Japanese Researchers Teleport Quantum Information into a Diamond

Quantum teleportation is very real. In fact, researchers have already teleported quantum information across cities and even into space. Though this sounds like an Avengers Endgame plot device, quantum teleportation has a host of powerful applications in the near future, mainly in the emergence of quantum technologies.
Read more: https://interestingengineering.com/japanese-researchers-teleport-quantum-information-into-a-diamond?source=Snapzu

Rubio calls for legislation to keep Huawei restrictions in place

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) vowed legislative action on Saturday after President Trump said that he would lift a ban on U.S. companies doing business with Chinese tech giant Huawei. Rubio predicted in a tweet that a veto-proof majority in the Senate would act to reinstate the ban and other restrictions on Huawei if Trump was serious about lifting them.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/451008-rubio-calls-for-legislation-to-keep-huawei-restrictions-in-place?source=Snapzu

Confederate sub’s weapon killed its own crew, researchers find

The Confederate submarine CSS H. L. Hunley bears the distinction of being the first submarine to ever sink an enemy ship. But the Hunley, a work of state-of-the-art engineering for its time, never returned from that mission on February 17, 1864. Instead, after exploding a "torpedo" below the waterline of the Union sloop-of-war USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor, the sub was lost at sea.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/confederate-subs-weapon-killed-its-own-crew-researchers-find/?source=Snapzu

With a single wiretap, police collected 9.2 million text messages

For four months in 2018, authorities in Texas collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single court-authorized wiretap order, newly released figures show.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/29/wiretap-prosecutors-texas/?source=Snapzu

Startup Catalog has jammed all 16GB of Wikipedia's text onto DNA strands

Biological molecules will last a lot longer than the latest computer storage technology, Catalog believes.
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/startup-packs-all-16gb-wikipedia-onto-dna-strands-demonstrate-new-storage-tech/?source=Snapzu

Paris to plant mini urban forests to combat climate change

Paris is about to get even more beautiful.
Read more: https://www.curbed.com/2019/6/28/18816545/paris-urban-forests-climate-change?source=Snapzu

Plant-Based Alternative 'Just Egg' Is Upending the Liquid Egg Market

The mung bean-based product is the top selling liquid egg in natural stores and the second best-selling in conventional stores.
Read more: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/335601?source=Snapzu

World’s first AI universe simulator knows things it shouldn’t

Since we can’t travel billions of years back in time — not yet, anyways — one of the best ways to understand how our universe evolved is to create computer simulations of the process using what we do know about it. Most of those simulations fall into one of two categories: slow and more accurate, or fast and less accurate. But now, an international team of researchers has built an AI that can quickly generate highly-accurate, three-dimensional simulations of the universe — even when they tweak parameters the system wasn’t trained on.
Read more: https://futurism.com/worlds-first-ai-universe-simulator?source=Snapzu

Luis Alvarez, Champion of 9/11 Responders, Dies at 53

A former New York City police officer, he developed cancer 16 years after spending three months seeking survivors and victims’ remains in Lower Manhattan in 2001.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/obituaries/luis-alvarez-dead.html?source=Snapzu

US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must

The US military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our new study calculated the contribution of this vast infrastructure to climate change.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/us-military-is-a-bigger-polluter-than-as-many-as-140-countries-shrinking-this-war-machine-is-a-must-119269?source=Snapzu

Major vulnerability found Electronic Arts gaming client

Check Point Research and CyberInt have identified a chain of vulnerabilities in the Origin gaming client developed by Electronic Arts (EA). Once exploited, the vulnerabilities would have led to player account takeover and identity theft. EA is the world’s second-largest gaming company and boasts household gaming titles such as FIFA, Madden NFL, NBA Live, UFC, The Sims, Battlefield, Command and Conquer and Medal of Honor in its portfolio.
Read more: https://securitybrief.asia/story/major-vulnerability-found-electronic-arts-gaming-client?source=Snapzu

Andrew Yang will give a $12,000 basic income to a random Twitter follower

The presidential hopeful’s tacky yet effective method of promoting universal basic income.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/25/18758542/andrew-yang-universal-basic-income-twitter-contest?source=Snapzu

Trump Jokes to Putin They Should ‘Get Rid’ of Journalists

U.S. president says he’s envious Russia doesn’t have a “fake news” problem, on first anniversary of Annapolis Capital-Gazette newsroom shooting that killed five.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-jokes-to-putin-they-should-get-rid-of-journalists?source=Snapzu

The Trump rule? World leaders that violate Twitter rules will get warning label

Move is a shift in efforts to balance its ideological commitment to free expression with rules against harassment and hate speech
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/27/twitter-warning-labels-tweets-violate-site-rules?source=Snapzu

Cuyahoga River is reborn 50 years after fire (vintage photos)

Cuyahoga River rises from the ashes and the jokes 50 years after the fire.
Read more: https://expo.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/06/8a062d9dec2958/no-joke-cuyahoga-river-is-reborn-50-years-after-fire-vintage-photos.html?source=Snapzu

U.S. Psychoanalysts: We’re Sorry We Once Said Homosexuality Was a Mental Illness

It took more than 25 years, but the American Psychoanalytic Association has issued an apology for saying in the past that homosexuality was a disorder, an unfounded claim that made life more dangerous for LGBTQ people during that time. The apology, offered by the group’s president Dr. Lee Jaffe at its annual conference last week, was greeted with a standing ovation. It may be the first apology of its kind from any U.S. medical or mental health group.
Read more: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/06/25/u-s-psychoanalysts-were-sorry-we-once-said-homosexuality-was-a-mental-illness/?source=Snapzu

Dunes at Trump golf course in Scotland to lose protected status

Agency wants to remove golf course area from Forevan Links site of special scientific interest
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/28/dunes-at-trump-golf-course-in-scotland-to-lose-protected-status?source=Snapzu

Trump on possible war with Iran: 'I don't need exit strategies'

President Trump said Tuesday the U.S. is "not going to need an exit strategy" if war broke out with Iran. "You're not going to need an exit strategy," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, prompting laughter. "I don't need exit strategies."
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/450280-trump-on-possible-war-with-iran-i-dont-need-exit-strategies?amp?source=Snapzu

Lightyear One debuts as the first long-range solar-powered electric car – TechCrunch

Electric cars are better for the environment than fossil fuel-burning vehicles, but they still rely on the grid, which can be variously dirty or clean depending on what sources it uses for its energy. The new Lightyear One is a prototype vehicle that would improve that by collecting the power it ne…
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/25/lightyear-one-debuts-as-the-first-long-range-solar-powered-electric-car/?source=Snapzu

US judge denies Facebook's request to dismiss a lawsuit regarding Cambridge Analytica scandal- Technology News, Firstpost

A U.S. judge on Friday denied Facebook Inc.’s request to dismiss a lawsuit by the Washington, D.C. attorney general over the social media giant’s improper sharing of 87 million users’ data with British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
Read more: https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/us-judge-denies-facebooks-request-to-dismiss-a-lawsuit-regarding-cambridge-analytica-scandal-6741651.html?source=Snapzu

Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues

Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, a senior UN official said.
Read more: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-farming-left-if-soil-degradation-continues/?T=AU?source=Snapzu

NASA to open moon rock samples sealed since Apollo missions

Inside a locked vault at Johnson Space Center is treasure few have seen and fewer have touched. The restricted lab is home to hundreds of pounds of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts close to a half-century ago. And for the first time in decades, NASA is about to open some of the pristine samples and let geologists take a crack at them with 21st-century technology.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-nasa-moon-samples-apollo-missions.html?source=Snapzu

For the first time, Canada adds white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups to its terror organization list

Blood and Honour and Combat 18 were labeled terrorist entities last Friday, joining groups such as al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and the Islamic State.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/27/americas/canada-neo-nazi-terror-organization-list-trnd/index.html?source=Snapzu

Oppo unveils the world’s first under-screen selfie camera

The past couple of years of smartphone design have been dominated by debate over how best to increase the screen-to-body ratio, and where to put critical components on devices that are dominated by their screens. The holy grail is, of course, the ability to integrate them directly into the display, as we’ve already seen with fingerprint sensors — and selfie cameras are next.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/26/18759380/under-display-selfie-camera-first-oppo-announcement?source=Snapzu

Slavoj Zizek: “People are doped, asleep. We must awaken them “

The Slovenian philosopher says he does not defend the old communism, but rather new globalist communitarianism. The new challenges, he says, are ecology, the renewal of the welfare state and the prevention of “digital cognitive warfare”.
Read more: https://newswave101.com/slavoj-zizek-people-are-doped-asleep-we-must-awaken-them/?source=Snapzu

Should the EU break up big tech companies?

Is big tech too big? Do companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple represent monopolies that distort markets? Or are they just giving consumers what they want? In recent months, calls to “break up big tech” have been growing louder in the United States. Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, the European Union has been levying multi-billion euro fines in an effort to curb anti-competitive practices.
Read more: https://www.debatingeurope.eu/2019/06/26/should-the-eu-break-up-big-tech-companies/?source=Snapzu

Valve to continue Steam gaming on Ubuntu Linux

But, the gaming company isn't happy with Canonical and will try to work closer with other Linux distributors.
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/valve-to-continue-steam-gaming-on-ubuntu-linux/?source=Snapzu

One Type of Sitting May Pose a Greater Risk to Heart Health Than Others

As a society, we sit too much. We sit in the car, we sit at our desks, and we flop down on the couch when we get home. But not all sitting is made equal. Each of these approaches to sitting poses a very different risk to heart health, according to research published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Read more: https://www.inverse.com/article/57055-sitting-at-work-sitting-at-home-health-risk?source=Snapzu

YouTube looks to demonetization as punishment for major creators, but it doesn’t work

Steven Crowder’s case is a perfect example.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/25/18744246/youtube-demonetization-steven-crowder-patreon-advertising-merch?source=Snapzu

China builds world’s fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips

China's Sunway TaihuLight theoretical peak performance is 124.5 petaflops.
Read more: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3085483/china-builds-world-s-fastest-supercomputer-without-u-s-chips.html?fbclid=IwAR17ZYZY-r1svsvtkRwmNzaB0SM7LNZDtMTRnJoor2tzugO467SVGJ6lTtg?source=Snapzu

Five years jail for worst animal cruelty

People found guilty of the worst cases of animal cruelty will face up to five years in prison under a new law proposed for England and Wales. A Parliamentary bill from Environment Secretary Michael Gove raises the maximum term from six months. The harshest sentences would be for dog fighting, abuse of puppies and kittens, or gross neglect of farm animals.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48766531?source=Snapzu

All the news, rumors and wishes for Microsoft's Surface Book 3

Microsoft’s Surface Book line saw immense improvements with the Book 2 model, but some flaws remained. Now it’s time to start thinking about the Surface Book 3, and what Microsoft has planned. It hasn’t been officially announced, but that hasn’t stopped us from reading between the lines of patents and rumors.
Read more: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/surface-book-3-news-rumors-specs-release-date-price/?source=Snapzu

Vermont adopts the most comprehensive plastics ban in U.S.

Single-use plastics—from straws to retail bags—will be illegal in Vermont by summer 2020.
Read more: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/vermont-adopts-most-comprehensive-single-use-plastics-ban/?source=Snapzu

The Chilling Mystery of High-Altitude Suicides

U.S. counties above 4,000 feet have twice the suicides as counties at 2,000 feet. Is it because there's less oxygen in the air, or is something else going on?
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnpxj/the-chilling-mystery-of-high-altitude-suicides?source=Snapzu

Apple acquires self-driving startup Drive.ai

New hires confirm that Apple hasn't given up its autonomous driving ambitions.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/apple-buy-driveai-753da17d-60fe-44f9-84ff-1d2d82cd0b81.html?source=Snapzu

Popular YouTuber Etika Dies At 29

Today, police confirmed the death of Desmond “Etika” Amofah, a well-known gaming YouTuber, after discovering him in Manhattan’s East River yesterday evening. Amofah’s body was found two days after police recovered his belongings on the Manhattan Bridge. Last week, he had published a video that appeared like a suicide note.
Read more: https://kotaku.com/popular-youtuber-etika-dies-at-29-1835842910?source=Snapzu

Blurred lines: Trump's UN choice and her coal magnate spouse

The email went out from senior Environmental Protection Agency officials to Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, responding to questions she had about a funding matter. But the acknowledgment email the EPA got back a few hours later wasn’t from the ambassador. By Ellen Knickmeyer.
Read more: https://apnews.com/853e3062f3db4370ae542bd58c70fbed?source=Snapzu

US super-rich call for wealth tax

Some of America's richest people are urging US presidential candidates to back a wealth tax on the super-rich to improve inequality and climate change. "America has a moral, ethical and economic responsibility to tax our wealth more," they said in a letter. Signatories include investor George Soros, Facebook's co-founder Chris Hughes, and Molly Munger, daughter of billionaire Charlie Munger.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48752927?source=Snapzu

Cholesterol medication could invite diabetes, study suggests

A study of thousands of patients’ health records found that those who were prescribed cholesterol-lowering statins had at least double the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Read more: https://news.osu.edu/cholesterol-medication-could-invite-diabetes-study-suggests/?source=Snapzu

Netflix is testing a pop-out, picture-in-picture mode for desktop

Never stop streaming
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700855/netflix-pop-out-picture-in-picture-mode-desktop-test?source=Snapzu

SpaceX caught the nose cone of its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in the net of a boat

SpaceX caught the half of the fairing, or nose cone, of its Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday, passing another milestone as the company seeks to consistently reuse an expensive part of its rocket. Stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, high speed boat “Ms. Tree” caught the fairing half in a net strung up above the boat’s deck, CEO Elon Musk confirmed in a tweet. The fairing is the bulbous nose cone on top of the rocket.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/25/spacex-caught-falcon-heavy-rocket-nose-cone-in-net-of-high-speed-boat.html?source=Snapzu

Democrats Want To Make 2020 The Climate Change Election

Climate change is consistently polling as a top issue for Democrats, and candidates are going deep early.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/climate-change-election-primaries-democrat-2020?bfsource=relatedmanual?source=Snapzu

McDonald’s is Testing Kitchen Robots and AI-Powered Drive-Thrus. It’s About Time

Last week the Wall Street Journal broke the story that McDonald’s is testing robotic deep fryers and voice-activated drive-thrus at a location in suburban Chicago. The story didn’t lay out a ton of details. We don’t know what the robotic fryer will look like — whether it’s akin to Miso Robotic’s Flippy, which fries tater tots with an articulating arm, or if it’s more of an automated basket that dips and raises from hot oil. Likewise, all we know about the new drive-thru tech is that it’s a type of voice recognition technology.
Read more: https://thespoon.tech/mcdonalds-is-testing-kitchen-robots-and-ai-powered-drive-thrus-its-about-time/?source=Snapzu

US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries

The US military's carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our new study calculated the contribution of this vast infrastructure to climate change.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-military-bigger-polluter-countries.html?source=Snapzu

BMW's hybrid cars to switch to electric only mode in polluted cities

BMW’s new hybrid cars will automatically switch off their combustion engines in heavily polluted inner city areas and use pure electric driving mode as a way to cut vehicle emissions, the carmaker said on Tuesday. BMW’s efforts to optimize the environmental impact of hybrid cars with engine cut off functions, comes as the auto industry struggles to sell purely electric vehicles, which accounted for only 1.5% of total car sales globally last year.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bmw-hybrid/bmws-hybrid-cars-to-switch-to-electric-only-mode-in-polluted-cities-idUSKCN1TQ0Z9?source=Snapzu

Google’s Enemies Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case

As U.S. officials prepare an antitrust probe of Google and possibly other Silicon Valley giants, a loose-knit crew of its rivals is gearing up to help.
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-enemies-gear-up-to-make-antitrust-case-11561368601?source=Snapzu

Men's fertility irreversibly damaged by age of 18 thanks to Western junk food diet, study finds

Male fertility is being irreversibly damaged by a diet of western junk food by the time men reach 18, a study has found.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/24/mens-fertility-irreversibly-damaged-age-18-thanks-western-junk/?source=Snapzu

Google says it’s done making tablets and cancels two unreleased products

The Pixelbook is the future of Google’s Chrome OS hardware.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/20/18693399/google-abandoning-tablets-pixel-slate-failure?source=Snapzu

How the Media Misrepresents the Debate Over the Green New Deal

A recent Politico article about the Green New Deal resolution put forward in February by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) features many grumblings from blue-collar union members about the potential economic disruption and the loss of jobs — even though the resolution calls for union rights and a federal jobs guarantee for workers.
Read more: https://truthout.org/articles/how-the-media-misrepresents-the-debate-over-the-green-new-deal/?source=Snapzu

General Electric to scrap California power plant 20 years early

General Electric Co said on Friday it plans to demolish a large power plant it owns in California this year after only one-third of its useful life because the plant is no longer economically viable in a state where wind and solar supply a growing share of inexpensive electricity.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge-power-idUSKCN1TM2MV?source=Snapzu