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SOHO’s 4,000th comet

This week, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the sun-observing SOHO spacecraft. It was SOHO’s 4,000th comet discovery. Learn more and watch comets sweep near the sun in this video. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/sohos-4000th-comet…

Facebook Pitched New Tool Allowing Employers To Suppress Words Like ‘Unionize’ in Workplace Chat Product

During an internal presentation at Facebook on Wednesday, the company debuted features for Facebook Workplace, an intranet-style chat and office collaboration product similar to Slack. From a report: On Facebook Workplace, employees see a stream of content similar to a news feed, with automatically generated trending topics based on what people are posting about. One of the new tools debuted by…

Dear attorney general: Pepper spray is a chemical irritant. So are pepper balls.

Attorney General Bill Bar sought to downplay the clearing of peaceful protestors from Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. on June 1 by claiming that pepper spray is not a chemical or an irritant. It is and here’s the science. Source: https://www.livescience.com/pepper-spray-chemical-irritant.html

Risk of Yellowstone eruption may be decreasing

It turns out that a supervolcanic eruption at Yellowstone National Park may not happen for a very long time. The natural beauty of Yellowstone Nationa… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337438/risk-of-yellowstone-eruption-may-be-decreasing…

Dell’s All-AMD Gaming Laptop Hailed as a ‘Budget Blockbuster’

AMD “has a potent combination of both CPU and GPU technologies,” writes Slashdot reader MojoKid, that “can play well in the laptop market especially, where a tight coupling of the two processing engines can mean both performance and cost efficiencies.” One of the first all-AMD laptops to hit the market powered by the company’s new Ryzen 4000 mobile processors is the…

Uber Destroys Thousands of Bikes and Scooters

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Uber is destroying thousands of electric bikes and scooters, after selling its Jump business to Lime. Videos of its red bikes being crushed at a recycling centre were shared on social media, angering cycling advocates. Uber said it had decided to destroy thousands of its older-model vehicles due to maintenance, liability and…

2 views from space: San Francisco Bay

We thought many of you would enjoy these two images from space of one of Earth’s most captivating places: San Francisco Bay. The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the image above on May 15, 2020. It’s a view of San Francisco Bay from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, which consists of twin Earth-observing satellites, launched in…read more » Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/esa-satellite-image-san-francisco-bay…