Researchers have conducted the largest experimentally controlled study on sleep deprivation to date, revealing just how detrimental operating without sleep can be in everything from bakers adding too much salt to cookies to surgeons botching surgeries.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse trailer dishes up John Mulaney’s Spider-Ham – CNET
We also meet Spidey Noir and SP//dr and see more of Gwen Stacy.
Hackers Can Stealthily Avoid Traps Set to Defend Amazon’s Cloud
In the cat and mouse game of protecting cloud services, attackers find a sneaky advantage.
How the Music Modernization Act will help artists get paid more from streaming
Congress recently passed the Music Modernization Act, which is a rare bill in modern American politics: everyone seems to like it! The MMA, as it’s called, was celebrated by musicians, streaming services, record labels, and consumer groups alike. It simplifies how streaming services pay songwriters, changes how the law deals with music recorded before 1972, and helps producers collect more royalties.
I’m naturally distrustful of something everyone agrees is a good thing, so I called on Meredith Rose from Public Knowledge to explain the MMA — and the insanely tricky problem of music licensing and streaming — to me. It’s a complicated conversation, but stick with it: Meredith knows her shit, and you’ll gain an appreciation for just how…
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Rakuten’s site-wide sale takes 15 percent off of your purchase
Rakuten is hosting another one of its site-wide sales today, and you can knock 15 percent off of your total at checkout with the offer code SAVE15. The promotion will end tonight at 3AM ET / 12AM PT, October 3rd, and basically everything offered on Rakuten is eligible. Strangely, the only products excluded are Kobo e-readers.
If you plan on taking advantage of the savings, keep in mind that you can only net up to $60 off of your total purchase. In other words, your savings will drop if you’re after a more expensive item. Then again, any savings at all will be better than nothing.
Applied to a few different types of items as examples, we’ve seen $100 Xbox gift cards reduced to $85, AirPods for as low as $127, the TCL 55-inch 4K HDR Roku…
The electric car is here — if you’ve got the money
The annual parade of the world’s biggest auto shows is about to start this week in Paris, and for what really feels like the first time, a number of carmakers are finalizing, building, selling, or even nearing the delivery of their first flagship electric cars. And these aren’t just concepts, or camouflaged pre-production cars like we’ve seen in the past. EVs from big-name luxury brands like Audi, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW are on the way, meaning incumbents in the space, like Tesla, will soon have lots of direct competition.
But only a few models will approach the more affordable mid-$30,000 starting price set by GM’s Bolt. That means many of the fully electric vehicles scheduled to hit the US market in the next few years will…
Russian trolls loved The Last Jedi discourse so much they decided to politically influence it
When it arrived in theaters last year, writer-director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi was greeted with an immediate backlash from a specific corner of its audience. As Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff pointed out in December, the criticism seemed to come from a few different angles: some felt the film was too progressive, that it was too jokey, that it was not interested in the elaborate universe of fan theories that has accreted since the original trilogy’s release, or that the characters’ journeys weren’t exactly to their liking.
None of these lines of attack are new or really surprising, especially for a beloved, 40-year-old series that many feel has defined their experience with science fiction and fan culture in general. What’s new…
Robot masters human balancing act
By translating a key human physical skill, whole-body balance, into an equation, engineers used the numerical formula to program their robot Mercury.
Age-related changes in skin structure and lymphatic system promote melanoma metastasis
Changes in the structure of the skin and the lymphatic system that occur with the natural aging process create permissive conditions for melanoma metastasis.