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- Researchers put together a resource list for victims of smart home-aided domestic abuse
- How to capture the eerie nighttime clouds of climate change
- Twitter reportedly suspended 70 million accounts in past two months in crackdown
- Guild Wars studio fires two employees after clash with streamer
- NASA put its famous planet-hunting telescope to sleep because it’s almost out of fuel
- Virgin Galactic plans to launch customers to space from a future Italian spaceport
- Star Wars: Episode IX reportedly casts Keri Russell in an ‘action-heavy’ role
- Crypto.com, the multimillion-dollar cryptography domain whose owner refused to sell, has been sold
- Seagate announces a mainstream SSD drive
- Ant-Man and the Wasp is a solid improvement on Ant-Man
| Researchers put together a resource list for victims of smart home-aided domestic abuse Posted: 06 Jul 2018 03:26 PM PDT  A London-based research team has just published a six-page list of resources for domestic abuse victims who've been targeted through smart home gadgets that are controlled by their partners. In some cases, a domestic abuser can remotely control internet-connected home appliances using their phone, such as a smart thermostat, causing these devices to seemingly malfunction or become disabled with no probable cause. The six-page document includes a number of blogs, written works, and organizations to contact that are intended to both inform victims of current research and it give pointers on how to deal with technology that might be used to abuse or harass them. The resource list also seeks to tackle any discrepancies in smart home... |
| How to capture the eerie nighttime clouds of climate change Posted: 06 Jul 2018 02:01 PM PDT  Strange clouds that glow in the night sky are getting easier to see — and it could be because of all the methane we're pumping into the atmosphere, a new study says. The bad news is that methane is a greenhouse gas that's contributing to global warming. But the good news is that more methane means that more of us might get a chance to see these stunning, night-shining — or noctilucent — clouds, according to the study, which was published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Noctilucent clouds form around the poles in the summer months, when ice crystallizes around shards of disintegrating meteoroids, volcanic dust, and even rocket plumes 50 miles above the surface, according to NASA. Here on the ground, we can see... |
| Twitter reportedly suspended 70 million accounts in past two months in crackdown Posted: 06 Jul 2018 01:46 PM PDT  Twitter suspended 70 million accounts in in the past two months as part of a crackdown on malicious activity on its platform, according to a report in The Washington Post. The rate of suspensions for May and June is reportedly twice the company's October 2017 suspension rate. The company has been widely criticized for years over seemingly lax efforts to police bad actors, including abusive users. As the scope of Russian disinformation campaigns were revealed, Twitter, along with Facebook, has faced increasing pressure from the public to stop trolls and spam. In a blog post last month, Twitter said it had been working to improve its safety policies, and that its "systems identified and challenged... |
| Guild Wars studio fires two employees after clash with streamer Posted: 06 Jul 2018 01:00 PM PDT  Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet has fired two of its developers, following a disagreement with a streamer on Twitter. Narrative designer Jessica Price and Peter Fries, a writer who'd been with ArenaNet for more than 12 years, were dismissed for what ArenaNet is calling "a [failure] to uphold our standards of communicating" with the game's players. On July 3rd, narrative designer Price tweeted a 29-tweet thread dissecting the challenges of writing player characters in an MMORPG. A streamer who goes by Deroir responded, "Really interesting thread to read! However, allow me to disagree slightly," and shared a three-tweet explanation of how narrative design influences player expression in the sort of games that Price narratively designs. P... |
| NASA put its famous planet-hunting telescope to sleep because it’s almost out of fuel Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:18 PM PDT  The Kepler Space Telescope is almost out of fuel, which means its life is coming to an end, NASA announced today. The space agency says it put the planet-hunting spacecraft into a "hibernation" safe mode this past Monday, and that a plan to reactivate Kepler next month could burn out whatever fuel remains. NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009 in an effort to learn more about the number and frequency of planets in our galaxy. To the delight of many, scientists using Kepler have found an abundance of exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. The spacecraft, which is some 94 million miles away from Earth, has scanned just a small section of our galactic neighborhood, but its efforts have led scientists to discover 2,650... |
| Virgin Galactic plans to launch customers to space from a future Italian spaceport Posted: 06 Jul 2018 12:03 PM PDT  Today, US space tourism venture Virgin Galactic announced a new partnership with two of Italy's biggest aerospace companies to someday launch people into space from the European country. The plan is to eventually conduct flights of Virgin Galactic's passenger spaceplane from Italy's future Grottaglie Spaceport, which will be located at an airport on the heel of the country's famous boot. If this all pans out, Virgin Galactic could be the first group to launch someone into space from Italy — or any other European territory. Virgin Galactic's new partners include Altec, a company owned by the Italian Space Agency, and Sitael, Italy's largest private space company. The two partners are supposed to work with Virgin Galactic to come up with a... |
| Star Wars: Episode IX reportedly casts Keri Russell in an ‘action-heavy’ role Posted: 06 Jul 2018 11:01 AM PDT  Lucasfilm has kept things pretty quiet when it comes to J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode IX, but Variety is now reporting that the director has cast Keri Russell in the upcoming film. The character she'll be playing isn't named, but according to the report it calls for "action-heavy fight scenes." Russell first came to national attention as the star of Felicity back in 1998. That show, which was created by Abrams and Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), featured Russell as the titular young woman who upends her life by deciding to go to college in New York, rather than California, to pursue a potential relationship. More recently, she has earned acclaim for her intense performance on The Americans, which just ended... |
| Crypto.com, the multimillion-dollar cryptography domain whose owner refused to sell, has been sold Posted: 06 Jul 2018 10:47 AM PDT  The valuable domain name Crypto.com, whose owner Matt Blaze has steadfastly refused to sell to cryptocurrency companies, is now owned by a cryptocurrency company. TechCrunch reported today that Monaco purchased the domain for an undisclosed amount. Monaco is known for its cryptocurrency token MCO and a Visa debit card backed by cryptocurrency; after the domain sale, the company is rebranding itself as "Crypto.com." Blaze, a prominent cryptology researcher and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, registered Crypto.com in 1993. As cryptocurrency has boomed, he's been besieged by potential buyers, but he's repeatedly and publicly told them that the domain wasn't for sale. He's also criticized the use of "crypto" as an abbreviation... |
| Seagate announces a mainstream SSD drive Posted: 06 Jul 2018 10:02 AM PDT  Seagate is a pretty familiar name when it comes to storage, but its primary focus has been on consumer hard drives and flash storage for the enterprise market. Now, the company has launched a new consumer SSD, signaling a renewed interest in making more storage for traditional PCs and laptops. The specs on the new BarraCuda SSD position it as a relatively basic SATA drive, rather than the newer, faster NVMe ones. That means it won't be hitting any crazy fast speeds, but it's still a viable option for a desktop in 2018. It comes in a variety of capacities ranging between 250GB and 2TB. And most importantly, it isn't hugely expensive. The smallest model goes for $74, and the 1TB model is on sale for $229.99. |
| Ant-Man and the Wasp is a solid improvement on Ant-Man Posted: 06 Jul 2018 09:43 AM PDT  Given the far-ranging, universe-shaking implications of Avengers: Infinity War just a few months ago, it's hard to remember that there are still stories to be told within the Marvel Cinematic Universe that don't take place on cosmic stages, or have world-shaking stakes. Ant-Man and the Wasp, the third and final MCU film planned for 2018, jumps back in time and scale from Infinity War. Instead of taking in the fate of every sentient being in existence, it focuses on the attempts to rescue one woman who's been gone for 30 years. And instead of enlivening suffocating dread with occasional banter, it fully invests in its silly sight gags and endearing humor. It's a breath of fresh air after Infinity War. It's also a breath of fresh air after... |
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