New gene-editing technology could revive everything from the passenger pigeon to the woolly mammoth. But should scientists be playing God?
— Read on www.wsj.com/articles/meet-the-scientists-bringing-extinct-species-back-from-the-dead-1539093600
Not such a good idea, too unnatural for me. JohnBarleycorn
Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to know how big the internet was — that is, how many devices were connected to it. So he wrote a program that would travel from computer to computer and ask each machine to send a signal back to a control server, which would keep count.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/the-morris-worm-was-the-worlds-first-cyberattack-curiosity
The Morris code 😉
The Chilling Thing Nvidia Just Said about China & Tech | Wolf Street
— Read on wolfstreet.com/2019/01/28/the-chilling-thing-nvidia-just-said-about-china-tech/
They should negotiate a mutually beneficial trade deal with Trump. The deficit with China is a big issue with Americans who are losing jobs.
Lithium-ion batteries — the power behind your phone, laptop, and basically any rechargeable device you own — may be on their last legs. A series of bad events, from high-profile battery fires to environmental concerns to the rising cost of its namesake material, has experts scrambling to find a safer, more efficient, less expensive substance to power our gadgets.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/4-up-and-coming-batteries-that-could-overtake-lithium-ion-curiosity
Scientists at the University of Central Florida and Honeybee Robotics developed a prototype steam-powered spaceship, dubbed WINE, to explore asteroids and more.
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/steam-powered-spaceship-could-cruise-cosmos-indefinitely-without-running-out-ncna958486
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— Read on www.blacklistednews.com/
They stopped after they were caught 😡
Daniel Kaye attacked an African mobile phone company, inadvertently taking Liberia offline in 2016.
— Read on www.bbc.com/news/uk-46840461
Cyber criminals/the new frontier
Almost every point of light you see in the night sky is a star — a huge, broiling sun smashing atoms together to produce electromagnetic energy many light-years away. If we’re going to understand more about what makes those stars form, shine, and die, we need to start by measuring them. Recently, scientists from Clemson University made one particularly awe-inspiring measurement: they figured out how much starlight has ever been produced in the universe. And it’s a very, very big number.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/scientists-measured-all-the-light-ever-produced-in-the-universe-curiosity
Very cool
China is poised to realize an ambitious mission to the far side of the moon, the most immediate of many planned milestones in its effort to challenge America’s half-century long supremacy in space.
— Read on www.wsj.com/articles/china-pushes-for-primacy-in-space-11546171206
Space race
More consumers who cut the cable cord are turning to over-the-air broadcasts as an alternative.
— Read on www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-tv-antennas-20181228-story.html
I like it
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