Facebook faces prospect of 'devastating' data transfer ban after Irish ruling
Ireland's data regulator can resume a probe that may trigger a ban on Facebook's transatlantic data transfers, the High Court ruled on Friday, raising the prospect of a stoppage that the company warns would have a devastating impact on its business.
Source: reuters.com
Watch a Jet Suit Pilot Fly Onto a Ship to Trial the Tech for Fighting Pirates
The jet suit is made by UK-based Gravity Industries, whose founder Richard Browning was himself in the Royal Marine Reserves for a time.
Source: singularityhub.com
Royal Mail trials drone delivery to Isles of Scilly
The drones could be used to fly post to some of the most remote communities in the UK.
Source: bbc.co.uk
The volunteers using 'honeypot' groups to fight anti-vax propaganda
Volunteers are busting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories with decoy Facebook groups.
Source: bbc.com
US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack
The US acts to keep fuel flowing after its largest pipeline was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack. "Cyber-security firm Digital Shadows says the Colonial attack has come about due to the pandemic - with more engineers remotely accessing control systems for the pipeline from home. James Chappell, co-founder...
Source: bbc.com
Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?
"The importance of airborne transmission in the pandemic was clear long before the World Health Organization finally began to acknowledge it." "If the importance of aerosol transmission had been accepted early, we would have been told from the beginning that it was much safer outdoors, where these small...
Source: nytimes.com
Taking an invention from idea to the marketplace
Lockdown spurred many people to invent new products, but how did they get to market?
Source: bbc.com
Flat Pasta That Turns Into 3-D Shapes - Just Add Boiling Water
The engineers are in the kitchen, again.
Source: nytimes.com
No Evidence That Associations Between Adolescents' Digital Technology Engagement and Mental Health Problems Have Increased
Digital technology is ubiquitous in modern adolescence, and researchers are concerned that it has negative impacts on mental health that, furthermore, increase over time. To investigate whether technology is becoming more harmful, we examined changes in associations between technology engagement and...
Source: sagepub.com
Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS) clinic to close
Hundreds of patients with a rare but debilitating syndrome are concerned for a clinic's future in Derriford.
Source: bbc.com
Human remains from Mary Rose show diversity of Tudor crew
A team of researchers with Cardiff University, the Mary Rose Trust, HM Naval Base and the British Geological Survey's National Environmental Isotope Facility has found evidence of racial diversity among the crew of the Mary Rose—a warship from the time of King Henry the VIII. In their paper published...
Source: phys.org
Bank of England predicts rebound in the economy
"The Bank of England said Britain's economy would grow by the most since World War Two this year and slowed the pace of its trillion dollar bond-purchasing programme, but stressed it was not reversing its stimulus." Strong indications finally of a bounce back in the economy highlight the devastating...
Source: reuters.com
Covid-19: Project offers support to overwhelmed Indian doctors
Prof Parag Singhal from Somerset is among those offering online advice to help relieve pressure.
Source: bbc.com
Crash Course on Python
Offered by Google. This course is designed to teach you the foundations in order to write simple programs in Python using the most common ... Enroll for free.
Source: coursera.org
AI unlocks ancient Dead Sea Scrolls mystery
"Cutting edge technology" reveals how scribes foiled modern scholars with one of the Biblical texts.
Source: bbc.com
Essential Technologies: The Tally Stick - The Scholarly Kitchen
From the Upper Paleolithic Era up until the mid 1800s, the tally stick was a remarkably long-lived piece of technology.
Source: sspnet.org
IEA issues 'dire warning' on CO2 emissions as it predicts 5% rise
Global CO2 emissions from energy are seen rising nearly 5% this year, suggesting the economic rebound from COVID-19 could be "anything but sustainable" for the climate, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
Source: reuters.com
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
Update, April 9, 2021 : We've launched Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create...
Source: eff.org
It just got a little easier to move your Facebook posts to some other platform
Social networks have typically followed the roach motel model of customer data: Make it easy to push data in, but hard/impossible to pull it back out. Platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter all make money by knowing what information you've (wittingly or unwittingly) handed over ââ¦
Source: niemanlab.org
APOD: 2021 April 18 - Rainbow Airglow over the Azores
"A spectacular sky is visible through this banded airglow, with the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy running up the image center, and M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, visible near the top left."
Source: nasa.gov
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