You’re looking at the center of our galactic home, the Milky Way, as imaged by 64 radio telescopes in the South African wilderness.
Source: Gizmodo – New South African Telescope Releases Epic Image of the Galactic Center
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Chrome OS on a tablet doesn't make a lot of sense
Google and a wide variety of hardware makers tried for years to get Android tablets to catch on, but they were never able to match the success Apple found with the iPad. At the same time, though, Google’s Chrome OS was gaining new features and fi…
Source: Engadget – Chrome OS on a tablet doesn’t make a lot of sense
MG Is a Rare STD That May Soon Become a Lot More Common
As if there weren’t enough sexually transmitted diseases to worry about, Mycoplasma genitalium is now being more closely scrutinized by public officials. A British sexual health organization has released new guidelines for stopping it from becoming the next superbug, and the least we can do is be aware that it exists.
Source: LifeHacker – MG Is a Rare STD That May Soon Become a Lot More Common
DOJ Indicts 12 Russian Military Officers Accused of 2016 Election Meddling
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday announced new charges against 12 Russian military officers accused of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election by hacking into computers and stealing confidential documents, which they later allegedly disseminated to the public.
Source: Gizmodo – DOJ Indicts 12 Russian Military Officers Accused of 2016 Election Meddling
12 Russian intel officers indicted for hacking the DNC and Clinton campaign
Enlarge / Red Square in Moscow, circa 1990. (credit: DEA / W. BUSS/De Agostini/Getty Images)
The US Justice Department on Friday filed criminal indictments that accused 12 Russian intelligence officers of carrying out the 2016 hacks on the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of Hillary Clinton. The officers—one of whom operated under the persona of Guccifer 2.0—then allegedly dispersed sensitive communications in an attempt to influence the results of the 2016 election, prosecutors alleged.
The indictments were filed by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is investing possible collusion between the presidential campaign of President Donald Trump and the Russian spies US intelligence agencies say interfered with the 2016 election. So far, Mueller’s team has indicted 32 people, including members of a Russian company that blanketed social media with fake news stories and senior members of the Trump campaign. Friday’s indictments were disclosed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at a press conference in Washington, DC.
The documents said that Mueller’s team has determined that a person calling himself Guccifer 2.0 and leaked sensitive DNC documents in the months leading to the 2016 election, is a Russian intelligence officer. Guccifer 2.0 had insisted that he was a Romanian who hacked the DNC independently with no involvement from Russia. Russia has also denied any connection to the breach. Prosecutors said they were able to establish Guccifer 2.0 was really a Russian agent when one of the individuals maintaining Guccifer 2.0’s online presence forgot to use a virtual private network when accessing a US-based social media platform. Instead, the person left an Internet Protocol address located in Moscow in the service’s logs.
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Source: Ars Technica – 12 Russian intel officers indicted for hacking the DNC and Clinton campaign
US indicts 12 Russian intel officers for hacking Democrats in 2016
Source: Engadget – US indicts 12 Russian intel officers for hacking Democrats in 2016
Ontario is getting steamed over milk
One newspaper says there is no difference between organic and conventional milk; another says the test pool is far too small to make that conclusion.
Source: TreeHugger – Ontario is getting steamed over milk
Mir 0.32.1 Released With Launcher For Internal Wayland Clients, Fixes
Canonical developers working on Mir have prepared the release of Mir 0.32.1 with a few fixes and improvements off the recent release of Mir 0.32…
Source: Phoronix – Mir 0.32.1 Released With Launcher For Internal Wayland Clients, Fixes
Burglar Breaks Into Escape Room, Forgets How He Came In, Calls 911
This is a video news report from Vancouver, Washington of a burglar who broke into an escape room business in a strip mall, took a cell phone, television remote and 12-ounce Bud Light can, forgot how he entered the building, then called 911. No word if the escape room plans on using his story in future advertising campaigns.
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office responded to NW Escape Experience looking for the burglar who broke in. However, the burglar — when he called 911 — said his home was being broken into and gave a fake address.
He reportedly took a cell phone, TV remote and a beer from the fridge prior to calling authorities.
“The sheriff said he had a burrito and he was settling in to have a breakfast and a beer I guess and then got scared because he couldn’t get out,” Rob Bertrand, owner of NW Escape Experience, said.
The burglar had broken the back door trying to get in — and couldn’t remember where the other door was. Apparently, turning to authorities for an escape, at the time, seemed like the right thing to do.
Man, who breaks into an escape room thinking they’re going to hit it big? I can’t imagine anybody believes an escape room actually has any significant amount of cash on hand. Or was this more of a shotgun approach to burglary — just break in anywhere and see what there is to take? Also, where did this burrito he was eating come from? Did he bring that with him? I take back what I said, this man is a professional. Call Ocean, tell him we have the team assembled.
Keep going for the news report, which really should have included video of the guy in there.
Source: Geekologie – Burglar Breaks Into Escape Room, Forgets How He Came In, Calls 911
Face Recognition 'Tickets' Are Coming to Baseball Games
MLB and Clear announced a partnership on Thursday that will soon let baseball fans enter stadiums using fingerprints, and eventually, just their face, instead of tickets.
Source: Gizmodo – Face Recognition ‘Tickets’ Are Coming to Baseball Games
Special Counsel Mueller Charges 12 Russian Intelligence Officers With Hacking Democrats During 2016 Election
Special counsel Robert Mueller has obtained a new indictment charging 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democrats to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, and with stealing information of about 500,000 American voters, the Justice Department announced Friday. From a report: The indictment lodged in Washington, D.C., accuses the Russian spies of hacking into the Democratic National Committee and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and of releasing emails obtained from that cybersnooping with a a goal of influencing the election. The accused also hacked into state boards of elections, secretaries of state, and into companies that provided software used to administer elections, according to Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein said he briefed President Donald Trump about the case earlier in the week.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Special Counsel Mueller Charges 12 Russian Intelligence Officers With Hacking Democrats During 2016 Election
How to Restore to iOS 11 If You're Over the iOS 12 Beta
You probably shouldn’t run an iOS public beta on your primary device. But maybe you took the plunge anyway—anything to get in on that sweet Memoji action—and now you regret it. Maybe an app you use every day isn’t compatible with iOS 12 yet, and you want to go back.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Restore to iOS 11 If You’re Over the iOS 12 Beta
Adobe To Launch Full Fledged Photoshop App For iPad In 2019
Adobe is looking to further entrench itself into the mobile market with a full-fledged version of Photoshop for the iPad. The company already offers a number of Photoshop companion apps for the iOS platform including Photoshop Express and Photoshop Mix, but this will be Adobe’s first attempt to bring a near-desktop-class photo editing package
Source: Hot Hardware – Adobe To Launch Full Fledged Photoshop App For iPad In 2019
Two Cancer Drugs Found to Boost Aging Immune Systems
Drugs that can lengthen life have long been a hallmark of speculative science fiction—many hope for an invention that could extend average lifespans well into the triple digits in the distant future. But the timeline of these drugs could be shorter than we think. A new clinical trial published Wednesday in Science…
Source: Gizmodo – Two Cancer Drugs Found to Boost Aging Immune Systems
Tribal Chairman Sends Ominous 4-Word Letter to Keystone XL Pipeline Developer
The hotly contested Keystone XL Pipeline set to bring crude oil from Canada into the U.S. is chugging along. Developer TransCanada is preparing for construction in Montana and South Dakota, and the company decided it would give the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe a heads up in a letter on Wednesday. On Thursday, Tribal…
Source: Gizmodo – Tribal Chairman Sends Ominous 4-Word Letter to Keystone XL Pipeline Developer
America Could Lose Its Access to the International Space Station for Nearly a Year
Boeing and SpaceX, owing to manufacturing delays and certification hurdles, are unlikely to provide NASA with the vehicles required to transport astronauts to the International Space Station next year, according to an alarming government report. As a result, and starting in late 2019, the U.S. might not have a crew…
Source: Gizmodo – America Could Lose Its Access to the International Space Station for Nearly a Year
Making Sense out of Machine Learning and Deep Learning
The good folks at AMD have published a page on Machine Learning and Deep Learning. It’s a good read because it breaks down what many call AI and does it in an easily understood fashion. I’ve never really dug too deeply into the differences between ML and DL so this write-up was an eye-opener for me. I didn’t realize that the primary difference between ML and DL is the representation of data. Also, it was interesting to learn DL is what’s used in many of the AI applications we are used to seeing. If you want to get a deeper understanding of ML and DL you should take a look at what AMD has to say on the subject.
Today’s state-of-the-art ML and DL computer intelligence systems can adjust operations after continuous exposure to data and other input. While related in nature, subtle differences separate these fields of computer science.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Making Sense out of Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Tesla drops $35,000 price from Model 3 page—insists plans haven’t changed
The release of the Model 3 was supposed to be the moment when Tesla finally made a car that was affordable for the masses.
“In terms of price, it’ll be $35,000,” Musk said at the March 2016 Model 3 announcement event. “And I want to emphasize that even if you buy no options at all, this will still be an amazing car.”
For the last two years, Tesla’s page for the Model 3 has touted a starting price of $35,000. “Model 3 achieves up to 310 miles of range while starting at only $35,000 before incentives,” the page read on Thursday morning.
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Source: Ars Technica – Tesla drops ,000 price from Model 3 page—insists plans haven’t changed
Ars on your lunch break, week 4: Our closing remarks on Fermi’s Paradox
Enlarge / “OMG I love this song.” (credit: Warner Bros.)
Today, we present the third and final installment of my interview British astronomer Stephen Webb on the subject of Fermi’s paradox. Please check out parts one and two if you missed them. Otherwise, press play on the embedded player, or pull up the transcript—both of which are below.
We open by talking about some of the amazing instruments and projects that are coming online in the coming decade—both to extend the search for extraterrestrial life and to advance the much broader field of astrophysics. There’s some profoundly exciting gear on the horizon, which will do business under such wild and whimsical names as “The Extremely Large Telescope.”
We then talk about some of the signals this new apparatus might detect, which could be highly suggestive of life. Either oxygen or methane in a distant planet’s atmosphere would be electrifying, but not entirely definitive proof. Both of them together put the matter beyond a reasonable doubt (although there would still be many doubters, to be sure).
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Source: Ars Technica – Ars on your lunch break, week 4: Our closing remarks on Fermi’s Paradox
Mondo's First Ghostbusters Poster Ever Is Coming to San Diego Comic-Con
Go into the archive on Mondo’s website and search “Ghostbusters.” Incredibly, no posters come up—which seems impossible, considering the company has been making movie posters based on basically every single property there is for over a decade. That’s about to change. Today, io9 is excited to reveal Mondo’s first …
Source: Gizmodo – Mondo’s First Ghostbusters Poster Ever Is Coming to San Diego Comic-Con