Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways

As a recent example of what may ensue, Pitesky points to the repeated African swine fever outbreaks across various Asian countries in the past decade, which decimated the pig farming industry to the extent that pork was briefly usurped by poultry as the most widely consumed animal protein on the planet. Pitesky argues, however, that […]

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Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways

As a recent example of what may ensue, Pitesky points to the repeated African swine fever outbreaks across various Asian countries in the past decade, which decimated the pig farming industry to the extent that pork was briefly usurped by poultry as the most widely consumed animal protein on the planet. Pitesky argues, however, that […]

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Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways

As a recent example of what may ensue, Pitesky points to the repeated African swine fever outbreaks across various Asian countries in the past decade, which decimated the pig farming industry to the extent that pork was briefly usurped by poultry as the most widely consumed animal protein on the planet. Pitesky argues, however, that […]

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Throwing snowballs in Helldivers 2 will seriously damage your democracy spreading abilities, so play with the new Stratagems instead

What you need to know Helldivers 2 players enjoying throwing snowballs on snow covered planets have been warned they need to cut it out as it can crash the game.  The developers have acknowledged the issue in the game’s official Discord and hope to have it fixed in “the near future.”  In happier news, new […]

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Police Departments and News Sites Spreading Misinformation About How iOS 17 NameDrop Feature Works

Apple with iOS 17.1 and watchOS 10.1 introduced a new NameDrop feature that is designed to allow users to place Apple devices near one another to quickly exchange contact information. Sharing contact information is done with explicit user permission, but some news organizations and police departments have been spreading misinformation about how functions. As noted […]

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Ticks and the Diseases They Carry Are Spreading. Can This Drug Stamp Them Out?

Back to the study. The Connecticut group chose a site where they could monitor a small, contained deer herd: a peninsula jutting into Long Island Sound where the property surrounding a decommissioned power plant is returning to a wild state. They deployed a feeder that would regularly scatter a small amount of corn—enough to dope […]

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India bans 14 messaging apps used for “spreading terror”

The Indian government banned a new batch of apps today. The list included 14 applications, 13 of them used solely for secure messaging and another that also supports storing photos, videos and conversations. This time, the official reason for the ban is the apps were largely used in the Jammu and Kashmir union territory for […]

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March 2023 security update is spreading to the Galaxy S21 FE

The March 2023 security patch is landing on more phones, among which is the Galaxy S21 FE. The last (for now) Fan Edition smartphone is getting the March 2023 security update in India. The update weighs around 220MB and doesn’t bring anything else besides the March 2023 security patch. Galaxy S21 FE users in India […]

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America’s Billion-Dollar Tree Problem Is Spreading

Fast-growing, drought-tolerant trees are slowly spreading across grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. Given how desperate we are to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, millions of new saplings sprouting each year might seem like a good thing. But in reality, their spread across vulnerable grasslands and shrublands is upending ecosystems and livelihoods. As these areas […]

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These Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good

In the summer of 2019, Roman Dial and his friend Brad Meiklejohn hired a single-engine bush plane out of Kotzebue, on the northwest coast of Alaska. Even those wings could only get them within a five-day hike of where they wanted to be: deep in the tundra, where Dial had noticed peculiar shadows showing up […]

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Ticks Are Spreading in the US—and Taking New Diseases With Them

A disease that is so rare in the United States that it is recognized in only about 40 people each year has taken the life of a person living in Maine. The cause, Powassan virus, is transmitted by ticks, which can pass it on within 15 minutes of biting. The virus causes neurological damage; one […]

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