Since the discovery of fast radio bursts in 2007, scientists have worked to identify the sources…
Year: 2020
samyk/slipstream
NAT Slipstreaming allows an attacker to remotely access any TCP/UDP services bound to a victim machine,…
Viruses have been shown to produce their own energy for the first time
Viruses are supposed to be utterly reliant on the cells they infect but it appears a…
I Used Alexa to Play Board Games and Now I Never Have to Play With My Family Again
Amazon Alexa turns out to be an effective and impartial ally in maintaining a competitive board-gaming…
Rapidly declining body temperature in a tropical human population
Normal human body temperature (BT) has long been considered to be 37.0°C. Yet, BTs have declined…
Astronomers discover activity on distant planetary object
Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar…
GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies
Last week, GitHub took down the popular YouTube video downloader tool “YouTube-dl” after the Recording Industry Association…
Covid: Antibodies ‘fall rapidly after infection’
This is likely to mean immunity levels decline and raises the risk of reinfection, researchers say.…
The BepiColombo Probe Just Took a Ridiculously Close Video of Venus as It Flew By
Two years after it left Earth, Mercury probe BepiColombo has completed the first of its first…
X-Men: Dark Phoenix director to write and produce Battlestar Galactica film
After many years of attempting a Battlestar Galactica feature film, The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Universal…
Cause of Alzheimer’s disease traced to mutation in common enzyme
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a new mechanism by which clumps of tau protein…
RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos | ZDNet
Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more…
Scientists Found an Ancient Tectonic Plate Buried Deep Inside the Earth’s Mantle – ExtremeTech
Geologists have found the remains of a previous continental plate that had only been theorized to…
Scientists discover new organ in the throat
A secret set of salivary glands has been hiding behind the nose. Read more at livescience.com…
Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way
Nearly 3 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy plunged into the center of the Milky Way…
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches down on asteroid Bennu
The mission marks the space agency’s first landing on an asteroid. Read more at CNET…
A Supernova Exploded Perilously Close To Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago
The Earth has been through a lot in the 4.5 billion or so years it’s been…
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
“Less than one”-shot learning can teach a model to identify more objects than the number of…
How to extract structured data from invoices
This blog is a comprehensive overview of techniques for structured key-value pair information extraction from invoices.…
Finally, the First Room-Temperature Superconductor
It conveys electricity in the climate of a crisp fall day, but only under pressures comparable…