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Photo: Getty On Tuesday, US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao revealed the updated version of the guidelines for the testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles. The DOT secretary defended the guidelines, which opt for voluntary guidance rather than enforceable rules. Chao said that a third version is in progress and slated to be introduced in 2018.…

T. gondii cyst in a mouse brain. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) A new study shows that Toxoplasma gondii—a brain parasite often transmitted to humans by cats—triggers various changes in the human brain which potentially allow the pathogen to exacerbate several pre-existing neurological conditions. It’s a worrisome finding given that nearly one in ten Americans may be…

Saturn, by Cassini in 2012. (Image: NASA) Space has a funny way of making us feel both incredibly small yet infinitely lucky for being part of such a vast cosmic sorority. Of course, humans have barely scratched the surface of the final frontier—we’ve never even sent people beyond the Moon. While many uncrewed spacecraft have…

Image: Apple The real sweet spot between price and features is the good ‘ole iPhone 7, which starts at $549—nearly half the price of an iPhone X. No, you won’t get the the iPhone X’s pretty bezel-less screen, but you will get a home button with TouchID instead of Apple’s newfangled facial recognition tech. And…

Image: CDC/ Dr. D.S. Martin Being healthy is good. That is what we should all aspire to be: Not dead, but with all of our flesh on our bodies intact. Unfortunately for us humans, having our flesh eaten is one of the possible side effects of being alive. Anyway, scientists at Georgia Tech interested in…

Photo: Getty Americans who say their phones and laptops were seized by US border agents filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts on Wednesday arguing that their First and Fourth Amendment rights had been violated. Eleven plaintiffs, including journalists, a military veteran, an independent filmmaker, and a NASA engineer, contend that they were detained at the US…

GIF GIF Source: Ford At first, it seemed to be a quirky prank—a man was driving around town dressed up like a car seat and convincing people his car had no one at the wheel. Then we learned that it was all a shadowy research project by Virginia Tech. And now we know that Ford…

Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, participates in a panel discussion during day 3 of the 48th Munich Security Conference at Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 5, 2012 in Munich, Germany. (Photo: Getty) American government agencies are now banned from using software created by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab and will have to begin…

GIF If there was a downside to snacking on candy at the office all day, it would be the inconvenience of having to interrupt your work to actually fetch some processed sugar. It’s a pain that hacker Vije Miller knew all to well, until he built a licorice-launching catapult that automatically flings candy in the…

NEW YORK – UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, the authorities of Myanmar Wednesday called for military action to suspend the violence against the Rohingya muslims to an end. The humanitarian situation is now “catastrophic”, said Guterres in a press conference. According to the UN-ceo, is the crisis in the buddhist-dominated country and destabilising. The displacement of…