“Cryptocurrency has changed the game of cybercrime,” argues Vice’s Christian Devolu, in a new episode of their video series CRYPTOLAND. “Hackers and cybergangs have been locking down the data of large corporations, police departments, and even hospitals, and demanding ransom — and guess what they’re asking for? Cryptocurrency!” In short, Read more…
Researchers have rejuvenated a 53-year-old woman’s skin cells so they are the equivalent of a 23-year-old’s. […] The scientists in Cambridge believe that they can do the same thing with other tissues in the body. The head of the team, Prof Wolf Reik, of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, told Read more…
Scientists believe they have found evidence of microbes that were thriving near hydrothermal vents on Earth’s surface just 300m years after the planet formed — the strongest evidence yet that life began far earlier than is widely assumed. If confirmed, it would suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of Read more…
On March 29, wind turbines produced more electricity than coal and nuclear, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, an agency that collects energy statistics for the government, says. In the past, wind-powered electricity has gone beyond coal and nuclear on separate days, but this was the first time wind surpassed both Read more…
In a Twitter thread earlier today, Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth teased a web version of Horizon Worlds, the company’s virtual reality platform that’s an integral part of their plan for creating a “metaverse.” Boz was responding to criticism from MacRumors’ Sami Fathi, who pointed out the hypocrisy of Meta Read more…
In early March, days after Russia invaded Ukraine and began cracking down on dissent at home, Konstantin Siniushin, a venture capitalist in Riga, Latvia, helped charter two planes out of Russia to help people flee. Both planes departed from Moscow, carrying tech workers from the Russian capital as well as Read more…
Assembly member Cristina Garcia has cosponsored a bill to make the state’s official workweek 32 hours for companies with 500 or more employees. Any work done past that cutoff would come with a hefty raise: Employers would be required to pay time-and-a-half to workers whose hours run over 32 a Read more…