Ken Croswell / Aug 19: An exuberant galaxy is running on empty, consuming gas so fast that it may stop forming stars in just 8 million years – the blink of an eye, cosmically speaking. M82 (pictured above) is one of the nearest “starburst” galaxies, lying just 12 million light years away. Although much smaller […]
Aug 13: Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model to show how storm clouds could have shielded ancient “Hellish” is a word commonly used to describe the atmosphere on Venus, but a new study suggests the second planet […]
Aug. 13: A 32-year-old woman who had been paralyzed from the waist down for 13 years has regained partial control over her legs after a revolutionary new treatment. The woman, dubbed “Patient 1,” is part of an ongoing research study that uses a system of brain-controlled robotics and virtual reality to restore neurological and physical […]
Seth Fiegerman / Aug. 13: Bill Maris, the head of Google Ventures, is leaving the venture capital arm he founded, making him at least the third prominent executive to depart Alphabet (GOOGL, Tech30) in recent months. Maris confirmed his departure in an interview with Re/code on Wednesday. “It’s mission accomplished for me,” Maris told the […]
Aug. 13: A group of computer security experts say they figured out how to hack the keyless entry systems used on millions of cars, meaning that thieves could in theory break and steal items without leaving a broken window. The experts say that remote entry systems on millions of cars made by Volkswagen since 1995 […]
Aug. 06: For lovers of celebrity gossip, miracle cures and weird tricks, your Facebook feed might not be as fun as it used to be. The social media giant announced in a blog post that it was once again tweaking its algorithm that will reduce so-called clickbait from appearing prominently in the News Feed. Clickbait […]
Aug. 05: There’s now money to be made in Pokemon extermination. Citing a concern that Pokemon Go players are wandering into private land and near electrical equipment, power utility companies in Florida have asked cybersecurity company LookingGlass to pull Pokemon off the map. “We’re now in the business of killing Pokemon,” LookingGlass CEO Chris Coleman […]
Aug. 05: Inside the secretive world of cybersecurity experts is a phrase that quickly determines the severity of a cyberattack: Is this mischief or calamity? For the higher-ups at the Democratic National Committee, hit by a cyberattack that vacuumed up thousands of emails, which WikiLeaks then leaked, it sure felt like a calamity. It was […]
Aug. 04: A newly published study from NASA reveals that Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io has a thin atmosphere that collapses in the shadow of Jupiter, condensing as ice. The study shows the freezing effects of Jupiter’s shadow during daily eclipses on the moon’s volcanic gases. “This research is the first time scientists have observed this […]
July 30: Nearly eight months after overhauling its strategy to curtail the Islamic State terror group’s success in cyberspace, U.S. officials admit it is hard to know if they are making much headway. “This arguably is the most complex challenge that the federal government and industry face,” said George Selim, director of the office for […]
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