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The Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090 is very good at cracking passwords and that’s bad news
Yet another reason to use strong, complex passwords Read more at TechRadar…
AI Is Throwing Battery Development Into Overdrive
Improving batteries has always been hampered by slow experimentation and discovery processes. Machine learning is speeding…
Still filing your emails? Science says it’s a waste of time | Torsten Bell
Inbox slobs who just leave messages where they land are 10% more productive Read more at…
A powerful iPhone jailbreak also cracks Apple’s Mac security chip
The Checkm8 vulnerability, which could jailbreak generations of iPhones, has now been used against the company’s…
Physicists Just Confirmed The Upper Limit For The Speed of Sound in The Universe
Einstein’s theory of special relativity gave us the speed limit of the Universe – that of…
‘Farewell Convolutions’ – ML Community Applauds Anonymous ICLR 2021 Paper That Uses Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
ICLR 2021 paper An Image Is Worth 16×16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale suggests…
Inside the strange new world of being a deepfake actor
In 2019, two multimedia artists, Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund, set about to pursue a provocative…
More people have died from Covid-19 than in the past 5 flu seasons combined
Coronavirus isn’t just deadlier than the flu — it’s also more contagious. These illustrations show why.…
Python 3.9: What’s new and better
Major Python update brings a faster release schedule, performance boosts, handy new string functions, dictionary union…
Flurry of coronavirus reinfections leaves scientists puzzled
Though far from common, some patients developed worse symptoms the second time they became infected with…
Physics Nobel Awarded for Darkest Secrets of the Universe
Black holes are incredibly simple: they’re said to have “no hair” meaning all distinctive features seem…
Weird Circles Keep Popping Up Around the World. Alan Turing Predicted Them in 1952.
Here’s what they mean—and how the legendary scientist got them so right. Read more at Popular…
‘The Wire’ Inspired a Fake Turtle Egg That Spies on Poachers
Scientists 3D-printed sea turtle eggs and stuffed transmitters inside. When poachers pulled them out of nests,…
There’s too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from.
Something is showering gold across the universe. But no one knows what it is. Read more…
Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene
A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene’s…
Crew Dragon Suffered More Damage Than Expected on Crewed Mission | Digital Trends
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon suffered some unexpected damage during its first crewed mission recently, but the company…
The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
Simples rules of geometry meant that 5-fold symmetry was impossible as were crystals without a periodic…
What’s the matter with the Universe? About 31%.
If you want to understand the Universe — and we do — you have to understand…
MIT researchers say their fusion reactor is “very likely to work”
A series of new papers “confirms that the design we’re working on is very likely to…