Witticism: Science and Tech Updates

Technology..., when misused, poisons air, soil, water and lives. But a world without technology would be prey to something worse: the impersonal ruthlessness of the natural order, in which the health of a species depends on relentless sacrifice of the weak.

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#Prayer for #Israel

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Geologists now have evidence Africa is physically splitting into two continents - Quartz

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SpaceX granted permission to launch satellites beaming high-speed internet back to Earth - The Independent

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NASA 'unable to stop' enormous asteroid Bennu which could hit Earth in 2135 - Evening Standard

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Nasa draws up plans for huge spacecraft to blow up doomsday asteroid - The Telegraph

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Google, Apple face EU law on business practices - Reuters

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NASA’s upcoming Parker Solar Probe might as well be walkin’ on the sun - Digital Trends

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Sophisticated malware attacks through routers - Engadget

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Phone Security Options To Help Discourage Theft

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Why Doesn’t Earth Have Rings?

Early this week, scientists discovered a super Saturn, which got us thinking: Why doesn’t Earth have rings?

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Everything you need to know about the “I7” LOLCOASTER.ORG

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DJI Announces Phantom 3 Advanced and Phantom 3 Professional Drones

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Urgent security update

Bad news: A major vulnerability has been disclosed for the technology that powers encryption across the majority of the internet. That includes Tumblr. Our team took immediate action to fix the issue, but you should still take some time to change your password, not only here but on any other sites you visit.  You should also strongly consider enabling two-factor authentication. It’ll go a long way to ensure that no one besides you can access your account. Thanks, and take care.

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My BEST posts of 2013

While this has been a relatively quiet year on the posting front, it’s always nice to look back and see what has piqued the interest. Thanks to all.

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What’s the price of loss of trust? We will find out in 2014 as the after-effects of the revelations about the spying campaigns on the world’s internet and cellphone networks become apparent. The financial costs are already mounting. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington DC think tank, reckons US firms could lose $35 billion in sales in the next two years because of fears over snooping by the US National Security Agency (NSA). The revelations might also change how we use the internet in more fundamental ways. World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has warned that a lack of faith in privacy could make people interact less freely with one another online. But there may be some benefits, too. People are now more aware of what they do online. For example, use of DuckDuckGo, a search engine that promises not to collect a user’s personal information, soared in the weeks after the NSA’s activities were revealed. This personal data protection is likely to accelerate next year. We might also see the first signs of internet fragmentation. Some nations, including Brazil and Germany, are considering reining in internet routing to within their own borders, although such moves would play into the hands of authoritarian states and cause delays for international traffic. Other methods to beat the spooks could also hit the mainstream, including ways of masking traffic and even local internet networks that keep sensitive data off the public internet.

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Fun with chemistry