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‘Five-Second Rule’ for Food on Floor Is Untrue, Study Finds

Researchers concluded that no matter how fast you pick up food that falls on the floor, you will pick up bacteria with it.

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Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester

The ACLU of Connecticut is suing state police for fabricating retaliatory criminal charges against a protester after troopers were recorded discussing how to trump up charges against him. In what seems like an unlikely stroke of cosmic karma, the recording came about after a camera belonging to the…

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Low-income families face eviction as building 'rebrands' for Facebook workers

A Silicon Valley apartment complex wants to attract high-income tenants who work at top tech firms – but critics ask, what is the human cost?

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announce $3 billion initiative to ‘cure all diseases’

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a company created by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to "unlock human potential and promote equality," announced its latest, grandest project today: a $3 billion "Chan Zuckerberg Science" program created with the goal of curing, preventing, or managing "all disease...

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375 top scientists warn of 'real, serious, immediate' climate threat | John Abraham

John Abraham: 375 National Academy of Sciences members sign an open letter expressing frustration at political inaction on climate change

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'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real

Behind the scenes of the Emmy-winning series with its real-life information security consultant.

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Western Digital Demonstrates Prototype of the World’s First 1Terabyte SDXC Card

PHOTOKINA, COLOGNE, GERMANY, Sept. 20, 2016 – Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC), a global storage technology and solutions leader, today unveiled its SanDisk® 1TB terabyte (TB) SDXC™ card prototype at the world's leading trade fair for photo and video professionals. With increasing demand fo...

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Someone just lost 324k payment records, complete with CVVs

Edit: A day and a half after publishing this post, the source of the data was eventually identified and a statement issued. Do see the updates at the end of this post. I see a lot of data breaches. I see a lot of legit ones and I see a

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