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Another 737 MAX jet crash prompts groundings by China, Indonesia, Ethiopia
Similar symptoms to Lion Air crash in November raise concerns over automated safety system.
On March 10, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, killing all 189 people aboard. The behavior of the aircraft—a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airliner—was eerily similar to that of Lion Air Flight 610, which crashed on October 29, 2018.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Another 737 MAX jet crash prompts groundings by China, Indonesia, Ethiopia
Similar symptoms to Lion Air crash in November raise concerns over automated safety system.
On March 10, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, killing all 189 people aboard. The behavior of the aircraft—a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airliner—was eerily similar to that of Lion Air Flight 610, which crashed on October 29, 2018.
American Airlines is one of the few currently flying MAX 8s in service...
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Elon Musk’s late-night announcement to raise prices and reopen some stores
Collapsing sales and more senior staff departures suggest a company in disarray.
In the early hours of Monday morning, Tesla employees got a surprising email from CEO Elon Musk. Less than two weeks after announcing that he was closing the company's retail stores and letting go the sales staff, it was time for an about-turn. According to CNBC, which received a copy of the email, Musk wrote that the company would now be keeping many of its unclosed stores open and would even reopen some of the now-shuttered locations. Additionally, a week from now, there will be price increases on all of its vehicles with the exception of the standard range Model 3. The email to employees was also followed by a public-facing blog post.
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Sprint steps up fight against AT&T’s “fake 5G” with full-page Sunday NYT ad
Sprint steps up fight against AT&T’s “fake 5G” with full-page Sunday NYT ad
Sprint's open letter repeated its own misleading claim that it needs to merge with T-Mobile in order to deliver a robust nationwide 5G network. Still, Sprint said it plans to offer "real mobile 5G in nine major metro areas" by this summer, regardless of whether the merger is approved.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sprint steps up fight against AT&T’s “fake 5G” with full-page Sunday NYT ad
Sprint steps up fight against AT&T’s “fake 5G” with full-page Sunday NYT ad
Sprint's open letter repeated its own misleading claim that it needs to merge with T-Mobile in order to deliver a robust nationwide 5G network. Still, Sprint said it plans to offer "real mobile 5G in nine major metro areas" by this summer, regardless of whether the merger is approved.
Promoted comment is awesome
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Boeing 737: Singapore bars entry and exit of 737 Max planes
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Slovenian woman's hand sawn off 'in insurance fraud'
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A small-molecule drug can block a broad range of flu viruses in mice
Rare antibodies help us design a drug that could help after we've caught the flu.
Our bodies are good at generating extremely specific antibodies, targeting a single pathogen among a dizzying mix of harmless bacteria and the proteins made by our own cells. But in some cases, like the flu virus, that specificity is limiting. Those antibodies will generally pick out a very specific strain of the flu virus, leaving us vulnerable to other strains and the new variants that evolve each season.
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Three men cop to $21 million vishing and smishing scheme
Phone-based scam may be low-tech, but it netted big bucks, prosecutors say.
The "vishing" and "smishing" scams are variations of phishing that use voicemails and SMS messages instead of email, federal prosecutors in Atlanta, Georgia, said on Friday. From 2011 to 2014, the three Romanians compromised computers located in the US and installed interactive voice response and bulk emailing software on them. The hacked computers initiated thousands of phone calls and text messages that tricked recipients into disclosing personal information, including account numbers, PINs, and social security numbers.
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New White House budget spells trouble for NASA’s SLS rocket
By launching a Europa mission on a private rocket, NASA would save $700 million.
With a Republican White House and a Democratic House of Representatives, it almost goes without saying that the President's fiscal year 2020 budget request won't get far within Congress. Yet with NASA's budget, there are intriguing hints about the increasingly commercial nature of lunar exploration.
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EA says it failed in response to Sims influencer’s alleged sexual harassment
Publisher investigated "Game Changer" in December, didn't act until March.
A report by Kotaku details allegations of sexual harassment made by Sims community members against a YouTube creator and Game Changer partner with the online handle "Dylan Simz." The report outlines multiple instances where Simz allegedly shared unwelcome sexual fantasies with teenage boys online, and at least one instance where he allegedly exposed himself on camera to a fellow player.
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Boeing: UK joins wave of countries grounding the 737 Max
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Boeing: UK joins wave of countries grounding the 737 Max
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-47536502Any idea how bad this is affecting air travel?
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Bandersnatch was a hit, so Netflix plans to make more interactive shows like it
New interactive shows could be comedies or romances, Netflix exec said.
Netflix Vice President of Product Todd Yellin delivered the keynote address at Mumbai-based media conference FICCI-Frames, in which he talked about plans to double Indian content production. But he also discussed the company's future plans for interactive TV. Here's what he said, as quoted in entertainment industry publication Variety:
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Bandersnatch was a hit, so Netflix plans to make more interactive shows like it
New interactive shows could be comedies or romances, Netflix exec said.
Netflix Vice President of Product Todd Yellin delivered the keynote address at Mumbai-based media conference FICCI-Frames, in which he talked about plans to double Indian content production. But he also discussed the company's future plans for interactive TV. Here's what he said, as quoted in entertainment industry publication Variety:
That's pretty cool.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Bandersnatch was a hit, so Netflix plans to make more interactive shows like it
New interactive shows could be comedies or romances, Netflix exec said.
Netflix Vice President of Product Todd Yellin delivered the keynote address at Mumbai-based media conference FICCI-Frames, in which he talked about plans to double Indian content production. But he also discussed the company's future plans for interactive TV. Here's what he said, as quoted in entertainment industry publication Variety:
That's pretty cool.
The tech is cool I didn't care for the movie.
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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Bandersnatch was a hit, so Netflix plans to make more interactive shows like it
New interactive shows could be comedies or romances, Netflix exec said.
Netflix Vice President of Product Todd Yellin delivered the keynote address at Mumbai-based media conference FICCI-Frames, in which he talked about plans to double Indian content production. But he also discussed the company's future plans for interactive TV. Here's what he said, as quoted in entertainment industry publication Variety:
That's pretty cool.
The tech is cool I didn't care for the movie.
Agreed. Black Mirror needs to go back to what they do best.
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Bandersnatch was a hit, so Netflix plans to make more interactive shows like it
New interactive shows could be comedies or romances, Netflix exec said.
Netflix Vice President of Product Todd Yellin delivered the keynote address at Mumbai-based media conference FICCI-Frames, in which he talked about plans to double Indian content production. But he also discussed the company's future plans for interactive TV. Here's what he said, as quoted in entertainment industry publication Variety:
That's pretty cool.
The tech is cool I didn't care for the movie.
Agreed. Black Mirror needs to go back to what they do best.
Did not watch the movie. I saw the previews and just nope.
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Felicity Huffman: Desperate Housewives star charged in exam cheating scheme
Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman is among more than 40 people charged in a US college cheating scam, according to unsealed court records.
The alleged scheme involved helping students cheat on entrance exams, as well as getting non-athletic students admitted on fake athletic scholarships.
Elite schools Yale, Stanford and Georgetown were among the destination universities.
There was no suggestion that the schools were involved in wrongdoing.
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Brexit: MPs reject Theresa May's deal for a second time
Theresa May's EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs by an overwhelming majority for a second time, with just 17 days to go to Brexit.
MPs voted down the prime minister's deal by 149 - a smaller margin than when they rejected it in January.
Mrs May said MPs will now get a vote on whether the UK should leave the EU without a deal and, if that fails, on whether Brexit should be delayed.
She said Tory MPs will get a free vote on a no-deal Brexit.
