There is something wrong with Pelosi?…
May 25, 2019
A strain of fungi that draws gold from its surroundings has been discovered in Western Australia, stunning CSIRO scientists who say it could help explorers find deposits…
May 25, 2019
Huawei can’t officially use microSD cards in its phones going forward. The company has been barred from the SD Association in latest fallout from US ban…
Britons dump Huawei phones as US-China trade war sparks retail backlash...
May 25, 2019
The SD Association has confirmed to Android Authority that Huawei’s removal from the group was due to Trump’s executive order, making it the the latest blow to the besieged Chinese company as the result of that ban... Losing SD cards may not be the biggest issue for the company right now... Huawei has prepared for an microSD card outage too: the company has its own, proprietary Nano Memory Cards that are physically smaller than microSD cards...
DNA Used To Reconstruct The Face Of A Woman Who Lived In Japan 3,800 Years Ago…
May 25, 2019
Researchers who decoded the entire genome... said she was well-adapted to a diet rich in fat and had a high tolerance for alcohol... the woman’s genetic makeup had many similarities to people who live in the Arctic... Using DNA collected from her molar, the project team on March 12, 2018, showed a reconstructed face of the Jomon woman with light brown eyes, frizzy hair, dark skin and freckles...
Scientists Claim to Have Discovered Entirely New Form of Computing that uses a soft polymer material that transforms from liquid to gel in reaction to the light. The scientists refer to this polymer as a “next-generation stimuli-responsive material that can compute” on its own…
May 25, 2019
So what is the point of all of this?
“[T]he ultimate objective of this field is the biomimicry of intelligent responsiveness such as tactility, vision, camouflage, contractility and flight where complex natural sensors such as skin, eye and muscle seamlessly adapt to environmental stimuli through exquisitely programmed response sequences.”...
DARPA is paying scientists to invent ways to instantly read soldiers’ minds using tools like genetic engineering of the human brain, nanotechnology and infrared beams…
May 25, 2019
The end goal? Thought-controlled weapons, like swarms of drones that someone sends to the skies with a single thought...
Bodies found in submerged Missouri vehicle bring central U.S. storm death toll to 9…
May 25, 2019
Heavy rain in recent weeks has spurred major flooding in several states. Flooding along the Arkansas River will threaten communities from Tulsa into western Arkansas through at least the holiday weekend, officials said Friday, as water released from an Oklahoma dam combines with additional rain in the forecast.
Struggling CNN lays off health unit staffers as headcount reduction moves forward
May 25, 2019
Sanjay Gupta is safe, but much of the rest of CNN’s Atlanta-based staff that covers health care found out Tuesday they are getting pink slips -- only a few weeks after the network called mass layoffs a "crazy rumor." Specific details were not yet known, but a source told Fox News that “basically the whole division” will lose their jobs.
AMERICAN THINKER: Obama Appointees in the Communist Orbit…
May 25, 2019
Obama choose Communists and Marxists for the highest, most powerful positions in our land, including his closest political advisors, and his head of the CIA... Professor Paul Kengor has extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power...
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At least one Chinese hacking crew is currently scanning the internet for Windows servers that are running MySQL databases so they can infect these systems with the GandCrab ransomware…
May 25, 2019
These attacks are somewhat unique, as cyber-security firms have not seen any threat actor until now that has attacked MySQL servers running on Windows systems to infect them with ransomware... While most system administrators typically protect their MySQL servers with passwords, the purpose of these scans appeared to be the opportunistic exploitation of misconfigured or passwordless databases...
Amazon shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that the company stop selling facial recognition technology to government agencies…
May 25, 2019
Amazon’s sale of the technology to law enforcement in Oregon and Florida has put the company at the center of a growing U.S. debate over facial recognition, with critics warning of false matches and arrests and proponents arguing it keeps the public safe...
885 Million Records Exposed Online: Bank Transactions, Social Security Numbers, and More…
May 25, 2019
First American is a large company headquartered in California with more than 18,000 employees. Its total assets in 2017 were reported at over $9.5 billion... the millions of documents, which appeared to date back as far as 2003, included “all kinds of documents from both the buyer and seller, including Social Security numbers, drivers licenses, account statements, and even internal corporate documents if you’re a small business.”...
SpaceX has launched the first 60 satellites of its space internet system…
May 25, 2019
Japan welcomes Trump with a charm campaign, golf and sumo…
May 25, 2019
Japan is ready to roll out the newest phase of its charm offensive targeting President Donald Trump as it welcomes him on a state visit tailor-made to his whims and ego. This comes as Japan remains under the threat of potentially devastating U.S. tariffs on autos
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is offering high honors, golf and the chance to present a "Trump Cup" at a sumo wrestling championship.
Judge blocks Trump from building sections of border wall…
May 25, 2019
U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr.'s order prevents work from beginning on two of the highest-priority, Pentagon-funded wall projects — one spanning 46 miles (74 kilometers) in New Mexico and another covering 5 miles (8 kilometers) in Yuma, Arizona.
While the order applied only to those first-in-line projects, the judge made clear that he felt the challengers were likely to prevail at trial on their argument that the president was wrongly ignoring Congress' wishes by diverting Defense Department money.