ATLAS experiment measures top quark polarization
Unique among its peers is the top quark—a fascinating particle that the scientific community has been studying in detail since the 90s. Its large mass makes it the only quark to decay before forming bound states (a process known as hadronisation) a.....»»
How robotaxis are dividing San Francisco
The city has become the crucible of an experiment - are robotaxis ready for the streets?.....»»
Pollution-tracking NASA satellite shares its first images of air quality
NASA has shared the first images from it's air pollution tracking satellite, TEMPO, which measures pollution by observing wavelengths of light......»»
NHL Piracy Streaming Lawsuit Fizzles Out After Blocking Measures End
Canada's Federal Court has granted several piracy-blocking injunctions as part of lawsuits against actual infringers, such as IPTV services. However, these underlying cases seem to go nowhere. A few days ago, rightsholders including Bell and Rogers q.....»»
Telecoms Regulator Gives Google a Week to Join IPTV Piracy Fight
As local pay TV companies complain that pirate IPTV providers are using VPNs and public DNS services to evade blocking measures, Brazil's telecoms regulator wants cooperation from Big Tech. Referencing a one-week deadline and potential legal action t.....»»
Observation of autonomous crack healing in metal confirms 2013 prediction
A microscopic crack grew in a very small piece of platinum when placed under repetitive stretching. The experiment, designed to study fatigue crack growth, continued as predicted for a while before something unexpected happened. The crack stopped gro.....»»
New experimental research measures the speed of molecular charge migration for the first time
To discover how light interacts with molecules, the first step is to follow electron dynamics, which evolve at the attosecond timescale. The dynamics of this first step have been called charge migration (CM). CM plays a fundamental role in chemical r.....»»
The race to build the world"s smallest atomic clock, again
Yuan-Yu Jau is on a quest to build the world's smallest atomic clock, a device that measures time with extreme accuracy. If successful, he and his team at Sandia will have made one smaller than a sugar cube......»»
Team develops way to integrate electro-optic modulator device on end faces of a single-mode optical fiber jumper
Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) are cardinal elements in the optical communication networks that control the amplitude, phase and polarization of a light via external electric signals. Aiming to realize ultracompact and high-performance EOMs, most in.....»»
YouTube will now let you hum songs to identify them
It seems that YouTube is running a little experiment where you can now hum a song to identify it. The post YouTube will now let you hum songs to identify them appeared first on Phandroid. Apps like Shazam and SoundHound are great if you’.....»»
Cybercriminals turn to AI to bypass modern email security measures
Cybercriminals employ artificial intelligence (AI) to create complex email threats like phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks, while modern email security systems use AI to counter these attacks, according to Perception Point and Oster.....»»
How to depolarize political toxicity on social media
While social media is often blamed for exacerbating incivility and partisan polarization, research led by Duke University scholars found that anonymous online conversations using a mobile chat platform they developed can reduce political polarization.....»»
Political polarization toned down through anonymous online chats
Republicans seem to depolarize more than Democrats. Enlarge (credit: Carol Yepes/Getty) Political polarization in the US has become a major issue, as Republicans and Democrats increasingly inhabit separate realities on t.....»»
The road ahead for ecommerce fraud prevention
Ecommerce platforms are incorporating sophisticated fraud detection measures, but fraudsters, too, are refining their strategies. In this Help Net Security interview, Eduardo Mônaco, CEO at ClearSale, explains the complexities of ecommerce fraud, di.....»»
The evolution of complex grammars: New study measures grammatical complexity of 1,314 languages
Languages around the world differ greatly in how many grammatical distinctions they make. This variation is observable even between closely related languages. The speakers of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, for example, use the same word hunden, mean.....»»
Balancing telecom security, law enforcement, and customer trust
In this Help Net Security interview, Mark O’Neill, CTO at BlackDice Cyber, talks about collaboration, transparent policies, and a security-first mindset. As 5G and IoT emerge, robust measures and AI will navigate challenges and shape the telecom in.....»»
Muon g-2 experiment result represents world"s most precise measurement yet of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon
The Muon g-2 collaboration has announced their much-anticipated updated measurement. The new result aligns with the collaboration's first result, announced in 2021—and it's twice as precise. In fact, it's the most precise measurement ever made usin.....»»
Arrays of quantum rods could enhance TVs or virtual reality devices, research suggests
Flat screen TVs that incorporate quantum dots are now commercially available, but it has been more difficult to create arrays of their elongated cousins, quantum rods, for commercial devices. Quantum rods can control both the polarization and color o.....»»
Calix expands security options in SmartBiz to protect small businesses from cyberthreats
Calix expanded security measures in Calix SmartBiz to enable broadband service providers (BSPs) to seamlessly serve their small business markets. With 43% of all cyberattacks targeting businesses with fewer than 250 employees, small and medium busine.....»»
Novel socio-environmental vulnerability index pinpoints sustainability issues in Brazilian river basins
Brazilian researchers combined environmental physical, social and economic indicators to create an index that measures a region's vulnerability and used it to analyze the basins of the Parnaíba River and São Francisco River in the Northeast of Braz.....»»
Recovery of biodiversity in rivers across Europe is slowing down, study finds
The study, led by the Senckenberg Institute and published in the journal Nature, examined invertebrate biodiversity in river systems across 22 European countries and found that additional measures are needed to revive the recovery of freshwater biodi.....»»