Whatsapp said it notified less than 200 users of the attack., (NewsNation) — Messaging app WhatsApp says it has fixed a security bug in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to hack into the devices of “specific targeted users.” In its August security advisory released on Friday,Continue Reading
Switzerland has long seemed a bit of an outlier among the electrifying nations of Europe. I’ve seen EVs on Swiss roads since I first visited the country in the early 1990s, and I’ve seen their numbers grow in my frequent travels in the country, but in recent years, adoption ofContinue Reading
EV charging provider Blink Charging will install 10 new 180 kW dual-port DC fast chargers at a key transportation junction along State Route 111, just north of the US-Mexico border in Imperial County, California. The chargers will be installed at Imperial Center, a commercial and retail hub that serves thousandsContinue Reading
All good things must come to an end All good things must come to an end, and so too must the blocky glory of the Kilopixel. As the wood and robotic marvel crested the 200,000-pixel mark, its creator pulled the metaphorical plug.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Japan’s FugakuNEXT supercomputer will combine Fujitsu CPUs and Nvidia GPUs to deliver 600EFLOPS AI performance and up to 100x application speedup…Continue Reading
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites today (Aug. 30), sending 24 of them up from California’s central coast. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink craft lifted off today from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 12:59 a.m. EDT (0359 GMT; 9:59 p.m. local California time on Aug. 29). The rocket’s first stageContinue Reading
Main: An illustration of a protoplanetary disk around an infant star. Inset: image of the star-forming region NGC 6357 with the young star XUE 10 as seen by the JWST. (Image credit: (Main) ESO/L. Calçada (Inset) Stockholm University (SU) and María Claudia Ramírez-Tannus, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA).) Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomersContinue Reading
Southwest Airlines has begun flying its first Boeing 737 MAX 8 equipped with a secondary cockpit barrier, a new security feature mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The aircraft entered service on Friday, August 29, and marked the first time the carrier had deployed the additional protective measure.Continue Reading
Passengers on a Virgin Australia flight were reportedly asked to relieve themselves in bottles after all of the aircraft’s lavatories stopped working. The incident occurred on a five-hour flight from Bali, Indonesia, to Brisbane, Australia. The Australian airline has apologized for what was described as “a filthy, humiliating” incident.Continue Reading
Comment NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop : Entry-level graphics card from the Blackwell family for Laptops with 2,560 unified shaders (CUDA cores) and a clock rate of 1500 – 2662 MHz depending on the TDP setting. According to Nvidia, the performance without DLSS and frame generation should be comparable to an RTX 4060. With theseContinue Reading
When people use the term “Orwellian,” it’s not a good sign. It usually characterizes an action, an individual or a society that is suppressing freedom, particularly the freedom of expression. It can also describe something perverted by tyrannical power. It’s a term used primarily to describe the present, but whoseContinue Reading
Sponsored by Epic Resins. As the e-mobility industry continues to revolutionize the way we use EVs and LEVs, one critical question persists for engineers: How can we design a safer battery pack? A recent conversation between Joe Staller, R&D Chemist at Epic Resins, and Luke Workman, Chief Scientist at Electric Goddess,Continue Reading
Canada-based Saltworks Technologies, which supplies systems for industrial wastewater treatment and lithium refining, has deployed two FusionRO plants to international clients. FusionRO, a form of low-salinity rejection reverse osmosis (LSRRO), achieves a brine concentration of sodium chloride exceeding 220,000 mg/L at 50% lower capital expenditure and operating expenditure than evaporators,Continue Reading