650 U.K. schools received educational kits from a charity for testing the lead levels in their water. Students at more than 14 schools then discovered their drinking water had higher lead levels than the recommended maximum. The Guardian reports:
Seve…
“A mystery lies deep within the Grand Canyon: one billion years’ worth of rocks have disappeared,” Space.com reported last week.
The BBC explains:
Today geologists know that the youngest of the hard, crystalline rocks are 1.7 billion years old, where…
This week the Guardian reported that a “tumultuous few weeks” awaits El Salvador as it prepares to become the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday.
In August a research note by Bank of America enthused about the new law’s ability …
“Two-and-a-half years after the deadly Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash, with the final investigation report into the accident still pending, the airline’s management has reached a settlement with Boeing and said it expects to resume flying the jet aga…
The New York Times tells the story of a pervasive new nuisance: public videography with smartphones:
Recently I saw eight seconds of video that capture this problem in its most extreme form. A boy and a girl, who appear to be of high school age, are w…
“The four astronauts poised to launch on the first-ever all-civilian SpaceX mission this month will have one heck of a view once they reach orbit,” reports Space.com:
When the crew of Inspiration4 (as the mission is called) launches on a SpaceX Crew D…
NBC News reports:
Space company Firefly launched its inaugural Alpha rocket on a cloudless Thursday evening over the California coast. The Alpha rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base’s SLC-2 complex, climbing west over the Pacific. But about…
America’s National Security Agency “isn’t really sure when or even if quantum computers will be able to crack public key cryptography,” writes TechRadar.
They report that the NSA “has expressed its reservations about the potential of quantum computin…
Despite Linux reaching its 30th anniversary, “most outside the tech industry will be unaware that Linux has reached such a milestone,” writes ZDNet, “even though the project has had a huge impact on everything from smartphones to cloud computing.”
Th…
Long-time Slashdot reader Nkwe shares an article about AT&T’s “Flying COW” drones — their Cell (tower) On Wings drone technology that’s helped restore cellphone service after Hurricane Ida and other natural disasters.
“The device is a cell …
