Lifeboat Foundation

Following two big acquisitions by US tech companies of AI startups based in academia, the capital is emerging as a hub for young scientist-entrepreneurs.

The U.S Bank Tower in Los Angeles will be opening a fully enclosed glass side called SkySlide, which will perch 1,000 feet above the street. Read on.

What happens when you no longer own your own DNA sequencing and the person who has it refuses to release it to you?.

Having your genome sequenced doesn’t always mean you have full access to the data.

Schott can make a sheet of glass thinner than your hair and half a kilometer long that bends, but doesn’t yet fold.

Frankly, in the US this makes me really nervous. Placing drug making 3D printers in your local pharmacies. I hope that the manufacturer has a mechanism setup to cause the machine not to work if it is stolen by the local drug gangs.

The brave new world of 3D-printed drugs in the healthcare industry is heating up.

After more than a century of speculation, an international group of geneticists has conclusively proven that the Aztecs, Incas, and Iroquois are closely related to the peoples of Altai, the Siberian region that borders China and Mongolia.

Reserve you calendars for March 9th because New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative is hosting its annual Cybersecurity for a New America Conference in Washington, D.C.

On Wednesday, March 9, New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative will host its annual Cybersecurity for a New America Conference in Washington, D.C. This year’s conference will focus on securing the future cyberspace. For more information and to RSVP, visit the New America website.

So, what does cyberwar mean anyway?

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Adding insult to injury.

From Russia with Love : Cerber Ransomware first encrypts your files and then reads out the ransom note.

Malware authors are know to be a ingenious lot and trust them to come with a Ransomware that actually reads out the ransom note to the victim.

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World’s most famous hackers: Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.