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Leica is about to captivate us once again with the beauty and mystery of black and white photography. The German camera maker unveils the Leica M11 monochrome. It’s the first new derivative of last year’s 60-megapixel M11, and his fifth…

After years of disappointing results in her quest to treat heroin addiction, Marie Nyswander was more than ready to try something new. When she met a prominent doctor at the prestigious Rockefeller Institute, now the Rockefeller University, the two embarked on…

The pickups assigned to different positions of the toggle switch on electric guitars are pre-set by the manufacturer, and fine-tuning them requires disassembling the soldering iron and doing a lot of experimentation. HyperSwitch uses the power of your smartphone and…

A well-known manufacturer of luxury yachts for the ultra-rich was hit with a ransomware attack over the Easter weekend, but it’s unclear if sensitive customer information was stolen. German shipbuilder Lürssen, founded in 1875, is said to have close to…

you are terrifying a lot. Even in your own body, your 30 trillion human cells can’t compete with the 40 trillion or so bacteria that live under your gut, skin, and toenails. Your DNA owes a significant portion (about 8%)…

TTI Consumer Power Tools, Inc d/b/a TTI Power Equipment (“TTIPE”) is seeking a full-time in-house intellectual property attorney position in its Anderson, South Carolina office. TTIPE is a world leader in quality consumer and professional power tools and outdoor products,…

An emerging Python-based credential harvester and a hacking tool named Legion is marketed via Telegram as a way for attackers to compromise and further exploit various online services. According to Cado Labs, Legion can enumerate vulnerable SMTP servers, perform remote…

Sapphire crystal resonator used to explore the limits of quantum mechanics Matteo Fadel/ETH Zurich Quantum effects have been demonstrated on one of the largest scales ever, pushing the boundaries of the quantum world. A crystal of 10^16 atoms he placed…

The male desert sand grouse may be less conspicuous, but his belly feathers give him the unique ability to absorb and carry water. For the first time, researchers have closely examined the structure of feathers to see how they absorb…

According to Cybersixgill, the amount of compromised credit cards for sale on the cybercrime market has fallen sharply over the past few years, but the UK figure has increased. Security firms collect 10 million “intelligence items” from the deep, dark…