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Alarming Number of Americans Think Climate-Change Deniers Deserve to Get Hit by Natural Disasters, Survey Finds

Roughly a third of Americans who understand that climate change is real agree that climate deniers “get what they deserve” when disasters strike their communities. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/01/alarming-number-of-americans-think-climate-change-deniers-deserve-to-get-hit-by-natural-disasters-survey-finds/
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What's the Worst Planet?

Are there planets which aren’t and will never be habitable, have absolutely nothing interesting to study, or just induce ire for no discernible reason? from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/01/whats-the-worst-planet/
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Data Leak in Singapore Exposes HIV Status of 14,000 Locals and Foreign Visitors

Medical records and contact information belonging to thousands of HIV-positive Singaporeans and foreign visitors to the southeast Asian city state have been leaked online, according to reports. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/01/data-leak-in-singapore-exposes-hiv-status-of-14000-locals-and-foreign-visitors/
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It Took Two Years to Make This Complex Puzzle Box From Scratch, and It Would Take You Even Longer to Solve It

While you’re struggling to toast bread without burning it, metalsmith Seth Gould harnesses heat and fire to turn raw steel into masterful creations like this . from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/01/it-took-two-years-to-make-this-complex-puzzle-box-from-scratch-and-it-would-take-you-even-longer-to-solve-it/
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From Data Protection to Data Management and Beyond

Just three weeks into 2019, Veeam announced a $500M funding round . The company is privately held, profitable and with a pretty solid revenue stream coming from hundreds of thousands of happy customers. But, still, they raised $500M! I didn’t see it coming, but if you look at what is happening in the market, it’s not a surprising move. Market valuation of companies like Rubrik and Cohesity is off the chart and it is pretty clear that while they are spending boatloads of money to fuel their growth, they are also developing platforms that are well beyond traditional data protection. Backup Is Boring Backup is one of the most tedious, yet critical, tasks to be performed in the IT space. You need to protect your data and save a copy of it in a secure place in case of a system failure, human error or worse, like in the case of natural disasters and cyberattacks. But as critical as it is, the differentiations between backup solutions are getting thinner and thinner. Vendors like Cohesi
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The US Federal Trade Commission May Slam Facebook With 'Record-Setting' Fine Over User Privacy

In theory, the FTC could fine Facebook over £30,000 per violation, though with tens of millions of users affected by the breach, that would run into the trillions. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/01/the-us-federal-trade-commission-may-slam-facebook-with-record-setting-fine-over-user-privacy/
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Fascinating Experiment Uses a Robot to Recreate the Walking Style of an Early Land Dweller

Using computer simulations and a robot, researchers have recreated the likely gait of a 300-million-year-old animal considered to be among the planet’s earliest terrestrial walkers. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/01/fascinating-experiment-uses-a-robot-to-recreate-the-walking-style-of-an-early-land-dweller/
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Quantum Computing, Capabilities and Limits: An Interview with Scott Aaronson

Scott Aaronson GigaOm CEO Byron Reese recently sat down with  Scott Aaronson to discuss Quantum Computing. Aaronson is the David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas in Austin, where he also directs the UT Quantum Information Center. Prior to UT, he taught Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Aaronson’s research focuses on the capabilities and limits of quantum computers and computational complexity. Byron Reese: Welcome Scott. Scott Aaronson: Thanks, great to join you. So it seems like you’re on a one-man crusade to dispel all the popular notions of quantum computing. Why don’t we start with that? Okay, well I write a blog and basically what happens is that every time there’s some really outrageous claim about quantum computing, that gets into the press, which is often. People start emailing me and they ask me to respond to it. So just by circumstance, and because no one else sets out to do this, it became me who did a
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