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Feb 10, 2022

Images show supermassive black hole blowing powerful winds into galaxy

Posted by in category: cosmology

Astronomers found that parts of the galaxy where stars are born were being protected from these powerful outflows thanks to its structure.

Feb 10, 2022

California’s effort to create high-speed rail line to cost another $5B more

Posted by in category: futurism

New cost of California’s plan to bring high-speed rail to the state is now $105 billion. It started 14 years ago at $40 billion.

Feb 10, 2022

Householder’s battle to stop gas company laying pipes under passage

Posted by in categories: habitats, law

A homeowner has shared her upset after a gas company started laying pipes under her private walkway claiming a narrow passageway was actually a street.

Liesel Symonds has been locked in conflict with gas company Cadent for months.

Cadent says it has legal duty to connect homes and has done nothing wrong.

Feb 10, 2022

It May be That Today’s Large Neural Networks Are Slightly Conscious

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Feb 10, 2022

Black Hawk flies unmanned at Fort Campbell, using new ALIAS technology

Posted by in categories: military, robotics/AI

FORT CAMPBELL, KY (AP) — A helicopter flew unmanned around Fort Campbell recently in what is the Army’s first automated flight of an empty Black Hawk, officials said.

The 14,000-pound UH-60A Black Hawk successfully navigated around the post as if it were downtown Manhattan, engineers told reporters Tuesday.

The DARPA Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program took the helicopter on 30-minute flight on Feb. 5. It was the first time the system known as ALIAS flew completely by itself. The system is being tested with 14 military aircraft.

Feb 9, 2022

Energy crisis: British households will be paid to use less electricity under new trial

Posted by in category: energy

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Feb 9, 2022

Social Security Is The World’s Largest Ponzi Scheme

Posted by in categories: computing, media & arts

When the next generations are fewer and less wealthy than the previous generations(who are living longer), problems can arise.

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Feb 9, 2022

Study raises new possibilities for triggering room-temperature superconductivity with light

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, materials

Much like people can learn more about themselves by stepping outside of their comfort zones, researchers can learn more about a system by giving it a jolt that makes it a little unstable—scientists call this “out of equilibrium”—and watching what happens as it settles back down into a more stable state.

In the case of a known as yttrium barium copper oxide, or YBCO, experiments have shown that under certain conditions, knocking it out of equilibrium with a laser pulse allows it to superconduct—conduct electrical current with no loss—at much closer to room than researchers expected. This could be a big deal, given that scientists have been pursuing room-temperature superconductors for more than three decades.

But do observations of this unstable state have any bearing on how high-temperature superconductors would work in the real world, where applications like power lines, maglev trains, particle accelerators and medical equipment require them to be stable?

Feb 9, 2022

‘Almost unlimited possibilities’: new Chinese tech is milestone in 6G race

Posted by in category: internet

Experimental wireless line set up in Winter Olympics compound could stream over 10,000 high-definition live video feeds simultaneously, says Beijing research team.

Feb 9, 2022

Whistleblower Alleges NSO Offered To ‘Drop Off Bags Of Cash’ In Exchange To Access To US Cellular Networks

Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, government, mobile phones

The endless parade of bad news for Israeli malware merchant NSO Group continues. While it appears someone might be willing to bail out the beleaguered company, it still has to do business as the poster boy for the furtherance of human rights violations around the world. That the Israeli government may have played a significant part in NSO’s sales to known human rights violators may ultimately be mitigating, but for now, NSO is stuck playing defense with each passing news cycle.

Late last month, the New York Times revealed some very interesting things about NSO Group. First, it revealed the company was able to undo its built-in ban on searching US phone numbers… provided it was asked to by a US government agency. The FBI took NSO’s powerful Pegasus malware for a spin in 2019, but under an assumed name: Phantom. With the permission of NSO and the Israeli government, the malware was able to target US numbers, albeit ones linked to dummy phones purchased by the FBI.

The report noted the FBI liked what it saw, but found the zero-click exploit provided by NSO’s bespoke “Phantom” (Pegasus, but able to target US numbers) might pose constitutional problems the agency couldn’t surmount. So, it walked away from NSO. But not before running some attack attempts through US servers — something that was inadvertently exposed by Facebook and WhatsApp in their lawsuit against NSO over the targeting of WhatsApp users. An exhibit declared NSO was using US servers to deliver malware, something that suggested NSO didn’t care about its self-imposed restrictions on US targeting. In reality, it was the FBI and NSO running some tests on local applications of zero-click malware that happened to be caught by Facebook techies.