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Blockchain

A ‘Blockchain Bandit’ Has Made Off With Millions Just By Guessing Private Keys

So long as cryptocurrency exists, so too will the extraordinarylengths to which thieves will go to try to steal it. Unfortunately, that also includes preying on weak private keys, a method that has evidently made one crypto bandit filthy rich with millions in…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Bees

Bumble bees see huge population decline

An estimate of bumble bee population and distribution shows that half of the species studied have seen a more than 50 percent decline. For the study, which appears in Ecology, researchers compared current distributions of bumble bee species across Michigan t…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Machine Learning

Who cares about liberty? Julia Angwin and Trevor Paglen on our big fat privacy mess

“Google will also then become your insurer” RH: So how is that going to play out? Is it like when you sign up for a service and you can go type in your email or hit the Facebook button? Is that how it’s happening? JA: Well, that’s how it’s happening…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia for summit with Vladimir Putin on Thursday

President Donald Trump says sanctions against North Korea will continue for now. In an Oval Office meeting with the South Korean President, he said the sanctions aimed at Kim Jong Un to give up his nuclear weapons program are at a "fair" level. (April 11) A…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Drones

FAA Clears Alphabet’s Wing for Home Drone Deliveries in Virginia

Alphabets Project Wing has gained approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct commercial drone flights in Virginia. The company, sometimes simply called Wing, has been conducting trials in the state since 2016, but the new FAA authori…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Drones

FAA Certifies Google’s Wing Drone Delivery Company To Operate As An Airline

The Wing company, a Google spinoff, has won federal approval to operate its drone delivery system as an airline in the U.S. Wing The Federal Aviation Administration has certified Alphabet's Wing Aviation to operate as an airline, in a first for U.S. drone d…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Kushner says has urged Saudi prince to be transparent about Khashoggi killing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said on Tuesday he had urged Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, to be transparent about the circumstances surrounding the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Taking questio…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Little Italy

Brunch Is More Than Basic at Morning Glory in Little Italy

Check out CH Projects’ new daytime stunner It might be the most basic of all meals, but brunch is more beloved than ever. Famously scorned by the late, great Anthony Bourdain, who railed against brunch in his classic Kitchen Confidential, and widely considere…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Former Google car project Waymo to build self-driving cars at Detroit factory

Stephen Crouch of Montana-based Blackmore explains how the company's lidar technology would help a robot car see what's ahead. Wochit Waymo will build self-driving vehicles in Detroit. The company, once known as Google's self-driving car project and now a…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

White House aide Kushner says has urged Saudi prince to be transparent about Khashoggi killing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said on Tuesday he had urged Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, to be transparent about the circumstances surrounding the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Taking questi…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

A ‘Blockchain Bandit’ Has Made Off With Millions Just By Guessing Private Keys

Bumble bees see huge population decline

Who cares about liberty? Julia Angwin and Trevor Paglen on our big fat privacy mess

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia for summit with Vladimir Putin on Thursday

FAA Clears Alphabet’s Wing for Home Drone Deliveries in Virginia

FAA Certifies Google’s Wing Drone Delivery Company To Operate As An Airline

Kushner says has urged Saudi prince to be transparent about Khashoggi killing

Brunch Is More Than Basic at Morning Glory in Little Italy

Former Google car project Waymo to build self-driving cars at Detroit factory

White House aide Kushner says has urged Saudi prince to be transparent about Khashoggi killing

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