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Dec 31, 2021

Colorado fires destroy hundreds of homes | DW News

Posted by in category: habitats

Tens of thousands of residents in the US state of Colorado have been forced to evacuate due to quickly spreading wildfires.

Hundreds of homes have been destroyed in some of the worst fires the state has ever seen. Powerful winds have fueled the fast-moving flames which come after an unusually dry autumn and low levels of snow. At least one first responder and six others have been injured since the fires began.

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Dec 31, 2021

What Do Analysts Expect From Tesla Stock In 2022?

Posted by in category: transportation

Tesla is opening two new factories shortly, demand for its vehicles is off the charts, and the world is openly welcoming EVs. Will the company’s stock soar?

Dec 31, 2021

Japan’s EV war against China: Toyota to flood Chinese markets with affordable cars from next year

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

With affordability in its latest offering, Toyota wants to eliminate the only advantage that Chinese automobile makers enjoy: competitive prices.


Japan is a world leader in automobile technology. Apart from Germany, no one can compete in the automobile sector. And if you need any evidence to corroborate this fact, you need to look no further than Toyota, a globally loved automobile brand that has produced some of the best cars to date. And now Toyota is looking to aggressively dominate the Chinese electric vehicles (EV) market with some affordable cars from next year.

Toyota to launch an all-electric small sedan in China:

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Dec 31, 2021

NASA’s idea for making food from thin air just became a reality — it could feed billions

Posted by in categories: food, futurism

Here’s why you might eat greenhouse gases in the future.

Dec 30, 2021

How to spot the software that could be spying on you

Posted by in category: mobile phones

Stalkerware is commercially available software that’s used to spy on another person via their device — usually a phone — without their consent.


Software used to spy on someone via their phone is a growing threat and common in domestic abuse cases.

Dec 30, 2021

Is social media killing intellectual humility?

Posted by in categories: education, information science, internet

An echo chamber is an infinity of mirrors. Photo: Robert Brook via Getty Images

“One way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works,” writes philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch, author of the book The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data, in The Chronicle of Higher Education. “The Internet of Us becomes one big reinforcement mechanism, getting us all the information we are already biased to believe, and encouraging us to regard those in other bubbles as misinformed miscreants. We know it all—the internet tells us so.”

Dec 30, 2021

A Supercar Designer Just Unveiled a 250-Mph Flying Hypercar

Posted by in category: space

It will allegedly fly almost 300 miles on a single charge and fit in a single garage space.

Dec 30, 2021

Chinese APT Hackers Used Log4Shell Exploit to Target Academic Institution

Posted by in category: futurism

Aquatic Panda APT hackers with links to China are targeting academic institutions with the Log4Shell exploit.

Dec 30, 2021

New Apache Log4j Update Released to Patch Newly Discovered Vulnerability

Posted by in category: futurism

A new version of the Apache Log4j 2.17.1 platform has been released to patch newly discovered vulnerabilities.

Dec 30, 2021

Advancing Optical Signal Processing: Using Magnets To Toggle Nanolasers Leads to Better Photonics

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Controlling nanolasers with magnets lays the groundwork for more robust optical signaling.

A magnetic field can be used to switch nanolasers on and off, shows new research from Aalto University. The physics underlying this discovery paves the way for the development of optical signals that cannot be disturbed by external disruptions, leading to unprecedented robustness in signal processing.

Lasers concentrate light into extremely bright beams that are useful in a variety of domains, such as broadband communication and medical diagnostics devices. About ten years ago, extremely small and fast lasers known as plasmonic nanolasers were developed. These nanolasers are potentially more power-efficient than traditional lasers, and they have been of great advantage in many fields—for example, nanolasers have increased the sensitivity of biosensors used in medical diagnostics.