Richard Forno, Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Volt Typhoon is a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group. The United States government and its primary global intelligence partners, known as the Five Eyes, issued a warning on March 19, 2024, about…
Raquel Velho, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A mere two weeks after the National Science Foundation declared it would close the Arecibo single-dish radio telescope – once the largest in the world – the…
Amazon is not just the largest e-commerce retailer, the company also has a significant copyright portfolio. In recent years the company has increased its anti-piracy efforts, both individually and as a member…
Marc Zimmer, Connecticut College Takeaways A “deep learning” software program from Google-owned lab DeepMind showed great progress in solving one of biology’s greatest challenges – understanding protein folding. Protein folding is the…
Online captchas have become increasingly more complex in an effort to combat online botting, starting from simple checkboxes to prove a user is human to having you select all different kinds of…
The Trump administration on Wednesday granted ByteDance, owner of the short-form video app TikTok, a seven-day extension to sell its U.S. operations, according to a Treasury Department spokesperson. President Donald Trump had…
With most nations around the world still stuck implementing stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, most people are at a loss on what to do and have turned…
NASA and P&G’s Agreement to Allow Astronauts to Wash Their Laundry This month, Procter & Gamble (P&G) and NASA both have signed a contract to create space’s first detergent for astronauts to…
The Pandemic’s Impacts on Computing Systems and Unemployment Rates Earlier this year, the coronavirus outbreak severely impacted the United States’ economy, bringing it to large gaps of regression and decline. Along with…
NASA’s Plans to Use Solar Wind for Extensive Space Expedition Recently, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced its plans to use its new propellant-free propulsion technology called E-Sail as a…
The Universe’s Rapid Expansion Rates and Riess’s New Study This month, cosmologists express their concerns as the universe keeps on expanding at increasingly fast speeds. At first, the signs of changes remain…