Drone used to hack parked Teslas
The concerns surrounding the reliability and security of Tesla’s vehicles have been further fanned after two security researchers explained how they successfully accessed unattended and...
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Child’s burial 78,000 years ago in Kenya was a Homo sapiens milestone
By Will Dunham It is a scene that exudes sadness: a child perhaps 2-1/2 or 3 years old buried in a shallow grave under the...
IBM unveils 2-nanometer chip technology for faster computing
By Stephen Nellis For decades, each generation of computer chips got faster and more power-efficient because their most basic building blocks, called transistors, got smaller....
Bees in the Netherlands trained to detect Covid-19 infections
By Bart Biesemans Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with COVID-19, a finding they...
Robot arm for delicate tasks — made in China
Can’t open a bottle of water? A soft robotic arm will do it for you. Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China...
Playing Cupid with sea snails
White abalone – whose flesh is a delicacy and polished shell is prized as mother of pearl – are threatened with extinction. But scientists are...
Chinese scientists use giant telescope to break new ground in pulsar research
Chinese scientists have found the first evidence of three-dimensional (3D) spin-velocity alignment in a pulsar with the help of the world’s largest radio telescope. Based...
Ready to pay subscription for your car? It’s coming
In amongst the plethora of hypotheses for why Tesla, a 20-year-old company, is the most valuable automaker in the world, lies a fundamental truth which...
Blue Origin opens up bidding for first ‘spectacular’ space tourism trip in July
Blue Origin, billionaire Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, said on Wednesday it is targeting July 20 for its first suborbital sightseeing trip on its New Shepard...
British Airways-ZeroAvia hydrogen test plane crash lands
A test plane for hydrogen propulsion from the British-Airways-ZeroAvia partnership was forced to make an emergency landing in the English county of Bedfordshire on April...
Brain-controlled computers are becoming a reality, but major hurdles remain
Imagine controlling your computer just by thinking. It sounds far-out, but real advances are happening on these so-called brain-computer interfaces. More researchers and companies are...
Twitter shares fall as it warns of fizzling user growth, rising costs
Twitter Inc shares sank on Thursday as it reported a surge in ad sales but warned of rising costs and expenses and said user growth...
American astronaut Michael Collins of Apollo 11 fame dies at 90
American astronaut Michael Collins, who stayed behind in the command module of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin traveled...
British sport unites to support football in social media boycott
English cricket and Premiership Rugby on Wednesday announced they will join football’s social media blackout this weekend in response to continued online racist abuse of...
Huge global disparities in electric car ownership
By Nick Carey Europe and China dominate the world market for electric cars, but there are still very few electrified vehicles on the roads in...
5G quantum phones debut in China
With a super SIM card and app, some Chinese smartphone users will soon be able to make phone calls protected by quantum encryption. Unlike traditional...
Digital art gets physical home, buyers in New York gallery
Digital art, whose prices can now rival those of Old Master paintings, is on display at a new physical gallery in New York that aims...
Music and massage: Malaysian farmers attempt to grow prized Japanese muskmelons
By Ebrahim Harris After more than a decade of experimenting, a trio of Malaysian farmers say they have found the right concoction of nutrients and...
Nasa extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air
NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S....
EU mulls ban on AI-assisted mass surveillance
Artificial intelligence, as well as its as-of-yet more commonplace subsect of machine learning, has not been without its fair share of dissenting voices, with concerns...