Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save With 15 meters to go in the 1960 Rome Olympics, they matched each other stroke for stroke: American swimming star Lance Larson in Lane 4 and, to his left, in Lane 3, Australia’s John Devitt, who at the time held the world record in the […]
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Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The major cloud computing provider spun out of Hewlett-Packard said late Wednesday that it had been hacked by a suspected Russian intelligence team, the second such hack of a major U.S. internet company reported this month. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
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Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear. A small study published Wednesday documents significantly restored hearing in five of six kids treated in China. On Tuesday, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced similar improvements in an 11-year-old boy treated there. And earlier this month, Chinese researchers published a study showing
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Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save They fit in a pocket. They hold their value well. And they’re everywhere. iPhones remain a top target for thieves for those reasons, and more. But if a thief manages to figure out your iPhone’s passcode, or sees you typing it in before they steal
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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of last year’s severe drought in the Amazon that sent rivers to record lows, required deliveries of food and drinking water to hundreds of river communities and killed dozens of endangered dolphins, researchers said Wednesday. Both climate change and El
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world, and in many places faster than in the past 40 years, according to a new study that calls for urgency in addressing the depletion. The declines were most notable in dry regions with extensive cropland, said researchers
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NEW YORK (AP) — A poetry collection, a coming-of-age novel and a history of deep sea exploration are unlikely to be found in the same section of your favorite bookstore. But they all have enough in common to be this year’s winners of Science + Literature awards, $10,000 prizes administered by the National Book Foundation
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The iPhone 15 has been around for only a few months, but already rumors for Apple’s next-gen handset — likely to be named the iPhone 16 — are coming in. Based on the latest buzz, it appears we might have to keep waiting for an Apple foldable iPhone (if it’s going to happen at all). Even
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Apple released iOS 17.3 on Monday, an update that included some bug fixes and a few new features, like the long-awaited collaborative playlist feature in Apple Music. The update also introduces a new security feature called Stolen Device Protection, which aims to protect your data if your iPhone is stolen or falls into nefarious hands.
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Apple has rolled out a series of patches for multiple vulnerabilities across its ecosystem, among them a critical zero-day discovered in the open source WebKit browser engine that forms the underpinnings of the Safari web browser. The vulnerability in question is tracked as CVE-2024-23222, and it has already been added to the US Cybersecurity
