Astronomy
The Largest Spinning Objects in Space may be Cosmic Filaments
Moons, stars, and even entire galaxies do it. Now, two teams of scientists claim that cosmic filaments do it as well. These hundreds of millions…
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Technology
FBI Operation Aims to Take down Massive Russian GRU Botnet
In March, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that it conducted an operation to target a major botnet operated by Russian intelligence. The operation was…
Astronomy
Physicists describe how the sort of Aurora on Mars is Generated
The aurora borealis is a light-in-the-sky display that occurs predominantly at night in Mars’ southern hemisphere. While their existence has long been known, scientists have…
Astronomy
Supermassive Black Holes discovered in Dying Galaxies in the Early Universe
A worldwide team of astronomers utilized a database that combined images from the world’s top telescopes, including the Subaru Telescope, to detect the signal from…
Technology
In Major Reversal, Elon Musk Is Not Joining Twitter’s Board
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and Twitter’s largest shareholder, would not be joining the social media company’s board of directors, CEO Parag Agrawal announced…
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Disinformation Demands a Collective Defense
After the 2016 election, the word “disinformation” became widely used in connection to state actors targeting political campaigns. Despite the government’s awareness and efforts, the…
Technology
Coinbase Suspends Buy Orders in India Days after Launch
Coinbase has disabled its app’s functionality for the UPI payment mechanism in India, rendering its namesake exchange inaccessible for any buy orders less than four…
Business
Crypto’s Latest Disruption May Be Investor Expectations
I’ve seen a web3-sized asterisk next to the long-awaited re-correction of private tech company valuations and fundraising expectations. While many funds are returning to more…
Technology
Combining Vision and Language Could Be the Key to More Capable AI
Depending on whose theory of intelligence you believe in, reaching “human-level” AI would necessitate a system that can reason about the environment using several modalities,…
Technology
‘Stranger Things’ Fans Can Explore the Upside Down In New NYC Experience
Hawkins will appear in a new “Stranger Things: Experience” in New York City on May 7, thanks to a collaboration between Netflix and Fever. According…
Astronomy
Earth Receives the First Supernova Indications from an Extraterrestrial Stone
The extraterrestrial Hypatia stone discovered in Egypt may be the first concrete evidence of a supernova type Ia explosion on Earth. These extremely infrequent supernovae…
Astronomy
Hyperfast White Dwarf Stars can help us comprehend Supernovae
White dwarfs are what remain when stars like our sun have used up all of their fuel. They are dense, faint stellar corpses, the final…
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