Cybersecurity investigators at Facebook have traced a hacking group long suspected of spying on behalf of…
Month: December 2020
Google says Gmail, Drive, Photos files could be deleted within three years
Google has started notifying users by email that its new cloud storage policy will go into…
AI Neural Networks Could Soon Train on Smartphones
A new IBM invention could reduce energy costs associated with deep learning by sevenfold. Come read…
Shock test in boy, 4, could rewrite coronavirus timeline
A university in Italy claims to have found evidence of the first case of coronavirus one…
Physicists Prove Anyons Exist, a Third Type of Particle in the Universe
Physicists give us an early view of a third kingdom of quasiparticles that only arise in…
Sony Processing Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds for PS5, PS4 Players
After disappointing launch Read more at Push Square…
NASA’s new Hubble images will blow your mind
NASA just released a treasure trove of cosmic imagery. Read more at Mashable ME…
MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in landmark pilot trial
In the late 1970s and early 1980s MDMA was often utilized to help facilitate positive results…
Microsoft: Turning Excel into a Turing-complete programming language
Excel might be the world’s most widely used programming language; Microsoft is on a journey to…
Apple sued by early app store maker, Cydia, over control of the iPhone
The maker of one of the iPhone’s early unofficial app stores wants to force Apple to…
After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer’s cipher has been solved by amateur code breakers
More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern…
Ancient humans may have hibernated to survive brutal glacial winters
Signs of disease in the bones of hominins who lived in glacial Europe half a million…
Facebook Open Sources ReBeL, a New Reinforcement Learning Agent that Excels at Poker and Other…
The new model tries to recreate the reinforcement learning and search methods used by AlphaZero in…
AWS announces Amazon Forecast Weather Index to provide 14-day predictions – SiliconANGLE
AWS announces Amazon Forecast Weather Index to provide 14-day predictions Read more at SiliconANGLE…
Scientists Devise a Method to Edit Mitochondrial DNA. Here’s How It Works and Why It Matters
There’s a mini second genome inside your cells, but no one could figure out how to…
Farmer fish become first animal found domesticating another species
Human civilization wouldn’t be where it is today if we hadn’t domesticated animals to be either…
Mathematician Solves Centuries-Old Grazing Goat Problem Exactly
Mathematicians and math enthusiasts have been pondering this problem in various forms for more than 270…
Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
Guellati-khélifa gauges the fine-structure constant by measuring how strongly rubidium atoms recoil when they absorb a…
Most detailed 3D map ever of Milky Way includes nearly 2 billion stars
The new data it offers provides measurements that are “orders of magnitude” more exact than prior…
Chinese scientists say they’ve achieved a quantum computing breakthrough
It’s the first milestone in China’s efforts to develop quantum computing technology. Read more at Fortune…