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Reminder: UltraViolet shuts down July 31st, so safeguard your digital movies now
UltraViolet stock 640 UltraViolet, Hollywood’s original attempt at a cross-platform digital movie locker service, is shutting down this week on July 31st. If you’ve redeemed your fair share of codes that came with Blu-rays or DVDs through the years, you’ll definitely want to make sure you’ve linked your UltraViolet collection to another retailer so you…
Music crowdfunding website PledgeMusic goes offline amidst bankruptcy proceedings
Image: PledgeMusic PledgeMusic, a crowdfunding site designed to allow fans to back projects from artists, has gone offline, according to Variety. The company closed down its operations earlier this year as it went into bankruptcy proceedings, and the site’s closure means that artists won’t be able to retrieve information on their profiles and fans. In…
Big Tech’s liability shield under fire yet again from Republicans
Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call The populist wing of the Republican party introduced yet another bill to remove the tech industry’s largest liability shield last week. The Stop the Censorship Act, sponsored by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), would strike language in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that allows platforms to moderate content…
Box Office: ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Starts Strong With $40 Million, ‘Lion King’ Remains Victorious
LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Disney’s “The Lion King” might still rule everything the light touches, but Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” certainly held its own this weekend at the domestic box office. Press Release Distribution Service
Vietnam seizes 125 kg of rhino horns, seven tiger carcasses
Vietnam said it has seized more than 125 kg (275 lb) of rhino horns hidden in plaster blocks and shipped from United Arab Emirates, the latest large-scale wildlife trafficking case in Southeast Asia. Press Release Distribution Service
No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era
Nature, Published online: 24 July 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1401-2 Warm and cold periods over the past 2,000 years have not occurred at the same time in all geographical locations, with the exception of the twentieth century, during which warming has occurred almost everywhere. Press Release Distribution Service
Resolving the energy levels of a nanomechanical oscillator
Nature, Published online: 24 July 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1386-x A hybrid platform comprising a microwave superconducting qubit and a nanomechanical piezoelectric oscillator is used to resolve the phonon number states of the oscillator. Press Release Distribution Service
The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-28/the-lithium-mine-buildup-is-outpacing-the-electric-car-boom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20550709 Points: 45 # Comments: 23 Press Release Distribution Service
Levels of code in Forth programming (2002)
Article URL: http://www.ultratechnology.com/levels.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20550656 Points: 29 # Comments: 4 Press Release Distribution Service
Downward Mobility (1982)
Article URL: http://nymag.com/news/features/48652/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20550445 Points: 12 # Comments: 1 Press Release Distribution Service