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June 6, 2023Ravi LakshmananNetwork security/vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added two recently disclosed flaws in Zyxel firewalls to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities, tracked as…

Aviation industry under pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Studio/Shutterstock Airlines may soon start using fuel made from animal fats to help meet climate change goals. But this could increase carbon emissions instead of reducing them, warns a report by…

In some species, when the going gets tough, the body hits the brakes, dropping body temperature and slowing metabolism to a snail’s pace, a condition known as lethargy. Humans don’t go into a coma, but this state can be beneficial…

Apple announces first VR headset apple Apple’s newly announced virtual reality headset promises to merge video and audio with the real world, from immersive FaceTime video chats to watching movies and shows on giant virtual movie screens. . But even…

Last December physicists working on fusion claimed a breakthrough. A team at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California announced it had extracted more energy from a controlled nuclear fusion reaction than had been used to trigger it. It was…

What’s the difference between a thimbleful of bacteria and a supercomputer? Believe it or not, bacteria contain more circuits and more processing power. This is perhaps not too surprising given that information processing is central to living systems, from individual…

In December 2022, scientists at the U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF) will achieve a breakthrough in a decades-long effort to create an energy source based on the same nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun. Announced. “An incredible engineering marvel,”…

Apple’s 2023 Worldwide Developer Conference kicked off at 10am PT this morning, with keynotes packed with product announcements like the M2 Ultra in the updated Mac Studio and the new Mac Pro. But the most exciting news is that Cupertino…

Mycorrhizal fungi take up carbon from plant roots and form extensive underground networks. Aleksandar Mircinovic/Shutterstock The relationship between plants and the fungi that colonize their roots is responsible for trapping large amounts of carbon underground, perhaps representing more than one-third…

Over the millions of years that humans have evolved, our brains have tripled in size and our behavior has become exponentially more complex. Early small-brained hominins (members of the human family) made only simple stone tools. Later, our wiser ancestors…