Image by Getty Images/Futurism You go to the gym, you pick things up. But maybe, as the second half of the famous line goes, the focus should really be on putting them down. According to a recent study performed by researchers at Australia’s Edith Cowan University (ECU) and published in the European Journal of Applied… Continue reading Scientists Find That Lifting Weights Offers No Benefit Over Simply Lowering Them
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Insurance Company Refuses to Pay Ransom, So Hackers Start Releasing Health Records of Up To 10 Million People
So far, at least 500,000 personal health records have been stolen. Breaching Whales Hackers plundered the health records of millions of customers from Australian health insurance provider Medibank, then dumped them on the dark web after Medibank refused to pay the demanded ransom. The hack first came to light in October, when it was unclear… Continue reading Insurance Company Refuses to Pay Ransom, So Hackers Start Releasing Health Records of Up To 10 Million People
The Guy Who Invented the World Wide Web Thinks We Should “Ignore” Web3
“Web3 is not the web at all.” Web of Lies The man who literally invented the form of the internet we all use believes the future of it lies in decentralization. That man is Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist who’s widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web back in 1989. However, Berners-Lee thinks… Continue reading The Guy Who Invented the World Wide Web Thinks We Should “Ignore” Web3
Guy Discovers a Way to Unlock Any Pixel Phone Without the Passcode
“My hands started to shake at this point…” Skeleton Key David Schütz, a bug hunter, discovered a clever way to unlock any Google Pixel phone without a passcode — and the vulnerability may affect swaths of other Android phones as well. According to a post on Schütz’s blog, the vulnerability is exploited by using another… Continue reading Guy Discovers a Way to Unlock Any Pixel Phone Without the Passcode
Scientists Discover That Money Actually Can Buy Happiness
It’s official: money can, in fact, buy you happiness. , as NBC reports An experiment, described in a new paper published in the journal PNAS this week, was simple: researchers gave 200 people a one-time sum of $10,000 — sourced from two anonymous donors — and asked them to rate their happiness on a monthly basis.… Continue reading Scientists Discover That Money Actually Can Buy Happiness
Professors Warn of “Horrifying” Self-Destruction of Human Civilization
“Why do we condemn today’s children and future generations to live on a dangerous and hostile planet?” Self Destruct Button We live in a technologically advanced global society and we’ve known about climate change for decades. So why, as a group of professors posit in a damning essay for The Conversation, are we “choosing to destroy”… Continue reading Professors Warn of “Horrifying” Self-Destruction of Human Civilization
Residents Furious at Neighbor Testing Super Loud Rocket Engines
Hey, cut that out! Rocket Racket Rockets are big, loud, explosive, and notoriously cool to witness in action. But tell that to the residents of a town that have to hear them all the time. SpaceRyde is a Canadian rocket startup with a facility in Trent Hills, Ontario — and it hasn’t been earning the… Continue reading Residents Furious at Neighbor Testing Super Loud Rocket Engines
Tesla Reportedly Canceling Solar Roof Installations Across the Country
Sun’s out, funds out. The Sun Sets Eager customers of Tesla’s solar roof program have been left holding the bag as the EV automaker says it’s nixing operations in numerous markets, Electrek reports. The cancellations underscore the degree to which the program has never really taken off. By Elecktrek‘s estimates, Tesla only installed its solar… Continue reading Tesla Reportedly Canceling Solar Roof Installations Across the Country
Elon Musk Might Get Thrashed by Lawsuit From Heavy Metal Drummer
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s just might get shredded this time. Richard Tornetta, a former metal drummer who made a small investment in Tesla, sued CEO Elon Musk and the company’s board in what is called a “shareholder derivative lawsuit” back in 2018, Reuters reports. The case survived a 2019 motion to dismiss and is set… Continue reading Elon Musk Might Get Thrashed by Lawsuit From Heavy Metal Drummer
Disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried Steps Down as CEO of FTX
Disgraced FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, whose empire collapsed in a matter of hours, this week, has officially stepped down. It’s been a tumultuous week for his former cryptocurrency exchange, which just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, wiping out a $32 billion valuation in a matter of days. The exchange bottomed out earlier this week,… Continue reading Disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried Steps Down as CEO of FTX