Quibi has a funky name and major Hollywood backing. Launching in April, it came to CES to start its long fight to get your attention. …read more Source:: CNet

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are turning all-woman spacewalks into just another day at the office. …read more Source:: CNet

sciencehabit writes: Academic journals in Russia are retracting more than 800 papers following a probe into unethical publication practices by a commission appointed by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The moves come in the wake of several other queries suggesting the vast Russian scientific literature is riddled with plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and so-called gift authorship,…

He could have nicked £7m if he hadn’t been caught A civil servant who stole £1.7m from the UK’s Ministry of Justice through a fake “IT services contract” has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

[Justin] enjoys tinkering in his home lab, working on a wide variety of experiments. Recently, he’d found much success in coating objects with thin layers of various metals with the help of a DC sputtering magnetron. However, titanium simply wouldn’t work with this setup. Instead, [Justin] found another way. As it turns out, coating with…

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The Australia wildfires are a countrywide catastrophe, mainly caused by drought and extreme heat, but dozens of people are directly to blame for some of the problem, officials say. From a report: Police have charged at least 24 people for intentionally starting bushfires in the state of New South Wales, according to a statement the…

Yearly review promises FTTP for rural bods, price check on network wholesaler Openreach Ofcom today published new proposals that aim to see fibre-to-the-premises broadband become more ubiquitous, particularly for users in rural areas and finally kill off the old copper network.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

It may have an entry-level price point, but there’s no skimping on the Cat S32’s rugged features. …read more Source:: ZDNet