The price of tomorrow could be ruinous: Technology’s unstoppable ma...
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The price of tomorrow could be ruinous: Technology’s unstoppable march
#could #march #price #ruinous #technologys #tomorrow #unstoppable
The price of tomorrow could be ruinous: Technology’s unstoppable ma...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/11320230
The price of tomorrow could be ruinous: Technology’s unstoppable march
#could #march #price #ruinous #technologys #tomorrow #unstoppable
Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions (...
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Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions
European Commission special envoy Robert-Jan Smits has spearheaded a plan to make all scientific works free to read. Article word count: 1676
HN Discussion: ▻https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17907506 Posted by sohkamyung (karma: 19454) Post stats: Points: 150 - Comments: 37 - 2018-09-04T08:29:59Z
#HackerNews #could #end #journal #open-access #plan #radical #spell #subscriptions
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Robert-Jan Smits, the European Commissionʼs special envoy on open access, spearheaded the Plan S initiative.Credit: Nikolay Doychinov/EU2018BG
Research funders from France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and eight other European nations have [1]unveiled a radical open-access initiative that could change the (...)
Could #twitter Be Killed ?
▻https://hackernoon.com/could-twitter-be-killed-553343f0bf3e?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4
Well the title was a hyperbole. Now that I have got your attention let us get started. It might be stretch as of today that we can kill twitter. But in this post I would like to show that it many not be impossible after all, at-least in a couple of years.A few things to know before we start killing twitter.It starts with realising the you are doing a favour to twitter and twitter is not doing a favour to you. Yes I agree that twitter has been a great tool and it even led to many Arab Spring.Social Media Made the Arab Spring, But Couldn’t Save ItBut we need to realise that while these are the pleasant side-effects of twitter/social media, for a service or business to be sustainable it has to be profitable or at-least should have the profit generating potential in the future. (...)
#could-twitter-be-killed #social-media #blockchain #killing-twitter
Russia stakes claim to the lost treasures in Poland’s missing Nazi gold train - Yahoo News UK
▻https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russia-stakes-claim-lost-treasures-133914297.html
The secret contents of the Nazi gold train located in Poland is fast becoming the centre stage of an international row even before any treasure has been retrieved. The Kremlin could claim any valuables in the locomotive as compensation for wartime losses, according to reports.
“Representatives of Russia should undoubtedly be involved in determining the value of the items discovered if the train is located,” lawyer Mikhail Joffe told Sputnik News. "In this case, Poland is obliged to engage international experts to clarify what is in the cargo.
“If the property has been taken from territory, including USSR, then the cargo, in accordance with international law, must be passed to the Russian side,” he added.
Yesterday (29 August), it was reported that the train could contain the ornate “Amber Room” crafted from amber, gold and precious jewels. Now thought to be worth about £250m, the Nazis dismantled the chamber from Catherine Palace, near St Petersburg in 1941 and took it to Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) before it vanished. The valuable chamber was gifted to Tsar Peter the Great by the King of Prussia in 1716.
Despite Russian claims to the treasure trove, Poland has insisted that any riches belong to the state. “The analysis we have conducted with our lawyers quite clearly states that if the train is found it will be owned by the State Treasury,” Piotr Zuchowski, a vice minister for conservation, told Poland’s Radio Jedynka. It will take months for the train to be reached as it is thought to be buried in a tunnel laden with booby-traps.
“We do not know what is inside the train,” he added. “Probably military equipment but also possibly jewellery, works of art and archive documents. The train is 100 metres long and is protected.”
Ah tiens, le gouvernement polonais est fier de se proclamer receleur des Nazis !
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambre_d'ambre
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, certaines pièces décoratives de la Chambre d’ambre ont été dérobées dans des circonstances inexpliquées. C’est en tout cas ce que semblent indiquer des pièces trouvées en 1997 en Allemagne : une commode et une mosaïque de pierre. Ces deux parties originales de la Chambre d’ambre ont été rendues à la Russie par le gouvernement fédéral allemand.
New class of antibiotic found in dirt could prove resistant to resistance - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/07/new-class-of-antibiotic-found-in-dirt-could-prove-resistant-to-resis
#could #résistance #antibiotiques #recherche #médecine #santé
Promising antibiotic discovered in microbial ‘dark matter’ : Nature News & Comment
▻http://www.nature.com/news/promising-antibiotic-discovered-in-microbial-dark-matter-1.16675
Potential drug kills pathogens such as MRSA — and was discovered by mining ’unculturable’ bacteria.
BBC News - Antibiotics: US discovery labelled ’game-changer’ for medicine
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30657486
“Here is an antibiotic that essentially evolved to be free of resistance,” said Prof Lewis. "We haven’t seen that before.
“It has several independent different tricks that minimise resistance development.”