Ransomware is one of the nastiest forms of malware around: once it’s downloaded onto a computer network, it runs around encrypting all your files, before charging a Bitcoin ransom to give up the encryption key: bad if it’s your holiday photos at stake, disastrous for hospitals and patient data. Read more…
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Hospital Pays $17,000 Ransom to Reclaim Its Files
You can keep your super-tall towers: How about the physical challenge of building the world’s most slender instead? That’s what engineers have done in Brighton, UK, with the i360 tower. Read more…
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The World’s Most Slender Tower Is 13 Feet Wide But 531 Feet Tall
Sea butterflies are snails that have inverted themselves. Instead of using their flesh (via a foot) to crawl on the sea floor, they turned upside down and make their protruding bodies into “wings.” When scientists studied this unusual motion, they found the sea butterflies move exactly like fruit flies and other small insects. Read more…
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A ‘Sea Butterfly’ Swims the Same Way Insects Fly
In case you’re ever in the position of wanting to get back at a lawyer, here’s some news from Florida: don’t get your revenge by posting a slanderous Yelp review, or you’ll be in the hole for $350, 000. Read more…
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Libelling a Lawyer in Yelp Reviews Turns Out to be a Bad Idea
Want to make sure you back something up indefinitely? Then you could do worse than a new digital data storage technique that uses laser light to store 360 terabytes of information on nanostructured quartz for up to 14 billion years. Read more…
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Optical Data Storage Squeezes 360TB on to a Quartz Disc—Forever
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s initiative to build a long-endurance unmanned ship that will hunt and track the quietest submarines on Earth has come to fruition. The image above is the first glimpse ever of the potentially revolutionary Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel or ACTUV, also known as Sea Hunter. Read more…
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Exclusive: This Is The First Known Image Of DARPA’s Submarine-Hunting Drone Ship
Sony’s latest quirky product to emerge from its First Flight crowdfunding platform is this sleek universal remote. Called Huis—pronounce it “house”—the e-ink device is designed to be a fully customizable tool to control your entire home. Read more…
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We Hope Sony’s Sleek Universal E -Ink Remote Reaches the US
Looking for new book suggestions or just curious to see if you missed out on some classics in college? Open Syllabus Project can help you on both fronts. Read more…
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Open Syllabus Project Shows the Books Students Are Assigned Most in College
The Star Wars expanded universe is huge. Really huge. Like, you just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly huge it really is. To grasp the full extent of this hugeness, a team of data scientists used a new computer program to analyze it, revealing some unexpected things about the extended saga. Read more…
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Computer Analysis Reveals the Stunning Complexity of the Star Wars Expanded Universe
Good news for everyone who won’t be able to make it to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child : the script for the play will be on sale July 31. That’s right after the official opening of the play. And on Harry’s birthday. Read more…
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The Harry Potter Play Will Become the Eighth Harry Potter Book in July