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Feb 23, 2022
China and NASA are developing next-gen Voyager-like spacecraft. But whose is better?
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: space
Space Race 2.0 is heating up.
There’s no use denying it: Space Race 2.0 is heating up.
Feb 23, 2022
China found mysterious glass spheres on the Moon. Are they a window into its past?
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: futurism, space
Glass isn’t uncommon on the Moon. But these spheres are.
China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover on a mission to find out more about the far side of the Moon has made a startling new discovery. It has found mysterious glass spheres that may have captured within them important information about the Moon’s composition and history of its impact events, * Science Alert* reported.
Originally scheduled to be operational on the lunar surface for just three months, the Yutu-2 now holds the record of being the longest operational rover on the Moon. When it landed in 2019, it became the first rover to reach the far side of the Moon and has since been providing us insights about the side we cannot see from Earth. Last month, we learned that the soil on the far side is a lot stickier, and now there is the mystery of the glass spheres on the Moon aren’t a new finding. But the nature of these spheres makes them interesting and possibly a gateway for future missions.
Feb 23, 2022
Bacteria upcycle carbon waste into valuable chemicals
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: bioengineering, biological, chemistry, sustainability
Feb 23, 2022
MIT’s new chip could stop hackers from stealing wearable tech data
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: computing, wearables
Feb 23, 2022
From Delivery To Hashing In 15 Minutes: Setting Up The FutureBit Apollo Node And Miner
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: bitcoin, futurism
This guide walks you through setting up the FutureBit Apollo Bitcoin node and miner, letting you mine bitcoin at home within 15 minutes.
Feb 23, 2022
Devious phishing method bypasses MFA using remote access software
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cybercrime/malcode
The researcher also told BleepingComputer that websites, such as LinkedIn, detect man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks and deactivate accounts after successful logins.
To overcome this obstacle, mr.d0x came up with a devious new phishing technique that uses the noVNC remote access software and browsers running in kiosk mode to display email login prompts running on the attacker’s server but shown in the victim’s browser.
VNC is a remote access software that allows remote users to connect to and control a logged-in user’s desktop. Most people connect to a VNC server through dedicated VNC clients that open the remote desktop in a similar manner to Windows Remote Desktop.
Feb 23, 2022
Inside life in Elon Musk’s Mars colony — with vegan diets and ‘terraforming’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, engineering, environmental, space travel
Billionaire Elon Musk has long been vocal about his ambitions for colonizing Mars – here’s everything we know about his plan.
Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 and since then has constantly reiterated one of his biggest goals is to help make humankind a multi-planetary species.
In order to achieve this otherworldly feat, the world’s richest man (at the time of publishing) turned his attention to the red planet, located approximately 33.9 million miles away from Earth.
Feb 23, 2022
Crypto companies are tempting top talent away from Big Tech to build ‘Web3’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: bitcoin, blockchains, finance
There’s another thing that’s attracting talent at Big Tech companies to Web3: money.
According to data from Blind, a social network for tech professionals, bitcoin exchange Coinbase offers as much as $900,000 a year for software engineers.
Investment into crypto companies has surged, meaning they’ve got much more cash to spare on lucrative compensation packages for big hires. Blockchain start-ups raised a record $25 billion in venture capital last year, according to CB Insight figures.
Feb 23, 2022
Long-Standing Enigma Finally Cracked — Link Discovered Between High Blood Pressure and Diabetes
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
The long-standing enigma of why so many patients suffering with high blood pressure (known as hypertension) also have diabetes (high blood sugar) has finally been cracked by an international team led by the universities of Bristol, UK, and Auckland, New Zealand.
The important new discovery has shown that a small protein cell glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) couples the body’s control of blood sugar and blood pressure.
Professor Julian Paton, a senior author, and Director of Manaaki Mãnawa – The Centre for Heart Research at the University of Auckland, said: “We’ve known for a long time that hypertension and diabetes are inextricably linked and have finally discovered the reason, which will now inform new treatment strategies.”