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Great, Now We Have to Worry About Monkeypox?
Smallpox is the only disease we’ve ever managed to fully eradicate in humans; it hasn’t existed anywhere in the world since 1980. But its close relative, monkeypox, is still around. Monkeypox isn’t anywhere near as dangerous as smallpox, but a few recent outbreaks have public health officials worried.
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Report: Apple Is Considering Using Chinese-Made Flash Memory for the First Time
Apple is reportingly considering adding to its fleet of memory chip producers after contamination at key NAND production facilities earlier this year.
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Western Digital Just Lost 6.5 Billion GB of Flash Storage, and You Could Pay the Price
Supply shortages and the resulting price increases could soon get much worse after contamination at Western Digital’s NAND production facilities sent millions of terabytes of flash storage down the drain.
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Clothes From 8,000 Years Ago Were Made From Trees, New Research Suggests
New research suggests Neolithic people at the ancient city of Çatalhöyük used a surprising source of fibres to make clothing: trees.