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Bank accidentally deposits $176 million into people’s accounts on Christmas Day

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Amazon's plastic packaging waste could encircle the globe 500 times

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Elon Musk rejects claims he is hogging space: ‘A couple of thousand satellites is nothing’

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Fireworks could fizzle out as drones rise in popularity for new year

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Can open-source technology transform chipmaking? RISC-V says yes.

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How does my Instagram keep getting compromised?

Ask HN: How does my Instagram keep getting compromised? 113 by china | 76 comments on Hacker News. I was an early Instagram user and got my nickname as my handle and I keep getting either locked out of my account or compromised altogether. Over the years, hackers have tried a number of things to steal my handle and I can usually tell how they get in. These days, I have no idea. I've been SIM swapped a handful of times. One time a hacker faxed a fake ID to Godaddy to try and swap out my domain to gain control of my email (they were successful). Now, I will try to log in to my account and will just be locked out. The email I created specifically for Instagram is not recognized, and there is no way to reset my password. I have two-factor auth on, I don't use the same password anywhere else, I change it regularly, etc. My current theory is there is some employee at Meta that's ultimately stealing the account. Does anybody have any idea how they're hacking me? PS: the wor

Apple reopens NYC stores to 'limited' shoppers after backlash

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League of Legends Developer ordered to pay $100 million in a gender discrimination suit, more than 10x what it originally agreed to pay

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OneWeb launches 36 satellites into orbit from Kazakhstan

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Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning

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Microsoft joins Google, Amazon, others in canceling in-person presence at CES

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Perspective | Amazon, can we have our name back?

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2021 showed us that trucks and SUVs don't need gas engines | Engadget

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SpaceX is Hoping to Turn Atmospheric CO2 Into Rocket Fuel

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Renewables second-most prevalent US electricity source in 2020 — EIA

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Bus or train? World's first 'dual-mode vehicle' to begin operating in Japan

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DoorDash will require all employees to deliver goods or perform other gigs, and some of them aren't happy

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Intel Bans Chinese Components from Xinjiang Province, Turns Around and Apologises to China

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Amazon’s nationwide NLRB settlement makes it easier for workers to organize

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US safety body to probe Tesla on in-car gameplay

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Apple loses bid at SEC to block three shareholder proposals

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Paramedic who killed herself 'pushed over edge' after Facebook shaming for littering

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New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually

Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually 94 by abelsm | 28 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! It’s Abel and Alex here to share what we’ve been working on for just over a year: FlutterFlow ( https://bit.ly/3qhspUB ). It’s like WebFlow, but for Flutter. Flutter is an open source framework for building cross platform applications. FlutterFlow combines a UI builder with pre-built templates and Firebase/API integrations, generates clean Flutter code, and allows you to deploy to app stores directly from your browser. This enables extremely fast iteration, from product idea concepts and designs to working Flutter apps. As an example of what’s possible, we built an internal app for playing trivia games by using the jservice.io API and Firebase all in under 2 hours: Time lapse of building the app: https://youtu.be/Fm4jjpuKM1E Link to live version of the app: https://bit.ly/3J6py9C Exported source code: https://bit.ly/3eaxHeY Alex and I, along with a friend of ours from Google, qui

We Have One Shot to See the Universe Like Never Before - Days from now, the James Webb Space Telescope will launch and unfold a whole new view of the cosmos.

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Israel’s Future Meat raises $347m, largest investment for cultured meat firm to date

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'It Saved My Life': Depression Treatment Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days. rTMS: Electrical impulses are used to balance out erratic brain activity.

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New technology lets police link DNA to appearance and ancestry – and it's coming to Australia

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Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch reviews - Shady merchants have been gaming Amazon's review system for years.

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Verizon tries to defend collecting browsing data on its network

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Botnet steals half a million dollars in cryptocurrency from victims

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Describe SQL using natural language, and execute against real data

Show HN: Describe SQL using natural language, and execute against real data 7 by napoleond | 3 comments on Hacker News. I played around with GPT-3 to build this demo. Select a public BigQuery dataset and describe your query in natural English, then edit the generated SQL as needed and execute it. https://bit.ly/33FhUCV

Vodeo becomes the first unionized games studio in North America

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New top story on Hacker News: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and counting, unfair treatment

Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and counting, unfair treatment 92 by camhart | 44 comments on Hacker News. tldr: I launched Truple 4.5 years ago (see https://bit.ly/33ydjCl). 2.5 years ago Apple froze my developer account. Since that time competitors released similar functionality for Apple products. Apple still has my Developer account on lockdown. What can I do? long version: 4.5 years ago I launched Truple (https://bit.ly/33ydjCl), a bootstrapped parental control / accountability app. Truple is used by parents to gain insight into how their children use the internet, but also by adults who struggle with online habits they'd like to change (porn being chief among them). The screenshot based approach Truple offers proves to work much better than other solutions. It's the only solution that allows you to use social media, but still have accountability for what you're viewing through social media. For example, if you have access to Twitter, you have access t

AWS misfires once more, just days after a massive failure

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Netflix Slashes prices in India by 60% to just $2/month

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Facebook put profit before Rohingya lives. Now it must pay its dues

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Spacecraft enters the Sun's corona for the first time in history

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YouTube TV warns it may lose all Disney-owned channels amid contract dispute

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UK Increases Pressure On Big Tech With Online Safety Bill

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Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US

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Harris unveils plan for electric vehicle charging network

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Bored Ape NFT accidentally sells for $3,000 instead of $300,000

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Facebook exec blames users for spreading misinformation

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BMW will debut iX M60, color-changing exterior tech at CES

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Robust and affordable alternatives to Google Play for app distribution?

Ask HN: Robust and affordable alternatives to Google Play for app distribution? 11 by m_kos | 2 comments on Hacker News. TL;DR: I am looking for a platform to distribute my dissertation research data collection Android app to ~50 adult study participants in the US. The most important features are the ability to quickly and reliably deliver app updates over one year, safety, affordability, and good UX (participants are non-technical Android users). I don't want to use Google Play Store. To give you some context, for my dissertation project, I need to collect data using a custom Android research app installed on participants' phones for one year. The app requires a lot of permissions and continuously collects a lot of data. My colleagues discouraged me from using Play Store because Google banned their apps for no good reason and with no recourse, even though their research was approved by research ethics and human subject protections committees (IRB). This jeopardized their fe

Deadly Collapse at Amazon Warehouse Puts Spotlight on Phone Ban

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Earth Is Getting a ‘Black Box’ to Hold Humans Accountable for Climate Change | When a plane crashes, its flight recorder is critical to piecing together the missteps that led to calamity. Now the planet is getting its own in case it self-destructs.

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Far-Right Leaders Are Raking In Millions From Bitcoin, New Study Shows

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Turkish president calls social media a 'threat to democracy'

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5G now means some flights won’t be able to land when pilots can’t see the runway

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Turkey's Erdogan says social media a 'threat to democracy'

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Major U.S. utilities plan coast-to-coast, EV-charging network

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Act surprised: AT&T increasing DirecTV Stream pricing again, including for legacy subscribers

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ISPs to FCC: Don't Mandate Subsidies on Grandfathered Broadband Plans

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Space sleeping bag to solve astronauts' squashed eyeball disorder

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SpaceX launches $214M NASA satellite to study black holes

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