President Joe Biden “willfully” retained and disclosed highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other sensitive national security matters, according to a Justice Department report that nonetheless says no criminal charges are warranted for him or anyone else. The report from special counsel...
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CyberShake study uses Summit supercomputer to investigate earthquake hazards
This CyberShake Study 22.12 seismic hazard model shows the Southern California regions, depicted in reds and yellows, expected to experience strong ground motions at least once in the next 2,500 years. Credit: Statewide California Earthquake Center Researchers at the Statewide California Earthquake Center, or SCEC, are unraveling the mysteries of earthquakes by using physics-based computational...
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Our Human Ancestors Started Hauling Fish Out of the Water 2 Million Years Ago
It may be a global practice that accounts for a large percentage of protein consumption in many countries, but fishing is perhaps the least intuitive way to get food — most of the time, you can’t even see what you’re looking for. Hunting and gathering make sense, dealing as they do with the terrestrial realm...
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Should repeated police calls be a basis of eviction? DOJ says no.
Hundreds of communities across the U.S. have for several decades tried to reduce crime, fight gangs, and tackle noise and other neighborhood problems through the use of “crime-free” or “public nuisance” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict renters when police or emergency crews are repeatedly called to the same addresses. Long the subject of...
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Arterial pulses link heart-brain oscillations | Science
A central baroreceptor monitors arterial pressure to modulate brain activity…Read whole article here
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SiriGPT? Tim Cook confirms Apple’s gen AI push for iOS 18
Image: Apple/Foundry 2024 is shaping up to be a landmark year for Apple. The Apple Vision Pro started shipping today, and it’s not just a new product, it’s a whole new computing platform for the company. So, what else could happen that would solidify 2024 as a landmark year for Apple? It’s AI, based on...
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Meteorites from Asteroid 2024 Bx1, which just hit Earth, may be super-rare space rocks
The first fragment of 2024 BX1 recovered by the Natural History Museum/DLR/Freie Universtaet Berlin team. Right in the image is team lead Lutz Hecht, while guide SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens shows the fragment discovered by student Dominique Dieter left of him. Far left is student Clara Weihe who found the second meteorite. (Image...
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Earth’s atmospheric glow can be seen from the International Space Station
Credit: NASA, ESA/Andreas Mogensen This high exposure photograph revealed Earth’s atmospheric glow against the backdrop of a starry sky in this image taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 21, 2024. At the time, the orbital lab was 258 miles above the Pacific Ocean northeast of Papua New Guinea. The Nauka science module and...
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Arlo Essential Video Doorbell has a huge 65% discount
The smart home security market is now filled with so many different brands, and many of them offer great products. But when it comes to wire-free home security cameras, Arlo is still one of the best in the business after all these years. The company makes some of the best wireless security cameras and video...
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Even Netflix thinks Prime Video is making a mistake by forcing people to watch ads
Amazon’s Prime Video streamer is poised to surpass Netflix in a big way starting this week. No, it’s not in terms of viewership, nor the size of its catalog, or the quality of its originals. It has to do, instead, with both streamers’ launch of an ads business. For Netflix, the uptake on its still...