It took almost eight hours, but NASA accomplished the first expansion of a pop-up module at...
After snags, BEAM space module expands to its full volume – like a bag of popcorn
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SpaceX Falcon booster comes full circle to Cape Canaveral after landing at sea
Eleven days after a thrilling landing at sea, SpaceX’s Falcon 9...
Sponge full of cholesterol pushes animal life back to 650 million years
These barrel sponges have one hell of a pedigree. (credit: Albert Kok/Wikimedia)
The earliest chapters in the history of life are in some ways the most interesting, but also the hardest to read. The pages are badly stained and tattered, and the print was terribly small to begin with. You can occasionally trip on a dinosaur...
Fifty shades of Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook founder shows off closet full of grey
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg headed back to work after a two-month paternity leave on Monday and shared with his followers the difficult decision he was facing surrounding what to wear. First day back after paternity leave. What should I wear? Posted...
Is this the world’s first full virtual-reality motion/voice capture session?
Cloudhead Games puts its actors into its upcoming VR game via the HTC Vive
Forget latex suits and white ping-pong balls. Motion-capture sessions for video games and films have only gotten more intense over the years, thanks to advances like improved, LED-loaded motion-capture outfits and the ability to see robust TV-screen renders of an actor's performance as soon as...
Full text: Volkswagen CEO apologizes to the American people, promises big changes ahead
LAS VEGAS— Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess didn’t waste much time addressing the elephant in the room when he appeared at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday evenig, tackling the diesel emissions scandal that plagued the German car maker last year. Diess,...
Common payment processing protocols found to be full of flaws
Credit card users could have their PINs stolen, and merchants could have their bank accounts pillaged, in a set of attacks demonstrated by researchers Karsten Nohl and Fabian Bräunlein at the Chaos Computing Club security conference.
Much research has been done into the chips found on credit cards and the readers and number pads used with these cards, but Nohl decided to take a different...
When a single e-mail gives hackers full access to your network
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When you're a Fortune 500 company that's a favorite target of sophisticated hackers, it often makes sense to install security appliances at the outer edges of your network to stop attacks before they get far. Now, researchers say they have uncovered a vulnerability in such a product from security firm FireEye that...