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In our own solar system, water is found not just on Earth, but also on several of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Ice deposits have also been found under the ruddy surface of Mars, at the poles of the Moon, and possibly even on Pluto. “Plumes of water erupt from Europa and Enceladus, so we can tell that these bodies have subsurface oceans beneath their ice shells, and they have energy that drives the plumes, which are two requirements for life as we know it....

NASA recently proclaimed it will put the “first woman and next man” on the Moon by 2024. Despite nearly 60 years of human spaceflight, women are still in the territory of “firsts”. Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space The first woman in space was cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, who orbited Earth 48 times from June 16 to 18, 1963. Her flight became Cold War propaganda to demonstrate the superiority of communism....

There’s something indescribably captivating about it. I find myself watching the clip at least several times a year. I can try to explain it, but its mystery evades writing. Every little detail in the video simply falls perfectly into place, as if it was staged. But it wasn’t. Where do I start? Bear with me throughout this synopsis — or scroll down to watch the actual video first. The video opens with a woman in a bright, cyan wig awkwardly dancing to a techno track (“Navigator” by Can-D-Music) in broad daylight....

Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. In a short span of just a few weeks, a bunch of major firms including Chubb, Cognizant, Toll, ExecuPharm, Fresenius, and CPC Corp. have all become victims of ransomware attacks. Targeted ransomware incidents using Maze ransomware, a strain of data-stealing malware, has been targeted against over 100 victims spanning almost every industry sector — including manufacturing, legal, financial services, construction, healthcare, technology, retail, and governments — since November 2019, a FireEye report revealed yesterday....

Lance Armstrong has been fighting legal battles left right and center with former sponsors, the US government, and ex-teammates since coming clean about his doping exploits. Last year, Armstrong finally settled a long-running federal case – in which he was being sued for nearly $100 million – for just $5 million. With all that behind him, what next for the Texan? Venture capital and investing in wellness tech – obviously....

President Donald Trump gave the usual post-tragedy press conference today, and for the first few minutes, he was doing okay. He referenced the El Paso shooter’s reported hate speech and racism, saying, “In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America.” He also acknowledged that the Internet “has provided a dangerous avenue to radicalize disturbed minds and perform demented acts....

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House, claims the Internet Archive is practically committing theft by putting over 1.3 million titles up for free for anyone to download, The New York Times reports. The books were previously available to one borrower at a time, but in March the Internet Archive lifted the restriction due to the coronavirus, essentially creating a National Emergency Library to serve “displaced learners....

Working from home is great for convenience, but with so many potential distractions, it isn’t always the best for productivity. So if you’re going to spend all this time at home learning something new, it stands to reason you not only want to develop a skill that’s useful, but also one that isn’t overly complicated that you can process fairly quickly. Many developers will tell you that description fits Python programming to a T....

If you’re a fan of baseball, you may already have the inside track on understanding the latest craze in — of all things — investing. Almost 20 years ago, Michael Lewis’ groundbreaking book Moneyball spotlighted the change in the economics of baseball as savvy clubs used advanced analytics to evaluate player performance in new ways, redefining what mattered in the modern game and what didn’t. Armed with those new metrics, teams were actually figuring out how to win more, all based on algorithms and statistical analysis....

This year alone hackers cut off heating to homes across the US East Coast after hacking an oil pipeline, ending in a $4.4M ransom payment. Another group attempted to poison water systems in Florida. From smart factories to self-driving cars, we’re becoming more vulnerable than ever to security breaches as companies move towards AI and the cloud. Cybersecurity experts predict that ransomware costs will reach $20B by the end of the year and balloon to $265B by 2031....

My colleague Ivan Mehta covered the announcement earlier today, but here’s the Cliff Notes: it comes with a more powerful quad-core Broadcom processor, which can power up to two 4K displays via its dual micro-HDMI ports. Buyers can also choose to configure the computer with up to 4GB of RAM, which should greatly improve performance. The Raspberry Pi 4 also upgrades I/O throughput via the inclusion of Gigabit Ethernet and the USB 3....

That doesn’t mean you have to stop humming sea shanties and put the Ever Given out of your mind, though. Drop anchor on this page and play with the interactive map, which lets you move the infamous ship anywhere on the globe to jam other waterways, compare it to the size of the closest water body near you, or drop it on land to add to your town’s list of monuments....

If you forget to take small breaks regularly, there’s now an app for that. Developer Harshil Shah has made a simple menu bar app called Pause for Mac to remind you to step away from your desk regularly throughout the day. The idea is neat and straightforward. Once you install the app, it’ll ask you to set times for how frequently you want to take breaks and how long they should last....

We’ve long heard rumors about Apple working on full-size headphones, but it seems like they might finally come to fruition; Kuo notes the company is working on “high-end headphones.” Of course, the company owns the highly successful Beats lineup, but as the PowerBeats can co-exist with Airpods, it seems the company is planning on releasing a set of headphones under its fruitier brand following the AirPods Pro and HomePod. Kuo also revives last year’s rumor that Apple is planning on releasing tracking tags potentially known as “AirTags....

Last week, Tinder took a small step to give users a peace of mind when meeting up with someone: Introducing a “panic button” — this feature shares a users exact location and connects them with local emergency services in the event of feeling unsafe or in danger. While the dating app could do more to ensure a convicted sexual assaulter doesn’t show up in your matches. While the dating app could do more to ensure a convicted sexual assaulter doesn’t show up in your matches, the “panic” button does seem like a step in the right direction, right?...

Another way of putting it: The hippies were right about quantum vibrations and the power of crystals. Under normal circumstances, in order to observe quantum phenomena, scientists have to work with ultra-cold materials specially designed to produce experimental effects for the purpose of observation. But the new experiment involved firing lasers at a diamond in order to produce ‘proof’ of the creation of a unit of quantum energy called a phonon....

Researchers, Linxing Jiang, Andrea Stocco, Darby Losey, Justin Abernethy, Chantel Prat, and Rajesh Rao, created the interface, dubbed BrainNet. It’s “the first multi-person non-invasive direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem solving,” according to their reseasrch paper. It allows three people in separate rooms to, essentially, network their brains and work together. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the interface, the team came up with a new twist on the old Tetris game....

The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. The leading killer of children in both the US and Europe. A principal cause of stress-inducing noise pollution and life-shortening air pollution in European cities. A leading driver of the widening gap between rich and poor urban residents. Answer: the vehicles on our streets, primarily the not-so-humble passenger car. Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are making driving even more wasteful and unequal....

Logitech recently launched the wireless version of its Pro X headset. Logitech products have generally treated me well — I even reviewed (and appreciated) a set of speakers from the company, so I knew it could do the sound thing right. My go-to headset up to this point was my old reliable HyperX, but it’s over 5 years old now and wasn’t perfect to begin with, so I wanted to see if Logitech’s offering was any better....

Well, a Rimac test driver sure couldn’t. Just a day after the Nevera’s official release, a video was uploaded on Reddit showing the unnamed 41-year-old exceeding the speed limit of the public road where he was testing the car, Index.hr reported. Specifically, the man was driving on the two-way, dual-lane D8 road in Dubrovnik, Croatia, taking the Nevera at 232km/h (144mph), as can be seen in the video. That’s more than double the local road’s speed limit, which reportedly allows for a maximum of 90km/h (about 55mph)....