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Single Crystal Lithium-Ion Batteries Last 8x Longer, Researchers Show
Researchers used Canada's national synchrotron light source facility "to analyze a new type of lithium-ion battery material — called a single-crystal electrode — that's been charging and discharging non-stop in a Halifax lab for more than six years," reports Tech Xplore.
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A Fake Uber Driver Borrowed Phones, Then Stole $200K in Cryptocurrency, Police Say
"A man is accused of several felony charges after he allegedly posed as an Uber driver and then stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency from customers in Scottsdale," reports Arizona news channel Fox 10.
"Prosecutors have called it an 'extremely sophisticated electronic fraud,'" ...
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Wales Police Begin Using a Facial-Recognition Phone App
"There are concerns human rights will be breached," reports the BBC, as Wales police forces launch a facial-recognition app that "will allow officers to use their phones to confirm someone's identity."
The app, known as Operator Initiated Facial Recognition (OIFR), has already been tested by 70 of...
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Was the US Telecom Breach Inevitable, Proving Backdoors Can't Be Secure?
America's 1994 "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act" (or CALEA) created the security hole that helped enable a massive telecomm breach. But now America's FBI "is falling back on the same warmed-over, bad advice about encryption that it has trotted out for years," argues the Intercept:
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Why a Bacteria Can Withstand Radiation Which Would Kill a Human
Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Scientist have unlocked the secret to a bacteria dubbed 'Conan the Bacterium' which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most radiant-resistant life-form. Deinococcus radiodurans can withstand radiation doses 28,000 times greater than...
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