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Feb 5, 2021

Opinion | They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, transportation

Your smart phone will track your movements if your Location is On.

No brainer right? Turn your Location to Off if you don’t wanna be tracked. Mine is always off!

In the case of 1/6/2021 on the US Capitol:

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Feb 5, 2021

What Happens If We Solve Extinction?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, existential risks

The human species has driven the planet’s biodiversity into an unprecedented decline, with as many as 1 million species at risk. Traditional conservation methods alone are struggling to offset the speed at which we’re losing species. Biotechnologies that have been developing in the wings are now being brought forward to potentially reverse the damage already done. Meet the scientist behind de-extinction.

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Feb 5, 2021

Scientists narrow down the ‘weight’ of dark matter trillions of trillions of times

Posted by in categories: cosmology, materials

Scientists are finally figuring out how much dark matter — the almost imperceptible material said to tug on everything, yet emit no light — really weighs.

Feb 5, 2021

Millie Hughes-Fulford, NASA’s first female payload specialist in space, dies at 75

Posted by in category: space travel

Hughes-Fulford launched on the STS-40 space shuttle mission in June 1991.


The first American woman to launch into space who was not a professional astronaut but a working scientist, Millie Hughes-Fulford, has died at the age of 75.

Feb 5, 2021

Tweets of fear used to spread malicious viruses online

Posted by in category: futurism

Cybercriminals are preying on emotions of fear to spread dangerous viruses and spyware across Twitter, new research has revealed.

Feb 5, 2021

A metalens for virtual and augmented reality

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, biotech/medical, virtual reality

Harvard’s Capasso Group has scaled up the achromatic metalens to 2mm in diameter. That may not sound like much, but it is plenty for virtual reality contact lenses. The human pupil is 7mm at widest. These guys are going to beat Mojo Lens to the finish line for smart contact lenses.


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Feb 5, 2021

New research shows geothermal heating may have limited longevity

Posted by in categories: energy, sustainability

Though the Earth’s deeper layers have been raging at thousands of degrees for billions of years, new research involving Florida Tech has shown that tapping into that heat to produce geothermal heating for urban regions on the surface has a far, far shorter lifespan.

Feb 5, 2021

Facial recognition may help find Capitol rioters—but it could harm many others, experts say

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In the days following the Jan. 6 riot at the nation’s Capitol, there was a rush to identify those who had stormed the building’s hallowed halls.

Feb 5, 2021

Space travel may harm health

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, health, space travel

Biochemical changes after going to space suggest that harm to cells’ energy-producing structures, called mitochondria, could explain astronauts’ health issues.

Feb 5, 2021

You could be the next astronaut

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Jared Isaacman invites you to join the fight against childhood cancer, and possibly wind up with a seat on the first orbital flight by an all-civilian team of astronauts.