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Welcome to DTNS: Science News Monthly for December 2021. This month we cover asexual reproduction in condors, the Milky Way’s new feather, Roblox investing in education and what the new infrastructure bill means for science. We also bring you a COVID update and more monthly science + tech news.

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Emails disclosed as part of the Epic vs Apple trial show that in March 2020, Microsoft proposed creating individual apps for Apple’s App Store to stream games, including offering exclusive triple-A Xbox games. The Next Web’s Cate Lawrence has an interesting writeup on an EV-charging system that works without internet connectivity making it useful in parking garages and remote locations. And security researchers at Alibaba discovered a huge vulnerability, called Log4Shell or LogJam in a common Java element. Shannon is here to help us understand it.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.

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The European Commission proposed a directive which could lead to gig workers across the European Union gaining legal protections of workers. Kickstarter announced the development of “an open-source protocol that will essentially create a decentralized version of Kickstarter’s core functionality. And Amazon is leading the development of a wireless video streaming protocol for the Matter IoT connectivity standard.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Amazon launches the Alexa Together subscription, available for $19.99 a month or $199 a year, that helps elderly or special needs family members who are living on their own. We explain what caused the AWS outage yesterday and what the effects were. And Apple prognosticator analyst Ming-chi Kuo makes predictions on the company’s future products.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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US Department of Justice investigators have asked Roblox why it labels itself as “experiences'' instead of games as part of its anti-trust investigation into Apple. Life360 is buying location tracking service Tile. And the Information reports Apple signed a five-year agreement with the Chinese government to help develop China’s economy and technological capabilities back in 2016.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane,  Iyaz Akhtar , Roger Chang, Joe.

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