• Mr. Formand, Nu Er det Tid til at Tweet

    Foto: AP Tidligere FBI-direktør James Comey har været vidne før Senatet Intelligence Udvalget i over en time. Twitter er ild med journalister tweeting citater og idioter, der fortæller vittigheder. Det er hot, hot, hot. Men det er ikke nok. Washington Post-journalisten Robert Costa rapporterede tirsdag, at Præsident Trump kan “live-tweet, hvis han føler behov for…

  • Kan Fostre Genkende Ansigter, Når De er Stadig i Livmoderen?

    Ultralydsscanning af fosteret (Billede: Kirsty Dunn & Vincent Reid) Vi kan ikke huske, hvad det var som at være et foster. Vi kan ikke huske, hvad vi har hørt eller lugtet, og vi er helt sikkert ikke kan huske, hvad vi så. Så fostre, deres udvikling, og deres erfaringer er en naturlig nysgerrighed. Hvornår og…

  • Mennesker på Vej til Mars Kunne stå over for en Foruroligende Høj Risiko for Kræft

    Billede: NASA Stort set alle, der kan lide plads, og har masser af penge, er at forsøge at komme til Mars i den nærmeste fremtid. Men før nogen når frem til den Røde Planet, der er masser af bekymringer, til at fundere over, mest bemærkelsesværdigt, at vores kroppe ikke er bygget til at leve i…

  • Hvem Er Denne, der Selv Kører Cadillac CT6 Hører Til?

    En anonym fupmager delte et foto af en Cadillac CT6, udstyret med autonome kørsel sensorer og scannere, som de fik øje parkeret i Pittsburgh i går. Pittsburgh er blevet et knudepunkt for den, der selv kører tech scene på grund af sin nærhed til Carnegie Mellon University og dens berømte robotteknologi-program, såvel som staten er…

  • British Cops Make First Arrest Using Facial Recognition Surveillance Vans

    Photo: Getty Science fiction authors have been writing about it for decades. Privacy activists have warned it’s just around the corner. Today, perfected facial recognition is one step closer to becoming a reality. UK authorities landed their first arrest last week relying on an automatic facial recognition (AFR) system, the South Wales Police confirmed to…

  • Uber Has Already Fired More Than 20 Employees While Investigating Harassment [Updated]

    Photo: AP The details of an independent investigation into Uber’s workplace culture that was sparked after a female engineer came forward with allegations of sexual harassment are starting to come out. Uber’s independent investigators looked into 215 complaints and ended up firing more than 20 employees since this February. Bloomberg first reported the numbers and…

  • Particle Accelerators Are Changing the Way We Look at Ancient Turds

    A fossil poop (Image:Poozeum/Wikimedia Commons) Shit’s wild. No, seriously, there’s so much you can learn about animals, their lifestyles, and the world they interacted with based on what shows up in their poo. Especially if the poo is over 200 million years old. Most of the methods used to look at fossilized shit, more commonly…

  • Free Speech Group Says Trump Violates the First Amendment by Blocking Critics on Twitter

    Photo: AP The Knight First Amendment Institute, a digital rights group out of Columbia University, published an open letter to President Trump on Tuesday asking him to unblock his critics on Twitter or potentially face legal action for violating their constitutional rights. In the four-page letter, the lawyers argue that Twitter “operates as a ‘designated…

  • Researcher Found Another Twitter Vulnerability That Allowed Tweeting From Any Account

    Photo: Getty A bug in a Twitter product could have allowed attackers to send tweets from any account and delete photos and videos from published tweets, according to a recent blog post by the security researcher who discovered it. It’s the second broad vulnerability in the product, called Studio, that’s come to light recently, raising questions…

  • Tech Companies and Activists Set Date for Net Neutrality ‘Day of Action’

    Photo: Getty The last time we had a major fight over net neutrality, the “Internet Slowdown Day” protests were credited with helping push the FCC to reclassify the internet as a Title II utility. Now that net neutrality is the closest it’s ever been to dead, activists and tech giants are rallying to mount a…