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A U.S. federal trial court ruled Tuesday that copyright law cannot be used as a shortcut around the strong First Amendment protections for anonymous Internet users. A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California confirmed that subpoenas issued by copyright holders under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) must still […]

Scientists have designed a tiny robotic fish that can be programmed to swim around and remove microplastics from the ocean with a soft, flexible, self-healing body. Microplastics are the billions of tiny plastic particles that flake off larger plastic items such as everyday water bottles, car tires and T-shirts made of synthetic fibers. They are

According to new research published in the journal Science, scientists have discovered a bacterium whose cells are a centimeter long, an astonishing size that makes it the largest bacterial species ever discovered and even “challenged our understanding of bacteria” understanding of cells.” Bacteria are an extremely diverse group of organisms that have lived on Earth

The Covid-19 vaccine has prevented 19.8 million deaths worldwide in the year since its initial rollout, according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal. This mathematical modeling study analyzed deaths directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19 vaccination using death records and excess deaths. Study finds vaccines averted more than three-quarters of deaths: Vaccines

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday ordered Juul Labs to stop selling all of its vaping products in the United States. Juul could seek a stay of the order through the FDA’s appeals process or in court. The FDA said some of Juul’s submissions to the agency raised concerns because of insufficient

At the Open Source Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation, Linus Torvalds talked about the possibility of the Rust language being merged into the kernel, saying it could be merged into the kernel as soon as the Linux 5.20 development cycle. The version being developed by the kernel community is 5.19, and 5.20 is the

In science, the ultimate measure of scholarly merit is the number of papers published as an author. Certain subtleties also matter – where you are on the author list and whether others cite your paper. But these factors hardly detract from the importance of the number of papers. Other factors like donations and promotions are

Elon Musk said on Tuesday that his plan to buy Twitter for $44 billion was stalled by three pending issues: getting shareholder approval, securing debt financing and arguing over his concerns about spam users on the platform and Twitter. Questions about fake accounts answered. First, he said, he is “still waiting for an answer” after

Cloudflare suffered a massive outage on June 21, affecting numerous websites and services, including League of Legends, Steam, Discord, Gitlab, and more. The outage began at approximately 06:27 UTC and lasted an hour and a half. Cloudflare explained that the incident was caused by a misconfiguration of the network, a common mistake that leads to

Gallup surveys show that more and more Americans admit to excessive cell phone use. In 2015, 39% of people felt that they were spending too much time on their phones; today that number has increased to 58%. People of all ages expressed concern. The findings come from a self-administered online survey of more than 30,000

RISC-V International, the global open hardware standards organization, has announced new RISC-V specifications to be approved in 2022: Efficient Trace for RISC-V (E-Trace), RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI), RISC-V Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and the RISC-V Zmmul Multiply Only extension. E-Trace defines an efficient processor tracing method using branch tracing; SBI allows developers to

SpaceX completed three launches in 36 hours last week, including a third on Sunday that is believed to contain a secret mission. The main payload of this launch, the Globalstar-2 FM15 satellite, is only 700 kilograms, but there are indications that it is carrying a much higher payload, and Space is believed to have performed

The lesser-known cross-border e-commerce giant Shein is valued at $100 billion, ranking fourth among technology startups in the world. How does it work ? At the core of the company is a flexible supply chain that companies like Zara have been pursuing for years, which Xiyin turned into a true infrastructure capability. One long-term supplier