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Study Links Early Life Adversity, Microglia Dysfunction, to Aberrant Adult Stress Responses, Mental Illness
Neuroscience News - 29 Mar 2022 23:04
Microglia dysfunction in those who experienced early life adversity prompts an aberrant stress response during adulthood that may be linked to mental illness.
Half-billion dollar DeFi hack goes unnoticed for almost a week
Mashable - 29 Mar 2022 20:31
Hackers stole over a half-billion dollars' worth of cryptocurrency, and no one noticed. That's the wild takeaway Tuesday morning after the team behind Ronin, an Ethereum sidechain developed for the popular blockchain-int...
Unique Connectivity Lets Highly Creative People's Brains Take 'Road Less Traveled' to Their Destination
Neuroscience News - 29 Mar 2022 01:14
The brains of highly creative people appear to work differently from those who are less creative in terms of connectivity, a new study reports.
Ancient Britons rapidly evolved to cope with lack of sunlight
New Scientist - 29 Mar 2022 17:30
The DNA of people who lived in Great Britain thousands of years ago has markers of natural selection at work - and the driving force seems to have been a shortage of vitamin D
Q & A: What does being energy independent really mean?
Phys.org - 29 Mar 2022 15:40
The rapid rise in gas prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine has renewed calls for the U.S. to become "energy independent."
How to get your Samsung phone to use Ring notifications
Pocket-lint - 29 Mar 2022 13:07
Ring's Video Doorbell - and other Ring devices - have that distinctive notification tone. It's a useful tone, letting you know when your device has detected
Samsung QN95B Neo QLED 4K TV review: A cinematic shining star
Pocket-lint - 29 Mar 2022 13:00
The 2022 flagship Neo QLED TV from Samsung combines a Mini LED backlight and Quantum Dots with a 4K neural processor and class-leading local dimming.
MIT graduate engineering, business, science programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2023
MIT - 29 Mar 2022 06:01
Graduate engineering and economics programs are No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 5.
Some Twitter traffic briefly funneled through Russian ISP, thanks to BGP mishap
Ars Technica - 29 Mar 2022 04:00
Despite the timing, the 45-minute hijacking was most likely an error, not an attack.
Starship Could be Ready for an Orbital Flight in May
Universe Today - 29 Mar 2022 02:54
According to Elon Musk's latest updates, the Starship could be ready to fly with the new Raptor engines by May The post Starship Could be Ready for an Orbital Flight in May appeared first on Universe Today.
YouTube is testing time-specific emoji reactions
Engadget - 29 Mar 2022 01:56App Store preorders for 'Diablo Immortal' now open
AppleInsider - 29 Mar 2022 01:25
A new Diablo game is set to release to iPad, iPhone, and Android devices later this year, boasting a brand new story, competitive and cooperative multiplayer modes, and controller support. First announced at Blizzcon 201...
3D Printing Saved This Vulnerable Bird's Life - CNET
CNET - 29 Mar 2022 00:56
Formlabs printed a prosthetic used to treat an Indian hornbill named Crescent that had cancer in its bill, showing the technology's medical promise.
Unicode won't accept any new flag emoji
Engadget - 29 Mar 2022 15:154 Women Photographers on the Hardest Photo They Ever Took
Wired - 29 Mar 2022 15:00
In honor of Women's History Month, we talked about the stories behind these artists' most challenging images--from the personal to the political.
Astronomy's ten-year wish list: Big money, bigger telescopes and the biggest questions in science
Phys.org - 29 Mar 2022 14:24
It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have pushed scientific knowledge forwa...
Experts Detail Virtual Machine Used by Wslink Malware Loader for Obfuscation
The Hacker News - 29 Mar 2022 14:15
Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a malicious loader that runs as a server and executes received modules in memory, laying bare the structure of an "advanced multi-layered virtual machine" used by the mal...
A Large-Scale Supply Chain Attack Distributed Over 800 Malicious NPM Packages
The Hacker News - 29 Mar 2022 14:14
A threat actor dubbed "RED-LILI" has been linked to an ongoing large-scale supply chain attack campaign targeting the NPM package repository by publishing nearly 800 malicious modules. "Customarily, attackers use an anon...
For Refugees in Detention Camps, Smartphones Are a Lifeline
Wired - 29 Mar 2022 14:00
Smartphones can plot travel routes, contact loved ones, and collect evidence of abuse. As one refugee put it, "this sim card is our life."
'Momentum Computing' Pushes Technology's Thermodynamic Limits
Scientific American - 29 Mar 2022 14:00
Overheating is a major problem for today’s computers, but those of tomorrow might stay cool by circumventing a canonical boundary on information processing --
Russia's Yandex lays off two dozen US-based workers from its robot and self-driving teams
The Verge - 29 Mar 2022 14:00
Yandex, a multi-billion dollar tech company based in Russia, had been operating autonomous vehicles in Michigan before the invasion of Ukraine. | Yandex Yandex, the multi-billion dollar Russian tech company that's been o...
Security experts debate messaging interoperability encryption challenges
9 to 5 Mac - 29 Mar 2022 13:42
Messaging interoperability encryption challenges are being discussed by security experts, following the European Union's decision to make cross-platform messaging capabilities a legal requirement. There was much debate o...