Martha Wells's action-packed novel Network Effect puts you inside the head of a Murderbot. It raises fascinating questions you will think about for a long time, says Sally Adee

सरायइनायत थाना क्षेत्र के कोड़रू गांव में शनिवार की सुबह दस साल के मासूम ने घर के भीतर फांसी लगाकर खुदकुशी कर ली। घटना के वक्त बालक के मां-बाप खेत में काम करने गए थे। लौटने पर बालक को फांसी पर लटका देखा तो शव को फांसी के फंदे से नीचे उतारकर आनन...

While such a plan might sound appealing, it’s likely to provide a false sense of security

No going out to buy ingredients you don't already have, though. Crumpets are treats.

It delivers almost all the functionality Apple promised, with a steep Apple-like price tag to match.

The hacker in question hasn't even graduated high school yet.

Just after the prosecutor assigned to the case resigned on Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that it dropped the charges against Michael Flynn, the former national security advisor who’d already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia. 

President Trump forecast this before it happened. Last week, he insisted that Flynn had been exonerated.  Apparently referring to his pardon power, Trump suggested that if the court did not do something he would use “a different kind of power.”

And now it’s happened. While the president has the broad power to pardon, he should not control individual prosecutorial decisions, especially those concerning a political ally. It is extremely unusual for the government to dismiss charges after a guilty plea. This is a sign that the historic independence of the Justice Department has been compromised. 

Read more at The Daily Beast.

For the past two months, Katie Holliday has been cooped up alone in her Brooklyn apartment thinking longingly about an unlikely erogenous zone: the lower half of a stranger’s face. 

“I remember joking to my friend before all of this started, ‘Imagine if someone’s face becomes their most coveted body part?’” Holliday, who is 31, told The Daily Beast. “‘When someone removes their mask, is it a sign of trust? Is it like letting someone see you naked?’ I was kidding back then, but now it’s reality.”

Holliday doesn’t know exactly when it will be safe to start seeing people like she did before the pandemic began, but she’ll return to a singles scene unlike any other in history. “I’m picturing walking into a bar where everyone’s wearing masks,” she said. “I’ll meet someone whose face is covered. Are they cute or not? I don’t know!” 

Read more at The Daily Beast.

Morningside USA was supposed to be apocalypse-proof. 

A gated, stucco fortress in the southwest corner of Missouri’s Ozark mountains, Morningside is an evangelical Christian community built to rent condos right through the end of the world.

“Where are you going to go when the world's on fire? Where are you going to go? This place is for God's people and this place, we need some farmers to move here,” Morningside’s founder, the disgraced doomsday televangelist Jim Bakker, said in a May 2018 sermon. “Did you know people from the government, from NASA, research from so many of them, they have said in their research, the safest place to live in troubled times is right here?”  

Read more at The Daily Beast.

“HOLY MOTHER OF GOD.” 

That’s how epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding began a since-deleted 14-tweet thread on Jan. 25 warning about the “thermonuclear pandemic level bad” infectiousness of the coronavirus that broke out in Wuhan, China.

The first confirmed U.S. case had been announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) days earlier outside Seattle. But the disease was not widely understood to be a potentially nightmarish pandemic. Many infectious disease experts had been ignored despite warning for years that the U.S. was not prepared for a seemingly inevitable health crisis. Feigl-Ding, a visiting scientist at Harvard’s Department of Nutrition, wanted to help ensure their message was heard.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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It’s not going out on much of a limb to say that the single greatest line in any rock and roll song—shall we double down and say all music ever?—is “A-wop-bom-a-loo-mop-a-lomp-bom-bom!!”

Surely that says it all.

As with any truly oracular pronouncement, it inspires consternation in the first-time listener, and the second-time listener, and the third, the fourth, and on and on. The mystery never diminishes.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

With the three Skywalker trilogies over and done with for now, what better than to celebrate the made-up Star Wars holiday than to re-examine some weird facts we all glossed over. Here's 10 strange (and some downright freaky) facts you probably didn't know about to celebrate. More »

Apple dropped its brand new 13-inch MacBook Pro overnight, which is exciting because the dreaded butterfly keyboard is now finally dead. For real. In its place you'll find the newer Magic Keyboard which has previously been added to the 16-inch MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air. Today is a good day. If you're keen to get your paws on the new laptop, here's how much it will set you back in Australia. More »

BRITAIN'S summer holiday destinations will face some of the biggest economic hits of the coronavirus pandemic with fears of massive job losses in coastal communities, a study has claimed.

COMPUTER services company PTC is using augmented reality , the enhanced visual technology seen in Pokemon Go smartphone games and Iron Man movies, to produce ventilators in record time for the NHS.

UFC 249 prize money - Express Sport breaks down how much Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje are set to pocket for their showdown in Florida.

Jurgen Klopp never got to manage Steven Gerrard at Liverpool but the pair still have a strong relationship given their connections to the club.

Premier League clubs are fearful that a significant number of first-team stars may refuse to return to action if the league's Project Restart plan gets the green light.

Watford chairman Scott Duxbury has questioned whether the Premier League should return amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A private satellite that is low on fuel could survive five more years because another satellite has come to its rescue – a technique that could be used by future service spacecraft

A team of researchers say they have discovered a protein molecule inside a meteorite, the first extraterrestrial example ever found, but others are sceptical

Proxima Centauri b, a planet orbiting our nearest stellar neighbour, is being blasted with cosmic rays and solar flares – which could make it warm enough to host life

The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft bombed the asteroid Ryugu in April. Analysing the crater it left behind suggests Ryugu is a relative youngster at 9 million years old

A star that swoops close to the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has a strange, looping orbit that proves Einstein was right about the gravity of black holes

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Beam now belongs to a Danish robot venture factory

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Lucas Joppa, founder of Microsoft's AI for Earth program, is taking an engineering approach to environmental issues

John Deere, the nearly 200-year-old tractor manufacturer, now considers itself a software company

Long before NLP became a hot field in AI, people devised rules and machines to manipulate language

In 1966, the Eliza program couldn’t say much—but it was enough

Bosch SoundSee combines deep learning with mobile microphone arrays to identify problems on the ISS before they happen

OpenAI’s GPT-2 program churns out natural language that’s remarkably coherent—and that’s a problem

MIT conference considers companies that have implemented job-friendly AI

Fast-growing Melbourne payments company PromisePay is ramping its growth plans in the global platform economy.

Former engineering high flyer Ausenco has become the latest mining services company to be swallowed by private equity.

Because we don't have enough on our plates as it is, now we've got 'murder hornets' flying around the United States. Murder hornets (actually Asian Giant Hornets, but that name didn't strike enough fear into the masses) have a sting powerful enough that China recommends medical treatment if stunk more than ten times, and emergency treatment if stung more than 30. *pours out a little liquor for Macaulay Culkin in My Girl*. And where is his glasses?! He can't see without his glasses! Put his glasses on! Here's a video of Coyote Peterson getting stung by one (the Japanese Giant Hornet was previously believed to be a subspecies of the Asian Giant Hornet, but has since been recategorized as a color morph). This is a video of a praying mantis eating a Giant Asian hornet until it's just a pile of limbs. So yeah, praying mantises -- start breeding them. And make sure to selectively breed them too so we can produce them bigger and bigger until they're preying on us because the way things are going how is that not how this ends? Keep going for the video while I surround my Animal Crossings town with preying mantises to protect my villagers and keep my five-star rating (okay, three).

टेक कंपनी ऑनर (Honor) 9 एक्स प्रो स्मार्टफोन (Honor 9X Pro) को भारत में पेश करने की तैयारी कर रही है। इस ही बीच इस स्मार्टफोन को लेकर एक रिपोर्ट सामने आई है, जिसमें दावा किया गया है कि इस डिवाइस को 12 मई के दिन भारतीय बाजार में उतारा जाएगा।

OnePlus 7T Pro की कीमत में 6,000 रुपये की कटौती कर दी है। वनप्लस 7टी प्रो के हेज ब्लू वेरियंट को अब 47,999 रुपये में अमेजन इंडिया से खरीदा जा सकता है, जबकि पहले इसकी कीमत 53,999 रुपये थी।

The first clinical uses of whole-genome sequencing show just how challenging it can be.

Skimming system tripled previous best effort at oil collection.

Epic will be hosting its latest in-game event in Fortnite this weekend, featuring the talents of Dillon Francis, Steve Aoki and deadmau5

FIFA 20 Team Of The Season So Far continues this week, hopefully with the release of the La Liga FUT Squad. Here some predictions on who might be included, plus when they'll be announced.

FIFA 20 Team Of The Season So Far continues this week, hopefully with the additional release of the Portuguese Liga Nos FUT Squad. Here some predictions on who might be included, plus when they'll be announced.

FIFA 20 Team Of The Season So Far continues this week, hopefully with the release of the Bundesliga FUT Squad. Here some predictions on who might be included, plus when they'll be announced.