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1. The ExoMars rover may search for life near the Red Planet's equator
(English/engadget)

Europe and Russia's ExoMars rover has been assigned its destination on the Red Planet. The robot explorer will almost certainly land on Oxia Planum -- a site rich in iron-magnesium clays near the ...

2. Oracle's bad faith with security researchers led to publication of a Virtualbox 0-day
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... actors reveal their bugs without giving them time to create and promulgate a patch. But over and over again, this theory of corporate responsibility and security researcher intransigence falls apart. ...

3. Best Deals and Prices on Appliances: How to Save the Most Money
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Appliances are expensive, sometimes even if you want the most basic models. If you want the best deals and prices on appliances, you’ll need to put in some extra work and research. And if you’re ...

4. Researchers claim to have permanently neutralized ad-blocking's most promising weapons
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Last year, Princeton researchers revealed a powerful new ad-blocking technique: perceptual ad-blocking uses a machine-learning model trained on images of pages with the ads identified to make predictions ...

5. My Life on the Road: Headed for Texas, crazy cold in Claresholm
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... road south. By the time we pulled off for the evening, it had already hit -10. We lurked through town, the size of a semi truck with our Jeep in tow, searching for a dark corner of asphalt to call ours ...

6. New 3D printed corneas could save millions of people's vision
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Researchers have spent decades exploring methods to 3D print organs for transplant but progress is slow due to the complex structure of, say, a kidney or pancreas. Precise Bio, a startup founded by scientists ...

7. Guy finds ant colony living behind his television screen. Any suggestions on how he can shoo them away?
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... also result from accumulations of dead ants and nest detritus in electrical devices. If an ant is electrocuted, it can release an alarm pheromone in dying, which causes other ants to rush over and search ...

8. Fzf - A Quick Fuzzy File Search from Linux Terminal
(English/Linuxtoday)

Tecmint: Fzf is a tiny, blazing fast, general-purpose, and cross-platform command-line fuzzy finder, that helps you to search and open files quickly in Linux and Windows operating system. Read all  ...

9. How to Use FSearch to Quickly Search Files in Linux
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MakeTechEasier: Searching for files in Linux can be a bit clunky. Read all  ...

10. Study shows that social media limits made people feel less lonely
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... researchers from the University of Pennsylvania... Read all  ...

11. YouTube users are running into fake and dangerous videos, study finds
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New data from Pew Research Center highlights both the highs and lows of YouTube. The study -- which was based on a survey of 4,594 adults in the US conducted earlier this year -- found that people of all ...

12. Tidal's music library is now available on Samsung smartwatches
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... Watch. You can search for tunes and podcasts (i... Read all  ...

13. Tanzania detains reporters Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo
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... es Salaam, Tanzania, this evening, according to Quintal. The officials searched the pair's belongings and would not return their passports when asked. Quintal and Mumo were then escorted from the hotel ...

14. Red Dead Redemption 2 is depressing as all get out
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... some research and ended up killing most of the people he needed me to interview. Read the rest Read all  ...

15. Hiding secret messages in whale song
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Most military underwater surveillance systems filter out whale calls along with other ambient ocean noise. This inspired researchers from China's Tianjin University to create a form of "bio-inspired steganography" ...

16. Watch the first 8k video from the International Space Station
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... on Earth. “We’re excited to embrace new technology that improves our ability to engage our audiences in space station research,” said David Brady, assistant program scientist for the International Space ...

17. Facebook confirms accounts banned ahead of election had Russian ties
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... with the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) po... Read all  ...

18. Researchers train AI to spot Alzheimer’s disease ahead of diagnosis
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While Alzheimer's disease affects tens of millions of people worldwide, it remains difficult to detect early on. But researchers exploring whether AI can play a role in detecting Alzheimer's ...

19. Google model identifies restaurants that could give you food poisoning
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Google could soon tell you which restaurants are more likely to give you food poisoning, thanks to an algorithm that can identify lapses in food safety in near real time. Working with researchers from ...

20. Mercedes’ AI research could mean faster package delivery
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It looked and worked like a Ferris wheel and it seemed like a good idea. Packages would sit in the basket and rotate for easy access when about to be delivered. Then a gallon of milk got caught in a crossbeam ...

21. Microsoft's Bitlocker compromised by bad SSD encryption
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Bad computer security can sometimes have a cascading effect, as researchers from the Netherlands discovered. They first spotted vulnerabilities in the embedded encryption of several SSD models from Samsung ...

22. Google can tell you how and where to vote on Election Day
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You can add Google to the list of tech companies nudging you to get out to the polls today. The big G's search engine is the go-to source for our most pressing, and prosaic, questions. And once again, ...

23. Steganographically hiding secret messages in fake fingerprints
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... databases to convey secret messages. The researchers' method encodes the encrypted message using the ridge endings and bifurcations of the fingerprint, in a way that current statistical methods for spotting ...

24. Europe's massive plan to require open access for all science gets two new backers: Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation
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In September, a consortium of 11 of Europe's largest science funders announced, "Plan S," whereby they would no longer fund research unless the grantees promised that the results would be published in ...

25. A powerful laser 'porch light' could let aliens know where we are
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An MIT researcher claims a laser space beacon detectable up to 20,000 light years away is feasible -- essentially acting as a porch light for extraterrestrial life. James Clark's study posits that ...