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The way in which law enforcement is carried out has changed immensely over the past decade or so, and a large part of that is down to the technology that the police departments all over the country now have at their disposal. If you want…
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AT&T and Discovery announced a $43 billion merger that would create one of the largest U.S. media companies in an attempt to compete with Netflix and Disney. The deal would merge AT&T’s media content division WarnerMedia with Discovery, creating a standalone media company that executives…
Read More AT&T, Discovery Announce $43 Billion Media Merger In Bid To Compete With Netflix
Kaylee Greenlee Hackers threatened to release 250 gigabytes of confidential Metropolitan Police Department files unless Washington, D.C., officials pay a $4 million ransom, the DCist reported Tuesday. The Russian-speaking hackers are part of a group known as Babuk, which allegedly posted 20 Metropolitan Police Department…
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After a 200 million mile journey for over two years, the OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft, which launched in September of 2016, has retrieved its sample and is finally on its way back home. The mission, focused on the asteroid Bennu, was sent to collect at least 2…
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Ever since Fortnite was kicked off Apple’s store for purposefully bypassing Apple’s payment systems in place for them to gain commission through sales on their store, Epic Games has been less than happy. Instead of utilizing the in-app purchasing system that is required to sell…
Read More Apple And Epic Games Take Their Fight To Court
BALM, Fla. – If you’re impatient for impatiens, a University of Florida scientist has good news for you: Some varieties of the popular flower resist the deadly downy mildew disease better than others. Many people love to plant impatiens – also known as the “Touch…
Read More Genetic Testing Shows Some ‘Touch-Me-Not’ Flowers Resist Deadly Disease
After six months in space, four astronauts on a historic NASA-SpaceX mission have returned back to Earth on Sunday. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, called Resilience, undocked from the International Space Station at 8:35 p.m. ET Saturday, and splashed down off the coast of Panama City, Florida, on…
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Artificial intelligence that might use smartphone images could lead to more accurate, early detection of a pest that ruins strawberries, a $300 million-dollar-a-year industry in Florida. University of Florida scientists have developed a smartphone app to detect the twospotted spider mite. With quicker detection, the…
Read More Artificial Intelligence Could Reduce The Amount Farmers Spray To Control Strawberry Pest
NASA made history on Monday morning as their Ingenuity helicopter, designed and assembled at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Southern California, maintained a powered, controlled flight for 30 seconds. Data, including visual evidence, was received from the Perseverance rover around 7 am EDT. This has…
Read More Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Has Successful First Flight
Parasitic nematodes cause $125 billion in agricultural damage around the world each year, but University of Florida scientists hope to alleviate some of that destruction. To do so, UF researchers will use artificial intelligence (AI) to try to more rapidly identify nematodes. Some nematodes live…
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