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May 23, 2019
A winged jet suit could be the next step in human flight
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
May 23, 2019
Facebook: Fake account removal doubles in 6 months to 3B
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March, twice as many as the previous six months, the company said Thursday.
Nearly all of them were caught before they had a chance to become “active” users of the social network.
In a new report, Facebook said it saw a “steep increase” in the creation of abusive, fake accounts in the past six months. While most of these fake accounts were blocked “within minutes” of their creation, the company said this increase of “automated attacks” by bad actors meant not only that it caught more of the fake accounts, but that more of them slipped through the cracks.
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May 23, 2019
Unexpected observation of ice at low temperature, high pressure questions water theory
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
May 23, 2019
Lunacy: how science fiction is powering the new moon rush
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: futurism, space
Science fiction is often seen as an anticipation – a fiction peculiarly expected to graduate into fact. But if technologies once found only in SF do sometimes become real they do not, in so doing, always cease to be science fictional. SF is not, after all, simply a literature about the future; it is a literature about the shock of new capacities and new perspectives, about transcendence, estrangement and resistance in the face of the inhuman. Its ideas shape and constrain the ways in which technological possibilities are seen, understood and experienced long after those possibilities are first tentatively realised. It illuminates the dreams of Musk, Bezos and all the other new moon-rushers.
Fifty years after the first moon landings, a new generation of space travellers, from Xi Jinping’s taikonauts to Jeff Bezos, are racing to colonise our nearest neighbour. Is reality catching up with sci-fi?
May 22, 2019
Stunning Sonar Image Just Revealed Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
In November last year, geologists announced they’d picked up something really weird: a huge seismic event originating in the island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, felt all across the globe, source unknown. A few months later, scientists used modelling to produce an answer — hypothesising a giant underwater volcanic eruption.
And now it seems that is pretty likely to be the case. Scientists travelled out to where they think the swarm’s epicentre is located, and they found a large active volcano, rising 800 metres (2,624 feet) from the seafloor, and sprawling up to 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) across.
A large active volcano that wasn’t there six months prior.
May 22, 2019
Creating a Universe in the Lab? The Idea Is No Joke
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Circa 2017
Scientists in all areas of research must feel able to freely articulate the implications of their work without concern for causing offense.
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May 22, 2019
Compressorhead-Ace of Spades-Now with 350kg Singer
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Hey Meatbags! Here you go, just what you’ve all been waiting for…
Meet “Mega-Wattson” the new singer and “Hellga Tarr” the new guitarist and backing vocalist.
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May 22, 2019
Cybercriminals Are Holding an Entire US City Hostage
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
The city of Baltimore is under attack, but not by someone armed with guns or bombs.
Two weeks ago, cybercriminals used ransomware known as RobinHood to seize control of about 10,000 of the city’s computers, saying they won’t relinquish access unless Baltimore hands over about $100,000 worth of bitcoin.
Baltimore is refusing the meet the ransom demand. However, it also isn’t equipped to crack the ransomware, meaning it’s been forced to go largely offline — another disturbing example of modern government’s inability to keep up with the evolving threat of cybercrime.
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