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• 'How smart home tech helps me live independently' - BBC News - Technology
  Sat, 07 Dec 2019
  Specially designed tech is allowing Adam, who has Down's syndrome, to live without in-home carers.
  
• NHS e-health systems 'risk patient safety' - BBC News - Technology
  Sat, 07 Dec 2019
  The use 21 separate electronic record systems in NHS hospitals across England 'could lead to errors'.
  
• Sweden's Ericsson to pay over $1bn to settle US corruption probe - BBC News - Technology
  Sat, 07 Dec 2019
  The telecoms giant has agreed to pay to resolve bribery allegations, the US justice department says.
  
• General election 2019: Reddit says UK-US trade talks document leak 'linked to Russia' - BBC News - Technology
  Sat, 07 Dec 2019
  Jeremy Corbyn claimed the papers proved "the NHS is for sale" when he highlighted them at a press conference.
  
• General election 2019: Labour pledges to electrify UK bus fleet - BBC News - Technology
  Sat, 07 Dec 2019
  It wants to electrify UK buses by 2030, but the Tories say Labour would "scrap vital new roads".
  
• Elon Musk wins defamation case over 'pedo guy' tweet about caver - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  Tesla's founder did not defame a UK caver who helped in the Thai cave rescue, a US jury finds.
  
• Bug busters: The tech behind new vaccines - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  A revolution in the way vaccines are developed is raising hopes of faster protection from deadly infections.
  
• Uber had 6,000 US sexual assault reports in two years - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  The figures come as the ride-hailing company is under intense pressure globally over safety issues.
  
• Kashmir users kicked off WhatsApp - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  A four-month internet blackout in the region means accounts are classed as inactive and shut down.
  
• Heavy fine for Chinese firm over unlicensed game - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  The company, which has not been named by authorities, has been fined 700,000 yuan (£75,800).
  
• Canonical now offers AWS optimized Ubuntu Linux - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  

   ZDnet: Canonical has brought premium Ubuntu Pro Linux images to Amazon Web Services

  
  
• Debian GNU/Linux 11 "Bullseye" Installer Is Now Available for Public Testing - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  

  The first alpha build of the Debian Installer for the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 11 "Bullseye" operating system comes with improvements and better hardware support

  
  
• Editing A Podcast With Audacity on Linux - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  

  Audacity has everything you need to put together a professional sounding podcast.

  
  
• Rory Cellan-Jones: Reporting the news with Parkinson's - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  The BBC's technology correspondent shares how he manages Parkinson's in the workplace.
  
• Microsoft Staff Repeatedly Refuses to Tell How Many People Use WSL, Defends Patent Extortion and Blackmail of Linux Instead - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  

   techrights: The people who develop WSL (mostly Microsoft employees) get easily irritated when asked how many people actually use this thing

  
  
• SSH to remote hosts though a proxy or bastion with ProxyJump - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  

  Here are some tricks for using SSH through a proxy or bastion quickly.

  
  
• Create Virtual CD And DVD Drives Using CDemu On Linux - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  

   ostechnix: CDEmu is a software suite used to easily mount various disk image formats,

  
  
• How to Start, Stop, or Restart Nginx - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  

  Starting, stopping, and restarting/reloading are the most common tasks when working with an Nginx webserver.

  
  
• How to Extract Tar Files to Specific or Different Directory in Linux - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  
  
• NASA’s Hubble space telescope captures stunning galaxy image - FOX News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  NASA’s Hubble space telescope has captured a stunning image of a galaxy’s spiral pattern.
  
• Sunken treasure: Rare coins recovered from 1857 Gold Rush shipwreck - FOX News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  Nine rare silver quarters recovered from the wreck of a steamship that sank carrying treasure from the California Gold Rush are set for auction.
  
• Pyramid-shaped 427-foot asteroid set to whiz past Earth - FOX News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  A 427-foot asteroid shaped like a pyramid is set to whiz past Earth on Sunday.
  
• Ancient Rome 'built on timber imported from more than 1,000 miles away,' study finds - FOX News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  Parts of Ancient Rome were built on timber imported from more than 1,000 miles away in modern-day France, a new study has found.
  
• Archaeologists discovered 1,700-year-old Roman eggs — and accidentally released 'world's oldest stinkbombs' - FOX News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  Archaeologists in Britain discovered a basket of 1,700-year-old eggs from Ancient Rome — and accidentally broke three of them, releasing the "world's oldest stinkbombs," SWNS reports.
  
• Astronomers see stars slinging comets at Earth for the first time - FOX News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  Stars and comets make unlikely dance partners. Their gravitational partnership is one that astronomers have long suspected but have never seen — until now. For the first time, a Polish group has identified two nearby stars that seem to have plucked up their icy partners, swinging them into orbits around our sun. 
  
• Massive animals in Australia died from humans and climate change, study says - FOX News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  Nearly 42,000 years ago, massive animals such as six-foot-tall birds, 23-foot long lizards and wombat-like creatures the size of a Buick could be seen roaming the countryside. But a new study has found that these megafaunas became extinct because of human intervention and climate change. 
  
• logname - Sometimes Less is More - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  

  This simple utility has one purpose, to print the name of the current user.

  
  
• Electric eel lights up Christmas tree and other news - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 06 Dec 2019
  BBC Click's Marc Cieslak looks at some of the best technology stories of the week.
  
• Chinese residents worry about rise of facial recognition - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 05 Dec 2019
  A study by a Beijing-based body indicates many are worried about their biometric data being hacked.
  
• DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman switches to Google - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 05 Dec 2019
  The man behind controversial Streams app is to join Google to develop AI solutions.
  
• Apple iPhone 11 Pro 'can override location settings' - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 05 Dec 2019
  The phone maker denies any privacy flaw despite evidence locations are tracked even if set otherwise.
  
• SpaceX launches payload of 'muscle mice,' barley grains to space station - FOX News
  Thu, 05 Dec 2019
  SpaceX launched a 3-ton cargo payload to the International Space Station on Thursday, which included barley grains for a beer experiment, mice and a robot designed to show empathy.
  
• Unusual fish can create entirely new species when it has sex - FOX News
  Thu, 05 Dec 2019
  An unusual type of fish has the ability to produce entirely new species when it mates.
  
• More than 50 polar bears overrun far-north Russian village - FOX News
  Thu, 05 Dec 2019
  A village in Russia's Far North has been overrun by more than 50 polar bears.
  
• Lotus Evija: The £2.2m electric hypercar - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 05 Dec 2019
  The Lotus Evija goes into production next year and Click gets a look at what drivers can expect.
  
• Facebook's Zuckerberg rare interview inside home - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 03 Dec 2019
  The Facebook CEO, alongside his wife Priscilla, also stressed the company should not be broken up.
  
• How China-US rivalry is dividing the internet - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 03 Dec 2019
  Will the rivalry between China and the US accelerate the division of the internet into two halves?
  
• Jet suit man flies off Royal Navy ship and other news - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 29 Nov 2019
  BBC Click's Lara Lewington looks at some of the week's best technology news stories.
  
• Amazon: What does 'peak season' mean for employees? - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 29 Nov 2019
  The technology company is resisting calls for its staff to join unions, but do they need to?
  
• What happens inside a fridge recycling plant - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 29 Nov 2019
  What happens to your old fridge when it's time to replace it, the BBC's Dougal Shaw reports.
  
• How to make phone batteries that last longer - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 29 Nov 2019
  A breakthrough in battery technology would be an engineering triumph and spur to other technologies.
  
• Blocked TikToker: I don't believe app's explanation for device ban - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 28 Nov 2019
  The maker of a video accusing China of abuse of the Uighurs rejects TikTok's explanation for blocking her.
  
• Twitter: 'My boyfriend died but I still like to read his tweets' - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 28 Nov 2019
  Adam Parker says it's "good news" that Twitter is going to create a way to memorialise accounts.
  
• Goo Hara and the trauma of South Korea's spy cam victims - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 28 Nov 2019
  Goo Hara's death shows it's often the victims of spy cams who are punished the most.