NASA Begins Planning Mars Sample Return Mission

NASA has sent numerous robotic explorers to Mars over the years, examining samples and surveying the fascinating geology of the red planet. Still, we could learn much more with Mars samples to examine in detail here on Earth.

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NASA Begins Planning Mars Sample Return Mission

NASA has sent numerous robotic explorers to Mars over the years, examining samples and surveying the fascinating geology of the red planet. Still, we could learn much more with Mars samples to examine in detail here on Earth.

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Analysts expect 20 per cent fewer Cyberpunk 2077 sales

Last week HEXUS reported upon Sony acting to remove Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store due to quality of experience issues. The gameplay on the older PlayStation 4 was reportedly particularly poor, but the game has been banished from the entire store for now.

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How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world

Let's be honest: 2020 sucks. So much of this year has been a relentless slog of bad news and miserable events that it's been hard to keep up. Yet most of us have kept up, and the way most of us do so is with the small handheld computers we carry with us at all times.

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Here Are a Bunch of People Getting the Covid-19 Vaccine

The emergency use authorization of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines against covid-19 could mark the beginning of the end of a pandemic that has ravaged and terrorized the world for almost a year.

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DDoS attacks up 287 percent as online gaming and gambling become prime targets

A lockdown increase in online gaming activity has inevitably attracted attention from attackers, resulting in nearly 77 percent of cyberattacks targeting the online gaming and gambling industries in Q3 of 2020.

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Qualcomm Can Now Sell 4G Chipsets to Huawei

In the first major scaling back of the U.S. blacklisting of Huawei, the U.S. government is now allowing Qualcomm to sell 4G chipsets to the Chinese firm.

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We Secured the Election. Now How Do We Secure Trust in Results?

Disinformation campaigns are now designed not only to influence how voters fill out their ballots, but also how confident they are in the entire process.

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Santa Cruz Launches The Heckler EP8 and MX

Today Santa Cruz announced an updated Heckler modeled after the original, only now with the new Shimano EP8 motor, but the bigger news is that they’re also launching a mixed wheel size 29″/27.5″ version with a bit less travel at 140mm, dubbed the MX.

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Google Photos unlimited high quality storage to end next June

Google has announced some upcoming changes to its Google Photos storage policy. In brief, the unlimited free storage of 'high quality' photos will end from 1st June 2021. After that date any photos backed up to the service will count against your Google account quota.

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Set in the Present

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Set in the Present

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Here's Your Community Content Schedule This Week for Star Citizen

A highly opinionated avid PC gamer, Poorna blindly panics with his friends in various multiplayer games, much to the detriment of his team. Constantly questioning industry practices and a passion for technological progress drive his love for the video game industry.

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DOJ Elections Lawyer Resigns in Protest After Bill Barr's Latest Bullshit

The head of the Election Crimes Branch at the U.S. Department of Justice resigned in protest late Monday after Attorney General Bill Barr issued a new memo giving the green light for federal prosecutors to investigate alleged “voter fraud” in the presidential election.

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Qualcomm, FedEx, auto executives to propose transport policies for world in transition

WASHINGTON — A group of business leaders and public policy experts is launching a new body to grapple with thorny questions surrounding the future of transportation including self-driving and electric vehicles.

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Jeep and Mopar Fix the Wrangler/Gladiator's Door-Off Side-Mirror Flaw

The Jeep Wrangler and its Gladiator pickup sibling share an annoying flaw for those who like their driving experiences to be a little more al fresco: The side mirrors are mounted to the models' removable doors, meaning they're gone when the doors are gone.

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Newly signed law aims to limit the damage from space weather

Space weather like solar flares could seriously disrupt electronics and satellites, and the US government might soon mount a better defense.

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SSC took the production car top speed record, but not without a scare

Two gusts of wind cut across the Nevada desert, sending Oliver Webb and the SSC Tuatara across two lanes and onto the roadside rumble strips. That’s what happens when an unexpected cross-breeze comes by, and the speedometer’s needle is north of 300 mph.

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Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module announced

The Raspberry Pi Organisation has announced the launch of the Compute Module 4. It goes on sale immediately, in a mind boggling but appreciated 32 variants, starting at a price of $25/£19 for the version with 1GB of RAM, no onboard eMMC storage, and no Wi-Fi/Bluetooth radio module.

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Report: U.S. Cyber Command Behind Trickbot Tricks

A week ago, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone was attempting to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, a malware crime machine that has infected millions of computers and is often used to spread ransomware.

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Dialect Quiz

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Places To Ride: Rock House Trail In San Diego, Ca

Trail Mix is our selection of the best photos sent to us by riders from all over the world. If you’d like to see your photos in the pages of MBA, you can submit them by following the directions at the end of this page. Happy trails!

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Amy Coney Barrett's Climate Denial and Anti-Abortion Views Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

Much of the focus on Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination hearing for the Supreme Court has rightly been focused on her virulently anti-abortion stance and whether she would overturn Roe v. Wade.

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A new coronavirus that could be even more dangerous was just discovered in China

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage many parts of the world, researchers have been working hard to develop a safe and effective vaccine that could bring life back a bit closer to normal.

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Scientists finally observe the actual "spaghettification" of a star

Astronomers have captured the last moments of a star just before it was ripped apart by a black hole. The violent occurrence—called a tidal disruption event—created a blast of light seen just 215 million light years from Earth, the closest such flare recorded to date.

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Doctors who treated Trump on mystery 2019 hospital visit signed non-disclosure agreements

NBC News reports that the medical professionals to attended to Donald Trump on his mystery 2019 trip to Walter Reed hospital were given nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) before they treated him. Two doctors refused to sign the legally-binding documents and others were found.

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More than 80% of COVID-19 patients have this new symptom

While everyone at this point is likely familiar with the flu-like symptoms that typically afflict coronavirus patients — with fever, coughing, and fatigue being the most common — a new study from Northwestern Medicine researchers found that many COVID-19 patients also exhibit a variety of neurol

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Qualcomm Announces Financial Results, Huawei Agreement

Qualcomm announced that it earned a net income of $845 million on revenues of $4.9 billion for the quarter ending June 30, roughly flat with the previous year. But it also announced an important settlement agreement with Huawei, sending its shares soaring.

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Qualcomm results suggest the 5G iPhone will be slightly delayed

Qualcomm reported its Q3 2020 earnings on Wednesday (PDF), and of course the company informed investors about how the transition to 5G may boost its business.

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Arm China Goes Rogue, Ex-CEO Blocking the Business

Arm Ltd., owned by Softbank, has a division specially tailored for China, called Arm China. That division used to operate in Shenzen and it cooperated with Chinese customers. Today in a surprising turn of events, we have information that UK-based Arm Ltd.

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Watch a Toyota-backed flying car's first public, piloted test flight

Toyota-backed SkyDrive has finally conducted a public, crewed test flight (via Observer) for its flying car after years of work. The startup flew its SD-03 vehicle around the Toyota Test Field in the city of Toyota with a pilot at the helm.

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Facebook repeatedly overruled fact checkers in favor of conservatives

Facebook has repeatedly overruled its own fact checkers in order to help conservative pages avoid punishment for spreading misinformation.

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Intel Suffers Apparent Data Breach, 20GB of IP and Documents Leaked on to Internet

Intel today became the apparent victim of a massive internal data breach, with roughly 20 GB of various Intel documents and tools showing up in a data cache uploaded to the wider internet.

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Trump PAC banned by Facebook from advertising because of repeated false posts

Facebook is banning the pro-Trump Republican PAC “The Committee to Defend the President” from advertising, after the PAC repeatedly posted content identified as false by third-party fact-checkers. …

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NVIDIA Interested in Acquiring Arm from SoftBank

The biggest tech news story from last week was Japan's SoftBank contemplating the sale of Arm, one of the hottest pieces of tech IP out there. Turns out, this has piqued NVIDIA's interest.

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FCC: Phone carriers that profit from robocalls could have all calls blocked

"Bad-actor" phone companies that profit from robocalls could be blocked by more legitimate carriers under rules approved unanimously yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission.

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Twitter's Bitcoin hackers had almost limitless access

On Wednesday, July 15, Twitter was the target of a very public hack attack that’s still sending shockwaves across the internet.

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Latest Coronavirus Science: Hopeful Evidence for Longer-Lasting Immunity

In this roundup of the latest research into the covid-19 pandemic, we cover encouraging evidence for immunity, why the virus may not be very airborne, and an unexpected effect of the pandemic on our weather forecasts.

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Facebook studied how it polarizes users, then ignored the research

• “Our algorithms exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness.

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Trump flips out on Twitter after Twitter fact-checks him

Earlier today, Twitter for the first time ever added a factchecking feature to one of impeached U.S. President Donald Trump's false tweets about voter fraud. Within an hour or so, Trump lashed out at Twitter on Twitter.

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Qualcomm reveals new Snapdragon 768G mobile platform

Earlier today, Qualcomm announced its new Snapdragon 768 Mobile platform which will follow the 765G processor found in most sub $800 Android smartphones.

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COVID-19 resurges in reopened countries; Wuhan sees first cluster in a month

The World Health Organization on Monday called for continued vigilance as several areas that have eased lockdown restriction began to see a resurgence in COVID-19 cases—and the US begins unbuttoning as well.

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Hope for life on Mars dealt a huge blow by new study

Of all the planets in our solar system, Mars is thought to be our best chance at finding life outside of Earth.

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Hunk of Chinese Rocket Falls to Earth as Uncontrolled Space Debris

China launched the the Long March 5B rocket on May 5 from the Wenchang launch site in order to deploy a test model of its upcoming crew capsule.

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SBA says data breach may have affected almost 8,000 loan applicants

Almost 8,000 business owners who applied for a loan from the Small Business Administration may have had their personal information exposed to other applicants, the SBA admitted on Tuesday. The breach relates to a long-standing SBA program called Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL).

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Coronavirus forces anti-vaxxers to rethink their dangerous beliefs

The novel coronavirus pandemic may be having a surprising effect on the wildly misguided anti-vaccination movement that’s based on a dangerous cocktail of junk science, outlandish conspiracy theories, and outright lies: Some of the anti-vaxxers, it seems, seem to now be less inclined to oppose vac

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U.S. now has most coronavirus cases in the world

Congratulations! The United States of America now has more coronavirus cases than any other country, at least as far as test results go. With 83,507 confirmed cases, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Doom Board, we're leaving China (81,782) and Italy (80,589) in our wake.

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Coronavirus Has Slashed Global Air Pollution. This Interactive Map Shows How.

The covid-19 pandemic has changed the world, grinding to a halt increasingly large geographic areas and portions of the economy in an effort to slow the virus’ spread. The impacts have been profound on the ground, but government-mandated lockdowns have also remade the atmosphere.

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Twitter Deletes Post by The Federalist Calling for Coronavirus Infection Program

Twitter has removed a tweet from the right-wing site the Federalist after it shared an article by an unlicensed dermatologist urging the public to be exposed to the novel coronavirus en masse and the social network temporarily locked the site’s account.

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Twitter clamps down on coronavirus hoaxes and fake ‘experts’

Twitter is ramping up its policies against coronavirus misinformation. The company will ban tweets perpetuating claims of fake cures and other specific information that could incite panic or harm official efforts to fight the pandemic.

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Scientists Discover Ice Age Structure Made From Bones of 60 Mammoths

An unusually large structure from the last ice age built from the bones of dozens of woolly mammoths has been uncovered in Russia. Dating back some 25,000 years, it’s the oldest known structure of its kind—but its purpose isn’t entirely clear.

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