CNBC reports: A Texas A&M professor was charged with conspiracy, making false statements and wire fraud on allegations that he was secretly collaborating with the Chinese government while conducting research for NASA, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday… “Once again, we have witnessed the criminal consequences that can arise from undisclosed participation in the…

Tesla, Ford, Honda, Daimler, and Intel have asked America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to fight a recent court ruling in favour of Qualcomm, reports the BBC: Qualcomm has a practice of requiring customers to sign patent licence agreements before selling them chips. Such practices have drawn accusations the firm is stifling competition… According to Glyn…

Millions of people all over the world don’t have access to clean drinking water, and it’s largely because of pollution by corporations and individuals. Solving this problem requires an affordable, scalable way to quickly judge water quality, package the data, and present it to an authority that can crack down on the polluters before the…

CNET reports: Twice a year most of the U.S. stumbles around in confusion while missing appointments, resetting their clocks and grumbling about daylight saving time. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine thinks we should knock that nonsense off and just stick with standard time year-round. The AASM released a position statement this week as an…

Spoiler-free: Nolan’s new one races to beat the clock and coronavirus, but it’s not his best. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers from Mozilla report in a study that web browsing histories (the lists of user visited websites) are uniquely identifying users (PDF). In their study that was the case for 99% of users. Treating web browsing histories like fingerprints, the researchers analysed how the users can be reidentified just based on…

Step into the life of Arthur Morgan and play the best cowboy simulator ever created. …read more Source:: CNet

gollum123 shared this article from MarketWatch: Do masks really work? Ask the dozens of Starbucks customers who tested positive for COVID-19 in Seoul this month after a woman with coronavirus sat under one of the cafe’s air-conditioners. According to a local news report, at least 56 coronavirus cases have been linked to that one customer….

The Russo brothers, Chris Evans, Marvel Studios, DC Comics and many others honor the actor, who died after a four-year fight with colon cancer. …read more Source:: CNet

What is it like for a person to live partly inside of the objective function of an AI program? Intel scientist Lama Nachman shares insights from her team’s work with Peter Scott-Morgan, a person willing to transform his body and his life to interact intimately with a machine. …read more Source:: ZDNet