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May 30, 2022

Great Scott! The all-electric DeLorean DMC is here, and it’s beautiful

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Doc would be proud.


DeLorean has officially unveiled its upcoming electric adaptation of the 1981 DMC, the Alpha5.

May 30, 2022

Southern African hornbill’s survival threatened by 2027

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The animals that inhabit these arid regions are already suffering the consequences. For example, earlier research has shown that multiple bird species are breeding earlier and for a shorter amount of time, impairing their reproductive success.

“There is rapidly growing evidence for the negative effects of high temperatures on the behaviour, physiology, breeding, and survival of various bird, mammal, and reptile species around the world,” said first author Dr Nicholas Pattinson, of the University of Cape Town. “For example, heat-related mass die-off events over the period of a few days are increasingly being recorded, which no doubt pose a threat to population persistence and ecosystem function.”

The southern yellow-billed hornbill’s distribution includes most of southern Africa, with a large portion falling within the Kalahari Desert. Known for its peculiar breeding and nesting strategy, the bird is a socially monogamous species. They are cavity nesters; the female seals herself into the nest cavity and stays there for an average of 50 days to brood and care for chicks, with only a narrow vertical slit for an opening, through which the male feeds the female and chicks.

May 30, 2022

A researcher’s avatar was sexually assaulted on a metaverse platform owned by Meta

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Do you think that crimes committed within the Metaverse should be accountable just as the same as crimes accounted for in the “real” world?


A researcher entered the metaverse wanting to study users’ behavior on Meta’s social-networking platform Horizon World. But within an hour after she donned her Oculus virtual-reality headset, she says, her avatar was raped in the virtual space.

Metaverse: another cesspool of toxic content,” a new report published by the nonprofit advocacy group SumOfUs on Tuesday, details the researcher’s violent encounter in Meta’s Horizon World.

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May 30, 2022

Nebulae: Here’s why these giant clouds of dust and gas are essential for our universe

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May 30, 2022

China reportedly found massive amounts of uranium at a depth of 10,000 feet

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May 28, 2022

Attackers Can Use Electromagnetic Signals to Control Touchscreens Remotely

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GhostTouch attack allows attackers to use electromagnetic signals to control touchscreen devices.

May 28, 2022

Experts Detail New RCE Vulnerability Affecting Google Chrome Dev Channel

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Details released for a new critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Chrome dev channel and related Chromium-based web browsers.

May 28, 2022

Nearly 100,000 NPM Users’ Credentials Stolen in GitHub OAuth Breach

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GitHub shares more details about the recent OAuth token breach, revealing that the attacker gained access to the credentials of nearly 100k NPM users.

May 28, 2022

Intro to an Intellectual Property Revolution

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Understanding technological disruption & opportunity.

May 28, 2022

World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI

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One of the biggest challenges in a World Building competition that asked teams to imagine a positive future with superintelligent AI: Make it plausible.

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