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May 28, 2022

James Webb telescope will soon study two Super-Earths in the Milky Way

Posted by in category: space

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NASA’s James Webb space telescope is almost ready to get to work. The telescope’s mirrors are perfectly aligned. The team is currently finishing up the final calibrations of the spacecraft’s various instruments. Once that is done, Webb will be ready to get to work. One of the first things NASA plans to do with it is study two “super-Earth” planets known as 55 Cancri e and LHS 384 b.

Of note, both planets are located in our own Milky Way galaxy.

May 28, 2022

‘Privacy’ Search Engine DuckDuckGo Smoked Over Hidden Tracking Agreement With Microsoft

Posted by in category: security

ZeroHedge — On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.


DuckDuckGo, the search engine which claims to offer ‘real privacy’ because it doesn’t track searches or store users’ history, has come under fire after a security researcher discovered that the mobile DuckDuckGo browser app contains a third-party tracker from Microsoft.

Researcher Zach Edwards found that while Google and Facebook’s trackers are blocked, trackers related to bing.com and linkedin.com were also being allowed through.

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May 28, 2022

Attackers Can Use Electromagnetic Signals to Control Touchscreens Remotely

Posted by in category: futurism

GhostTouch attack allows attackers to use electromagnetic signals to control touchscreen devices.

May 28, 2022

Microsoft Finds Critical Bugs in Pre-Installed Apps on Millions of Android Devices

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Details released for a new critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Chrome dev channel and related Chromium-based web browsers.

May 28, 2022

Experts Detail New RCE Vulnerability Affecting Google Chrome Dev Channel

Posted by in category: futurism

Details released for a new critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Chrome dev channel and related Chromium-based web browsers.

May 28, 2022

Nearly 100,000 NPM Users’ Credentials Stolen in GitHub OAuth Breach

Posted by in category: futurism

GitHub shares more details about the recent OAuth token breach, revealing that the attacker gained access to the credentials of nearly 100k NPM users.

May 28, 2022

Boeing’s Starliner lands in the desert — and brings NASA one step closer to a key strategic goal

Posted by in category: space travel

Starliner’s path to success has been turbulent.


This flight has been a long time coming. It brings NASA one step closer to a goal it’s had for some years now: To rely on multiple private space companies to transport astronauts and supplies between the ground and the ISS. But Starliner’s path has been turbulent. For NASA, even if the ascent was a success, it was still well behind schedule.

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May 28, 2022

Previously unnoticed mathematical property of cosmological models discovered

Posted by in category: mathematics

Ghostly ‘mirror world’ might be the cause of cosmic controversy.

May 28, 2022

Summary of: The Biology of Slowing and Reversing Aging | Andrew Huberman & David Sinclair

Posted by in categories: biological, life extension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9IxomBusuw.

Key points of the 2hrs+ long interview between dr. Andrew Huberman and dr. David Sinclair.

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May 28, 2022

Designer Neurons Offer New Hope for Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, neuroscience

Summary: Researchers have designed a new method of converting non-neural cells into functioning neurons that are able to form synapses, dispense dopamine, and restore the function of neurons undermined by Parkinson’s associated destruction of dopaminergic cells.

Neurodegenerative diseases damage and destroy neurons, ravaging both mental and physical health. Parkinson’s disease, which affects over 10 million people worldwide, is no exception. The most obvious symptoms of Parkinson’s disease arise after the illness damages a specific class of neuron located in the midbrain. The effect is to rob the brain of dopamine—a key neurotransmitter produced by the affected neurons.

In new research, Jeffrey Kordower and his colleagues describe a process for converting non-neuronal cells into functioning neurons able to take up residence in the brain, send out their fibrous branches across neural tissue, form synapses, dispense dopamine and restore capacities undermined by Parkinson’s destruction of dopaminergic cells.