May 13, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime, Human Interest, Technical
amazon, business, Business News, CNN, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, Massive cyberattack targeting 99 countries causes sweeping havoc, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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Hospitals, major companies and government offices have been hit by a massive wave of cyberattacks across the globe that seize control of computers until the victims pay a ransom.
Cybersecurity firm Avast said it had identified more than 75,000 ransomware attacks in 99 countries, making it one of the broadest and most damaging cyberattacks in history.
Avast said the majority of the attacks targeted Russia, Ukraine and Taiwan. But U.K. hospitals, Chinese universities and global firms like Fedex (FDX) also reported they had come under assault.
Europol said Saturday that the attack was of an “unprecedented level and requires international investigation.”
The ransomware, called “WannaCry,” locks down all the files on an infected computer and asks the computer’s administrator to pay in order to regain control of them. The exploit was leaked last month as part of a trove of NSA spy tools.
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How a ransomware attack can affect emergency services (watch Video)
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http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/12/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-microsoft/index.html
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May 12, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Human Interest, Science
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Harvard Scientists Say Aliens May Be Using Giant Radio Beams To Travel, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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Two Harvard University scientists are suggesting that mysterious fast radio bursts, detected in faraway galaxies, may be evidence of aliens traveling through the cosmos.
FRBs are extremely bright flashes of radio waves that last for only a thousandth of a second and are detected by earthbound telescopes. Since the first one was observed 10 years ago, 17 have actually been reported, although scientists think there are thousands of them a day.
At first, Abraham “Avi” Loeb said, he took a conservative approach to explaining them.
“It looked like the simplest explanation would be flares from stars in the Milky Way galaxy,” said Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist and chair of Harvard’s astronomy department.
But then “one of the FRBs was localized to reside in a small galaxy at a distance of about a billion light-years away,” Loeb told The Huffington Post. (One light-year is about 6 trillion miles.)
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aliens-space-travel-fast-radio-bursts_us_58caf1f7e4b00705db4d8f65?j1
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May 12, 2017
Mohenjo
Arts, Human Interest, Technical
amazon, arts, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, Metrocosm, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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The data for the globe comes from SEDAC, NASA‘s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center. Each spike represents the number of people living at that location. The populations are sampled at specific points, so the tallest spike doesn’t necessarily mean that area has the densest population. It could be that the spike just happened to coincide with the center of a city. Though having worked with world population data many times before, I’d say the spikes looks more or less as I would expect. Originally the populations were based on point samples. I’ve since updated the calculation to include the area around each point. The height of each spike now reflects the total population of the rectangular cell surrounding it (each cell measures 1.4° x 0.7°).
The graphic was made with WebGL, which, if you’re not familiar with it, is a relatively new and esoteric programming library for rendering 3D graphics. By sending instructions directly to your computer’s graphics card, it allows for web-based visuals that are far more complex than would otherwise be possible, opening new possibilities for visualizing data.
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The world’s population in 2015 (full screen version)
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http://metrocosm.com/3d-world-population-globe/
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May 12, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime
amazon, business, Business News, COLUMBUS Mississippi, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Wrongfully Convicted Child’s Murder Confession Tests Compensation Law
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He obsessed over the police interrogation for years, tormenting himself with questions he could not answer.
“How could you be so stupid?” Tyler Edmonds asked himself. “Why would you do that?”
Edmonds was 13 when he told detectives he helped his half-sister shoot her husband in his sleep ─ a story he says she concocted to skirt blame. He spent four years behind bars before his murder conviction was overturned and a second jury acquitted him. He went to therapy, and studied why children admit to crimes they didn’t commit. He began to understand what he’d done.
“I think the answer is that you’re young and you don’t know any better,” Edmonds, now 27, said.
He has rebuilt his life in many ways. But he is still paying for that confession.
After Mississippi passed a law allowing exonerees to seek compensation, Edmonds sought a payout that he hoped would help his mother, who went deep into debt to pay for his defense. The state refused to give it to him. A judge sided with the state.
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Tyler Edmonds last month at his family’s farmhouse in Columbus, Mississippi. Brock Stoneham / NBC News
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wrongfully-convicted-child-s-murder-confession-tests-compensation-law-n742086
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May 12, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime
amazon, business, Business News, CNN, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, ICE announces major anti-gang operation, medicine, mental-health, mostly US citizens arrested, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Washington
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Though the effort was led by ICE, the focus was not exclusively on immigrants. Of the arrests, 933 were US citizens and 445 were foreign nationals, with 384 in the country illegally.
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ICE said three of the arrested individuals were previous recipients of protected status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, instituted by the Obama administration for undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children.
Criminal violations or being deemed a public safety threat can void a person’s DACA status.
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/ice-gang-arrests-operation/index.html
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May 11, 2017
Mohenjo
Arts, Human Interest, Photographs, Technical
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Deviant Art, Future, Hotels, human-rights, Macro 111. by MCN22 is a captivating macro photograph of a bee, medicine, mental-health, photo, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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This is a really fascinating close look at nature!
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A captivating macro photograph of a bee
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May 11, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Science
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, Phys.org, research, Science, Science News, Study reveals plants 'listen' to find sources of water, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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A study led by The University of Western Australia has found plants have far more complex and developed senses than we thought with the ability to detect and respond to sounds to find water, and ultimately survive.
In the study “Tuned in: plant roots use sound to locate water” published in Oecologia, UWA researchers found that plants can sense sound vibrations from running water moving through pipes or in the soil, to help their roots move towards the source of water. The study also revealed that plants do not like certain noises and will move away from particular sounds.
Lead researcher Dr Monica Gagliano from UWA’s Centre of Evolutionary Biology at the School of Animal Biology said water was a basic need for a plant’s survival, and the study showed that sound plays a significant role in helping plants cater to this need.
“We used the common garden pea plant (Pisum sativum) as the model for our study and put the plant into a container which had two tubes at the base, giving it a choice of two directions for the growth of its roots.
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Credit: University of Western Australia
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https://phys.org/news/2017-04-reveals-sources.html
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May 11, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, Justice Department Considering Reopening Emmett Till Murder Case, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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The Department of Justice is considering reopening the investigation into the infamous murder of Emmett Till — an African-American teen whose brutal killing charted the course of the civil rights movement — after meeting with the boy’s family.
Till’s cousin, Deborah Watts, said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told her “no one gets a pass,” adding that he would like to look into more unsolved civil rights crimes during a meeting with her and civil rights activist Alvin Sykes, according to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
In 1955, 14-year-old Till was savagely beaten and shot in the head by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam after Bryant’s wife, Carolyn Bryant Donham, said the boy whistled at her and touched her in a Mississippi store.
Three days later Till’s badly disfigured body was found attached to a cotton gin fan floating in the Tallahatchie River.
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Emmett Louis Till AP
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/justice-department-considering-reopening-emmett-till-murder-case-n743591
May 11, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime, Political
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, Kushner Kin’s China Sales Pitch ‘Corruption, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, Pure and Simple’: Expert, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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A former White House ethics adviser says that a sales pitch by Jared Kushner’s sister to potential Chinese investors that was centered on a controversial visa program came “very, very close to solicitation of a bribe.”
“This is corruption, pure and simple,” said Richard Painter, who was an attorney for President George W. Bush and is now a University of Minnesota law professor.
The latest conflict-of-interest uproar to roil President Donald Trump’s administration arose this weekend as the Kushner Companies invited wealthy foreigners to sink cash into a New Jersey real estate project via the EB-5 program.
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Nicole Meyer poses at a promotional event in Shanghai on Sunday. Albee Zhang / AFP – Getty Images
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/spicer-kushner-not-involved-family-s-chinese-eb-5-visa-n756406
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May 10, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Science, Technical
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, These ER Docs Invented a Real Star Trek Tricorder, travel, vacation, Video
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The original 1960s Star Trek series took place in a universe of the future with personal communicators, holograms, and the technology to send humans beyond our solar system. In many ways that future is here. We have smartphones, virtual reality, space travel — and now the tricorder.
In the show, the tricorder was a handheld medical device that could scan a patient, read his or her vital signs, and diagnose problems in minutes. A working prototype invented by a Philadelphia-based emergency room physician Basil Harris may not look like the ones used by Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy and Commander Beverly Crusher throughout the sci-fi series, but it’s advanced enough to offer a medical diagnosis in minutes and anyone can use it.
The device — which won top honors during the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition — still needs to undergo more testing and receive regulatory approval before it’s available to consumers. But Harris said that may happen in just a few years and he’s aiming to keep the price around $200.
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Brothers George, Basil and Gus Harris examine prop tricorders from the Star Trek series. Courtesy of XPRIZE
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http://www.nbcnews.com/mach/technology/these-er-docs-invented-real-star-trek-tricorder-n755631
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