New Zealand company Rocket Lab has hit a key milestone with the successful launch and recovery of its flagship Electron rocket. The mission, the firm’s 16th so far, included a soft parachute landing of the first stage booster into the ocean for the first time. The mission: Electron was launched around 1:46 a.m. local time […]
Windows 7
Do digital contact tracing apps work? Here’s what you need to know.
In the early days of the covid-19 pandemic, several competing projects launched around a deceptively simple concept: your phone could alert you if you’d crossed paths with someone who later tested positive. One system for these exposure notifications quickly caught on. It was designed, in an improbable act of cooperation, by Apple and Google, which […]
Who should get a covid-19 vaccine first?
This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article. If the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics, as Galileo once declared, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought that truth home for the world’s mathematicians, who have been galvanized by the rapid spread of the coronavirus. So far this year, they […]
Putting ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ on HBO Max Is a Smart Move
It’ll be a while before US theaters are back to full capacity. Offering the ‘Wonder Woman’ sequel on its streaming service is Warner Bros.’ best option. Powered by WPeMatico
The promise of the fourth industrial revolution
New technologies can optimize the way people work. When implemented thoughtfully, such innovations can improve overall business processes. Those changes are accepted as part of progress. But when a technology changes how and where people live and their relationships to one another and upends economies, it merits the term “revolution.” Because it changes everything. The […]
What Will Happen to the Far-Right After Trump?
As president-elect Biden’s inauguration approaches, experts are keeping an eye on extremist groups. Powered by WPeMatico
US emissions plummeted this year—for all the wrong reasons
The good news: US greenhouse-gas emissions are on track to fall 9% this year, marking the lowest levels of climate pollution in at least three decades, according to the research group BloombergNEF. The bad news: The dramatic decline is almost entirely attributable to the pandemic-driven economic downturn, not to any fundamental and lasting shifts in […]
The second-largest radio telescope in the world is shutting down
The US National Science Foundation has just announced it is going to begin decommissioning the famous Arecibo Observatory, the 1,000-meter-long, 900-ton radio telescope located in Puerto Rico. It’s a huge blow to the astronomy community, which used Arecibo for 57 years to conduct an enormous amount of space and atmospheric research. What happened: Arecibo has […]
A Facebook Messenger Flaw Could Have Let Hackers Listen In
The vulnerability was found through the company’s bug bounty program, now in its tenth year. Powered by WPeMatico
What is AI? We made this to help.
Defining what is, or isn’t artificial intelligence can be tricky (or tough). So much so, even the experts get it wrong sometimes. That’s why MIT Technology Review’s Senior AI Reporter Karen Hao created a flowchart to explain it all. In this bonus content our Host Jennifer Strong and her team reimagine Hao’s reporting, gamifying it […]