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Lawsuit targets Snapchat for 107-mph crash, alleges teen was using app to boast about speed
A new lawsuit blames Snapchat, along with a teenager who was allegedly using the popular messaging app to share how fast she was driving, for an accident that left another...
Regeneration: Not everything is scary about a glial scar
After spinal-cord injury, cells called astrocytes form a scar that is thought to block neuronal regeneration. The finding that the scar promotes regrowth of long nerve projections called axons challenges this long-held dogma.
Nature doi: 10.1038/nature17318
Six under-the-hood Android N features you should know more about
Android N isn't all about notifications and multi-window mode, even if they are the biggest and most noticeable features. (credit: Google)
Android N has a bunch of big new features in store for its users—the ones who eventually receive the update and don’t have those features torn out or replaced by their phone’s manufacturer, anyway. We’ve...
GeekWire Calendar Picks: Speaking about Sasquatch, Creativity Symposium, New Tech Seattle and more
Bigfoot will be center stage in the Tri-Cities this weekend. The International Conference on Primal People is the first of two Sasquatch conferences slated for Kennewick, Wash. in 2016.
Congressman demands more NOAA e-mails about climate study
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As part of his ongoing fight with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) sent a February 22 letter that demanded documents related to the agency's analysis of global temperature data. NOAA handed over 301 pages of e-mails between NOAA officials (but not scientists) pertaining to a study published last year in the journal Science....
Yelp employee who complained online about pay and got fired is ridiculed. But was she right?
A twenty-something tech worker who took to Medium to complain about her pay has become something of a cause celebre on the social networks.
A woman who goes by the online handle, Talia Jane, worked as a customer-service agent for Yelp, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews. She wrote an open letter to...
Volkswagen CEO may have known about defeat device scandal in 2014
Martin Winterkorn (credit: GovernmentZA)
The New York Times has obtained internal e-mails and memos from Volkswagen Group that may suggest that top executives within the company were aware as early as 2014 that many of their diesel vehicles had illegal emissions control-cheating software.
Volkswagen has maintained that only a small number of engineers knew about...
How old rocks tell us new things about Solar System formation
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The most common rocks that fall to Earth are called chondritic meteorites, or chondrites. In fact, the Earth is probably made of them. These are some of the oldest rocks in the Solar System, some dating to its very origin at just over four and a half billion years old. And some of their internal...
CBS All Access customers complain about poor live stream of Grammy Awards
Cord cutters who subscribe to CBS All-Access were frustrated Monday evening when their Grammy Awards live stream would not work properly. Some of those who pay $ 5.99 per month for CBS All-Access, which streams live CBS content to a variety of devices, had issues getting their...