In 2014, US doctors wrote ~20,000 prescriptions for risperidone, quetiapine and other antipsychotics for children under the age of two; a cohort on whom these drugs have never been tested and for whom there is no on-label usage. (more…)
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Experts baffled to learn that 2 years olds are being prescribed psychiatric drugs
An anonymous reader writes: Faraday Future, the newest and most unknown player in the electric car game, has selected North Las Vegas as the home for their billion dollar factory. The 3 million square foot factory will be built on 900 acres and create 4, 500 jobs. Faraday Future will release more information on their Tesla fighter, a 100% electric car, at CES in January. Autoblog reports: “Nevada topped finalists California, Georgia and Louisiana in the race to land the 2.5 million square foot plant. It’s expected to sit on 600 acres in North Las Vegas’s Apex Industrial Park and bring 4, 500 jobs to Nevada. Mayor John Lee called the site choice ‘a transformational opportunity’ for his city of about 220, 000 residents. North Las Vegas boomed as the nation’s fastest-growing city in the early 2000s and nearly busted when the recession hit and pushed it close to insolvency.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Faraday Future Selects Las Vegas As Home For $1B Electric Car Factory
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the thumbs up to a genetically modified chicken that produces a drug in its eggs. It’s the latest addition to a growing area in medicine known as “ farmaceuticals .” Read more…
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The FDA Just Approved Transgenic Chickens That Make Medicine
For the first time, paleontologists have isolated original blood vessels from a dinosaur. You’re looking at the tattered fragments of the structures that channeled blood through the legs of Brachylophosaurus canadensis , a 30-foot-long hadrosaur that roamed Montana 80 million years ago. Read more…
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These Are the Blood Vessels of an 80 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur
An anonymous reader writes: Basic ASLR was not implemented in 3 major antivirus makers, allowing attackers to use the antivirus itself towards attacking Windows PCs. The bug, in layman terms, is: the antivirus would select the same memory address space every time it would run. If attackers found out the memory space’s address, they could tell their malicious code to execute in the same space, at the same time, and have it execute with root privileges, which most antivirus have on Windows PCs. It’s a basic requirement these days for software programmers to use ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) to prevent their code from executing in predictable locations. Affected products: AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky. All “quietly” issued fixes. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug
New submitter insitus writes: On 10 December, Germany’s new Wendelstein 7-X stellarator was fired up for the first time, rounding off a construction effort that took nearly 2 decades and cost €1 billion. Initially and for the first couple of months, the reactor will be filled with helium—an unreactive gas—so that operators can make sure that they can control and heat the gas effectively. At the end of January, experiments will begin with hydrogen in an effort to show that fusing hydrogen isotopes can be a viable source of clean and virtually limitless energy. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Germany Fires Up Bizarre New Fusion Reactor
SmartAboutThings writes: Windows Live Writer is a blogging tool that Microsoft originally released back in 2006, and it still remains popular today, which has prompted Microsoft to promise that it will make it open source earlier this year. Now the company has officially open-sourced and forked Windows Live Writer into Open Live Writer, having put its repositories on GitHub already. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer
An anonymous reader with news of the newest release of open source WordPress, which adds a slew of new features to the blog management tool that will “make your site more connected and responsive.” You can download the new release now from WordPress.org/Download (7.3MB). WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that powers 25 percent of the Web. The latest version is dubbed “Clifford” in honor of jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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WordPress 4.4 Arrives
Searching for your Google Drive files got a whole lot easier today with an update that offers an easier way to open your advanced search options, quicker ways to access files on iOS, and more options to narrow your searches. Read more…
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Google Drive Adds New Advanced Search Features to Make Finding Files Easier
Apple’s 3D Touch technology may be young, but it’s already got app developers thinking outside of the box . If you want to use your iPhone 6s as a digital scale, Steady Square is for you. Oh, it’s also a game you can play. Read more…
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Steady Square Lets You Weigh Things With Your iPhone 6s (And Play Too)