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Feb 4, 2022
How have I never heard of these websites before!? 🤯
Posted by Muhammad Furqan in category: futurism
Feb 4, 2022
Don’t let their size fool you, ants are master engineers rivaled by no one… well, maybe humans
Posted by Muhammad Furqan in category: futurism
Feb 4, 2022
Zuckerberg loses $29 billion in net worth, Bezos gains $20 billion
Posted by Raphael Ramos in category: futurism
When your net worth depends on the stock value of a company.
Feb 3 (Reuters) — Mark Zuckerberg lost $29 billion in net worth on Thursday as Meta Platforms Inc’s (FB.O) stock marked a record one-day plunge, while fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos was set to add $20 billion to his personal valuation after Amazon’s blockbuster earnings.
Meta’s stock fell 26%, erasing more than $200 billion in the biggest ever single-day market value wipeout for a U.S. company. That pulled down founder and Chief Executive Officer Zuckerberg’s net worth to $85 billion, according to Forbes.
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Feb 3, 2022
UEFI firmware vulnerabilities affecting Fujitsu, Intel and more discovered
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Researchers have discovered 23 “high-impact vulnerabilities” affecting any vendors that adopted Independent BIOS Developers (IBV) code into their Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware.
Binarly explained the vulnerabilities in a blog post this week, confirming that “all these vulnerabilities are found in several of the major enterprise vendor ecosystems” including Fujitsu, Siemens, Dell, HP, HPE, Lenovo, Microsoft, Intel and Bull Atos. CERT/CC confirmed that Fujitsu, Insyde and Intel were affected but left the others tagged as “unknown,” urging anyone affected to update to the latest stable version of firmware.
According to the blog, the majority of the vulnerabilities disclosed lead to code execution with SMM privileges and had severity ratings of between 7.5 — 8.2.
Feb 3, 2022
Mount Everest and the Alps Are Weirdly Getting Taller
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
One mountain grew 30 feet overnight.
Recently, the Swiss Alps made the news when scientists found they were growing due to tectonic activity deep beneath Earth’s surface. Now, Mount Everest is also on the rise. Why is there so much, uh, “mounting” altitude?
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Feb 2, 2022
Scientists got yet another step closer to self-sustaining nuclear fusion!
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Scientists took a critical step towards viable, self-sustaining nuclear fusion by creating so-called ‘burning plasma.’
Feb 2, 2022
How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: futurism
Feb 2, 2022
New petition with 40,000 signatures urges Biden to acknowledge Tesla’s leadership in EVs
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
Feb 2, 2022
Antimicrobial resistance linked to 1.27 million deaths in 2019
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
After analyzing the data, the researchers found that 1.27 million deaths across the globe could be attributed to antimicrobial resistance, whereas 4.95 million deaths were associated with antimicrobial resistance.
Western sub-Saharan Africa had the highest rate of deaths attributable to and associated with antimicrobial resistance.
The study authors also found that the entire region of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia had the highest rate of both types of deaths.
