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Snake photos: Pythons swallow crocodiles and other animals ... whole
Live Science - 19 Jul 2021 20:38
Here's a look at the gruesome ways pythons take down their prey, from rats and mice to spotted deer and crocodiles. See photos of the snakes in action.
Autism Can Be Detected During Toddlerhood Using a Brief Questionnaire
Neuroscience News - 19 Jul 2021 00:07
A newly developed questionnaire can detect autism in children between the ages of 18 to 30 months.
Blue Origin video highlights path to Tuesday's first crewed flight
Digital Trends - 19 Jul 2021 05:00
As Blue Origin prepares to send its founder Jeff Bezos and three others to the edge of space on Tuesday, the company reveals how it got this far.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope lives: switch to backup hardware fixes glitch - CNET
CNET - 19 Jul 2021 01:00
The 30-year-old space telescope has been battling for a month. Now it can get back to science.
Robinhood Expects IPO to Value Trading App at About $33 Billion
Wall Street Journal - 19 Jul 2021 15:29
The valuation is less than the $40 billion or more previously expected from the offering by the California company, which is likely to raise about $2 billion.
US to Accuse China of Microsoft Hacking
The New York Times - 19 Jul 2021 15:13
The Biden administration is also expected to organize a broad group of allies to condemn Beijing for cyberattacks around the world, but stop short of taking concrete punitive steps.
Researchers Warn of Linux Cryptojacking Attackers Operating from Romania
The Hacker News - 19 Jul 2021 15:11
A threat group likely based in Romania and active since at least 2020 has been behind an active cryptojacking campaign targeting Linux-based machines with a previously undocumented SSH brute-forcer written in Golang. Dub...
Extreme Drought Could Shut Down a Hydroelectric Power Plant In California
Motherboard - 19 Jul 2021 15:00
Climate change is coming for renewable energy.
iMessage, Apple Music used by Pegasus to attack journalist iPhones
AppleInsider - 19 Jul 2021 14:59
Amnesty International has detailed evidence showing some of the ways NSO's Pegasus spyware tool infiltrated the iPhones of journalists and activists, by using weaknesses in Apple's software including an iMessage zero-cli...
Our universe might be a giant three-dimensional donut, really.
Live Science - 19 Jul 2021 14:33
Astrophysicists say our universe might be shaped like a three-dimensional donut, meaning you could point a spaceship in one direction and eventually return to where you started.
Report claims TSMC plans to build a new US factory
Slash Gear - 19 Jul 2021 14:07
The chip shortage has impacted manufacturing operations all around the world. Industries that have been particularly impacted include US-based technology and automotive manufacturers. Automakers, including Ford and other...
7 Cool Pixel Features You Can't Get on Other Android Phones
Gizmodo - 19 Jul 2021 14:00
The Google Pixel series of phones hasn't really caught the imagination or attracted the sort of sales in the same way that its big-name Android rivals have, but Google actually introduced Android features first on its Pi...
ESO astronomers share galaxy images that look like fireworks
Slash Gear - 19 Jul 2021 13:49
A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have released some new observations of galaxies that look like colorful explosions of fireworks in the sky. The images were obtained using the ESL Very L...
A robot collision sparked a fire at the UK's top online grocer
Engadget - 19 Jul 2021 13:40Nintendo denies profit margin increase for OLED Switch
Slash Gear - 19 Jul 2021 13:29
Nintendo is taking Twitter to deny a report that was published last week that claims its profit margin will increase on the Nintendo Switch featuring an OLED screen. The report claimed that Nintendo was increasing the pr...
Just in time for Windows 11, Amazon AppStore will support app bundles
Android Authority - 19 Jul 2021 13:24
The move comes after Microsoft announced Windows 11 will offer Android app support via Amazon's storefront.
Don't try to replace pets with robots; design robots to be more like service animals
Phys.org - 19 Jul 2021 13:13
Robopets are artificially intelligent machines created to look like an animal (usually a cat or dog, but they can be any animal). There are numerous robopets on the market right now, being sold to consumers as "pets" or ...
Hubble reveals a 'rediscovered' star cluster
Phys.org - 19 Jul 2021 13:12
This image shows the globular cluster NGC 6380, which lies around 35,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpio (the Scorpion). Globular clusters are spherical groups of stars held together by gravity; they...
Bonding's next top model: Projecting bond properties with machine learning
Phys.org - 19 Jul 2021 13:11
Designing materials that have the necessary properties to fulfill specific functions is a challenge faced by researchers working in areas from catalysis to solar cells. To speed up development processes, modeling approac...
New method found for moving tiny artificial swimmers
Phys.org - 19 Jul 2021 13:10
Princeton researchers have debuted a novel way of generating and potentially controlling locomotion in tiny objects called artificial swimmers. These swimmers have sparked considerable interest for their potential applic...
The tallest mountains on a neutron star are only millimeters high
Slash Gear - 19 Jul 2021 13:09
Here on Earth, mountains get extremely tall, thousands and thousands of feet high. However, new models of neutron stars show that the tallest mountains on these objects are only fractions of millimeters high due to the m...
How Does a Blind Photographer Make it So Far in Life?
The Phoblographer - 19 Jul 2021 06:00
If you've read this site for years, you probably know about something that makes me special. I'm legally blind. You can see it in my images and even on my personal website. But the fact is that as a legally blind photogr...