Toy dinosaur that joined astronauts on SpaceX flight extinct at most stores - CNET

Tremor the Apatosaurus has left the Earth.

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NBN moves coronavirus CVC boost cut off date to August 19

Throughput on network begins to die down as people return to offices and school.

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UNSW inks partnership with Chinese drone maker for education and training

DJI is setting up a scholarship fund for undergraduate students and will enable students to participate in its annual robotics camp.

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Commonwealth Bank stops its platform from being used to hurl abuse

The yellow and black bank is curbing potentially abusive money transfer messages in direct response to domestic violence victims being intimidated by their abusers.

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Twitter's Jack Dorsey pledges $3m to Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp - CNET

The CEO's pledges also include help to feed the hungry, avoid eviction and connect running water to remote Indigenous communities.

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How to buy Ripple

Want to learn to buy Ripple? You've come to the right place. We'll walk you through the process step by step.

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No, the Minneapolis Police Department didn’t shut down its email account

The Minneapolis Police Department is being "inundated with communications"

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Chromecast Ultra 2: Everything we know about Google’s Android TV streamer

With a physical remote control and support for Google's Stadia gaming platform, it could be a Roku-killer.

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Encrypted Signal app downloads skyrocket amidst nationwide protests

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RiskIQ adds National Grid Partners as securing data becomes a strategic priority for utilities

RiskIQ, a startup providing application security, risk assessment and vulnerability management services, has added National Grid Partners as a strategic investor. 

The funding from the investment arm of National Grid, a multinational energy provider, is part of a $15 million new round of financing designed to take the company’s technology into critical industrial infrastructure — with National Grid as a point of entry.

More than 6,000 companies use the company’s services, and the roster list and technology on offer has attracted some of the biggest names in investing, including Summit Partners, Battery Ventures, Georgian Partners and MassMutual Ventures.

“We view NGP’s show of support as an incredible opportunity to help customers in new markets thrive as their attack surfaces expand outside the firewall, especially now amid the COVID-19 pandemic,” RiskIQ chief executive Lou Manousos said in a statement. 

RiskIQ has spent the past 10 years spidering the internet looking for all of the exploits that hackers use to penetrate networks and have built that into a database of threats. This inventory gives the company an ability to identify which assets within a company present the most obvious threats. Its automated services constantly scan third-party code, internet-connected devices and mobile applications for potential vulnerabilities, the company said.

“As a staple platform in their core security environment, our cyber threat analysts use RiskIQ regularly to enrich and identify incoming threats,” said Lisa Lambert, president of National Grid Partners and chief technology and innovation officer of National Grid, in a statement.

National Grid’s investment is a piece of a deeper partnership that will see NGP providing strategic advice for the security company as it looks to expand its commercial operations among industrial and utility customers.

 

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AUCloud brings Object Lock-based ransomware protection to Australia

The solution comes from a partnership between Cloudian, VMware, and Veeam, and is targeted towards Australian government customers.

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Hackers hijack one of Coincheck's domains for spear-phishing attacks

Hackers hijacked Coincheck's domain registrar account and then changed DNS settings.

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Fortnite’s next live event and season delayed again

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Epic Games has delayed Fortnite’s next in-game live event and the start of the game’s next season due to widespread outrage over the death of George Floyd and ongoing police brutality in response to protests around the country. The in-game live event, titled “The Device,” will now take place on June 15th. The next season, called Chapter 2 Season 3, will begin on June 17th.

“We’re acutely aware of the pain our friends, families, team members, players, and communities are experiencing,” Epic said in a blog post. “We believe in equality and justice, diversity and inclusion, and that these fundamentals are above politics. The team is eager to move Fortnite forward, but we need to balance the Season 3 launch with time for the team to focus on...

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K-pop stans step into Twitter fight over racism in the US - CNET

They've taken over several racist hashtags.

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Buying your first e-bike: What you can expect video - CNET

Shopping, assembling, riding and everything in between.

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This Star Trek key ring has a built-in Tile tracker and is 25% off - CNET

Now $45, the Star Trek KeySmart Pro holds 14 keys, has a built-in flashlight and is always visible on a map in the Tile app.

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Honda and Acura recalling 136K cars over faulty fuel pumps - Roadshow

A number of models from the 2018-2020 model years are affected.

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Epic Games delays Fortnite Season 3 in wake of George Floyd protests

Epic has also pushed 'The Device' live event to June 15

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What is Ripple?

There are many hundreds of cryptocurrencies out there, no two are exactly alike. That's doubly so for Ripple.

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Stride to your fitness goals with these great June 2020 treadmill deals

Even inexpensive treadmills are packed with features that give a great workout in your home gym

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Working out at home? These are the best fitness deals for June 2020

Winter weight gain? In the market for some new fitness equipment? We've got you covered

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The 50 best movies on Amazon Prime right now

Sorting through the Amazon Prime Video catalog can be tough, so here are the best movies available right now.

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A drug that cools the body’s reaction to Covid-19 appears to save lives

In an advance towards conquering covid-19, doctors in Michigan say an antibody drug may sharply cut the chance patients on a ventilator will die.

The problem: The pandemic viral disease is infecting millions and for those who end up on a ventilator in an ICU, the odds are grim. More than half are dying.

The drug: Doctors at the University of Michigan set out to control the haywire immune reaction that pushes some covid-19 patients into a death spiral. To do it, they gave 78 patients on ventilators the drug tocilizumab, which blocks IL-6, a molecule in the body that sets off a reacting to an infection. (The drug is sold by Roche under the tradename Acterma.)

The result: The doctors say in a preprint that patients who got the drug were 45% less likely to die than those who didn’t. But there’s a big caveat to the result, which is that the doctors knew which patients got the drug, and which didn’t. Their picks could have been biased— people more likely to improve anyway, for example—so further studies are needed.

Emerging cocktail: In late May, Roche said it would start a trial to combine its IL-6 blocker combined with remdesivir, an antiviral drug with modest benefits that got emergency approval in the US for treating covid-19. That drug is meant to block the virus from replicating.

By combining the two drugs, doctors may be closing in on a cocktail able to cut the death rate from the virus, a step that would help society return to normal.

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