Disney World’s “Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser” hotel will be expensive and immersive, writes SFGate. (“For two adults, the starting price is about $5,000. For three adults and one child, it’s nearly $6,000.”) And while the hotel doesn’t open to paid guests until Tuesday, free previews have already been given to Read more…
Hacking group Anonymous has said that it will support Ukraine in its fight against Russia, and has already claimed an attack on the state-controlled TV network Russia Today…. While the fight on the ground was happening, Russia Today’s servers were taken offline. The broadcaster has been criticised for putting out Read more…
The New York times reports that two extensive new studies released today “point to a market in Wuhan, China as the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.” The researchers analyzed data from a range of sources to look for clues to how the pandemic arose. They concluded that the coronavirus was Read more…
The West’s initial salvo of financial sanctions against Russia failed to deter President Vladimir Putin from launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now the United States is taking a punitive approach, announcing another round of sanctions meant to tighten the screws on Russian banks and “corrupt billionaires.” But some experts Read more…
The United States and key allies will cut Russian banks out of the global financial messaging system SWIFT and begin to target Russia’s central bank, according to a White House statement on Saturday… The statement said the U.S., top European economies, Britain, and Canada would disconnect selected Russian banks from Read more…
We often think of multiplication and division as calculations that need to be taught in school. But a large body of research suggests that, even before children begin formal education, they possess intuitive arithmetic abilities. A new study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience argues that this ability to do Read more…
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday that cyberattacks could trigger Article 5 of the organization’s charter, the so-called “commitment clause” that considers an attack on any NATO ally an attack on all. Stoltenberg’s comment comes as national security professionals and cybersecurity industry professionals remain on high alert for any major Read more…