Some parts of the Halifax harbour turned a bright shade of pink on Thursday — for science. After researchers dumped in 500 litres of safe, water-soluble dye, “boats, drones and underwater robots were then deployed to map the movement of the dye, so researchers can understand where materials spread and 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…
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…
According to the Financial Times, China’s internet giants have ordered more than $5 billion worth of high-performance Nvidia chips for building generative AI systems. Baidu, TikTok-owner ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba have made orders worth $1 billion to acquire about 100,000 A800 processors from the U.S. chipmaker to be delivered this Read more…
Amtrak and a company called Texas Central announced a partnership on Wednesday to connect Houston and Dallas by train, spanning roughly 240 miles at speeds upwards of 205 mph. Popular Science reports: According to Quartz, the applications have already been submitted to “several federal grant programs” to help finance research Read more…
Scientists near Chicago say they may be getting closer to discovering the existence of a new force of nature. They have found more evidence that sub-atomic particles, called muons, are not behaving in the way predicted by the current theory of sub-atomic physics. Scientists believe that an unknown force could Read more…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered signs of seasonal floods on Mars at a site called Gale Crater. About 3,000 Martian days into its exploration, the rover was at a site that dates to roughly 3.6 billion years ago, during Mars’ relatively wet Hesperian period. And it came across what would Read more…