Finland's parliament approved a bill designed to protect its networks against cyber threats and espionage – may be used to exclude China's Huawei and ZTE ~tech security.national security.cyber Article 4 votes
NASA considering commercial Mars data relay satellites to provide support for science missions over the next decade ~space spaceflight.commercial satellites Article 888 words 6 votes
SpaceX launches first next-generation Cargo Dragon spacecraft to ISS on CRS-21 mission ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 856 words 5 votes
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says. ~tech google Article 1230 words 19 votes
Atheists are sometimes more religious than Christians ~humanities religion Article 478 words, published May 31 2018 11 votes
Parler’s got a porn problem: Adult businesses target pro-Donald Trump social network ~tech social media Article 2127 words 13 votes
Logging in to get kicked out: Inside America's virtual eviction crisis ~life housing Article 3246 words 7 votes
An anti-gay Hungarian politician has resigned after being caught by the police fleeing a 25-man orgy through a window ~lgbt nsfw Article 480 words 27 votes
Researchers restore lost sight in mice, offering clues to reversing aging ~science biology medicine Article 1038 words 6 votes
The philosophy of Star Trek: Is the Prime Directive ethical? ~humanities philosophy ethics Article 11 votes
NASA launched a rocket fifty-four years ago. Has it finally come home? ~space Article 1158 words 5 votes
China's Chang'e-5 mission has successfully landed on the moon, will now collect and return the first lunar samples since 1976 ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 1184 words 13 votes
No game days. No bars. The pandemic is forcing some men to realize they need deeper friendships. ~life.men Article 2050 words 30 votes
What Facebook fed the baby boomers. Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them. ~tech facebook social media Article 2322 words, published Nov 24 2020 18 votes
Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years ~humanities.history Article 411 words 8 votes
Rethinking causation in economics ~finance economics Article 1955 words, published Jul 29 2020 7 votes
How a $17 billion US bailout fund intended for Boeing ended up in very different hands ~finance business Article 2278 words 4 votes
The New York Times Book Review editors' choices for the ten best books of 2020 ~books reviews fiction nonfiction Article 1316 words 7 votes
Roiled by election, Facebook struggles to balance civility and growth ~tech facebook social media Article 1821 words 12 votes
Falcon 9 launches "Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich" ocean science satellite, lands Falcon 9 first stage back at Vandenberg SLC-4E ~space spaceflight.scientific satellites Article 994 words 7 votes
YouTube can now place ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them ~tech social media google Article 707 words 26 votes
The Coronavirus is airborne indoors. Why are we still scrubbing surfaces? ~health Article 1397 words 11 votes
The pandemic, the Clean Power Plan, and the Paris Agreement: US emissions drop 7% year on year due to effects of COVID-19 ~enviro climate change Article 4 votes
Canada housing squeeze: Buyers moving up 'handcuffed' by hard-to-sell condos ~finance Article 713 words 5 votes
Bankers in Denmark see surge in threats from angry clients – finance industry is struggling to regain the public's trust after a string of scandals ~finance banking Article 4 votes
The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare. ~humanities.history Article 8055 words 5 votes
The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news. ~humanities.history Article 5121 words 24 votes
United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 with new GEM-36 solid rocket boosters launches NROL-101 satellite ~space spaceflight.military satellites Article 278 words 4 votes
Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves ~news usa.mn.minneapolis crime Article 2854 words 14 votes
Google apologises to Thierry Breton over plan to target EU commissioner ~tech google Article 471 words 6 votes
"The intelligence coup of the century" - For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries ~news usa germany switzerland Article 8446 words 12 votes
Metagenomic sequencing can quickly identify pathogens in body fluids, new study finds ~science medicine Link 3 votes
Why we should think twice about colonizing space ~space Article 2052 words, published Jul 18 2018 15 votes
The FBI says ‘Boogaloo’ extremists bought 3D-printed machine gun parts ~news usa crime Article 598 words 13 votes
A look at the future of abortion from Colorado ~health Article 557 words, published Nov 5 2020 9 votes
Denmark's plans to cull seventeen million mink is facing legal obstacles after the government admitted it did not have a legal basis for the order ~health Article 226 words 10 votes