Cesar Cerrudo and Lucas Apa from the cybersecurity firm IOActive said current and future robots have vulnerabilities which would allow hackers to spy and launch attacks on users. The pair have identified nearly 50 vulnerabilities in home, business and industrial robots which could be exploited and potentially weaponised. Mr Apa […]
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Lucas Apa, senior security consultant at cybersecurity company IOActive, handles robots by UBTech and SoftBank Robotics during a demonstration in Singapore August 21, 2017. Picture taken August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jeremy Wagstaff More By Jeremy Wagstaff SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Researchers who warned half a dozen robot manufacturers in January about nearly […]
A life restoration of Inermorostrum xenops dolphins (AFP Photo/Dr. Robert BOESSENCKER) More Paris (AFP) – Scientists on Wednesday unveiled an extinct species of toothless, whiskered and objectively cute mini-dolphin that plied Earth’s oceans some 30 million years ago. With only a fossilised cranium — found in a river near Charleston, […]
Very few people will ever actually make it to the International Space Station. Not even all of NASA’s astronauts go to the ISS. So the closest you’ll ever get to being there is through videos and photos, or Google Earth’s 360 photos of it. But photos can make it difficult […]
A new medical-diagnostic device made out of paper detects biomarkers and identifies diseases by performing electrochemical analyses — powered only by the user’s touch — and reads out the color-coded test results, making it easy for non-experts to understand.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Reconnaissance Office are eager to compare their near-term needs with the capabilities of companies that obtain data from small satellites or have innovative ways of using space-based data to make sense of activity on the ground. “It comes down to change and activity,” Kevin […]
Gravity governs the movements of the cosmos. It draws flocks of galaxies together to form small groups and more massive galaxy clusters, and brings duos so close that they begin to tug at one another. This latter scenario can have extreme consequences, with members of interacting pairs of galaxies often […]
More than 12 million people sat in the path of totality of the August 21 solar eclipse, as it passed from the West Coast to the East Coast of the United States. The spectacular miracle of nature saw the moon cross paths with the sun, blocking out sunlight and darkening […]