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"It's not uncommon to find black bears in the county. But to find bear cubs in a cardboard box in your property, wrapped up in sweatshirts to keep them warm, yeah, that's pretty strange." That's what North Carolina Sheriff Kevin Jones told CNN after his office got a call about a box of "puppies" from a man who discovered them on his front lawn last month.

From the article:

The North Carolina sheriff's office explained that they had responded to a man's call last month, who told them that someone left the puppies outside his house. The man explained he was gone for just a short amount time and the animals were there when he returned, the sheriff's office said.

Sheriff Jones said the person who dropped off the cubs probably stumbled across them, put them in a box and simply left them at the man's house when they realized they couldn't keep them.

The cubs were taken by the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission, and will be released back into the wild when they are older.

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From the excellent "Two Minute Papers" YouTube channel, a discussion of a paper titled "DeepRemaster: Temporal Source-Reference Attention Networks for Comprehensive Video Enhancement," that demonstrates the results of a neural network that fixes and colorizes aged, blurry, scratchy films. Read the rest

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Would you just look at the $295 Seletti Banana Lamp [Bergdorf Goodman]. Read the rest

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Bill Nye struts his stuff for charity.

please tell me what designer had bill nye walking im crying pic.twitter.com/3ZSyCxcBNv

 big t (@miuyorker) February 7, 2020

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On Saturday, February 8, the United States Embassy in Beijing confirmed that a 60-year-old American national died of the new coronavirus last Thursday at Jinyintian Hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson says this is the first known American death from Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV.

The Chinese government today offered condolences for the death of "a Chinese-American."

Also on Saturday, a Japanese national suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus died in Wuhan.

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose to 700 in mainland China, with the death of a 60-year-old American man marking the first confirmed non-Chinese death from the illness https://t.co/nSF3SoNSAH pic.twitter.com/9n9P5Pss5V

 Reuters (@Reuters) February 8, 2020

More recent Boing Boing posts about the outbreak, which has claimed more than 700 lives, mostly in China:

• Coronavirus exposes China's surveillance state

• China blocks Apple supplier Foxconn from restarting factories as outbreak spreads PHOTO: From China's Communist government's propaganda outlet, China Daily."Zhang Jixian, a respiratory physician from Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese & Western Medicine, wears protective gear before treating novel coronavirus patients at isolation wards, in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Jan 30, 2020." [Photo by Yuan Zheng/China Daily]

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A soldier in northeast Thailand has killed 'at least' 10 people in a mass shooting, Thai authorities say. Police said the suspect is still at large, at the time of this blog post.

Before and during the rampage shooting, it appears the suspected gunman was posting on Facebook.

On Saturday, Facebook says the account of the suspect has been removed, and the social media company says it will remove any content related to the attack that violates its policies.

“Our hearts go out to the victims, their families and the community affected by this tragedy in Thailand. There is no place on Facebook for people who commit this kind of atrocity, nor do we allow people to praise or support this attack,” a Facebook rep said in a statement sent to news reporters on Saturday, as news of the mass shooting in Thailand spread online.

“We have removed the gunman’s accounts from our services and will work around the clock to remove any violating content related to this attack as soon as we become aware of it.”

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The so-called Wuhan Coronavirus has killed more than 700 people, mostly in Mainland China, and the outbreak continues to spread with new cases on new continents. In China, Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV is also exposing the surveillance state -- apps show locations of the infected, heat-sensing cameras spot feverish disease suspects, and identify them even with ubiquitous paper face masks on.

From a Reuters story about a man who ignored the quarantine rules and “not only did the police contact him, so did his boss -- He had been spotted near Hangzhou’s West Lake by a camera with facial recognition technology, and the authorities had alerted his company as a warning.”

“I was a bit shocked by the ability and efficiency of the mass surveillance network. They can basically trace our movements with the AI technology and big data at any time and any place,” said the man, who asked not to be identified for fear of repercussions.

Chinese have long been aware that they are tracked by the world’s most sophisticated system of electronic surveillance. The coronavirus emergency has brought some of that technology out of the shadows, providing the authorities with a justification for sweeping methods of high tech social control.

Artificial intelligence and security camera companies boast that their systems can scan the streets for people with even low-grade fevers, recognize their faces even if they are wearing masks and report them to the authorities. If a coronavirus patient boards a train, the railway’s “real name” system can provide a list of people sitting nearby.

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Japan's Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday that Chinese authorities have blocked a plan by Apple supplier Foxconn to resume production at China factories on Monday, as Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV continues to spread.

In mainland China, 86 more people died of the virus on Saturday, according to authorities, bringing the official number of dead to 722.

From Reuters:

Public health experts carried out inspections at Foxconn’s factories in the southern city of Shenzhen and told the company that its factories had a “high risk of coronavirus infection”, making them unsuitable for a production restart, the newspaper said, citing four people familiar with the matter without identifying them.

Taiwan’s Foxconn, which makes smartphones for global vendors including Apple, will also not see one of its key iPhone plants based in the central city of Zhengzhou restart work on Monday, the report added.

Foxconn could see a “big” production impact and shipments to customers including Apple face disruption if a Chinese factory halt due to the coronavirus outbreak extends into a second week, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters earlier this week.

“Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for comment,” the reporters add.

The first American death was reported today, also, and the coronavirus is now in France.

Read more: China blocks Foxconn plan to restart factories over virus worries: Nikkei [reuters.com]

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New car commercials do an excellent job of making you feel like your car is obsolete. And you bought your car in 2013. That may be a little dramatic, but it seems like every year car companies are adding fascinating, convenient new features and gadgets to their models that fully demonstrate that the future has arrived. Of course, you don't have to buy a new car to upgrade your current model. These cool gadgets can make you feel like you're driving a Cyber Truck without breaking the bank.

FenSens Smart Wireless Solar Powered Backup Camera

MSRP: $199

Sale Price: $159 (20% off)

Most new car models have backup cameras built-in to help you parallel park. If you don't have one, this backup camera is the next best thing. It clips on the back of your car and syncs with your smartphone so you can see what's behind you in real-time.

myGEKOgear Orbit 530 1296p W-Fi Dashcam with Sony Night Vision Sensor

MSRP: $149.99

Sale Price: $109.99 (26% off)

You never know when you might need an expert witness, and this dashcam can be a lifeline. With night vision and a 150o wide-angle lens that eliminates many blindspots, this camera records in 1296p HD so you always have a crystal clear recording of what happened in a crash.

myGEKOgear Orbit 110 Full HD Dashcam

MSRP: $99.99

Sale Price: $49.99 (50% off)

This dashcam stays stabilized to record a smooth 1080p HD video on the road with a 120o wide shooting angle. Read the rest

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You don’t need to be a professional athlete in order to understand just how obnoxious sore muscles can be. Whether you spend too much time sitting in a chair at work or your intramural baseball league as finally taken its toll on your shoulders, having sore and overworked muscles can put a serious damper on your mood.

The PowerDot 2.0 Smart Muscle Stimulator will help you recover from uncomfortable muscle pain and improve your overall muscle performance, and it’s on sale for 15% off its usual price.

This kit comes with two pods and over 12 smart electric muscle stimulation programs for maximum recovery and comfort.

Proprietary symmetrical biphasic waveforms deliver powerful yet pain-free muscle contraction, and magnetic snaps allow you to start stimulating your muscles 3x faster than competing brands.

These comfortable pods are also compact and light enough to take with you on the go without worry.

Keep your mind and body happy with a PowerDot 2.0 Smart Muscle Stimulator for just $296—15% off MSRP. Save an additional $17 off with code POWERDOTTWO17 for a limited time only. Read the rest

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My guest this week on the Cool Tools Podcast is Meeno Peluce. Meeno grew up as a successful child actor in Hollywood, and his kid sister is Soleil Moon Frye of Punky Brewster fame. He then moved behind the camera and has spent his life photographing and filming the world around him, from the burning ghats in Varanasi to the luminous landscapes of Tinseltown. He’s a proud Papa and ask him his profession, and he’ll tell you he’s a Meeno, and all that might entail. He gave himself the name when he was two in Nepal. It’s been an adventure of individualism and a constant search for personal experience ever since. You can find him on Instagram @meeno_the_man.

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According to a piece in The Telegraph, the UK's Ministry of Defence has announced plans to make available online over 50 years of UFO sightings reported to the RAF.

The RAF discontinued its UFO reporting program in 2009 after claiming that nothing reported during the five decades of the program posed any sort of threat. UFO sightings are now reported to local police.

The reports are said to be scheduled to show up online (on a dedicated gov.uk web page) sometime during the first part of 2020.

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Geeks Worldwide is reporting that Mad Max director, George Miller, has resolved his legal issues with Warner Bros. which were holding him back from filming the follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road. The GWW piece claims that Miller will begin filming in Australia in the fall. No word yet on theme or who might already be signed on to the project.

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Well-known YouTube makers, Evan and Katelyn, take on their weirdest project yet. They use some thermochromic liquid crystal ink left-over from another project to turn a toilet seat into a butt-sized mood ring.

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Last week, charter fishing boat captain David Stokes was fishing off the Daytona Beach coast when he reeled in a capsule door and two parachutes that were part of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. On January 19, SpaceX conducted a successful in-flight abort test of their Crew Dragon that involved exploding the Falcon 9 rocket and releasing the capsule to carry the crew to safety. From UPI:

Stokes said he has attempted to contact SpaceX and tagged Elon Musk in a tweet about the discovery in the hopes of bringing it to their attention.

"I'd like for SpaceX to come check it out to see what they think about it ... any damage to it," Stokes told WKMG-TV. "It would also be awesome to have Elon Musk autograph it."

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French video artist Thomas Blanchard created "Mini Planets" by mixing paint, oil, inks, and soap to stunning effect. It reminds me of the psychedelic alternate universes manifested in the 1960s liquid light shows. Blanchard writes:

The visual compositions have been created out of paint, oil, inks and soap. All videos were filmed in 8K with the RED Helium camera with 100 mm L macro lens Canon and MPE 60 mm macro lens Canon. The editing of the video is in 4K.

(via Petapixel)

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