A high-rated security vulnerability in the Secure Boot function of the majority of laptops, desktops, workstations…
Month: July 2020
To Make Oxygen on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance Rover Needs MOXIE
A new tool from the space agency may produce the gas, completing the next step for…
Self-training with Noisy Student improves ImageNet classification (Paper Explained)
The abundance of data on the internet is vast. Especially unlabeled images are plentiful and can…
Earth’s asteroid impact rate took a sudden jump 290 million years ago
Looking at impact craters on both the Earth and Moon, a team of scientists found that…
A Face Mask That’s Functional And Hacker-Certified
[splat238] needed a mask for going out in public, but wanted something that fit his personal…
AI model developed to identify individual birds without tagging
Distinguishing individual birds using AI could aid avian behaviour research Read more at the Guardian…
As if space wasn’t dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity
For many nations and their people, space is becoming the ultimate frontier. Read more at Inverse…
Fun New Way to Annoy Your Friends: Text Them in Hieroglyphics
You know you want to. Read more at Popular Mechanics…
Nearly half of employees have made a serious security mistake at work
Distraction and burnout can lead to serious mistakes when working online Read more at TechRadar…
SpaceX Satellites Ruin Photographer’s Shots of Comet NEOWISE
As NASA recently warned, the light pollution caused by the boom in satellites is indeed “wreaking…
First underwater methane leak discovered near Antarctica
What’s worse, Antarctica’s methane-eating microbes aren’t doing their jobs. Read more at livescience.com…
DIY Multilingual Ebook Reader PCB
E-ink display technology has slowly come down in price since its introduction to the market in…
TinyPilot Provides KVM-over-IP, With Low Cost And Even Lower Latency
Remote access is great, but if the machine stops booting, ceases to connect to the network,…
Why You Can Smell a Fart Through a Mask
As that anti-masker having a tantrum in a Panera pointed out, you can smell a fart…
New ‘Shadow Attack’ can replace content in digitally signed PDF files | ZDNet
15 out of the 28 biggest desktop PDF viewers are vulnerable, German academics say. Read more…
Machines can learn unsupervised ‘at speed of light’ after AI breakthrough, scientists say
Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in the development of artificial intelligence by using light instead of…
Self-driving industry takes to the highway after robotaxi failure
Sector focuses on long-haul trucks and passenger vehicles after ‘autonomous disillusionment’ Read more…
NASA Warns of Huge Asteroid Is Approaching Earth | KISS 95-7 | Gavin
NASA has announced that a “potentially dangerous” asteroid is about to fly by the planet July…
MIT releases deepfake video of ‘Nixon’ announcing NASA Apollo 11 disaster
MIT and Modzilla want people to better understand the disturbing power of deepfake videos in a…
DeepMind’s AI automatically generates reinforcement learning algorithms
Researchers at DeepMind propose a new technique that automatically discovers a reinforcement learning algorithm from scratch.…