‘Humans need to leave Earth’: Stephen Hawking urges sending astronauts to Moon, Mars
Stephen Hawking has urged countries to send astronauts to the Moon by 2020 and Mars by 2025 to ‘elevate humanity’, as the British physicist is convinced that humans need to leave the Earth to survive for another million years. Hawking said…
Here is a super malware that wants to render your devices useless
Malwares have been known to corrupt machines or hold users’ data ransom. But there is a new malware on the block that looks to simply render devices useless and its called Brickerbot. So, what is Brickerbot? According to a report,…
Xiaomi Redmi 4A sale on Mi.com, Amazon today: All you need to know
HMD Global, the company behind the new Nokia handsets, has said that it will not support any Nokia branded phone made before December 1 last year. “We don’t service phones built before December 2016. You could try a hard reset but you will…
Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation
Mars can blame Jupiter for its small stature. The Red Planet may be much smaller than we expect because Jupiter’s gravity beat it up as it was forming. Models of our solar system’s formation suggest that Mars should be between 1.5 and two…
Drone maps mines to explore unsafe caverns and seek out minerals
In the 2012 sci-fi film Prometheus, scientists release small drones into a mysterious tunnel complex to create a detailed 3D map of the caverns in minutes. Australian researchers plan to use a similar approach to explore parts of old mines…
It’s not too late to save Great Barrier Reef from politicians
More bad news about Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef emerged this week. Two-thirds of its coral has now been bleached following the scorching summers of 2017 and 2016. The scientific consensus is clear: the increased frequency of mass…
Facebook will use photo-matching tech to take down revenge porn
Facebook is to use photo-matching technology as part of new tools to prevent the spread of revenge porn on its platforms. Antigone Davis, Facebook’s head of global safety, said the social media site will use the technology to increase…
US takes down huge botnet as Spain arrests notorious Russian hacker
WASHINGTON: US authorities moved Monday to take down a global computer botnet behind the massive theft of personal data and unwanted spam emails, as Spain arrested the notorious Russian hacker who operated it. US authorities say the…
Thousands of fake companies added to Google Maps every month
By Timothy Revell Local businesses on Google Maps aren’t always as local as they seem. Tens of thousands of bogus listings are added to Google Maps every month, directing browsing traffic towards fraudulent schemes, finds a team of…
New computer vision challenge wants to teach robots to see in 3D
By Matt Reynolds Computer vision is ready for its next big test: seeing in 3D. The ImageNet Challenge, which has boosted the development of image-recognition algorithms, will be replaced by a new competition next year that aims to help…