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Italian driver hijacks and torches school bus full of children
A bus carrying 51 schoolchildren has allegedly been hijacked by its driver and set alight near Milan in Italy.
A teacher who had been on board the bus said the suspect was known to be angry about Italy's migrant policy. Some reports said the man had shouted "stop the deaths in the Mediterranean".
OMG, that's so awful. Thank goodness they were all saved.
Fast moving bus... people inside are saved... This sounds like a movie I've seen before.
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4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hosting shooting video
Widespread website blocking being used to limit spread of terror attack video.
Internet service providers in Australia have temporarily blocked access to dozens of websites, including 4chan and 8chan, that hosted video of last week's New Zealand mass shooting. New Zealand ISPs have also been blocking websites that host the video.
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About a third of medical vaccine exemptions in San Diego came from one doctor
She wrote 141 exemptions since 2015. The second highest number was 26.
Medical vaccination exemptions are intended for the relatively few people who have medical conditions that prevent them from receiving vaccines safely. That includes people who are on long-term immunosuppressive therapy or those who are immunocompromised, such as those with HIV or those who have had severe, life-threatening allergic reactions (e.g. anaphylaxis) to previous immunizations.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
About a third of medical vaccine exemptions in San Diego came from one doctor
She wrote 141 exemptions since 2015. The second highest number was 26.
Medical vaccination exemptions are intended for the relatively few people who have medical conditions that prevent them from receiving vaccines safely. That includes people who are on long-term immunosuppressive therapy or those who are immunocompromised, such as those with HIV or those who have had severe, life-threatening allergic reactions (e.g. anaphylaxis) to previous immunizations.
But that number pales when compared to the religious exemptions.
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BBC News - Oklahoma sheriff and staff quit over unsafe jail
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BBC News - Cyclone Idai: Rescuers race against time to reach survivors
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Iraq ferry sinking: Many feared dead in Tigris river near Mosul
At least 40 people are feared to have died after a ferry sank in the Tigris river near the Iraqi city of Mosul.
Most of the people on board the vessel were women and children and could not swim, the head of Mosul's civil defence agency reportedly said.
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Cyclone Idai: How the storm tore into southern Africa
Aid agencies are scrambling to reach survivors of Cyclone Idai, which swept through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe last week, destroying towns and villages in its path.
Hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands more have been affected by what the UN says could be "one of the worst weather-related disasters ever to hit the southern hemisphere".
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Google tries to reassure gamers about Stadia speed and latency concerns
Harrison cites data center "innovations... not visible to the outside world."
While the company set a threshold of 25mbps for its beta testing late last year, Harrison told Ars that "in actual fact, we only use an average of 20mbps; it obviously bounces up and down depending on the scene." Since that beta, Harrison said infrastructure and codec improvements "now allow us to get up to 4K resolution [at 60 frames per second] within about 30mbps. So we saw a dramatic increase in quality between then and now without a significant increase in bandwidth."
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Harrison cites data center "innovations... not visible to the outside world."
And that fixes our WAN issues... how?
This sounds way more like Google is incompetent or thinks we are idiots.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
While the company set a threshold of 25mbps for its beta testing late last year, Harrison told Ars that "in actual fact, we only use an average of 20mbps;
Given that the concerns are latency, not bandwidth, this makes Google look incredibly foolish.
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A dev trained robots to generate “garbage” slot machine games—and made $50K
In 2013, duo walked away from a game-jam experiment, discovered it was up to $200/week.
This year's Game Developers Conference saw two game makers emerge with a possible chapter in a future dystopian sci-fi novel: the story of making money by letting robots do the work. In their case, that work was the procedural generation of smartphone games.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
A dev trained robots to generate “garbage” slot machine games—and made $50K
In 2013, duo walked away from a game-jam experiment, discovered it was up to $200/week.
This year's Game Developers Conference saw two game makers emerge with a possible chapter in a future dystopian sci-fi novel: the story of making money by letting robots do the work. In their case, that work was the procedural generation of smartphone games.
Interesting
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Half the species in a new Cambrian fossil site are completely new to us
We're edging closer to understanding entire Cambrian ecologies.
The first signs of complex animal life begin in the Ediacaran Period, which started more than 600 million years ago. But it's difficult to understand how those organisms relate to the life we see around us today. Part of this issue is that those fossils are rare, as many rocks of that period appear to have been wiped off the Earth by a globe-spanning glaciation. But another problem is that the organisms we do see from this period aren't clearly related to anything that came after them.
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@mlnews wow
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BBC News - Millions of Facebook passwords exposed internally
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BBC News - Nicaragua agrees to free all opposition prisoners
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
BBC News - Millions of Facebook passwords exposed internally
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47653656all plain text, how mad is that!
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Earth is (always has been) round, so why have the flat-out wrong become so lively?
Every fringe theorist needs an amplifier—used to be the penny press; today it's the Web.
Until the 17th century, the Fens—a broad, flat swath of marshland in eastern England—were home only to game-hunters and fishermen. Eventually, though, their value as potential agricultural land became too enticing to ignore, and the Earl of Bedford, along with a number of “gentlemen adventurers,” signed contracts with Charles I to drain the area, beginning in the 1630s. A series of drainage channels were cut, criss-crossing the wetlands of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. The plan was a qualified success; a vast area was now farmable, though wind-powered pumps were needed to keep the water at bay.
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To rival Amazon, UPS enters healthcare—with doorstep nurse delivery
A test is set to launch this year, but UPS mum on which vaccines it will deliver.
A test for the new service is scheduled for later this year, but UPS didn’t name where it will take place or which vaccine it will offer, only saying that it would be an immunization for adults against a viral illness. Vaccine-maker Merck & Co is reportedly considering partnering with UPS on the service.
