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by sjcsjc 9y ago
"Verily, the life science’s arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has hatched a plan to release a ..." My immediate reaction on reading that sentence was to wonder why they'd written it in some kind of Shakespearean Englis
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Scarily convincing fake video tool puts words in Obama’s mouth(telegraph.co.uk)
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Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War Right as It Enters a Critical Month(bloomberg.com)
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Study finds Lumosity users show no improvements in cognitive performance(arstechnica.co.uk)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
Exactly this happened to a former colleague of a family member. I gather he lost all of his data, including from all of his other apple devices. I don't know the details - it was mentioned at a family event recently.
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Using your iPhone at work? Watch that it doesn’t get wiped when you leave (2014)(9to5mac.com)
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First vaccine shows gonorrhoea protection(bbc.co.uk)
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UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia ruled lawful(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
Hadn't seen that before. Thanks. This is also worth a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights_and_the_Holocaus...
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
Also Berkeley and Berkshire are pronounced with a "bar" sound in UK English, but "burr" in the US, I believe.
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Do animals commit suicide?(thedodo.com)
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Deliveroo opens door to benefits win for gig economy workers(bbc.co.uk)
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Tesla to build world's biggest lithium ion battery in South Australia(theguardian.com)
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Petya hackers issue fresh ransom demand(bbc.co.uk)
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Antarctic iceberg: Giant 'white wanderer' poised to break free(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
I posted the following as a reply a few weeks ago, but it might interest some people so I'll re-post it here. Caveat - this is my interpretation of the various research pieces I've come across. I might be wrong. It seems that havi
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Can a Diet That Mimics Fasting Turn Back the Clock?(jamanetwork.com)
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A programmer turned Wikipedia into a classic text adventure(arstechnica.co.uk)
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Chinese rocket launch fails one hour after lift-off(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
I love this every time I see it. Newcomers may not have seen it so reposting doesn't seem a problem. And 24 days ago it was totally ignored in the new submission lottery, so again reposting doesn't seem a problem.
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Raspberry Pi scores UK's top engineering award(bbc.co.uk)
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Wild ducks caught on camera snacking on small birds(bbc.co.uk)
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Why You Shouldn’t Pay the Petya Ransomware(fortune.com)
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British Government tested chem/bio weapons on public during cold war (2015)(independent.co.uk)
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Two brothers, same murder, but one goes free. Why?(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14591454
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New bionic pancreas trial shows glucagon infusion successful preventing hypos(diabetes.co.uk)
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WhatsApp rises as a major force in news media(bbc.co.uk)
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Exploding cream dispenser kills French fitness blogger(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjcsjc 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14468376

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