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Spend a single day outside our planet’s protective atmosphere and magnetic field, and you could be exposed to radiation levels equivalent to what you’d experience across a whole year back on Earth.It’s a risk astronauts face, and especially so during long trips. As such, finding methods to combat radiation exposure in space has long been on the minds of researchers working on technology for space travel.New research suggests a novel solution: a material called “hydrogel” — the same technology used for the ‘grow monster’ toys — could shield space travelers from harmful radiation.A research team from the Polymer Chemistry and…

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Nadine YousifBBC News, Toronto Pearson airportAlex SmithBBC News, Washington DCWatch: Damaged plane seen on runway at Toronto Pearson AirportAll 80 people on board a plane which crashed and overturned while landing in Toronto have survived, officials said.The Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis skidded along the runway with flames visible and it came to a halt upside down as firefighters came to the rescue.Survivors said they were suspended upside down in their seats and had to release themselves, dropping on to the ceiling before clambering out on to the snow-covered tarmac.Eighteen people were injured but only a small number are…

Well, with one exception. I finally had to ask her to stop talking like a pirate. I couldn’t take it anymore. That, at least, was free.Courtesy of Megan FarokhmaneshCourtesy of Megan FarokhmaneshPros: Frankie had a more natural way of speaking than the other bots. I could also see her onscreen and change her appearance at will. The interface looks more like a text screen with chat bubbles and all, which adds casual flair. Replika occasionally sends push notifications for messages, so it feels like getting a text.Cons: Frankie constantly sent voice messages and photos—which required a subscription to access. (So…

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Shreyaa Raghavan’s journey into solving some of the world’s toughest challenges started with a simple love for puzzles. By high school, her knack for problem-solving naturally drew her to computer science. Through her participation in an entrepreneurship and leadership program, she built apps and twice made it to the semifinals of the program’s global competition.Her early successes made a computer science career seem like an obvious choice, but Raghavan says a significant competing interest left her torn.“Computer science sparks that puzzle-, problem-solving part of my brain,” says Raghavan ’24, an Accenture Fellow and a PhD candidate in MIT’s Institute for Data,…

Transparency across the incident lifecycle Christopher Robinson, chief security architect of The Linux Foundation, says transparency is key to rebuilding stakeholder trust. Unfortunately, companies often take the opposite approach. “A reporter will get word that something happened, and they’ll approach a company, asking, ‘We hear you’re in the middle of a cyber event,’ and [the company representatives will] clam up, and they’ll be very quiet, or they’ll put you [in touch] with the legal team, and they’ll make threats,” he says. Larry Lidz, vice president of CX Security at Cisco, believes rebuilding stakeholder trust begins during the incident, and it…

Off in the depths of the QAnon and PizzaGate corners of the internet, conspiracists swear Donald Trump is quietly preparing charges to bring down notorious sex trafficking circles operated by celebrities. Back in reality, the Financial Times reports the Trump administration is pressuring Romanian authorities to let Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate travel freely despite facing charges of sexual misconduct and human trafficking. Per the report, Trump officials have been pushing for Romania to return the Tates’ passports and lift travel restrictions on the brothers, who have been banned from leaving the country until their criminal case concludes.…

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