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Mar 2, 2022
Why the use of thermobaric weapons is a war crime
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
Mar 2, 2022
A 19-Year-Old Is Tracking Elon Musk’s Private Jet. He Offered $5,000 to Stop
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: Elon Musk
Mar 2, 2022
Britain’s Recent Blackout Has Plenty of Company
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: energy
Mar 2, 2022
How did Google Maps’ traffic data become a tool for the Ukraine war?
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: information science, mapping
Mar 2, 2022
A new lightweight, nanotube material is better at absorbing impact than Kevlar
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: materials, nanotechnology
Mar 2, 2022
Elon Musk is unhappy Tesla didn’t get a name-check in Biden’s State of the Union address
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
President Biden praised Ford and General Motors for investing billions of dollars into building electric vehicles – but didn’t mention Tesla.
Mar 2, 2022
Crisis in Particle Physics Forces a Rethink of What Is ‘Natural’
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: information science, particle physics
Quanta Magazine.
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn observed that scientists spend long periods taking small steps. They pose and solve puzzles while collectively interpreting all data within a fixed worldview or theoretical framework, which Kuhn called a paradigm. Sooner or later, though, facts crop up that clash with the reigning paradigm. Crisis ensues. The scientists wring their hands, reexamine their assumptions and eventually make a revolutionary shift to a new paradigm, a radically different and truer understanding of nature. Then incremental progress resumes.
For several years, the particle physicists who study nature’s fundamental building blocks have been in a textbook Kuhnian crisis.
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Mar 2, 2022
Ukraine conflict jeopardizes launch of Europe’s first Mars rover
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
Sanctions mean joint Russian-European ExoMars mission is likely to be postponed for a third time.
Mar 2, 2022
Second New ‘IsaacWiper’ Data Wiper Targets Ukraine After Russian Invasion
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: cybercrime/malcode, finance, mobile phones
A new, third, data wiper malware — dubbed “IsaacWiper” — is now targeting Ukrainian governmental systems.
Teabot android banking malware spreads again through google play store apps.