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Millions of years ago, all mammals lived on land, but some species abandoned land and adapted to life in the sea: seals and whales, for example, can now live underwater. The species that remained were similarly adapted to terrestrial life. So it’s no surprise that a group of experts concluded in a recent study that […]

Using data from the latest 2019 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, researchers analyzed adolescent deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to traffic and unintentional injuries in 204 countries over the past 30 years. They found that even though traffic injury death rates have fallen by a third since 1990, the number of teenage

Disney’s Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain in 2024 , when its copyright term reaches 95 years. Mickey Mouse was born in 1928, when the term of copyright protection was 56 years. The Copyright Act of 1978 extended the term of protection to 75 years. In 1998, Disney lobbied for passage of the Copyright

As the novel coronavirus, Omicron, ravaged the world, outbreaks of encephalitis in children were almost unheard of. However, in Taiwan, according to statistics, as of June 21, a total of 18 children have died from the disease in this wave of new crown variant epidemics, and 5 of them have symptoms of encephalitis. Among children

Japan experienced its strongest heatwave on record . Temperatures in Tokyo topped 35 degrees for the eighth day in a row on Saturday, the second time since records began in 1875. In Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, the temperature hit 40 degrees Celsius on Friday. There has been a surge in the number of people being treated

In 2017 Canonica announced that Ubuntu’s default desktop would be switching from Unity to GNOME. The last Unity update was Unity v7.5 for Ubuntu 17.04. Unity released v7.6 after six years. The new version fixes and improves a lot of features. It is not from Canonical, but from Rudra Saraswat , a 12-year-old Indian child.

What Happened After El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Adopted Bitcoin as the Country’s Legal Currency? With bitcoin prices down more than 50 percent this year, some believe the investment in El Salvador has pushed the country to the brink of bankruptcy. Yet blaming the country’s default risk on crypto enthusiasm is wrong: the economic turmoil

Starting this fall, high schools in America’s most populous state can’t start classes before 8:30 a.m., and middle schools can’t start before 8 a.m. Lawmakers in New Jersey and Massachusetts have made similar proposals. Advocates say teens perform better academically when they are more awake, predicting the move will have wider impacts: fewer suicides and

A professor at Stanford University’s Autonomous Systems Laboratory and his students have been awarded a “Phase 2” grant from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which supports robotics research in space, after proving the feasibility of a robot crawling in a space cave. Over the next two years, the research team will conduct 3D simulations, prototype

In 2019, the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands was hit by a ransomware attack that locked the research data of 25,000 staff and students. Because the backup system was also locked, the university finally agreed to pay a bitcoin ransom worth 200,000 euros to unlock the encrypted data. In a subsequent criminal investigation, Dutch

DeepComputing and Shenzhen-based company xcalibyte announced the first RISC-V laptop ROMA for developers. ROMA is equipped with a quad-core RISC-V CPU, a GPU/NPU accelerator, up to 16GB LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory, and up to 256GB hard drive capacity. The companies did not provide further details on the laptops, and their press releases were filled with buzzwords such

Writer Ni Kuang has died at the age of 87 . Ni Kuang was born in Shanghai in 1935, and his ancestral home is Zhenhai, Ningbo. He left the mainland and moved to Hong Kong in 1957. He, together with Jin Yong, Huang Zhan and Cai Lan, is known as the “Four Talents in Hong

Photo editing software Darktable has released version 4.0.0 . Major new features include: Color and exposure mapping, new function in exposure and color calibration module, new color science introduced in Filmic v6, new guided Laplacian method introduced in specular reconstruction module, darktable Uniform Color Space 2022, UI rewrite, and many more. This article is reprinted