There are a lot of details about two distant objects, especially considering that astrophysicists only directly observed their extremely turbulent end. The team reconstructed the city from a pile of rubbish. To infer so much from so little, they combined observations of neutron stars with findings from studies of other stars and galaxies, creating a...
Gallagher discovered that the website that the scammers used to spread their malicious apps was set up to pose as a real Japanese financial company and had a .com domain. It even showed up on Google as one of the top results, Gallagher said, so victims could find it if they tried to do some...
February 13, Twitter is expected to stop freely accessing its API, or Application Programming Interface, the server-side access that allows people to create bots to automatically post and reply to tweets on the site. Elon Musk, who took over Twitter last October, has long said he wants to purge the platform of bots and said...
United States securities and the Exchange Commission is on the warpath, with cryptocurrency under the gun. On the weekend, Wall Street Journal informed that the agency intends to sue crypto firm Paxos for issuing BUSD, a stablecoin developed in partnership with the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance. The SEC declined to comment, but Paxos, based...
Guys, do you like science fiction? Stahelian: I’ve always been into science fiction. For example, John Wick is hyperreal. But it also has this analog sense. Old computers, old suits, old things. Reeves: I am interested in telling stories about people and their interaction with technology. Keanu, years ago you included a clause in your...
Vexas would have been discovered a long time ago if it were a genetic disease in a garden variety caused by an inherited genetic mutation. For example, a single gene responsible for familial Mediterranean fever, also an inflammatory disease, was identified in 1997 by screening the DNA of families that carried the disease. But Vexas...
“I bought a lot of things that were complete crap, so I decided to share them,” says Kromelis. “I just wanted to help people save some money because I’m a tight-fisted guy myself.” In her first video, she talked about expensive hair and face products that people shouldn’t buy, but also recommended cheaper alternatives. Critics...
The White House says China has been working on a balloon surveillance initiative in recent years “which it has used to violate the sovereignty of the United States and more than 40 countries on five continents,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement. On Sunday, the Chinese government said the US illegally...
Didi went public on June 30, 2021 and is valued at $68 billion. Two days later, on the evening of July 2, the China Cyberspace Administration, the country’s internet regulator, announced that it was reviewing Didi’s cybersecurity. Rumors have circulated on Chinese social media that Didi has sold sensitive user information and traffic data in...
As TP-Link’s budget mesh offering, the extra features are basic. There are no additional security features, and parental controls are limited, but they include basic features such as filters and time limits. QoS only covers device prioritization, and Wi-Fi 5 does not support WPA3 security. But you can split the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands and...
