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A California state lawmaker has come up with a new way to combat what he has defined as "sexting," but what most of us might define as "revenge porn."
Specifically, Asm. Ed Chau’s (D-Monterey Park) new bill would empower public schools to expel students under 18 who engage in the potentially degrading behavior.
According to the...
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is getting ready to come home after spending a longer stretch in orbit than any other American...
A raven with a large seed, about to bury it in a field. (credit: Callum Hoare / Flickr)
To you, crows and jays might be noisy, obnoxious birds who eat garbage. But for large-seeded trees like pines, hickories, oaks, and chestnuts, they could be life-saving heroes. That's because these birds can actually relocate forests that are threatened by changing...
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On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union unveiled a new campaign to introduce a slew of pro-privacy bills in 16 states across America and the District of Columbia.
In what it has dubbed "#TakeCTRL," the ACLU has partnered with various lawmakers in states ranging from Hawaii to New Hampshire to propose new laws that, among...
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One of Windows 10 Mobile's truly distinctive and unusual features is Continuum. If you hook a phone up to a screen and, optionally, a mouse and keyboard, you can run desktop-style apps, albeit still powered by the phone. The connection to the screen and other peripherals can be wireless,...
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A security vendor says it discovered a flaw in Comcast's home security system that could let criminals break into houses undetected by using radio jamming equipment. The vendor, Rapid7, says it alerted Comcast to the problem two months ago but never received a response from the company. However, Comcast told Ars that Rapid7 e-mailed the...
PC gamers of a certain age probably fondly remember the Commander Keen game series, some of the first smoothly scrolling platform games made for MS-DOS. What many classic gamers might not know is that before working on Commander Keen, John Carmack, John Romero, and the rest of the team at id Software (then known as Ideas from the Deep) pitched Nintendo on...
