FX chief: Even peak TV can be a 'sideshow' to internet
Television keeps churning out record numbers of original series but is being overshadowed by the internet's dubious distractions, FX Networks CEO John Landgraf said Friday.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-fx-chief-peak-tv-sideshow.html
Florida hack exposed files of up to 30,000 Medicaid patients
Florida officials say hackers may have accessed the personal information and medical records of up to 30,000 Medicaid recipients two months ago.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-florida-hack-exposed-medicaid-patients.html
Top tech lobby joins legal battle to keep 'net neutrality'
The lobby group for some of the most powerful US tech firms said Friday it would join the legal challenge to the planned rollback of "net neutrality" rules requiring internet service providers to treat all online traffic equally.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-tech-lobby-legal-net-neutrality.html
Twitter won't block world leaders, citing need for discourse
Twitter announced Friday it would not block the accounts of world leaders even if their statements are "controversial," citing a need to promote a "public conversation" on political issues.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-twitter-wont-block-world-leaders.html
In Antarctic dry valleys, early signs of climate change-induced shifts in soil
In a study spanning two decades, a team of researchers led by Colorado State University found declining numbers of soil fauna, nematodes and other animal species in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the world's driest and coldest deserts. This discovery is attributed to climate change, which has triggered melting and thawing of ice in this desert since an uncharacteristically warm weather event in 2001.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-antarctic-valleys-early-climate-change-induced.html
NASA catches Tropical Cyclone Ava's landfall on Madagascar's coast
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Ava as it made landfall along the coast of northeastern Madagascar.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-nasa-tropical-cyclone-ava-landfall.html
Source: https://phys.org/
