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A research group at NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence catfished soldiers involved in an European military exercise — we don’t know what country they were from — to demonstrate the power of the attack technique. Over four weeks, the…

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ift.tt/2BRCmzr A formerly moderate, pro-civil rights, pro-abortion rights, reform-minded politician has enabled a president who not only has set back race relations, but has also packed the Supreme Court with conservative, pro-life judges. A senator who once railed against budget…

ift.tt/2ThgV4O Drexler and the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute proposing that artificial intelligence is mainly emerging as cloud-based AI services and a 210-page paper analyzes how AI is developing today. AI development is developing automation of many tasks and…

ift.tt/2SZToGp On a 1987 voyage to the Antarctic, the paleoceanographer James Kennett and his crew dropped anchor in the Weddell Sea, drilled into the seabed, and extracted a vertical cylinder of sediment. In an inch-thick layer of plankton fossils and…

There’s new research on the security of password managers, speficially 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and Lastpass. This work specifically looks at password leakage on the host computer. That is, does the password manager accidentally leave plaintext copies of password lying around…

ift.tt/2U8KXF6 Although MWC 2019 officially starts on Monday, Day 0, otherwise known as preview day for the press, has already kicked off in Barcelona. As the biggest conference for the mobile industry, the show is buzzing with products from big-name…

ift.tt/2VkJw6P NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill On Earth, some of 2018’s best dramas including A Star Is Born, Roma, Vice and Green Book will vie for Best Picture at the 2019 Oscars. But in the far reaches of the solar system, a…

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ift.tt/2EsnOrS If you were on social media in 2016, you probably remember the Great Cargo Pocket War. It all started with an innocent article in The Wall Street Journal about how bulky cargo shorts were driving a wedge between people…

ift.tt/2U3WlCh Sixteen-year-old Jorge Alexander Ruiz took off alone in the middle of the night from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to escape pressure to join a gang. Sitting outside the shelter for unaccompanied minors where he was staying in Tijuana, in…

ift.tt/2GXm7nK moncler taps maison valentino’s creative director pierpaolo piccioli for a second time, in the latest instalment of its multi-brand collaborative genius project. moncler took over an entire milan street to showcase the third chapter, which saw piccioli present a…

ift.tt/2Nn7NGx An unusual artifact sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology. Fitted fragments of turquoise, carnelians, and white seashells cover the upper half of the skull. Pine resin binds the decor to the bone, creating a colorful mosaic. Turquoise was…

ift.tt/2TcraYb The squeegee holder (the green part) is composed of 2 plates of very hard plastic (polypropylene probably), you can use hardwood or plywood with no problem i think.I drilled the center axis and inserted 2 bearings : they act…

ift.tt/2U3S9SZ Still from Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. Photo courtesy of StudioCanal. You Were Never Really Here is a disturbing and poetic piece of cinema. I don’t know whether it’s my favorite movie of 2018—the experience of watching…

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ift.tt/2Xed47T WFIRST ain’t your grandma’s space telescope. Despite having the same size mirror as the surprisingly reliable Hubble Space Telescope, clocking in at 2.4 meters across, this puppy will pack a punch with a gigantic 300 megapixel camera, enabling it…

ift.tt/2T6UYWb The Earth’s atmosphere stretches way past the Moon, much farther than previously believed, says a new study published in Space Physics. When the outermost portions of the atmosphere merge with outer space it emits a cloud of hydrogen atoms…

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ift.tt/2IwVaKl   During the early morning hours of April 27, 1986, a Florida man by the name of John R. MacDougall hacked into Home Box Office’s satellite signal. MacDougall owned a satellite dish company, and was upset that HBO and…

ift.tt/2NtD4rv We have the mold ready and the concrete is also ready to be used. Let’s go to the fun part, fill the mold! After filling the mold, tap gently on the sides to release the air bubbles, a minute…