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Mar 28, 2019

Facial Recognition Software Wrongly Identifies 28 Lawmakers As Crime Suspects

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The American Civil Liberties Union says that Amazon Rekognition, facial recognition software sold online, inaccurately identified lawmakers and poses threats to civil rights — charges that Amazon denies. Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images hide caption.

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Mar 28, 2019

The Insane Plan to Build a Skyscraper Hanging Down from Space!

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Mar 28, 2019

The Pursuit of Immortality, Regeneration & Longevity

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

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Mar 28, 2019

Unusual galaxies defy dark matter theory

Posted by in category: cosmology

After drawing both praise and skepticism, the team of astronomers who discovered NGC 1052-DF2 – the very first known galaxy to contain little to no dark matter – are back with stronger evidence about its bizarre nature.

Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible substance that typically dominates the makeup of ; finding an object that’s missing is unprecedented, and came as a complete surprise.

“If there’s one object, you always have a little voice in the back of your mind saying, ‘but what if you’re wrong?’ Even though we did all the checks we could think of, we were worried that nature had thrown us for a loop and had conspired to make something look really special whereas it was really something more mundane,” said team leader Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy at Yale University.

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Mar 28, 2019

Office Depot pays $35 million over claims it lied to customers about malware infections

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

The software scam went on for almost seven years.

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Mar 28, 2019

20% of Industrial Control Systems Affected by Critical Vulnerabilities

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, security

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Over half of the 415 vulnerabilities found in industrial control systems (ICS) were assigned CVSS v.3.0 base scores over 7 which are designated to security issues of high or critical risk levels, with 20% of vulnerable ICS devices being impacted by critical security issues.

As detailed in Kaspersky’s “Threat landscape or industrial automation systems H2 2018”, “The largest number of vulnerabilities affect industrial control systems that control manufacturing processes at various enterprises (115), in the energy sector (110), and water supply (63).”

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Mar 28, 2019

Neural networks stop autonomous cars spinning out

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Staying at the ‘limit of friction’ is key to marrying speed and safety. Nick Carne reports.

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Mar 28, 2019

Long term study finds engineered blood vessels turned to living tissue

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

Researchers from Yale and a medical company called Humacyte have published the results of a long term study that shows engineered blood vessels that are implanted into humans eventually evolved into living tissue. The vessels are known as bioengineered acellular human vessels (HAVs).

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Mar 28, 2019

An experiment that solved a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein is about to turn back on — and it’s more powerful than ever

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

  • Colliding black holes and neutron stars create ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves. These were “heard” for the first time in September 2015.
  • On Monday, a pair of gravitational-wave detectors called LIGO will turn back on after 6 months of downtime and upgrades.
  • To boost its power, the experiment will now work with a sister machine in Italy called Virgo.
  • Physicists expect the next period of searching for colliding black holes to last a year and be 40% more sensitive than before.

One of the most remarkable experiments in history — a pair of giant machines that listen for ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves — will wake up from a half-year nap on Monday. And it will be about 40% stronger than before.

That experiment is called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO); it consists of two giant, L-shaped detectors that together solved a 100-year-old mystery posed by Albert Einstein.

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Mar 28, 2019

The Worst Disease Ever Recorded

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks

A doomsday fungus known as Bd has condemned more species to extinction than any other pathogen.

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