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Microsoft’s French headquarters.Photo: Raphael Satter (AP) Last week, Google dropped its bid for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), a massive military cloud computing contract potentially worth up to $10 billion, amid employee backlash and concern the project could violate their “AI principles.” Now an open letter claiming to be from an unspecified number of…

Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes.Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) The fraud case against the ex-management of crooked blood-testing startup Theranos, former CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, is just one component of a larger investigation into the company, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Theranos claimed to have developed a miraculous line of…

Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP) It’s no secret that law enforcement often resorts to workarounds for Apple’s security features, but the Face ID technology of the iPhone X makes things tricky. According to a report from Motherboard, forensics company Elcomsoft is advising law enforcement to not even look at phones with Face ID. This is…

Photo: Charles Dharapak (AP) It’s been a hell of a week for the Pentagon, which can’t seem to keep itself out of headlines recently. Now, it says it’s been hit by a cyber breach of Defense Department travel records that may have compromised the credit card data and other personal information of its workers. A…

Very often in science fiction works, you can see some high-tech materials, which after the damage to heal, if they themselves try to “cure”. Sounds and looks extremely unrealistic, because if the damage destroyed the bonds between the molecules and can’t be recovered. Or is it possible? The answer to this question gives a new…

Very soon there will be another meeting of the Parliament of great Britain. And, it would seem, than it can adept? Even if there are to be discussed rather important issues, it is unlikely it will interest fans of high technologies and it will be interesting to someone other than politicians. Today, however, it will…

Technology of ancient Egypt is shrouded in mystery and studied so far. For example, in August of 2018, scientists have discovered that the Great pyramid of Giza is able to produce electromagnetic energy. It is also known that the Egyptians were the first who began to resort to plastic surgery. As the study of ancient…

Mathematicians have analyzed the properties of gravitational waves in the General affine-metric space (algebraic structures acting on the concepts of vector and point) is similar to the properties of electromagnetic waves in Minkowski space-time. They reported the possibility of transmission of information by means of numericdata waves and the transfer of its spatial distortion. This…

An F-35 jet arriving at its new operational base at Hill Air Force Base in Utah.Photo: Rick Bowmer (AP) The United States military temporarily grounded all of its F-35 jets, the Defense Department’s priciest fighter jets, for inspection Thursday following a crash in South Carolina last month. The cause of the crash is believed to…

A group of urban environmentalists, one from Australia, one from Sweden, outlined in a paper published in the journal Science, his view of the modern rethinking of the lawn. In his work Maria Ignatieva and Marcus Hedblom note that the natural advantages of green lawn are greatly outweighed negative environmental impact and it is therefore…