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android
The File-Sharing Android App ShareIt Has Deep Security Flaws
A file-sharing app that claims it has been downloaded from the Google Play store more than 1 billion times has…
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businesspeople
Dominion Says It Will Sue the Heck Out of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell
Mike Lindell, the founder and CEO of MyPillow and likely future legal piñata.Screenshot: Absolute Proof/Mike Lindell Conspiracy theorists, pro-Donald Trump…
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amazon
The LAPD Asked Ring Owners to Hand Over Footage of BLM Protesters
Protesters pass LAPD officers in Los Angeles on June 6, 2020.Photo: Kyle Grillot/AFP (Getty Images) The Los Angeles Police Department…
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disaster accident
Ebola Has Returned to Africa and Officials Are Racing to Contain It
The gates of the Matanda Hospital in Butembo, found in the North Kivu province of the DRC. The hospital is…
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computer security
France Just Suffered A Very ‘Solar Winds’-Like Cyberattack
Photo: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP (Getty Images) As the U.S. continues to chart the damage from the sweeping “SolarWinds” hack that targeted…
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biology
Promising Gene Therapy Trials Suspended Over Potential Cancer Risk
Photo: Taimy Alvarez (AP) On Tuesday, Biotech company Bluebird suspended its trials of gene therapy as a treatment for blood-related disorders…
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biology
Highest-Resolution Images of DNA Reveal It’s Surprisingly Jiggly
Gif: A. L. B. Payne et al., 2021/Nature Communications Scientists have captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of DNA, revealing…
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bitcoin
Bitcoin Hit All-Time High at Over $50,000, Leaving Us in Dire Need of Sound Financial Advice
Photo: Ozan Kose (Getty Images) Bitcoin is the future, again: this morning, it hit an all-time high value of over…
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cue sports
Robotic Pool Stick Sinks Every Shot
If there’s one thing we know about Shane Wighton it’s that he’ll use his formidable engineering skills to gain a…
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ammunition
This Anti-Burglar Device From 1923 Was Inspired by Horrific Gas Warfare of World War I
Illustration depicting a new anti-robbery device in the April 1923 issue of Science and Invention magazine.Image: Novak Archive Imagine you’re…
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