The Harappan lived 5200 years ago in the Indus valley in huge complicated cities before the society eventually disappeared. Now it seems that two droughts in short succession could have been responsible for the downfall Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261018-double-climate-disaster-may-have-ended-ancient-harappan-civilisation/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Netflix Is Creating a Problem By Canceling TV Shows Too Soon
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Insider: Netflix is killing its most interesting shows in their infancy and it could be the streaming giant’s downfall. In the seven years that Netflix has produced original content, the world of TV streaming has dramatically changed. Now Netflix is getting left behind in the race it started. Many of its unique and ambitious…
New Free Software Foundation Video Mocks Proprietary Remote-Learning Software
“Computer user freedom is a matter of justice,” argues a new video released Friday by the Free Software Foundation: The University of Costumed Heroes is an animated video telling the story of a group of heroes falling prey to the powers of proprietary software in education. The university board acquires cutting-edge remote learning software that enables them to continue their operations…
Study: Saving Pandas Led To the Downfall of Other Animals
UPI reports:
Efforts to save the giant panda from extinction have come at the expense of other large mammals, a new study released Monday by the science journal Nature Ecology and Evolution said… Since the giant panda reserves were set up in China during the 1960s, leopards have disappeared from 81% of reserves, snow leopards from 38%, wolves from 77% and Asian…
Neanderthals may have died out due to sheer bad luck
Modern humans have long been in the frame for driving our Neanderthal cousins to extinction, but random chance may explain their downfall Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2225123-neanderthals-may-have-died-out-due-to-sheer-bad-luck/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Wired Remembers the Glory Days of Flash
Wired recently remembered Flash as “the annoying plugin” that transformed the web “into a cacophony of noise, colour, and controversy, presaging the modern web.” They write that its early popularity in the mid-1990s came in part because “Microsoft needed software capable of showing video on their website, MSN.com, then the default homepage of every Internet Explorer user.” But Flash allowed anyone…