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Photo: Facebook Urban Massage, a wellness app that connects users with professional massage therapists, reportedly left a database open to public access, potentially exposing sensitive user and employee data—including complaints alleging sexual misconduct by “dangerous” users alongside their names and other personal information. The ElasticSearch database, which was hosted by Google and has since been…

Photo: N. Phillips/NIST Physicists have created atomic clocks so precise that they can measure deformations in spacetime itself, according to new research. We don’t all experience time passing equally—time passes more slowly closer to something massive’s gravitational pull, as famously theorized by Albert Einstein. And since gravity is typically interpreted as the way mass warps…

Photo: Getty Hundreds of military service members reportedly got caught up in a sextortion scam run by prison inmates using cellphones, according to a release issued on Wednesday by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Military agents from multiple criminal investigation groups have served summons and issued warrants for arrests related to the scheme. According…

An Anelosimus eximius spider.Image: Philippe Fernandez-Fournier Parasites that control the behavior of their hosts for their own benefit are a well-documented natural phenomenon, but the discovery of a previously unknown relationship between a parasitic wasp and a social spider is particularly upsetting. Hijacking the brains of unsuspecting hosts is a thing that some organisms do,…

Photo: Getty Images For people with visual impairment, Instagram just got a bit easier to use. The photo-heavy social media app announced two new features today that will let screen readers read photo descriptions generated through artificial intelligence as well as custom text written by users. The automatic alternative text relies on object recognition to…

Control of foodstuffs and medicines USA (FDA) approved the production of a new generic drug Vitrakvi against cancer, was developed by company Loxo Oncology, in collaboration with the company Bayer. A feature of the drug is that it is designed to combat the mutations in tumours at the genetic level. The technique can be used…

Thanks to committed scientists and discoveries developed on their basis in medical technology today, deaf people have the opportunity to hear, and the blind to see. For compensation of hearing loss for many years used a cochlear implant, but for vision to return applies genetic engineering. It seems that scientists are not concerned about people…

We all know that as a “safety stock” in our body has fat tissue. However, this same fabric we have as many as 2 types: the so-called white fat and brown fat. If the first is those very fat, which preserve the nutrients, the second is just involved in the burning of calories and energy…

In 2002 he published based on the work of Philip K. dick movie, “minority report”. It told about a future where a special system to predict crimes before they commit and prevent them that way. Then the systems based on artificial intelligence nobody even thought about it, but today with the advancement of technology the…