Technology
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The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet | Ellen Brown
April 4, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitor ...
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The book I should’ve written 15 years ago (but it’s WAY too late now) | Mickey Z.
CC0 Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 22, 2018 It hit me while recently re-reading Andrea Dworkin’s 2002 memoir, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant. I first discovered it in fa ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- March 21, 2018 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation March 21, 2018 March 21 9:00-10:00 a.m., Senator Robert Menendez (NJ), "Congressional Leadership in Foreign Policy," Center for Strategic ...
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How Congress Censored the Internet | Elliot Harmon
In Passing SESTA/FOSTA, Lawmakers Failed to Separate Their Good Intentions from Bad Law Elliot Harmon -- Electronic Frontier Foundation March 21, 2018 Today was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. ...
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Kepler spacecraft nearing the end as fuel runs low | Charlie Sobeck
Credit: NASA March 14, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Trailing Earth's orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope has survived many potential knock-outs during its nine years in flight, from mech ...
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Seeing is believing—precision atom qubits achieve major quantum computing milestone | Michelle Simmons
A scanning tunnelling microscope image showing the electron wave function of a qubit made from a phosphorus atom precisely positioned in silicon. Credit: UNSW March 7, 2018 (Phys.org) -- The unique A ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- March 7, 2018 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation March 7, 2018 March 7 10:00-11:30 a.m., Daniel Salisbury, Project on Managing the Atom, "Countering WMD-related Illicit Trade: Insights f ...
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What’s worse than fake news? The distortion of reality itself. | Aviv Ovadya
Aviv Ovadya -- The World Post Feb. 22, 2018 (Johan Viirok/Creative Commons) Aviv Ovadya is chief technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan and a Knight ...
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Three Different Definitions of Blockchain | Stephen Farrington, MS, PE
Illustration by Stephen Farrington Stephen Farrington, MS, PE -- World News Trust Jan. 26, 2018 When I began my personal deep dive into the world of distributed ledger technology, blockchain and cryp ...
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MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols | Caroline Trippel, Daniel Lustig, Margaret Martonosi
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Feb. 11, 2018 (arXrv.org) -- The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerab ...
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Study finds earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stops | Margaret Allen
Study area for the DFW Airport earthquake sequence. Yellow triangles are the 2008-2009 SMU operated stations. Blue asterisks are the earthquakes reported by the 2013-2016 SMU earthquake catalog, indi ...
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