Science & Technology – Week of 08.28.16

Record-tying Oklahoma Earthquake Felt as Far Away as Arizona
WTOP | 03 September 2016
Fresh attention to…

10 Mind-blowing Facts about the CERN Large Collider You Need to Know
RT | 01 September 2016
Science – and religion – sounding the…

Hermine Breaks 11-Year Hurricane Drought Record
Weather | 02 September 2016
Florida…

Hurricane Hermine Very Close to Landfall in Florida; Hurricane-Force Winds Coming Ashore
Weather | 01 September 2016
Keeps on strengthening…

SpaceX Explosion Takes Out Facebook’s Multi-million Dollar Satellite
New Atlas | 01 September 2016



SpaceX - Static Fire Anomaly - AMOS-6 - 09-01-2016

SpaceX – Static Fire Anomaly – AMOS-6 – 09-01-2016


YouTube | 01 September 2016

Someone Is Already Selling Dropbox User Info On The Dark Net
Vocativ | 01 September 2016
Sites, including LinkedIn…

New York’s New Facial Recognition Software Led To 100 Arrests
Vocative | 31 August 2016
3,800 people have been…

IRS Fails to Notify Victims and Social Security Administration of Identity Theft Cases
Journal of Accountancy | 31 August 2016
Pilot has been…

ISRO May Do a 68-Satellite Single Launch Next Year
The Hindu | 31 August 2016
$ 16 billion…

Hackers Target Elections Systems in Arizona and Illinois
Governing | 30 August 2016
Not conclusive that foreign…

Ugh: Donald Trump Is (Statistically) The World’s Most Famous Person
Vocativ | 30 August 2016
Schulman’s logarithmic scale…

Dogs Can Understand Human Speech, Scientists Discover
Independent | 30 August 2016
Maybe we’ll…

A Robot That Harms: When Machines Make Life Or Death Decisions
NPR | 30 August 2016
Algorithm to decide whether or not it’s going to…

Astronomers Don’t Think That So-Called SETI Signal Is Aliens—and Neither Should You
Wired | 30 August 2016
almost no reason…

School Creates Own Security Hole; Tries To Have Concerned Parent Arrested For Hacking
Tech Dirt | 30 August 2016
Wealth of sensitive student…

Facebook Recommended that this Psychiatrist’s Patients Friend Each Other
Fusion | 29 August 2016
Massive privacy fail…

AT&T Dodges FTC Throttling Lawsuit Using Title II Classification It Vehemently Opposed
Tech Dirt | 29 August 2016
Simultaneously arguing is not…is…

Chicago Begins Building ‘Fitness Tracker’ to Check Its Vitals
USA Today | 29 August 2016
Trove of data that will…

Leaked Soros Document Calls For Regulating Internet To Favor ‘Open Society’ Supporters
Daily Caller | 29 August 2016
Regulation of private actors…

Strongest Earthquakes in Decades at One of Iceland’s Largest Volcanoes
CNBC | 29 August 2016
Escalation…

Iceland’s Katla Volcano Hit by Unusually Large Earthquakes
News Trust | 29 August 2016
Dynamic…

Slaughtered by Lightning Bodies of 323 Reindeer Litter the Countryside After Being Struck by Massive Lightning Bolt in Norway
The Sun UK | 29 August 2016
Stay close together in…

Iceland Raises Alarm After Largest Volcano Starts to Rumble
Bloomberg | 29 August 2016
Hit by the biggest…

It’s ‘Digital Heroin’: How Screens Turn Kids into Psychotic Junkies
NY Post | 27 August 2016
Addicted to…

George Soros Bribed Al Gore to Lie about Global Warming
Facebook | 27 August 2016
$10 million per year for…

Myanmar Is Picking Up The Pieces After Earthquake Damaged Ancient Pagodas
Huffington Post | 25 August 2016
Three people and damaged at least…

All the Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You
Atlantic | 24 August 2016
Eavesdrop on what’s being typed …

Four in Five Canadians Believe in Aliens: Angus Reid poll
Global News | 24 August 2016
50 per cent say…

US Ready to ‘Hand Over’ the Internet’s Naming System
BBC | 19 August 2016
Icann has essentially…

Automation May Replace Millions of Jobs in Tennessee
Tennessean | 21 March 2016
54 percent of jobs in…distribution…

Nikola Tesla Predicted Drones in 1898
Big Think | 22 August 2016
Beyond his time, like when…