⚡ 📰 DevNews 2/2019 📰 ⚡
- TECH
- America desperately needs fiber internet, and the tech giants won’t save us - Harvard’s Susan Crawford explains why we shouldn’t expect Google to fix slow internet speeds in the US.
- Apple is going to sell its Apple TV service on Samsung TVs, because Apple wants to be a service company: Tim Cook can’t just rely on Apple customers anymore — he needs to sell things to people who don’t buy Apple products.
- Apple is going to sell its Apple TV service on Samsung TVs, because Apple wants to be a service company: Tim Cook can’t just rely on Apple customers anymore — he needs to sell things to people who don’t buy Apple products.
- Apple's value has lost $446 billion since peaking in October, which is greater than the total market value of Facebook (or nearly any other US company)
- AT&T gets burned by rivals over its fake 5G network
- AT&T misleads customers by updating phones with fake 5G icon
- Bill Gates warns that nobody is paying attention to gene editing, a new technology that could make inequality even worse
- Can't unlock an Android phone? No problem, just take a Skype call: App allows passcode bypass
- Colorado could save $2.5B through 2040 by replacing coal with clean energy: report
- Despite promises to stop, US cell carriers are still selling your real-time phone location data
- Despite promises to stop, US cell carriers are still selling your real-time phone location data
- Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are down
- Original 'Legend of Zelda' has a massive hidden area that one player finally opened, more than 30 years later
- Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook
- Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook
- Will the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to science papers?
- SCIENCE
- A hormone released during exercise, Irisin, may protect the brain against Alzheimer’s disease, and explain the positive effects of exercise on mental performance. In mice, learning and memory deficits were reversed by restoring the hormone. People at risk could one day be given drugs to target it.
- Americans are happier in states where governments spend more on public goods, among them libraries, parks, highways, natural resources and police protection, a Baylor University study has found.
- An estimated 8.5% of American adults shared at least one fake news article during the 2016 election. Age was a big factor. People over age 65 were seven times more likely to share a fake news article.
- Engineers create an inhalable form of messenger RNA, which can induce cells to produce therapeutic proteins, and holds great promise for treating a variety of diseases. This aerosol could be administered directly to the lungs to help treat diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
- Girls and boys may learn differently in virtual reality (VR). A new study with 7th and 8th -grade students found that girls learned most when the VR-teacher was a young, female researcher named Marie, whereas the boys learned more while being instructed by a flying robot in the form of a drone.
- Most crops are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch, and evolved an energy-expensive process called photorespiration that drastically suppresses their yield potential. Researchers have engineered crops with a photorespiratory shortcut that are 40% more productive in real-world conditions.
- Negative mood — such as sadness and anger — is associated with higher levels of inflammation and may be a signal of poor health. The investigators found that negative mood measured multiple times a day over time is associated with higher levels of inflammatory biomarkers.
- Texas might have the perfect environment to quit coal for good. Texas is one of the only places where the natural patterns of wind and sun could produce power around the clock, according to new research from Rice University.
- The United States, on a per capita basis, spends much more on health care than other developed countries; the chief reason is not greater health care utilization, but higher prices, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins.
- The US may have entered a “post-truth” era, but Australia may not have. Past research on people in the US about their views on politicians who frequently bend the truth found that fact-checking had little impact, whereas a new study found that for Australians it did change their political opinions.