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Handheld railgun as powerful as an air rifle to go on sale in the US

Handheld railgun as powerful as an air rifle to go on sale...

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An electromagnetic rifle, a device that uses electromagnetic coils to push a steel...

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Mercury has almost no boulders on its surface and we're not sure why

Mercury has almost no boulders on its surface and we're...

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Researchers examined about 3000 of the best images we have of the planet Mercury,...

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Ancient comb jelly had more complex nerves than its modern relatives

Ancient comb jelly had more complex nerves than its modern...

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A 500-million-year-old comb jelly is so well-preserved that it’s possible to see...

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Bacterial probiotics could help protect corals from ocean warming

Bacterial probiotics could help protect corals from ocean...

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Coral reefs around the world are threatened by warming temperatures which cause...

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US wildfire pollution linked to more covid-19 cases and deaths

US wildfire pollution linked to more covid-19 cases and...

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Polluted air caused by smoke released from record-breaking wildfires in the US last...

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Covid-19: Why the UK needs to forget about herd immunity

Covid-19: Why the UK needs to forget about herd immunity

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The threshold for eliminating covid-19 in the UK through herd immunity is out of...

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Using microwave beams could let quantum computers be small but mighty

Using microwave beams could let quantum computers be small...

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A decades-old theory to simplify silicon quantum processors has been shown to work,...

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NASA’s Perseverance rover took its first Mars sample – but it’s empty

NASA’s Perseverance rover took its first Mars sample –...

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The Perseverance Mars rover made its first sampling attempt on 6 August but the...

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Memo: Apple warns staff to be ready for questions about CSAM scanning, says it will address privacy concerns by having an independent auditor review the system (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Memo: Apple warns staff to be ready for questions about...

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:Memo: Apple warns staff to be ready for questions about...

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Sources: Discord is raising money at a valuation of around $15B, in a funding round that would at least double its valuation of $7B in 2020 (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

Sources: Discord is raising money at a valuation of around...

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Eric Newcomer / Newcomer:Sources: Discord is raising money at a valuation of around...

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A half-dozen white-collar workers in industries like tech and banking say they are stealthily holding multiple remote, full-time jobs (Rachel Feintzeig/Wall Street Journal)

A half-dozen white-collar workers in industries like tech...

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Rachel Feintzeig / Wall Street Journal:A half-dozen white-collar workers in industries...

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Twitter pauses rolling out access to apply for verification, after admitting that several fake accounts, reportedly part of a botnet, were wrongly verified (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Twitter pauses rolling out access to apply for verification,...

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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:Twitter pauses rolling out access to apply for verification,...

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Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects...

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Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects...

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Apple is ordered by East Texas jury to pay $300M in royalties to Optis after losing a patent dispute retrial over LTE technology in iPhones and other products (Bloomberg)

Apple is ordered by East Texas jury to pay $300M in royalties...

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Bloomberg:Apple is ordered by East Texas jury to pay $300M in royalties to Optis...

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In a preliminary ruling, ITC judge finds Google infringed on five patents owned by Sonos; full commission will make a final ruling in December (Daisuke Wakabayashi/New York Times)

In a preliminary ruling, ITC judge finds Google infringed...

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Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:In a preliminary ruling, ITC judge finds Google...

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Kiddom, which offers a digital curriculum that fits the core standards required by US states, raises $35M Series C led by Altos Ventures (Natasha Mascarenhas/TechCrunch)

Kiddom, which offers a digital curriculum that fits the...

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Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch:Kiddom, which offers a digital curriculum that...