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Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too

HughPickens.com writes: Conventional wisdom states that mammalian diversity emerged from the ashes of the Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event, ultimately giving rise to our own humble species. But Joshua A. Krisch writes at This Week that the asteroid that decimated the dinosaurs also wiped out roughly 93 percent of all mammalian species. “Because mammals did so […]

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DMCA Notices Remove 8,268 Projects On Github In 2015

An anonymous reader writes: Github’s transparency report for 2015 shows that the site received many DMCA notices that removed more than 8,200 projects. “In 2015, we received significantly more takedown notices, and took down significantly more content, than we did in 2014,” Github reports. For comparison, the company received only 258 DMCA notices in 2014, […]

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Google’s ‘FASTER’ 9000km, 60Tbps Transpacific Fiber Optics Cable Completed

An anonymous reader writes from a report via 9to5Google: Google and an association of telecom providers have announced that the FASTER broadband cable system that links Japan and the United States is now complete. The system is the fastest of its kind and stretches nearly 9,000 km across the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, starting […]

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FCC Says TV Airwaves Being Sold For Wireless Use Are Worth $86.4 Billion

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday the price of 126 MHz of television airwaves taken from broadcasters to be sold for wireless use in an ongoing auction is $86.4 billion. The FCC disclosed the price in a statement after completing the first part of an […]

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Tesla Admits Defeat, Quietly Settles Model X Lawsuit Over Usability Problems

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BGR: We can talk about how innovative Tesla is for days on end. Indeed, there’s no disputing the fact that the company, in injecting a bit of Silicon Valley ingenuity into the tried and true auto design process, has completely turned the auto industry on its head. At […]

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UK Has Fastest Mobile Internet While US Lags Behind, Says Report

An anonymous reader writes from a report via The Verge: Content delivery network Akamai says the UK has the best average mobile connection speeds in the world. The State of the Internet report claims that British mobile users were able to get average speeds of 27.9 Mbps when connecting to Akamai’s HTTP/S platform in Q1 […]

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ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

An anonymous reader writes: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Justice contending that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act’s criminal prohibitions have created a barrier for those wishing to conduct research and anti-discrimination testing online. The ACLU have pursued the matter on behalf of a group […]

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Google’s My Activity Reveals How Much It Knows About You

An anonymous reader writes: Google has released a new section to Google’s account settings, called My Activity, which lets users review everything that Google has tracked about their online behavior — search, YouTube, Chrome, Android, and every other Google service. Best of all, users can edit or delete their tracked behaviors. In addition, the My […]

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AMD RX 480 Offers Best-in-Class Performance For $199/$239

Reader Vigile writes: It’s been a terribly long news cycle, but today is finally the day reviews and sales start of the new AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card based on the company’s latest Polaris architecture and built on 14nm FinFET process technology. With a starting price tag of $199 for the 4GB model and […]

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Facebook Wins Belgian Court Appeal Over Storing Non-User Data

Stephanie Bodoni, and Aoife White reporting for Bloomberg Technology (condensed):Facebook won an appeal against a Belgian privacy ruling that prompted the social network to prevent people without an account from accessing its site within the country. The Brussels Court of Appeal said the nation’s data protection authority couldn’t prevent Facebook from storing data from non-users […]

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