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Jan 31, 2020

Microsoft launches Xbox bug bounty program with rewards of $20,000 or more

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

Microsoft is looking for security issues with Xbox Live. The software giant is launching a new Xbox Bounty Program so anyone can report issues and get up to $20,000 in rewards.

Jan 31, 2020

After Shock, Podcast #32 redux: Reimagining Out Tomorrows, with Joe Tankersley

Posted by in category: futurism

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”–Albert Einstein.

Jan 31, 2020

Brood War

Posted by in categories: energy, entertainment, health

Essentially you could at this point make a working protoss carrier o.o


Carriers are a late-game Protoss air unit that are the largest and most costly unit available for Protoss. Carriers are produced from the Stargate and requires a pre-existing Fleet Beacon. Carriers have the highest armor, health, and shields of the Protoss race. Their main advantages are their long range and mobility in combat; this potentially incredibly long range is especially notable as unique among Protoss units. On the other hand, their raw attack power is rather low for their price. Perhaps their greatest use is in extreme late-game where their supply efficiency for their staying power is usable, much like Battlecruisers; however, they are hard-countered by the latter since they make volleys of low-damage attacks and due to the Yamato Gun.

Carriers themselves do not, in fact, possess any attack, but like Reavers build and transport unique units –Interceptors in this case- to much the same effect. A Carrier does not come equipped with any Interceptors when first warped in, so it must construct them individually, adding quite a deal of cost and build time to the finished unit. Unlike the Reaver’s Scarabs, however, the units it builds do not immediately sacrifice themselves to attack but attack as would another unit stacking up on a target that it “fires” at until recalled at which point they may still be used again. While targetable, expensive and fairly weak individually Interceptors move quickly around targets, potentially out of range, and can recharge shields instantly upon being recalled meaning they can overwhelm targeted forces (although potentially very, very slowly). Interceptors are all destroyed if the Carrier itself is destroyed.

Jan 31, 2020

Space-warping star system proves Einstein’s general theory of relativity right. Again

Posted by in category: space

Astronomers have discovered a spinning star dragging the very fabric of spacetime at the centre of a unique cosmic laboratory.

Jan 31, 2020

Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’

Posted by in category: security

This patched critical flaw is the first remote code execution threat to a major cloud platform, undermining the security layers that isolate shared resources.

Jan 31, 2020

People with schizophrenia have reduced brain connections

Posted by in category: neuroscience

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Jan 31, 2020

Universal and reusable virus deactivation system for respiratory protection

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Aerosolized pathogens are a leading cause of respiratory infection and transmission. Currently used protective measures pose potential risk of primary/secondary infection and transmission. Here, we report the development of a universal, reusable virus deactivation system by functionalization of the main fibrous filtration unit of surgical mask with sodium chloride salt. The salt coating on the fiber surface dissolves upon exposure to virus aerosols and recrystallizes during drying, destroying the pathogens.


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  • Published: 04 January 2017
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Jan 31, 2020

Stratos II: Propulsion Static Test 3 — 15 seconds, early cut-off (12−06−2013)

Posted by in category: particle physics

On 12. June 2013 the third test fire of the DHX-200 “Aurora” hybrid rocket motor took place at the facilities of TNO. The Aurora motor will power the Stratos II rocket and utilizes nitrous oxide as oxidizer and a fuel combination of sorbitol, paraffin wax, and aluminium particles as fuel.
The motor was intended to be fired for 15 seconds after the successful 10 second test earlier this day but was shutdown prematurely at around 6 seconds after the combustion chamber showed local structural failure.
The sequence involves the following steps:

T — 4s : Nitrous Oxide bypass flow initiated
T — 3s : Ignition pulse for pyrotechnic igniter
T 0s : Main valve open
T + 6s : Main valve closed (safety precaution)
T + 15s : Scheduled motor cut-off

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Jan 31, 2020

Human on a Chip

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

Using digital ai generated medicines plus human on a chip systems you could get new medicines out not in years but hours.


The next generation of MOC design at TissUse aims for a Human-on-a-Chip, increasing the number of interconnected organs toward acceptable organismal complexity. This number of organs is supposed to be efficient to provide human organismal homeostasis, sufficiently flexible for diverse disease modelling and to bear the potential of ultimately replacing animal models for systemic substance testing.

Jan 31, 2020

Dandelion Root Kills 98% of Cancer Cells in 48 Hours?

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

O.o circa 2016.


Dandelion root is being studied for possible anti-cancer properties, but there’s absolutely no proof it kills “98 percent of cancer cells in 48 hours.”