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Mar 30, 2018
This site guesses exactly who you are based on just 15 questions
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Inti de Ceukelaire, the ethical hacker from ‘Oilsjt’ in Belgium, is back again. De Ceukelaire has built a tool that can pretty reliably tell who you are after answering 15 questions on his new site ‘Oilsjt Analytica,’ a cheeky reference to Cambridge Analytica’s recent Facebook scandal.
I would say it was creepy, but the disclaimer on the website jokes that feeling away. Which also kind of makes me feel like a sucker for giving away data because someone makes light of it. Maybe it illuminates a deeper truth: We don’t care about our data as long as we’re entertained.
“Disclaimer: this website does not store any personal information. I mean, we could, but we say we don’t. So we don’t. We cannot be held responsible for any fake news related to this website.”
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Mar 30, 2018
Voyager Is 13 Billion Miles Away and Needs a Repair: Here’s What Happened
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
There’s no one on board, and it takes nearly 20 hours to get a message to Voyager’s engines. But without the repair, Voyager might stop sending us messages.
Mar 29, 2018
Facebook Starts Fact Checking Photos and Videos in This Country
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Facebook and the AFP, or Agence France-Presse, are now fact checking photos and videos in France as a way to stop fake news from spreading.
Mar 29, 2018
This weekend is your last chance to see a double blue moon until 2037
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Mar 29, 2018
US plant that destroys chemical weapons beset by troubles
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Mar 29, 2018
US to demand visa applicants turn over social media history
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The Trump administration is planning full implementation of its extreme vetting to all non-immigrant visa applicants, with a requirement to disclose social media accounts, phone numbers, and emails.
Mar 29, 2018
Google Knows Literally Everything About You — Here’s How To Delete That Data
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Photographer Amanda Cross, of Lancashire, UK, wrote:
I wanted to compare the colors of different stars next to each other. These are stacks of Rigel, Betelgeuse and Sirius. I took individual images 60 seconds apart with iso 16000 and speed 1/50, stacked them with starstax and presented them together to show the different colors of the stars. I took the images deliberately out of focus to show the colors. The color variations are from the Earth’s atmosphere which splits the light from the star and the camera picks up the colors.
Mar 27, 2018
An Experimental Superbug Killer Is a Tiny Step Closer to Saving Us From the Antibiotic Apocalypse
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
A class of antibiotics heralded as an essential future weapon against drug-resistant superbugs passed an important test. There’s now evidence that they can be used to treat serious infections in live animals (in vivo) without being toxic.
Researchers created simplified, synthetic versions of teixobactin, a protein produced by certain dirt-loving bacteria that was first discovered in 2015. They tested the teixobactin in lab mice whose eyes were infected with one of several germs, including antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus. The most successful of these analogues was found to leave animal cells alone while still wiping out more than 99 percent of the bacteria in the infected eye.
The findings were published in January in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.