FOSS Force News Wire

The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire.

• Data on clay
  

  If you were wandering the streets of a busy city in the Fertile Crescent a few thousand years ago, you might have run across someone jotting down a few notes ... read more
  LXerSeptember 20, 2018 5:50 pm
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• As coal stalls, Wyoming considers new environmental clean-up rules
  

  Enlarge / GILLETTE, Wyo.: A truck loaded with coal is viewed from the Eagle Butte Coal Mine Overlook which is operated by Alpha Coal. The area is a large ... read more
  Ars Technica News FeedSeptember 20, 2018 5:20 pm
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• Wherein Jean Luc Picard Learns How Not To Moderate Twitter
  

  For those not familiar with the Star Trek: the Next Generation cannon, in the episode "Hero Worship" the Enterprise receives a distress call from somewhere deep in space, and ... read more
  TechdirtSeptember 20, 2018 4:33 pm
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• Cody Wilson reportedly trying to rent an apartment in Taiwan, per local media
  

  Enlarge / Cody Wilson (right), the founder of Defense Distributed, spoke to reporters in Austin on August 28. (credit: Nathan Mattise) After skipping his flight back to the ... read more
  Ars Technica News FeedSeptember 20, 2018 4:30 pm
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• GPS tracked the land sink under the weight of Hurricane Harvey’s rain
  

  Enlarge (credit: US Coast Guard / Flickr) Shortly after Hurricane Harvey unleashed its flooding on Houston, we wrote about a remarkable observation shared by a scientist on Twitter: ... read more
  Ars Technica News FeedSeptember 20, 2018 4:29 pm
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• Top drone: Reaper scores drone kill in air-to-air missile test
  

  Enlarge / The MQ-9 Reaper isn't a fighter aircraft. But it could soon be armed to take out other drones, helicopters, or other aircraft, after a successful kill with ... read more
  Ars Technica News FeedSeptember 20, 2018 4:15 pm
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• Six new retractions for now-disgraced researcher purges common diet tips
  

  Enlarge / Broken plate with knife and fork on white background (credit: Getty | PM Images) Brian Wansink, the Cornell nutrition researcher who was world-renowned for his massively ... read more
  Ars Technica News FeedSeptember 20, 2018 3:39 pm
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• Amazon announces 11 new and refreshed Echo-branded gadgets—like a wall clock
  

  Sam Machkovech SEATTLE—"Echo Dot is the best-selling speaker ever." With that simple assertion, Amazon made no bones about its aspirations to keep making Echo-branded devices—and proceeded ... read more
  Ars Technica News FeedSeptember 20, 2018 3:25 pm
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• Tesla Model 3 earns five-star NHTSA crash rating
  

  NHTSA A video of a Tesla Model 3 crashing is rarely cause for celebration. But today it is, because the videos are of recent National Highway ... read more
  Ars Technica News FeedSeptember 20, 2018 3:10 pm
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• The DOJ’s Rules For Spying On Journalists Get A Bit Flimsy When It Reaches The FISA Court
  

  Back in the spring of 2013, just a month or so before Ed Snowden started revealing all sorts of surveillance shenanigans, there was another important revelation: the Obama DOJ ... read more
  TechdirtSeptember 20, 2018 2:56 pm
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