U.S. spy agencies will share more intelligence with U.S. companies, nongovernmental organizations and academia under a new strategy released this week that acknowledges concerns over new threats, such as another pandemic and increasing cyberattacks. The National Intelligence Strategy, which sets broad goals for the sprawling U.S. intelligence community, says that Read more…
Researchers have shown how to conduct thousands of rapid molecular screenings simultaneously, using light to identify target molecules snared on top of an array of tiny silicon blocks. In theory, the tool could be used to spot 160,000 different molecules in a single square centimeter of space. Developed to spot Read more…
As autonomous vehicles become increasingly popular in San Francisco, some riders are wondering just how far they can push the vehicles’ limits — especially with no front-seat driver or chaperone to discourage them from questionable behavior… The Standard has spoken to four separate Cruise car riders who said they’ve had Read more…
Microsoft “disclosed 15 high-severity vulnerabilities in a widely used collection of tools used to program operational devices inside industrial facilities” (like plants for power generation, factory automation, energy automation, and process automation). On Friday Microsoft “warned that while exploiting the code-execution and denial-of-service vulnerabilities was difficult, it enabled threat actors Read more…
An international team of scientists has developed a new technology that can help detect (or even treat) cancer in hard-to-reach places, such as the colon. The team has published a paper in Science for the technique dubbed CATCH, or cellular assay for targeted, CRISPR-discriminated horizontal gene transfer. Engadget reports: For Read more…
You’re either a subtitles person or you’re not. But increasingly, people are. Preply followed up on its subtitle-use survey of Americans from 2022 and found a 5% rise, to 58%, in how many people use captioning more than they used to. Now, just over half (51%) of those surveyed say Read more…
A UCLA-led study of NASA’s DART mission found that the collision launched a cloud of boulders from its surface. “The boulder swarm is like a cloud of shrapnel expanding from a hand grenade,” said Jewitt, lead author of the study and a UCLA professor of earth and planetary sciences. “Because Read more…