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- Under pressure from regulators, Facebook is rethinking Libra's design https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/facebook-is-backpedaling-from-its-ambitious-vision-for-libra/ 30 comments
- Senators put bipartisan pressure on Biden to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/07/politics/biden-russia-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-cnntv/index.html 45 comments politics
- Senators put bipartisan pressure on Biden to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/07/politics/biden-russia-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-cnntv/index.html 62 comments worldnews
- Senators put bipartisan pressure on Biden to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/07/politics/biden-russia-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-cnntv/index.html 73 comments worldnews
- The US says Huawei has been spying through 'backdoors' designed for law enforcement — which is what the US has been pressuring tech companies to do for years https://www.businessinsider.com/us-accuses-huawei-of-spying-through-law-enforcement-backdoors-2020-2 821 comments technology
- The US says Huawei has been spying through 'backdoors' designed for law enforcement — which is what the US has been pressuring tech companies to do for years https://www.businessinsider.com/us-accuses-huawei-of-spying-through-law-enforcement-backdoors-2020-2 402 comments worldnews
- Apple Patent Reveals a Custom Inflatable Blood Pressure Cuff Designed to Work with a Future Apple Watch http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2018/06/apple-patent-reveals-a-custom-inflatable-blood-pressure-cuff-designed-to-work-with-a-future-apple-watch.html 15 comments apple
- UN on Bradley Manning: "If Solitary Confinement is a way of inflicting psychological pressure, short of physical torture, but still designed to break the will of the prisoner so he collaborates... then it runs afoul of the Convention Against Torture." http://www.frequency.com/video/whistleblower/2357963 198 comments politics
- A spacecraft designed to eventually replace many spacewalking astronaut activities passed two key pressure tests. https://www.space.com/42034-single-person-spacecraft-design-passes-test.html 35 comments space
- Can you 'russian-doll' pressure vessels, one inside another, in order to reduce the design requirements on each? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/9khpnq/can_you_russiandoll_pressure_vessels_one_inside/ 21 comments askscience
- Simulations of deep sea sponges have revealed how the skeletal structure of these creatures allows them to survive in the ocean depths and could be used for the design of buildings, vehicles and other objects designed to be used in different pressure environments https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2021/july/deep-sea-sponges-set-to-inspire-future-construction-designs 5 comments science
- Liberty: Nice GP talk not designed to pressure Monaco over F1 race https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/liberty-nice-gp-talk-not-designed-to-pressure-monaco-over-f1-race/10327517/ 42 comments formula1
- New Zach-like game ComPressure: Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. Demo available and early access release this Saturday. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1528120/ComPressure/ 4 comments linux_gaming
- [Ramona Shelburne] Embiid falls alot. But he told me that's by design. He believes falling diffuses the pressure to his whole body instead of on just one body part. https://twitter.com/ramonashelburne/status/941868044170690561 135 comments nba
- The Demolition of Workers’ Compensation: "Oil and sludge pressurized at more than 700 pounds per square inch tore into Whedbee’s body, ripping his left arm off just below the elbow." It was exactly the sort of accident that workers’ compensation was designed for. Until recently, America’s workers... http://www.propublica.org/article/the-demolition-of-workers-compensation 3 comments economy
- Research raises concerns for new Army helmet design: Tests by Navy researchers on a new Army and Marine helmet design, complete with a visor and a jaw protector, showed blast waves could bounce off the added components and produce unexpected pressure http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/24/research-raises-concerns-for-new-army-helmet-design/14546999/ 4 comments technology
- [@BenjaminSolak] Here’s why Micah Parsons was unblocked on that game-winning pressure (it was by design) And if you’re like “Micah Parsons was unblocked by design?!?!??!”...yeah I agree https://twitter.com/benjaminsolak/status/1730452730748014678?s=46 6 comments nfl
- Climate-threatened Pacific islands called on Monday for the International Court of Justice to rule on countries' legal duties to stop climate change, a move designed to ratchet up pressure on polluting nations https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220718-pacific-islands-ask-international-court-to-rule-on-climate 25 comments worldnews
- Climate activist groups including Greenpeace and crypto billionaire Chris Larsen are launching a “Change the Code, Not the Climate” campaign, designed to pressure the Bitcoin community to alter the way it orders transactions that already consumes as much power as Sweden https://archive.ph/1o5kA 55 comments btc
- [Rodrigue] Cooper Kupp says the design on that last big pass play is supposed to simply draw coverage to the over, and the over is usually not the target (w pressure usually coming hot) - so earlier this year he and Matthew Stafford nicknamed it the “for the love of the game” route. https://twitter.com/JourdanRodrigue/status/1485409044135350278 93 comments nfl
- For the first time, researchers observed "choking" under pressure in monkeys. Some thought only humans could overthink enough to do it. Having an animal model will make it easier to study the neuroscience of it, and will help design brain-controlled prosthetic limbs https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-alone-monkeys-choke-under-pressure-too/ 16 comments science
- EU agrees to force multinationals to disclose tax, piling pressure on UK - a policy designed to expose how some of the world’s biggest companies – such as Apple, Facebook and Google – avoid paying an estimated $500bn (£358bn) a year in taxes through shifting their profits. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/02/eu-agrees-to-force-multinationals-to-disclose-tax-piling-pressure-on-uk 55 comments worldnews
- Compounds in both green and black tea lowers blood pressure by relaxing blood vessels by activating ion channel proteins in the blood vessel wall. The discovery helps explain the antihypertensive properties of tea and could lead to the design of new blood pressure-lowering medications. https://som.uci.edu/news_releases/green-black-tea-antihypertensive-properties.asp 2 comments science
- [Albert Fabrega ] One of the objectives of the appeal is to make the penalty to Racing Point more severe, but above all, to put pressure on FIA to change regulation 2021 to prevent RP21 from being a W11 (or AT02 from being an RB16). That would be a major blow to the 2021 design plans now. https://twitter.com/AlbertFabrega/status/1292041529851248641 86 comments formula1
- Fossil fuel-free jet propulsion with air plasmas: A prototype design of a plasma jet thruster can generate thrusting pressures on the same magnitude a commercial jet engine can, using only air and electricity https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/aiop-ffj050420.php 205 comments worldnews
- Fossil fuel-free jet propulsion with air plasmas. Scientists have developed a prototype design of a plasma jet thruster can generate thrusting pressures on the same magnitude a commercial jet engine can, using only air and electricity https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/aiop-ffj050420.php 849 comments science
- Project Pitlane CPAP Mercedes HPP Factory Footage (Design, Maunfacturing, Assembly etc.) - Really interesting behind the scenes footage of the team's engineers manufacturing large numbers of a continuous positive airway pressure device. https://youtu.be/JUhR3zpjyAw 5 comments formula1
- Elon Musk on Twitter: Pretty much. Good news is that this was a test configuration error, rather than a design or build mistake. Not enough pressure in the LOX tank ullage to maintain stability with a heavy load in the CH4 tank. This was done with N2. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1246677676733104130 261 comments spacex
- The US declared a Iraqi Shiite paramilitary leader to be a terrorist after a series of rocket attacks, vowing to step up pressure on his ally Iran. The State Department listed Ahmad al-Hamidawi, secretary general of armed faction Kataib Hezbollah, as a "specially designated global terrorist" https://www.france24.com/en/20200226-us-blacklists-iraqi-shiite-paramilitary-chief-after-base-attacks 9 comments worldnews
- Artificial leaves currently only work in the lab because they use pure, pressurized carbon dioxide from tanks. Researchers have proposed a new design to bring them out of the lab. The improved leaf would be at least 10 times more efficient than natural leaves at converting carbon dioxide to fuel. https://today.uic.edu/moving-artificial-leaves-out-of-the-lab-and-into-the-air 7 comments science
- Hey guys, I made some phone wallpapers for the ALCS and NLCS teams’ fans. I know they aren’t all great quality (hey, I’m not a graphic designer) so no pressure but if you like one of them, but I figured I’d share anyways. Feel free to use any of them on your own phone 👍 https://twitter.com/andersenreports/status/1051073170588033024?s=21 3 comments baseball
- The United States hit a Chinese military organization with sanctions for buying Russian fighter jets and missiles as it stepped up pressure on Moscow. It was the first time the Trump administration targeted a third country with sanctions, designed to punish Russia for its seizure of Crimea https://www.france24.com/en/20180920-us-hits-chinese-unit-with-sanctions-buying-russian-jets-missiles 4 comments worldnews
- Two Nevada laws designed to counter bad behavior by state prosecutors, or at least give some defendants the ability to undo troubling plea agreements, passed last week, although one was substantially gutted under pressure from prosecutors and police http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/nevada_passes_modest_measures_to_curb_prosecutorial_misconduct2 3 comments law
- Former students at ITT Technical Institutes are refusing to repay their federal student loans in a protest designed to pressure the government into canceling the debt of everyone who alleges they were defrauded by the now-defunct for-profit chain. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/09/14/itt-tech-students-refuse-to-repay-loans-in-protest-over-government-policy/ 9 comments politics
- Major next steps for fusion energy based on the spherical tokamak, compact machines that are shaped like cored apples. The spherical design produces high-pressure plasmas — essential ingredients for fusion reactions — with relatively low and cost-effective magnetic fields. http://www.pppl.gov/news/2016/08/major-next-steps-fusion-energy-based-spherical-tokamak-design 414 comments science
- Under mounting pressure, the IRS and Justice Dept say they will no longer use a law designed to go after drug dealers and terrorists to seize the bank accounts of small business owners who are not suspected of criminal activity http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/politics/rules-change-on-irs-seizures-too-late-for-some.html?_r=1 6 comments economy
- Ferrari Formula 1 technical director James Allison says his main influence so far has been to end a culture of short-term thinking and ease the pressure on the design team http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/118384 18 comments formula1
- Marshall Space Flight Center successfully tests first new heavy-lift rocket design since 1968 (during the Apollo era). A million pounds of pressure was placed on a 20 foot tall cylinder until it buckled. NASA officials said the cylinder withstood more pressure than predicted. http://www.waff.com/global/story.asp?s=14309860 3 comments space
- The Z machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. Operated by Sandia National Laboratories, it gathers data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons. (pic) http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2006/images/z-machine.jpg?wow 3 comments science
- A hug machine — also known as hug box, squeeze machine, or squeeze box — is a deep pressure device designed to calm hypersensitive persons, usually individuals with autism spectrum disorders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hug_machine 5 comments science
