Koch arrived in space in March 2019 alongside European astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov. During the 11 month mission, Koch performed various experiments including studying the effects of microgravity on Mizuna mustard greens, combustion, bioprinting, and kidney diseases. In addition, Koch herself was a research subject to determine the long-term effects of spaceflight on the human body. — Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) February 6, 2020 [Read: New bill could kill NASA’s Moon base plans] And Koch didn’t just break one US record this year: During the mission in October 2019, Koch and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir performed and completed the first ever space walk performed by two women....

According to maritime news and analysis site USNI, a rare electric submarine has been seized in Colombia as part of a collaborative operation between the US drug enforcement agency (DEA), Colombian Navy, and local law enforcers. At full capacity, authorities have said that the sub could have carried six metric tons or $120 million worth of narcotics. ? https://t.co/4tllUvU37n pic.twitter.com/HBqV5gWXs5 — Armada de Colombia (@ArmadaColombia) November 5, 2020 The seizure took place on November 5 and also led to the arrest of 11 individuals — including the sub’s designer/engineer — linked to a drug trafficking organization....

If you’re a full stack developer, the good news is that companies want you. The bad news is that they already want more of you. According to a report by developer community Hacker Rank, the number one position hiring managers need to fill this year — with 38 percent of the vote — is for a full-stack developer. Of course, another finding of that report is that 60 percent of full-stack developers will also be required to learn an entirely new framework to get their job done....

We did cover a part of this story two days ago: Someone Wants To Pay A Million Dollars For Conan O’Brien’s Suitcase? However, if you missed that, here is a quick summary of what’s going on: Since late night talk shows thrive on jokes, this has been fodder for all of the late night talk shows. Serioulsy, just run a Google search. However, what’s been hilarious to me are the ads that Conan and The Tonight Show have put on Craig’s List....

Zoonotic diseases are caused by pathogens which originate in other animal species. Some diseases, such as rabies, cause sporadic outbreaks, often self-contained but deadly and traumatizing for the communities they infect. Others manage to spread worldwide and become pandemic, circulating in the global population. Some are repeat offenders that re-emerge from animal hosts in a mutated form every few decades – think influenza, plague and cholera. Many others are now part of our burden of endemic diseases, such as measles, mumps or HIV....

In 2018 we got the GDPR as a blanket for our online privacy, but two years in it proves to be a distraction, if not a body bag, for the decaying corpse of what was once individual privacy. If I have to choose the point of no return, it was probably the data retention regulations, originally introduced in Europe in 2006 for the greater good of anti-terrorism effort, which served the lethal blow to privacy....

Last week, the exchange notified customers of the breach, adding the leaked information could be used to access Poloniex accounts, ZDNet reports. The email was shared on Twitter by user charlysatoshi, who initially thought it was a phishing attempt. However, Poloniex support confirmed on the social media site that it was, in fact, a legitimate email. — Poloniex Customer Support (@PoloSupport) December 30, 2019 The exchange has also claimed that most of the emails listed aren’t attached to Poloniex accounts....

It’s a challenging problem for transport providers. They have to contend with servicing the busiest routes. This is often at the expense of more disparate locations and times. And the further away you live from highly-populated inner urban areas, or need services outside of standard peak hours for daily commuters, the more likely you are to experience transport poverty. In recent years, we’ve seen a growth in public-private solutions. This is particularly in the US and UK....

Yesterday, Melanie Mitchell, the author of ‘Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans’ and the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, hosted a TNW Answers session where she spoke about how much we should really trust AI, her worries surrounding the technology, and defining humanlike intelligence in machines. [Read: Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov predicts AI will disrupt 96% of all jobs] Most fears around AI usually stem from Hollywood movies that make us believe that one day autonomous robots will kill all humans and make Earth their own, or these same robots will take away all human meaning as they take our jobs....

If this is true, information about previously leaked Overwatch 2 may be correct. pic.twitter.com/J3cmfciGNt — Naeri x 나에리 (@OverwatchNaeri) October 20, 2019 It’s not much to go on, but it’s enough to make my little ears perk up. Rumors about Diablo IV have been percolating for a while — the most recent being from Kotaku in June, when it reported that Diablo IV (codenamed Fenris) and Overwatch 2 were taking up the lion’s share of the development resources....

Dinosaur hunters in the Javkhlant region of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia recently discovered 15 exceptionally well preserved clutches of eggs that came from a species of theropod dinosaur. Through some fantastic detective work, the researchers argue that this fossil site provides the strongest evidence yet that such dinosaurs nested in colonies and protected their eggs. I’m a behavioral ecologist. I study how animals live their lives and how species fit together in ecosystems....

With more powerful computers, and the ability to carry out more mathematical operations every second, contemporary encryption algorithms all of a sudden provide much less security than they did in a time before quantum computers. Security researchers at IBM warned that quantum computers could have the power to instantly break even the strongest encryption protocols within the very near future. Although this issue will likely come into play within five to 10 years, developing security measures against quantum computers is a longterm process....

Maybe you’re a karaoke fan who just loves to crank up your favorite song and belt. Or you might be an aspiring musical artist, painstakingly crafting your own music in a makeshift home studio just like Billie Eilish does it. Either way, it’s usually been difficult to edit and strip out vocals or any other individual component of an existing song without having access to all those independent sound files that go to make up a finished work....

In total, Europe saw its unicorn count increase by 10 in H1 2020, bringing the total in the continent to 53. Even though this seems largely positive, PitchBook’s European VC Valuations Report: Q2 2020, notes that the rate of newly minted unicorns could cool down as it becomes increasingly difficult to capture growth opportunities in the current uncertain macroeconomic environment. “Furthermore, valuations of numerous lossmaking late-stage startups could come under scrutiny as revenue and cost squeezes occur during recessions,” the report adds....

In a new report, the agency pinpointed some of the most common tactics hackers employ to lure in victims during the pandemic. Europol notes the increased fear around the outbreak has made people more susceptible to scams. It also doesn’t help there’s an increased demand for goods since supply chains are facing difficulties. These limitations, coupled with government lockdowns, have created the perfect conditions for hackers to “displace [criminal activities] to home or online settings....

Watch Series 6 with blood oxygen tracking Cupertino announced its latest wearable today, the Apple Watch Series 6, and the headlining feature was the ability to track your blood oxygen levels. That makes it useful for detecting more potential pulmonary and cardiac maladies — including possibly predicting the onset of coronavirus. To this end, Apple is launching three health studies to rigorously investigate how the new sensor can be used for health applications....

PlayGiga is a Madrid-based company that purports to have “a cost-effective cloud gaming solution with excellent user experience, latency reduced to less than 30ms and an ever-growing games catalogue with injection of new titles in less than two weeks.” According to Variety, it functioned in Italy, Argentina, Chile and Spain. Rumors of a $78 million price for the company surfaced last week from Cinco Dias, and a spokesperson later confirmed the purchase (though not the price) to CNBC....

On App Annie’s list of the top apps by all-time downloads, the apps holding the top four slots are, in order, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. It’s not really a surprise to see that social media has dominated the app market for the entire decade — it wouldn’t be a stretch to say it’s dominated our lives for that same amount of time. But it might be a revelation for some that Facebook and its subsidiaries snagged every top spot available....

Wong’s post suggests the social network is testing this feature in its Android app. However, the feature isn’t live for any users. Tip @Techmeme pic.twitter.com/TdT73wT6A0 — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) September 2, 2019 The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s considering expanding this trial publicly, and it’ll affect Likes and reactions to posts. In April, Facebook-owned Instagram started a test to hide likes from posts in Canada. Later in July, it expanded the program to five more countries including Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Japan, and New Zealand....

Ton-That’s argument is that, as US citizen, he has the right to do whatever he wants with any data that’s publicly available online. And he’s chosen to build facial recognition software for law enforcement with that data. Clearview AI, formerly known as Smartcheckr, wasn’t originally founded to service the law enforcement community. It apparently hoped to enter the retail space first, but ethical concerns lead companies to shy away from Clearview’s products....