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Thousands of Ancient Petroglyphs, ‘Dramatic’ Solar Calendar Reported in N. Arizona

Archaeologists have uncovered a trove of previously undocumented rock art in northern Arizona, including a prehistoric solar calendar that has been marking the seasons for >>>

Posted: March 29, 2016 in Social

State isn’t using blood-test data that could help focus Exide cleanup efforts – LA Times

The state of California has blood test results showing high levels of lead in children living near the closed Exide battery plant in Vernon but >>>

Posted: March 26, 2016 in Biological

Hillary SKIPPED Special State Dept. Cybersecurity Briefing | The Daily Caller

Security team planned briefing in 2011 Source: Hillary SKIPPED Special State Dept. Cybersecurity Briefing | The Daily Caller

Posted: March 26, 2016 in Computer, Security

Rage-quit: Coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and “broke the Internet” | Ars Technica

Dispute over module name in npm registry became giant headache for developers. Source: Rage-quit: Coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and “broke the Internet” | >>>

Posted: March 26, 2016 in Computer, Internet, Security

IBM Invents ‘Resistive’ Chip That Can Speed Up AI Training By 30,000x

IBM researchers invented a new chip based on non-volatile memory technologies that could speed up the “training” of artificial intelligence that’s based on Deep Neural >>>

Posted: March 26, 2016 in Artificial Intelligence, Chemistry

In Newly Created Life-Form, a Major Mystery | Quanta Magazine

Scientists have created a synthetic organism that possesses only the genes it needs to survive. But they have no idea what roughly a third of >>>

Posted: March 25, 2016 in Biological

What happened in Arizona wasn’t an accident: When states make voting impossible, it’s for a very clear reason – Salon.com

Arizona residents were forced to wait hours on line in order to vote in this week’s primary. Some were turned away. VIDEO Source: What happened >>>

Posted: March 25, 2016 in Editorial, Social

Netflix admits to downgrading video quality on AT&T, Verizon phones: WSJ | Reuters

Netflix Inc said it had been lowering the quality of its video for customers watching its service on wireless networks such as AT&T and Verizon >>>

Posted: March 25, 2016 in Editorial, Entertainment, Gadgetry, Social

Scope maker Olympus sought price hike amid superbug outbreak

Soon after doctors at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center traced deadly infections to tainted medical scopes last year, they pressed the device maker to lend >>>

Posted: March 25, 2016 in Biological, Editorial, Social

Modern Peanut’s Wild Cousin, Thought Extinct, Found in Andes – Scientific American

A new study reveals how two ancient species of this legume were combined 10,000 years ago, in Andean valleys, to create the modern peanut Source: >>>

Posted: March 24, 2016 in Biological