SMR is unlocked for all visitors on October 2 and 3. For almost 60 years, MIT Sloan Management Review has been dedicated to providing evidence-based insights ...

17. Devin Nunes's much-touted California farm secretly moved to Iowa in 2006, in a district dependent on undocumented workers
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California Republican Congressman Devin Nunes (previously) has been one of Trump's most ardent supporters, who has used his office as Head of the House Intelligence Committee to promote the evidence-free ...

18. The Big Lie: how polygraph companies convinced the US government to use pseudoscience on job applicants
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Lie detectors don't work: that's why they're not admissible as legal evidence and why it's illegal to subject private sector job-applicants to polygraph tests. But public employees aren't so lucky: ...

19. Listen to this funky electromechanical lithophone
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... of ancient people. We often see evidence of where Native Americans lived centuries ago, or how they hunted or ate. We know far less about their music. “To me, at least today, things that make life meaningful ...

20. CBS smashes fans' virtual, noncommercial recreation of the USS Enterprise
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... crowdfunded Star Trek fan-film Axanar (previously) the company pointed to these guidelines as evidence of their good faith. Star Trek was famously saved from cancellation by fans who had kept the story ...

21. Alien attack imminent, Buckingham Palace is a drug den, and the Queen is a criminal mastermind, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids.
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... target, famed for its reluctance to sue for libel. "Queen Destroys Diana Murder Evidence – To Prevent Charles’ Arrest,” reports the National Examiner. That explains everything! Criminal mastermind Elizabeth ...

22. FBI will face lawsuit for putting people on the No-Fly list for refusing to inform on friends
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... acknowledgment by the government that its investigation revealed Fikre did not belong on the list, and that he will not be returned to the list based on the currently available evidence, Fikre remains, ...

23. DNA ancestry tests are bullshit
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... accuracy of the tests was made by the Sense About Science campaign group, which said "such histories are either so general as to be personally meaningless or they are just speculation from thin evidence." The ...

24. Kavanaugh faces gang rape claims. Third woman “witness and victim” to be revealed, Avenatti says
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... It must not be rushed and evidence/witnesses must not be hidden. pic.twitter.com/11XLZJBTtY — Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) September 24, 2018 Kavanaugh's third accuser has received multiple ...

25. Facebook reminds America's cops that they're not allowed to use fake accounts
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... it violates Facebook's terms of service. The ACLU uncovered evidence of the fake Memphis PD accounts in the course of a civil rights lawsuit. EFF got the Memphis cops' Facebook accounts terminated after ...