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Ultrasonic attack can break into cell phones through a solid surface; Monkeys develop immunity to SARS-CoV-2 after first infection; Hiker finds two bombs from 1935 in a Hawaiian volcano; Commentary arguing

A TED talk discusses human comfort levels with artificial intelligence systems; Commentary suggests that working from home was normal and expected for much of human history; An open access database contains

Brave Browser files GPDR complaint against Google, claims Google violates "purpose limitation principle"; Study suggests that mothers have implicit bias about emotional expression between genders,

5G wireless is driving up the cost of smartphones; Doctors in Israel removed an entire lung from a patient, eliminated all cancerous cells, then reattached the lung; Whisper app for secret sharing revealed

Previously unseen footage of a Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger; IEEE Spectrum's weekly selection of awesome robot videos; Microsoft announces the end of the line for the Visual Basic programming language;

An electric motorcycle that's constructed from wood is on pre-sale for 2021 deliver; Coinbase announces BTC transaction batching in order to reduce fees and overhead; A cryptography pioneer discusses election

Autonomous robots deployed to sterilize hospitals in China; Los Angeles Department of Water and Power accused of cybersecurity coverup; People with celiac disease may soon be able to eat gluten; IBM upgrading

Hunter gatherers wear fitbits and researchers say they're just as sedentary as modern societies.; A caution against harming the weakest students by moving classes online; Physicist suggests that dark matter

A robot inspired by baby deer that can teach itself to walk; Brave Browser partners with TAP Network to connect BAT tokens directly to retailers; A fireside chat including the controversial and eccentric

Automatic pricing algorithms could reduce competition and raise consumer prices; Robot swarm achieves goals without central orchestration; Lettuce grows on the International Space Station (ISS); Google

Study finds that low-carb diets may prevent and reverse age-related cognitive decline; IEEE Spectrum's weekly selection of awesome robot videos from March 6.; a Steem essay describing the current state

Harvard Working Paper suggests that occupational licensing reduces competition and fails to improve consumer satisfaction; More on the health-care robot that automates needle insertion for blood draws

A TED talk by a security researcher gives a rundown on "stalkerware"; A Youtube video addresses Peto's Paradox - the surprising observation that larger animals are less likely to get cancer;

Partnership between Boston Dynamics and Otto Motors makes warehouse automation safer; A paper claiming a link between the Sun and global warming was retracted. The authors dispute the action.; Computers

Honeywell claims quantum breakthrough that's twice as powerful as IBM and Google offerings; A satirical browser extension responds to the coronavirus by adding medical masks to images that contain faces;

Dogs' noses can sense the ambient warmth of their prey from a meter and a half away; "Fake news" didn't have much impact on the 2016 election; An attempt at estimating numbers of unreported cases

American consumers get gun-shy after data breaches; The Brave browser adds feature to do Wayback Machine look-ups for missing web pages; Ex-Googler, Eric Schmidt, argues for massive investment in emerging

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IEEE Spectrum's weekly selection of awesome robot videos; A report on browser privacy finds that Brave leads the pack, Microsoft Edge and Yandex trail; Theorists still don't totally understand how planes

Artificial intelligence predicts heart attacks, strokes, and even deaths better than doctors with traditional techniques; Unisys CEO predicts a year of transition, and also a possible return of acquisition