An anonymous reader shares a Reuters report: Orbiting the earth at more than 500 kilometers (300 miles), a tiny satellite with a laboratory shrunk to the size of a tissue box is helping scientists carry out experiments that take gravity…

An anonymous reader shares a report: If you’re a Linux user who upgraded to Firefox 52 only to find that the browser no longer plays sound, you’re not alone. Firefox 52 saw release last week and it makes PulseAudio a…

From a report on The Outline: San Francisco-based startup Memphis Meats announced this week that it had grown chicken in a lab — chicken strips, to be precise. The strips, which were grown using self-reproducing cells, are technically “meat,” but…

Ina Fried, reporting for Axios: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is among the tech leaders meeting Friday with President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Axios has learned. They’ll discuss worker training. And IBM will announce plans to: Open 20 more…

From a report on The Verge: An arrest has been made three months after someone tweeted a seizure-inducing strobe at writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald. The Dallas FBI confirmed the arrest to The Verge today, and noted…

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