New Zealand begin World Cup charge against SL

New Zealand will look to leave behind the thrashing against West Indies and aim for a positive start to their World Cup campaign when they take on Sri Lanka at the Cardiff Wales Stadium on Saturday. The Black Caps were taken for plenty by the West Indies in their final warm-up match where they squandered 421 runs and eventually lost the match by 91 runs.

from The Times of India http://bit.ly/2Z7OiGL

Ban e-cigarettes, says government’s research wing

In a white paper, the Indian Council of Medical Research said the suggestion is made based on scientific data that shows Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) contain nicotine which is highly addictive and harmful for health. Use of ENDS also has documented adverse effects including DNA damage, carcinogenesis, cardiovascular and neurological disorders among others.

from The Times of India http://bit.ly/2W2D04A

A Briefcase Computer For Your Hacking Needs

Decent laptop computers have been available for decades now. Despite this, there’s still something charming and enigmatic about a computer hidden within a briefcase. [MakeFailRepeat] wanted just such a rig, so did the maker thing and built one.

The project began when [MakeFailRepeat] was donated a 15″ monitor that ran on 12V. Naturally, it needed to be used in an awesome project, and the build began. MDF panels were cut to mount the screen inside an aluminium briefcase, and covered in black felt for a pleasing look and feel. A Logitech wireless keyboard and touchpad combo is used for input. The brains of the operation is a Raspberry Pi, equipped with a UPS HAT to handle battery and mains power, and an Adafruit Speaker Bonnet for sound.

The project was inspired by the classic video game Captive, released on Amiga, Atari, and MS-DOS platforms way back in 1990. While we’re pretty sure [MakeFailRepeat] isn’t trapped on a space station, his briefcase computer should nonetheless prove useful. A computer isn’t the only thing you can build into a briefcase, though. Video after the break.

from Hackaday http://bit.ly/2YUz1J0

Alexander Wang: Spring 2020

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What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Ask Dr. Ruth’ and ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’

By JACLYN PEISER from NYT Arts https://nyti.ms/2Z16Yb2

On Politics: The Biggest Stories of the Week

By ISABELLA GRULLÓN PAZ from NYT U.S. https://nyti.ms/2Z5VnaJ

'Saw bodies hanging from ropes': Delhi man recalls Everest horror

from The Times of India http://bit.ly/2Mn6CKo

Boy dies while playing PUBG: 12 things to know

from The Times of India http://bit.ly/2XqNIDz

Ready to be offloaded? Airlines offering $600

A number of travellers who checked in for flights to the US and Europe in April and May found themselves faced with the choice of setting back their trip in return for compensation. What was different this summer was the scale of compensating passengers for offloading, due to Jet Airways’ closure in peak travel season. Compensation ran into lakhs in some cases.

from The Times of India http://bit.ly/2HO6RcX

Google had to apologise over Indian cricket team

from The Times of India http://bit.ly/2Z7KcOT

US: Disgruntled employee kills 12 in Virginia

Virginia Beach Police Chief James Cervera gave few details of what was known about the mass shooting in the coastal resort city, but said the gunman "immediately and indiscriminately fired upon all the victims" after he entered the municipal building shortly after 4 p.m. "The suspect did shoot a police officer. The officers returned fire. The suspect is deceased," Cervera said. He did not make clear whether the gunman took his own life or was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police.

from The Times of India http://bit.ly/2HPX4mY

Live: Rajnath Singh visits National War Memorial

News from India and across the world, as it happens. Stay with TOI for live updates

from The Times of India http://bit.ly/2Ifraz9

TOI Top 10: 5 Cs that define Modi's new Cabinet

from The Times of India http://bit.ly/2ShaSte

Canadian national inquiry: Giving a voice to missing and murdered women

Beverley Jacobs and Terri Brown fought tirelessly on behalf of missing and murdered indigenous women.

from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/30Ydgdh

The Automated Solution To Your Unpopularity

You feel that you’re unpopular and no one likes you. The bad news is that if that’s the case in the real world there’s no easy way to fix it. The good news is there’s a great substitute — your popularity on Instagram. With this vending machine you can replace your personality with followers on Instagram. It’s just a shame we have to wait a year until Coachella.

This project is an interactive installation from [Dries Depoorter] that makes it possible to buy followers and likes in just a few seconds. It’s not limited to Instagram — you can get followers on FaceBook, YouTube, and Twitter, too. The hardware consists of a Raspberry Pi 3B+, an Arduino, coin acceptor, a few character LCDs running over I2C, and somewhat surprising for a one-off ‘art installation’, a lot of DIN rails mounted to a real industrial enclosure. Someone here knows what they’re doing;  there’s something resembling cable management inside this box and this vending machine is built to last.

Using this vending machine is as easy as sticking a few Euro coins in the slot and selecting the number of followers or likes you’d like. In a few minutes afterward, hundreds of notifications pop up on your phone. There’s no mention of the software in this vending machine aside from it being written in Python, which makes us wonder where these Instagram bots are based. Check out the video below.

from Hackaday http://bit.ly/2MnUPLT

Deaths of indigenous women was 'a Canadian genocide', leaked report says

Leaked national report describes possibly thousands of deaths of indigenous women as genocide.

from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2QDIbGO

Modi’s A-Team takes guard on a bouncy pitch

from The Times of India http://bit.ly/2WmHgkx

UK's Chagos Islands descendants feel like 'lost nation'

Evicted from their homeland, Chagos Islands families living in the UK are divided by immigration law.

from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2XkRDBB

Venezuela crisis: What happened to uprising against Maduro?

A beleaguered people say they had hopes their misery would end but now they go back to one thing - survival.

from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/30XMxgV

Sayyida Salme: The tragic life of Zanzibar's rebel princess

Sayyida Salme is a little known 19th Century princess who fled Zanzibar after scandalising the royals.

from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2ELHoil

MacKenzie Bezos: Novelist and Amazon shareholder

What do we know about the novelist who is the third-richest woman in the world?

from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2XkRCO3

Tiananmen 30 years on - China's great act of 'forgettance'

Older people are not allowed to remember; the younger generation aren't even allowed to know.

from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2ELPojr

At Least 11 Dead in Virginia Beach Shooting at Government Center

Police say the gunman, who is also dead, was a city employee in the public works office.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2EMBFsR

Why Do Children Keep Dying in U.S. Custody? Maybe Because Nobody Is Holding CBP Accountable.

Whatever the court’s answer in this case, it won’t solve the underlying problems with CBP violence and lack of remedies available to victims. 

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2Z0Uct3

Despite Righteous Anger Online, Millennial Turnout Doubled in the 2018 Election

Younger generations outvoted older ones for the first time in a midterm election.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2JN1BbO

It’s HAL’s World, We Just Live In It

Kubrick’s 2001 now, with Tom Hanks, Christopher Nolan, Tracy K. Smith, and James Turrell.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2W25Z8m

Bibi Is Not As Powerful As We Thought He Was

Yes, Israel is moving to the right. But that doesn't mean the right will fall in line behind Netanyahu.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2WyldGH

New Hampshire Legislature Overrides Veto, Abolishes Death Penalty

A coalition of pro-life conservatives and libertarians joined Democrats in overriding the Republican governor's veto.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2WfZow0

Tiffany Haddish Secretly Recorded What People Said About Her After Auditions

The comedian told Jane Fonda, Maya Rudolph, and others about her sneaky tactic to get more honest feedback.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/30UkTkR

Clarence Thomas Just Voted With the Liberals in a Big Consumer Rights Case. Why?

How did consumer rights advocates nab Thomas’ vote this time around?

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2MiGDDC

New Memo Reveals the Census Question Was Added to Boost White Voting Power

The case should be an easy one for the Supreme Court. Instead, the conservatives will still look the other way.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2XgyCA8

Why Do So Many Researchers Still Treat Race as a Scientific Concept?

Angela Saini’s new book makes a compelling argument about race, genetics, and why we keep making the same mistake.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2XgNChp

What Fleabag Understands About Sisterhood

The Waves also discusses Curvy Wife Guy and the incels seeking out plastic surgery.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2EJPXKz

Trump Says Russia Helped Him Get Elected … and Then Immediately Says the Opposite

“You know who got me elected?” he said later. “I got me elected.”

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2EIQlsS

When They See Us Is a New Kind of Must-See TV

Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five series offers edification without the sense of obligation.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2EInvcf

Help! Should I Tell My Co-Workers I Saw Their Son on a Porn Site?

Prudie’s column for May 30.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2VXzLLH

Ask a Teacher: My Child’s Teacher Yells All the Time. Is This OK?

These anger outbursts do not seem at all appropriate.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/30PGfjr

Like Climate Change and College Debt, the California Housing Crisis Is Generational Warfare

On the politics of “Screw you, I got mine.”

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2QyhhjP

Why Society Goes Easy on Rapists

It’s not just that sexual assailants are often let off the hook. It’s that there is often not a hook to begin with.

from Slate Magazine http://bit.ly/2VXPgDb

glScopeClient: A Permissively-Licensed Remote Oscilloscope Utility

One of the most convenient things about modern digital oscilloscopes is that you can access the recorded data on a computer for later analysis, advanced protocol debugging, or simply the convenience of remote capture. The problem is that the software isn’t always ideal. Vendor-supplied utilities are typically closed-source and they try to nickel-and-dime you for every a-la-carte protocol and/or feature. The open-source options come with their own issues, from performance-limiting designs, to incomplete features, to license constraints. Faced with these issues, [Andrew Zonenberg] decided to take matters into his own hands and create glscopeclient, a permissively-licensed open-source remote oscilloscope utility.

The eventual goal is to allow you to do remotely anything you would normally do using the scope’s front panel, plus capture and analyze data on the computer side. The code uses a modular architecture that allows for various backends to talk to different scopes. At the moment, the only backend fully implemented is for LeCroy scopes, although this is enough to demonstrate the power of the idea. The obvious “gl” in the name gives away the secret — the code uses OpenGL for rendering, which allows for some very fancy graphics at high frame rates.

Behind the slick look, however, are some serious debugging tools. Protocol analyzers include USB, UART, JTAG, eye pattern analysis, plus FFT-based spectra with waterfall displays. The code is in GitHub, and most of the announcements and discussion seem to happen on [Andrew]’s twitter account, which you can follow @azonenberg. It’s a work-in-progress, but a serious one, and something we’re going to keep our eyes on.

You can check out a video of the program after the break.

Now, if you want to literally talk to your oscilloscope, we covered that, too.

from Hackaday http://bit.ly/2wuNsaM

The Motor Synth Is What You Get When You Forget Hammond Organs Exist

There’s nothing new, ever. It’s all been done. But that doesn’t mean you can’t invent something interesting. A case in point is the Motor Synth, a crowdfunding project from Gamechanger Audio. It’s what you get when you combine advanced quadcopter technology with the market for modular and semi-modular synthesizers.

The core feature of the Motor Synth is an octet of brushless motors tucked behind a plexiglass window. These (either through an electromagnetic pickup or something slightly more clever) produce a tone, giving the Motor Synth four-note polyphony with two voices per key. On top of these motors are reflective optical discs sensed with infrared detectors. These are mixed as harmonics to the fundamental frequency. The result? Well, they got an endorsement from [Jean-Michel Jarre] at Superbooth earlier this month (see video below). That’s pretty impressive.

While using rotating wheels and motors might seem like a novel way to generate sounds, this is actually the way the first ‘synthesizer’ generated sound. A tonewheel organ is effectively a metal wheel with bumps on the rim (think something like a gear) rotating next to a magnetic pickup. As the wheel rotates, these bumps induce a current in the pickup, which is sent to an amplifier and out to a speaker, producing a single tone. This was invented around the beginning of the last century, and saw remarkable use in the Hammond organ. There are absolutely limitations of a tonewheel; each wheel only produces one frequency and cannot be varied outside of tuning the entire apparatus to a standard pitch. The Motor Synth is getting around this limitation by using standard brushless motors and tacking on a reflective disc to each motor for infrared sensors so harmonics of each ‘wheel’ are produced. These harmonics can be combined and mixed with the fundamental ‘motor’ tone.

While this is absolutely the next generation of ‘rotating discs producing audio frequencies’ technology, the striking thing about the Motor Synth is the novelty. Why hasn’t anyone put a guitar pickup next to a brushless motor until now? Anyone could have slapped a quadcopter motor and a coil of wire into a Eurorack module and reaped the praises of The Verge or Motherboard. Just because there’s nothing new to be invented doesn’t mean you can’t create something interesting, we guess.

from Hackaday http://bit.ly/2XiL8PJ

Sonic Screwdriver Shuts Off Mains

In the world of Doctor Who, the sonic screwdriver is a versatile tool with a wide range of capabilities. [Hartley] wanted some of that action for himself, and built a device of his own.

Unable to recreate the broad swathe of features from the show, he settled on something easier. The device is fitted with an ATTiny85, and a 433MHz transmitter. It’s programmed to switch wirelessly controlled mains sockets on and off. This lets him control appliances in his house with a flick of a screwdriver. Power is supplied by the classic AA battery, with a boost converter stepping it up to 5V to run the electronics.

It’s all wrapped up in a 3D printed case, that was carefully designed to fit all the parts inside. A paper mockup of the PCB layout was also used in the design phase. [Hartley] took full advantage of CAD software, to ensure everything fit correctly first time.

It’s a fun project, as sonic screwdrivers often are. Video after the break.

from Hackaday http://bit.ly/2YTM9xW

Keeping Birds At Bay With An Automated Spinning Owl

There’s nothing wrong with building something just to build it, but there’s something especially satisfying about being able to solve a real-world problem with a piece of gear you’ve designed and fabricated. When all the traditional methods to keep birds from roosting on his mother’s property failed, [MNMakerMan] decided to come up with a more persuasive option: a solar powered spinning owl complete with expandable batons.

We imagine the owl isn’t strictly necessary when you’re whacking the birds with a metal bar to begin with, but it does add a nice touch. Perhaps it will even serve to deter some of the less adventurous birds before they get within clobbering distance, which is probably in their best interest. [MNMakerMan] says the rotation speed of the bars seems low enough that he doesn’t think it will do the birds any physical harm, but it’s still got to be fairly unpleasant.

At first glance you might think that this contraption simply spins when the small 10 watt photovoltaic panel next to it catches the sun, but there’s actually a bit more to it than that. Sure he probably could just have it spin constantly whenever the sun is up, but instead [MNMakerMan] is using a ATtiny85 to control the 11 RPM geared DC motor with a IRF540 MOSFET. By adding a DS3231 RTC module into the mix, he’s able to not only accurately control when the spinner begins and ends its bird-busting shift, but implement timed patterns rather than running it the whole time. All of which can of course be fine-tuned by adjusting a couple variables and reflashing the chip.

We’ve seen plenty of automated systems for keeping cats away, and of course squirrels are a common target for such builds as well, but devices to deter birds are considerably less common among these pages. So it would seem that, at least for now, [MNMakerMan] has the market cornered on solar bird smashing gadgets. We’re sure Mom’s very proud.

from Hackaday http://bit.ly/2W1EFqX

Linear CCDs Make For Better Cameras

Digital cameras have been around for forty years or so, and the first ones were built around CCDs. These were two-dimensional CCDs, and if you’ve ever looked inside a copier, scanner, or one of those weird handheld scanners from the 90s, you’ll find something entirely unlike what you’d see in a digital camera. Linear CCDs are exactly what they sound like — a single line of pixels. It’s great if you’re into spectroscopy, but these linear CCDs also have the advantage of having some crazy resolutions. A four-inch wide linear CCD will have thousands of pixels, and if you could somehow drag a linear CCD across an image, you would have a fantastic camera.

Many have tried, few have succeeded, and [heye.everts]’ linear CCD camera is the best attempt at making a linear CCD camera yet. It took a fuzzy picture of a tree, which is good enough for a proof of concept.

The linear CCD used in this project works something like an analog shift register. With a differential clock, you simply push values out of the CCD and feed them into an ADC. The driver board for this CCD uses a lot of current and the timings are a bit tricky but it does work with a Teensy 3.6. But that’s only one line of an image, you need to move that CCD too. For that, this project uses something resembling a homebrew CD drive. There’s a tiny stepper motor and a leadscrew dragging the CCD across the image plane. All of this is attached to the back of a Mamiya RZ67 camera body.

Does it work? Yes. Surprisingly yes. After a lot of work, an image of a tree was captured. This is an RGB CCD, and at the moment it’s only using one color channel, but it does work. It’s a proof of concept rendered in a 2000 x 3000 grayscale bitmap. The eventual goal is to build a 37.5 Megapixel medium format camera around this CCD, and the progress is looking great.

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Hackaday Superconference: Pushing The Boundaries Of PCB Artwork With Brian Benchoff

Tiny Forklift Makes Unusable Space Usable

Houses with crawlspaces are fairly common in some geographic regions. The crawlspace can make it easier to access things like plumbing and electrical wiring, and can even be used as storage in homes that don’t (or can’t) have a basement. Along with improved building ventilation, these some of the perks compared to homes built on a solid slab of concrete. These crawlspaces aren’t exactly easy to get around in, though, but [Dave] has an easier way to get stuff in and out of these useful, but small, spaces.

Enter the crawl space forklift. Made with largely off-the-shelf components, the robot includes a few standard motors and linear actuators to move around and operate the front fork. That’s all pretty standard, but this build really shines with its use of FPV camera, monitor, and transmitter that allow the pilot to navigate the robot in the small space using remote control. For those safety-conscious among us, there is also a fire extinguisher ball on board which self-activates in case the robot catches on fire under his house.

This is a great, high-quality build that shows how common parts can make something revolutionary with the right idea. Identifying a problem and then building a solution, while not forgetting to spring for some safety equipment, can really make a difference even with something as simple as unoccupied space in a home. They can tackle tasks around the home, too.

from Hackaday http://bit.ly/2Wf0ZCl

Tantalizing 'Legion' teaser reveals 'Game of Thrones' alum as 'X-Men' leader

Professor X himself has made it to Marvel's Legion on FX, and he's a dad now. British actor Harry Lloyd, best known for a season as the loathsome Viserys Targaryen on Game of Thrones, plays a young Charles Xavier as David (Dan Stevens) pieces together his father's past.

Much of Legion takes place inside David's turbulent mind, where a powerful, parasitic mutant burrowed long ago. Season 3 will reveal Charles' connection to that mutant, Amahl Farouk (Navid Negahban), and what he did (or didn't do) to protect his son.

Legion was always connected peripherally to the X-Men franchise, existing in the same world of mutants and humans but never interacting with or explicitly mentioning well-known characters from the main comics or Fox movies. Something tells us – that something being Charles Xavier sitting at Cerebro – that that's about to change. Read more...

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Got back pain? Online reviewers recommend these 10 mattresses.

You know, these meat suits we walk around in for 70 to 80 years can be a real pain in the ass sometimes — or should we say, pain in the back. 

The American Chiropractic Association estimates that at any given moment, about 31 million Americans are experiencing lower back discomfort — a painful, pesky, and periodically recurring condition that’s one of the leading causes of missed work days. It notes that most back pain cases are “mechanical or non-organic,” or not linked to serious medical conditions “such as inflammatory arthritis, infection, fraction, or cancer.” Sometimes a too-sedentary lifestyle or a torn ligament is to blame, but even just a too-heavy purse or backpack can result in serious lumbar discomfort.  Read more...

More about Shopping, Culture, Sleep, Sleep Products, and Mattress

from Mashable http://bit.ly/2JKWLvD

Why 'The Last Watch' is a better ending than the 'Game of Thrones' finale

The core reason the final season of Game of Thrones was so polarizing was because the megahit fantasy series had what every television showrunner dreams of — an audience that truly cares about the show. In the course of its airtime Thrones united disparate peoples under the same banner of loving the world of Westeros and its many, many characters, so when its final round of storytelling failed to live up to fan expectations, the disappointment felt personal. 

After its finale aired, however, HBO served up a coda to the show’s eight-season run in the form of The Last Watch, a documentary about the making of Season 8, starring the production designers, set dressers, extras, script supervisors, and more behind-the-scenes people that worked to create the world of Game of Thrones. With a long-ish two hour runtime, the inside look is a substantially more emotional and satisfying end to Thrones. Read more...

More about Game Of Thrones Documentary, Game Of Thrones The Last Watch, Entertainment, Movies Tv Shows, and Game Of Thrones

from Mashable http://bit.ly/2XcqWz7

Apple really, really wants you to believe the App Store isn't a monopoly

You know what's home to millions of apps and should definitely not be subject to any kind of antitrust action? Apple's App Store.

That's at least what the company argued on Wednesday, when it published a new page on its website about the App Store and its "principals and practices."

Though the page looks like an informational source for developers at first glance — with app review guidelines and stats about how long it takes for apps to be approved — it also explicitly lays out most of Apple's arguments on why the App Store is not a monopoly.

This isn't necessarily new territory for Apple, but the topic recently became relevant again when the Supreme Court ruled that a group can proceed with a seven-year-old class action lawsuit against the company for what it claims are anticompetitive practices. And though we won't know the ultimate result of the suit for some time, it could have massive implications for Apple. Read more...

More about Tech, Apple, App Store, Tech, and Big Tech Companies

from Mashable http://bit.ly/30VG8CG

ASUS ROG Strix SCAR gaming laptop on sale for $400 off

Have you suffered the latest indignity of your old gaming laptop sputtering at the wrong moment in Fortnite? You deserve only the best in gaming laptops if you have any dreams of achieving that Victory Royale. Obtain that extra competitive edge when you consider one of the latest models of the trusted line of ASUS ROG Strix II gaming laptops on sale at Amazon.

SEE ALSO: 6 of the best gaming laptops that cost less than $1,000

Get the power you need to game everywhere with an ASUS ROG Strix SCAR II gaming laptop, on sale now for $1,299.99 at Amazon. With that $400 discount, it's the lowest price this configuration has ever been on Amazon so far. As an extra bonus offer, this ASUS laptop also qualifies for a $20 discount on Microsoft Office products at checkout, just in case you need to get actual work done between matches of Apex Legends.  Read more...

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How to save yourself from getting kicked off Uber

So you want to be a five-star rider. 

With Uber now deactivating users with low ratings in the U.S., it's time to clean up your ride. If you're a halfway decent human being, you should be OK, but there are ways you can boost your rating closer to 5.0.

Uber's updated community guidelines break down how to improve your passenger etiquette in three categories.

Treat everyone with respect

Think about everything from your comments to your gestures. Don't touch people, whether that's fellow riders or your driver — especially any sexual touching or gestures. Just keeps your hands to yourself. 

Conversations can also veer into threatening behavior, like asking what seems like an innocuous question about a fellow rider's relationship status. Keep it casual and light and not too personal. Leave the flirting for your destination, not the ride. Read more...

More about Uber, Ratings, Ride Hailing Apps, Tech, and Transportation

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Lyft adds in-app pronoun choices for riders

‘Pokémon Sleep’ will allow fans to use their sleeping information to catch Pokémon

The Pokémon Company has announced Pokémon Sleep, a game which will allow fans to use their sleeping information to catch Pokémon.

Read more here. Read more...

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Nancy Pelosi accuses Facebook of 'lying to the public' after it refuses to remove fake video

Nancy Pelosi is calling bullshit. 

The Speaker of the House publicly castigated Facebook on Wednesday for both enabling Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its refusal to take down a video of the congresswoman that was edited to make it appear she was drunk. 

Pelosi didn't even come close to pulling her punches, arguing in an interview with KQED that the Mark Zuckerberg-helmed behemoth wasn't just an innocent victim of a foreign campaign to spread disinformation — rather, it happily played along.  

"I think they have proven that they were willing enablers of the Russian interference in our election," Pelosi said, according to Scott Shafer, a senior editor at KQED. "They're lying to the public." Read more...

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Simone Giertz describes her radiation treatment while making some art

The Queen of Shitty Robots took a break from making more shitty robots to chat about her experience with radiation treatment and make some not-so-shitty art. 

After undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor last year, YouTuber Simone Giertz went through six weeks of radiation treatment to target the parts of the tumor surgery couldn't reach. When she completed the treatment, she was allowed to take home the mesh mask used to keep her head in place during the treatment. What better activity to commemorate a recovery than turning your leftover medical equipment into weird wall art?

In her latest video, Giertz turned her brain tumor souvenir into a dazzling LED-backed wall hanging, joking that she was making "shitty art out of shitty situations." Read more...

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Puffins are dying in large numbers in the Bering Sea

Puffins are dying in worryingly large numbers in Alaska and scientists say it could be directly linked to climate change.

According to a new study published in PLOS ONE, there's been a mass die-off of tufted puffins and crested auklets on St. Paul Island, one of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska.

Between Oct. 2016 and Jan. 2017, over 350 bird carcasses were recovered by tribal and community members, many washed up on beaches, the study reports. Tufted puffins made up 87 percent of the total, when in previous years, they only made up one percent of recovered birds. Read more...

More about Climate, Climate Change, Puffin, Alaska, and Birds

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