An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: When a senior executive at virtual private network company ExpressVPN admitted to working on behalf of a foreign intelligence service to hack American machines last week, it stunned employees at his new…
William Shatner’s Going To Space On Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin
schwit1 shares a report from TMZ: The 90-year-old actor is slated to be part of the second crew to take the space flight in the New Shepard capsule. That would make him the oldest person ever to be launched into space. We’re told Shatner will be on boa…
UK Appeals Court Rules AI Cannot Be Listed As a Patent Inventor
The United Kingdom is the latest country to rule that an artificial intelligence can’t be legally credited as an inventor. Engadget reports: Per the BBC, the UK Court of Appeal recently ruled against Dr. Stephen Thaler in a case involving the country’s…
Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time
Samoa is joining Japan, India, and China in scrapping daylight saving time, which was first proposed in 1895 so entomologist and astronomer George Hudson could study insects at night. “Hudson is dead, so daylight saving is no longer necessary,” writes …
Engineers Figured Out How To Cook 3D-Printed Chicken With Lasers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Engineers at Columbia University […] figured out how to simultaneously 3D-print and cook layers of pureed chicken, according to a recent paper published in the journal npj Science of Food. […] …
Scientists Use AI To Create Drug Regime For Rare Form of Brain Cancer In Children
Scientists have successfully used artificial intelligence to create a new drug regime for children with a deadly form of brain cancer that has not seen survival rates improve for more than half a century. The Guardian reports: The breakthrough, reveale…
Impossible Foods To Launch Meatless Pork In US, Hong Kong and Singapore
Impossible Foods’ latest meatless product is set to hit tables from Thursday: plant-based pork that claims to be tastier and healthier than the real deal. CNBC reports: The ground pork product will first be available in restaurants in the U.S., Hong Ko…
Hackers Breached Computer Network At Key US Port But Did Not Disrupt Operations
Suspected foreign government-backed hackers last month breached a computer network at one of the largest ports on the US Gulf Coast, but early detection of the incident meant the intruders weren’t in a position to disrupt shipping operations, according…
California Passes Law Targeting Amazon Labor Algorithms
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Wednesday that would block Amazon and other companies from punishing warehouse workers who fail to meet certain performance metrics for taking rest or me…
‘Facebook Is What’s Wrong With America’
The Salesforce CEO and owner of Time Magazine, Marc Benioff, sees a common thread for what ails America today: deception that is allowed to spread like wildfire on Facebook. “This digital revolution really kind of has the world in its grip. And in that…