The Collapse of Puerto Rico’s Iconic Telescope
Just before eight in the morning on December 1st of last year, Ada Monzón was at the Guaynabo studios of WAPA, a television station in Puerto Rico, preparing to give a weather update, when she got a text from a friend. Jonathan Friedman, an aeronomer who lives near the Arecibo Observatory, about an hour and […]
Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare
Analyzing a national cancer database, researchers find a bump in diagnoses at 65, suggesting that many wait for Medicare to kick in before they seek care. Mar 30 2021 Lung cancer cellsNational Cancer Institute A couple of years ago, Joseph Shrager, MD, professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford School of Medicine, noticed a statistical anomaly […]
Google Maps will soon default to the route with the lowest carbon footprint
Sixteen years ago, many of us held a printout of directions in one hand and the steering wheel in the other to get around— without information about the traffic along your route or details about when your favorite restaurant was open. Since then, we’ve been pushing the boundaries of what a map can do, propelled […]
Beach High School
Graduation If you earn a diploma when you’re younger than 18, you gain freedom from the law that compels you to go to high school, you also get out from under the laws that restrict your hours when you work and require you to have a work permit, and you gain independent access to […]
TrueVault (YC W14) is hiring an engineering lead for a new data privacy product
About TrueVault TrueVault builds software tools that help businesses comply with consumer data privacy laws. We believe if businesses have access to products that make getting and staying compliant simple, straightforward, and fully automated, respecting consumers’ data privacy becomes the sensible default. And we all benefit from that. You will be joining a team that […]
Fighting cryptojacking and doing good things with content security policies
If you’ve landed on this page because you saw a strange message on a completely different website then followed a link to here, drop a note to the site owner and let them know what happened. If, on the other hand, you’re on this page because you’re interested in reading about the illicit use of […]
Tracing Paper (2020)
In 2017, when a National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower wanted to extract classified government documents from her work computer, she sought refuge in the printed page. Maybe she thought physical paper would be safer from digital surveillance than an email. So she printed the documents at her office and then mailed them to The Intercept, […]
The Enigmatic Tablets from Late Bronze Age Deir ‘Alla
Soon after the first discovery was published by Franken, a wide range of interpretations was given for the tablets and their script. These ranged from the Sea People who roamed the Levantine coast at the end of the Late Bronze Age and were seen as responsible for the upheaval in the area, to links with […]
Microsoft wins $21.9B contract with U.S. Army to supply AR headsets
By Stephen Nellis, Paresh Dave 2 Min Read FILE PHOTO: A Microsoft logo is seen on an office building in New York City on July 28, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo/File Photo/File Photo (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it has won a deal to sell the U.S. Army augmented reality headsets based on its […]
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
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