Discover Is More Widely Accepted Than You Might Think

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‘There is no validity’: Unproven blood tests for food sensitivity widely offered in Canada

Two of Canada’s biggest labs promote and offer something known as IgG food tests at their labs, marketed as a way to test for food sensitivities. But medical experts call these blood tests “irrelevant,” “unvalidated” and “inappropriate” when it comes to tracking food intolerance.

Political correctness is widely unpopular with Americans of all ages and races, a study finds

Jonathan Gibby/Getty Images 80% of Americans think that political correctness is a problem, a new study has found. A majority of Americans in all race and age categories felt this way, despite stereotypes and assumptions in society, it said. The study found that most Americans are part of an “exhausted majority” that are flexible in […]

JPMORGAN: Cryptos face a major hurdle even if they become widely accepted as money

Cryptocurrencies don’t stand a chance at usurping national currencies, according to JPMorgan.  That’s because they fail to meet the major criteria of a currency.  Even if they did, the network effect of major currencies is too strong.  You might have heard this before.  Cryptocurrencies are a bad store of value and a bad unit of […]

SAP, Symantec, and McAfee let Russia probe software widely used by U.S. government

(Reuters) — Major global technology providers SAP, Symantec and McAfee have allowed Russian authorities to hunt for vulnerabilities in software deeply embedded across the U.S. government, a Reuters investigation has found. The practice potentially jeopardizes the security of computer networks in at least a dozen federal agencies, U.S. lawmakers and security experts said. It involves […]

Not Zero: Emissions from Driving an EV Vary Widely by Country

– China and India both aspire to embrace electric cars to cut petroleum dependence over the next decade. But there’s a big reality check: Electric cars are only as clean as the power sources that charge them. So far, in both of these rapidly changing markets, the electrical grids are quite dirty. – Both China and India […]

Windows 7, not XP, was the reason last week’s WCry worm spread so widely

Enlarge (credit: Kaspersky Lab) Eight days ago, the WCry ransomware worm attacked more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries. The outbreak prompted infected hospitals to turn away patients and shut down computers in banks and telecoms. Now that researchers have had time to analyze the self-replicating attack, they’re learning details that shed new and sometimes […]

Pentagon’s video from Yemen raid turned out to be 10 years old, already widely circulated

The Pentagon’s website no longer shows an “important intelligence” video obtained in a fatal Yemeni raid, since officials realized the footage has been available online for a decade. On Friday, the Pentagon posted a video to the Defense Video Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) website they said justified the operation in Yemen which cost the life […]