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Trump tries to claw back billions from COVID vaccine distributor
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Trump tries to claw back billions from COVID vaccine distributor

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Enlarge / A picture taken on January 15, 2021, shows a pharmacist holding with gloved hands a vial of the undiluted Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19. (credit: Getty | JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER) With mere days left in office, President Donald Trump has proposed $27.4 billion in brutal budget cuts—including clawing back 5.1 billion from global public health amid a raging pandemic. Of the proposed health cuts, $4 billion would be slashed from a vaccine alliance playing a central role in helping to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries. The proposed cuts are part of a recession request, which has no chance of being enacted by Congress, as Politico Read More

This painted pig is the world’s oldest figurative art
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This painted pig is the world’s oldest figurative art

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EnlargeBrumm et al. 2021 A pig painted on the wall of an Indonesian cave is the world’s oldest figurative art—that is, it’s the oldest known drawing of something, rather than an abstract design or a stencil. The 45,500-year-old ocher painting depicts a Sulawesi warty pig, which appears to be watching a standoff between two other pigs. If that interpretation is correct, the painting is also a contender for the world’s oldest narrative scene. And it hints at how much the earliest Indonesians observed and recorded about the animals and ecosystems around them. A growing pile of evidence Read More

The NSA warns enterprises to beware of third-party DNS resolvers
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The NSA warns enterprises to beware of third-party DNS resolvers

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) DNS over HTTPS is a new protocol that protects domain-lookup traffic from eavesdropping and manipulation by malicious parties. Rather than an end-user device communicating with a DNS server over a plaintext channel—as DNS has done for more than three decades—DoH, as DNS over HTTPS is known, encrypts requests and responses using the same encryption websites rely on to send and receive HTTPS traffic. Using DoH or a similar protocol known as DoT—short for DNS over TLS—is a no brainer in 2021, since DNS traffic can be every bit as sensitive as any other Read More

Rocket Report: NASA dishes on small rockets, Jeff buys a ride on a Falcon 9
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Rocket Report: NASA dishes on small rockets, Jeff buys a

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Enlarge / Image of the first AR1 engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne.Aerojet Rocketdyne Welcome to Edition 3.29 of the Rocket Report! What a wild weekend we're heading toward in the world of rockets and launch, with seemingly too much news to cover: • Electron, Saturday, 07:38 UTC • SLS Hot Fire, Saturday, 22:00 UTC • SN9, Possibly Saturday, ¯_(ツ)_/¯ • LauncherOne, Sunday, 18:00 UTC • Falcon 9, Monday, 13:45 UTC As always, we'll do our best, and we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report Read More

Craft brewers now have a new tool for sniffing out trace flavor compounds
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Craft brewers now have a new tool for sniffing out

admin January 14, 2021

Enlarge / In dry hopping, hops are added during or after the fermentation stage of the brewing process.Natasha Breen/Getty Images Craft-beer aficionados relish the endless flavor variations that can be achieved by mixing and matching different varieties of hops, whether one favors refreshing citrus or fruity notes or something a bit more earthy or pine-scented. But some of the chemical compounds that contribute to those flavors are present in such trace amounts that it's difficult for brewers to measure and track them during the brewing process. Now German scientists have devised an automated, efficient method for doing just Read More

Google says it’s closing the Fitbit acquisition—uh, without DOJ approval?
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Google says it’s closing the Fitbit acquisition—uh, without DOJ approval?

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The Fitbit Inspire 2, which Osterloh seems interested in. Fitbit The Fitbit Sense, which also got a shoutout in Google's post. Fitbit The Fitbit Charge 4. Fitbit The Fitbit Versa 2 smartwatch. Valentina Palladino Today Google's senior VP of Hardware, Rick Osterloh, announced Google has closed its acquisition of Fitbit. The $2.1 billion deal was announced back in November 2019, which kicked off a regulatory review process from governments around the world concerned about Google's influence over the Internet and the data it can collect on users. Normally, Osterloh announcing "Google has completed its acquisition of Fitbit, and I want to Read More

Despite COVID-19 lockdowns, American roads are getting much deadlier
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Despite COVID-19 lockdowns, American roads are getting much deadlier

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Enlarge / The three months between July and September 2020 saw a massive rise in road deaths in the United States.Getty Images American roads became significantly deadlier in 2020, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Although figures for the entire year won't be available for some time, the NHTSA has calculated the death toll on our roads for the first nine months of 2020, and the news is grim. Between the beginning of January and the end of September last year, 28,190 people were killed in crashes, which is an increase of 4.6 percent—or 1,249 more deaths—over the same nine months Read More

The Galaxy S21 is official, gets an across-the-board $200 price drop
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The Galaxy S21 is official, gets an across-the-board $200 price

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from left to right, the Galaxy S21 Ultra, the S21+, and the S21. [credit: Samsung ] Samsung's new smartphones are finally official, so let's meet the Galaxy S21 family. The design and specs line up with what was rumored, but the big news today is the price range, which is hopefully a sign that the sky-high prices in 2020 are coming down a bit. The Galaxy S21 line is seeing an across-the-board $200 price cut compared to last year. Previously, (adding a penny for clarity's sake) Samsung was charging $1,000, $1,200, and $1,400 for the S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra, respectively. This year, Read More

Filing: Amazon warned Parler for months about “more than 100” violent threats
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Filing: Amazon warned Parler for months about “more than 100”

admin January 13, 2021

Enlarge / Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo displayed during the 4th edition of the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 17, 2019, in Paris, France.Chesnot | Getty Images Amazon on Tuesday brought receipts in its response to seemingly defunct social networking platform Parler's lawsuit against it, detailing AWS' repeated efforts to get Parler to address explicit threats of violence posted to the service. In the wake of the violent insurrection at the US Capitol last Wednesday, AWS kicked Parler off its Web-hosting platform at midnight Sunday evening. In response, Parler filed a lawsuit accusing Amazon of Read More

AT&T kills off the failed TV service formerly known as DirecTV Now
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AT&T kills off the failed TV service formerly known as

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Enlarge / AT&T corporate offices on November 10, 2020, in El Segundo, California.Getty Images | AaronP/Bauer-Griffin AT&T is killing off the online-video service formerly known as DirecTV Now and introducing a no-contract option for the newer online service that replaced it. AT&T unveiled DirecTV Now late in 2016, the year after AT&T bought the DirecTV satellite company. Prices originally started at $35 a month for the live-TV online service, and it had signed up 1.86 million subscribers by Q3 2018. But customers quickly fled as AT&T repeatedly raised prices and cut down on the use of Read More

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