August 27, 2019 In 1962, A Lost U-2 Spy Plane Nearly Triggered World War III In October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis threatened to escalate into global thermonuclear war. The United States and Soviet Union both mobilized over nuclear…
August 27, 2019 Researchers use graphene-lined clothes to deter mosquitoes Graphene, the highly flexible supermaterial used to build solar cells (and perhaps one day foldable phones), is also a powerful mosquito repellent. A team…
August 27, 2019 A Weed Breathalyzer Company Has Raised $65 Million to Make a Narc’s Best Friend Now that weed is being decriminalized across the country, a startup is trying to make it easier for cops and bosses to figure out…
August 27, 2019 Microsoft to host Surface-focused event on October 2nd Microsoft has started sending out invites to an event the company will host early next month. The event will take place on October 2nd…
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August 27, 2019 Sweden’s First GDPR Fine Goes to a High School Piloting Facial Recognition Attendance A school in northern Sweden experimented with facial recognition as a system to document student attendance, and the Swedish Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined…
August 27, 2019 NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock Mission Begins NASA’s atomic-clock-in-space officially began its year-long mission on Friday, according to a NASA release. Read more… via Gizmodo Check out the Finding Your Identity…
August 27, 2019 Three UK’s 5G home broadband is super fast but inconsistent Home Wi-Fi speeds can be difficult to understand at the best of times, but as I’ve been testing Three UK’s new 5G home broadband…
August 27, 2019 Judge recommends bitcoin ‘creator’ turn over earnings in lawsuit The self-proclaimed creator of bitcoin, Craig Wright, has been ordered to hand over half of his bitcoin earnings and intellectual property (IP) — earned…
August 27, 2019 Google Wants It Both Ways Google is facing a flurry of backlash after announcing plans to protect user privacy by continuing to allow cookies in Chrome in a proposal…