It felt like the end of an era on Monday when Anthony Fauci announced that he would be leaving his long-standing perch heading the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infecti
Shudiara McMillian doesn’t have a car and relies on city transit in Wilson, North Carolina, to get wherever she needs to go, whether it’s to work or shopping or a medical appointment.
Until about two years ago, that could mean a long wait at a bus stop because the city’s buses ran only once an hour. And it often meant riding all around town while the bus picked up and dropped off other passengers before finally getting to her stop.
Now, when McMillian needs
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: you should use a different password for every account you have, and each of those passwords should be an extraordinarily long and complex string of characters that are easy for you to remember but hard for others to guess.
Unfortunately, that’s solid advice and equally unfortunately, it’s hacking season. And even more unfortunate, still: hacking season never ends.
However, there are two pretty lazy but secure methods
Bill Nye is here to tell us about the end of the world.
Come Thursday, the engineer-turned-TV host will cheekily unveil details of our imminent demise in his upcoming science disaster series The End is Nye, which streams on Peacock.
The six, 45-minute episodes assault viewers with epic global disasters—manmade and natural—in full VFX spectacle before offering a glimmer of hope in how science can help us survive, mitigate, or even prevent such atroc
On Aug. 5, 2022, digital trans activist Clara Sorrenti found herself arrested at gunpoint at her home in London, Ont. Anti-tr
The metaverse just got another big vote of support from Sand Hill Road.
Ready Player Me, a cross-game avatar system, announced on Tuesday it has closed a $56 million Series B round. Among its backers: Andreessen Horowi
Six months ago, the prospect of a major industrialized country launching a full-fledged assault on its neighbor in both the digital and physical realms stopped being a theoretical exercise.
But the cyberattacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure that preceded and then paralleled
DARPA, the Pentagon’s high-risk, high-reward R&D arm, has its mind on laser links. The agency is specifically working to develop an interconnected network of links for speedy and secure communications between military, civilian, and commercial space assets.
The DARPA program, known as the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN), recently announced 11 Phase 1 awardees.
Space-BACN
The Phase 1 Space-BACN awards fall into three technica
On the morning of August 29, hours after sunrise, NASA’s gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket will blast off from the Atlantic coast, bound for lunar orbit. Perched on top of the rocket will be the Orion astronaut capsule, destined to carry humans to the moon for the first time since 1972.
There will be no humans on board this time, but the “Artemis I” mission will be the first test flight of the shuttle that will propel humans toward Earth’s close
The coming decades will be marked by extraordinary new technological innovations. They could provide us with enormous benefits—or bring us to the brink of disaster. What happens next hinges on whether we can figure out how to handle the risks. So, if you’re aiming at positive impact in your life, one of the best things you might do is to join the effort to make sure the most powerful technologies we are building work for the benefit of all humanit