Chrome now has better password protections
Chrome already has safety protections built in, and now they’re expanding those protections further. When you type your credentials into a website, Chrome will now warn you if your username and password have been compromised in a data breach on some site or app. It will suggest that you change them everywhere they were used….
Bad Weather Delays Blue Origin Launch of Reusable New Shepard Spacecraft
Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, will have to wait another day to launch their spacecraft because of bad weather. New Shepard is a reusable space capsule and rocket designed to take science payloads, and eventually paying passengers on suborbital trips to space. The New Shepard vehicle can make…
T-Mobile claims first nationwide 5g wireless service
T-Mobile US Inc. has jumped to an early lead in the race to offer 5G service nationwide. Starting Friday, when T-Mobile stores begin offering their first two 5G phones, the service will be available across the country. But it won’t be the much-vaunted 5G experience that wireless carriers have been promising: The service is on…
FBI warns your screen is watching you
More on Smart TVs…now the FBI is warning consumers. “Beyond the risk that your TV manufacturer and app developers may be listening and watching you, that television can also be a gateway for hackers to come into your home,” says the FBI. For more, check out this USA Today story.
Elon Musk’s Cybertruck dangerous?
Cybertruck’s radical design may blunt its appeal, but concerns about its impact on other road users raises larger questions about whether an armored truck is really the green future we should be striving toward. Musk took the time to (successfully) demonstrate how a sledgehammer was unable to dent the side panels of the Cybertruck and…
Millions of people may have had their text messages exposed online
Here we go again…another massive security problem. A database housing millions of private SMS text messages was left open online for an extended period of time, a team of researchers at the online privacy company vpnMentor said Sunday. For more, check out this USA Today story.
Cell phone detection cameras rolled out in Australia
Using the phone while driving just became costlier. The Australian state of New South Wales rolled out “high definition detection cameras” on Sunday, designed to catch drivers using cell phones behind the wheel. For more, check out this CNN story.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Couldn’t find anything interesting to post so I will just wish out stateside folks a Happy Thanksgiving!
Physicists Have Finally Seen Traces of a Long-Sought Particle
It was predicted four decades ago, but only found now. Scientists have finally found traces of the axion, an elusive particle that rarely interacts with normal matter. The axion was first predicted over 40 years ago but has never been seen until now. Scientists have suggested that dark matter, the invisible matter that permeates our…
Hungarian scientists may have found a fifth force of nature
It has been rumored/speculated for a while, but Hungarian scientists may have finally proved it. They referred to this unseen fifth force in action as a “protophobic force,” meaning that it was as though the particles were “afraid of protons.” Meanwhile, nuclear physicists around the world set to work looking for errors in the Hungarians’…