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India's Chandrayaan-2 Spacecraft Leaves Earth Behind for Trip to the Moon
SPACE.com - 14 Aug 2019 16:33
India's Chandrayaan-2 mission has marked another milestone in its journey to the moon, leaving Earth's orbit and heading toward lunar orbit with an engine burn.
Ways to avoid scam websites using the Google search engine
USA Today - 14 Aug 2019 02:39
I you need help and ask Google, you could come in contact with a scam website.
Now anyone can build and share AR effects on Instagram with Spark AR
Pocket-lint - 14 Aug 2019 11:16
Facebook is now making it possible for you to create your own augmented reality effects for your Instagram posts. The company previously mentioned it
How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell
Wired - 14 Aug 2019 02:51
Security researcher Joseph Tartaro thought NULL would make a fun license plate. He's never been more wrong.
NASA's space-worthy nuclear reactor could be ready to fly by 2022
BGR - 14 Aug 2019 01:37
Today, scientists dream of one day building settlements on the Moon and even Mars, where research can be conducted and human travelers can live safely for months or years. Making that dream a reality is going to take a l...
Security researcher demos a modified iPhone charging cable that can hijack your computer
BGR - 14 Aug 2019 01:06
As far as iPhone and Mac hacks are concerned, a California-based security researcher who goes by the name MG recently came up with one of the more clever and intriguing workarounds we've seen to date. Whereas most exploi...
Mysterious Russian Nuclear Explosion Upgraded From Weird to Baffling Amid Evacuation Confusion
Gizmodo - 14 Aug 2019 00:45
Russia military officials issued conflicting reports this week about whether residents in areas near a mysterious nuclear explosion must evacuate.
Surprise, surprise: Facebook contractors listened in on Messenger audio clips
Pocket-lint - 14 Aug 2019 00:37
Similar to Microsoft, Facebook has been caught hiring third-party contractors to listen in on audio clips of its users.According to Bloomberg, Facebook
How to fix game crashes in No Man's Sky on PlayStation VR
Android Central - 14 Aug 2019 22:38
With a launch as big as No Man's Sky there are bound to be bugs and issues that Hello Games couldn't account for. One issue we are seeing a lot is a black screen on starting your PlayStation VR game. Obviously, that's ba...
Credit Karma glitch exposed users to other people's accounts
TechCrunch - 14 Aug 2019 21:56
Users of credit monitoring site Credit Karma have complained that they were served other people’s account information when they logged in. Many took to a Reddit thread and complained on Twitter about the apparent secur...
Windows Users at Risk From High-Severity Intel Software Flaw
Threatpost - 14 Aug 2019 17:00
Overall, Intel stomped out three high-severity vulnerabilities and five medium-severity flaws.
Simulations Uncover Why Some Supernova Explosions Produce So Much Manganese And Nickel
SpaceRef - 14 Aug 2019 05:19
Researchers have found white dwarf stars with masses close to the maximum stable mass (called the Chandrasekhar mass) are likely to produce large amounts of manganese, iron, and nickel after it orbits another star and ex...
Facebook Paid Contractors to Transcribe Audio of Its Users' Conversations
Time - 14 Aug 2019 02:12
Facebook confirmed that it had been transcribing users' audio and said it will no longer do so
Data shows that July's best-selling games at these stores weren't that violent
Digital Trends - 14 Aug 2019 00:49
Walmart, GameStop, and Amazon all sold video games in the lead up to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, but the best-selling games at the retailers were not very violent.
Amazon will now donate unsold warehouse merchandize by default instead of trashing it
The Verge - 14 Aug 2019 23:48
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has unveiled a new program today in the US and UK that will donate unwanted products from third-party Marketplace sellers instead of sending them to the garbage dump. The ne...
Neanderthal's Got 'Surfer's Ear' A Lot, Study Says
Discover - 14 Aug 2019 22:38
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man and child at Vienna's Natural History Museum. (Credit: Wolfgang Sauber/Wikimedia Commons Being a lifelong surfer or diver sometimes comes with an odd side-effect: the growth of small...
Brain molecule identified as key in anxiety model
Science Daily - 14 Aug 2019 22:18
Boosting a single molecule in the brain can change 'dispositional anxiety,' the tendency to perceive many situations as threatening, in nonhuman primates, researchers have found. The molecule, neurotrophin-3, stimulates ...
Guidelines for treatment of migraine in children and teens
Science Daily - 14 Aug 2019 22:18
For children and teens with migraine, the pain and symptoms that accompany migraine attacks can be debilitating, resulting in missed school days, absence from social or sporting events, and affected home activities. Now ...
Study predicts modest impact from additional dose of rotavirus vaccine
Science Daily - 14 Aug 2019 20:45
Giving children an additional dose of rotavirus vaccine when they are nine months old would provide only a modest improvement in the vaccine's effectiveness in low-income countries, according to a new study.
Charcoal-based drug delivery system improves efficacy of common herpes drug
Science Daily - 14 Aug 2019 20:45
A study has found that combining acyclovir -- a commonly prescribed topical herpes medication -- with particles of activated carbon improves efficacy of the drug.
Helping bacteria be better friends
Science Daily - 14 Aug 2019 20:44
Bacteria, like people, have complicated relationships. A group of researchers was able to engineer the genomes of 4 species of gut bacteria to make them rely on each other for essential nutrients rather than competing fo...
New drug targets early instigator of Alzheimer's disease
Science Daily - 14 Aug 2019 20:05
Medicinal chemists are exploring a small molecule drug known as DYR219. The promising therapy, while still in the experimental stages, may succeed where other treatments have failed, and could be effective against a rang...