The Dengue virus comes in four distinct but related varieties called serotypes, and they're all bad. Rather than inducing tolerance for each other, infection with one Dengue serotype actually makes people more sensitive to the other three. Victims infected by a second serotype...
Dengue virus disables the immune system by blocking mass transit
Top French publications tell readers, stop blocking our ads or we’ll block you from our sites
Some of France’s most popular publications are taking a tough new stance against ad blockers, the name given to software that strips advertisements out of web pages.
Geste, a trade group representing these...
Netflix starts blocking VPNs, proxies, and other unblocking services
Netflix, right on schedule, has started blocking some subscribers who are using VPNs.
Last week, on January 14, Netflix said that it would begin cracking down on customers who use VPNs, proxies, or other "unblocking" services to view content that shouldn't be available in their country. The move is almost certainly to appease copyright holders and broadcasters. Way back in...