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PARIS, France (AFP) — Twitter confirmed Wednesday a major hacking attack which has seen a number of high-profile accounts defaced by pro-Turkey supporters with a message condemning “Nazi Germany” and “Nazi Holland”. “We are aware of an issue affecting a number of account holders this morning,” a Twitter spokesperson said, adding the source of the attack had been tracked to a third party app whose permissions had been removed. © Agence France-Presse
GLIWICE, Poland (Reuters) — Engineers from the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice are testing a cost-effective electrostatic precipitator for households which use coal or other polluting fuels for heating. The system developed by the scientists can be mounted directly onto the chimney of a house or apartment building and uses electrostatic charges to stop dust particles. Dust carrying pollutants are deposited on the precipitator walls and does not escape alongside the smoke into the […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — When actress Judy Norman walks on stage for the play “Spillikin,” she performs beside a somewhat different cast member – a humanoid robot. Featuring a “robothespian,” the play brings love and technology together for a story about a robot maker who builds a robot to keep his wife company after he dies. And, as her dementia develops, it becomes increasingly difficult for her to distinguish the machine from the man. […]
by Marie JULIEN Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — With urbanization gaining pace and air pollution clouding the view in major cities, contemplating the stars in a pitch-black sky is fast becoming a rarity that tour operators are banking on as a new selling-point. From a total solar eclipse to the Milky Way to the Northern Lights, many experts at Berlin’s ITB, marketed as the world’s leading travel trade show, were making the case for […]
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND (Reuters) — Prehistoric meteorite fragments found in Namibia could be the ideal natural catalyst to store energy from renewable sources, according to a team of Swiss scientists. Pieces of the Gibeon meteorite are found over 20,000 square kilometres (7722 square miles) in the southern African nation and have a total mass of more than 21 tonnes. Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) found that it is the composition […]
Reuters — A team of engineers from South Korean have re-designed the bicycle lock into a small circular device installed on the hub of the front wheel. The Bisecu bicycle lock aims to take the hassle out of safeguarding your bike, eliminating the need to carry a bulky and often heavy locking device. Its novel circular design also means that it cannot be cut or tampered with like typical bike locks. Once connected to the […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — A fifth big cat was spotted in London’s Trafalgar Square on Wednesday (March 8). Perched atop an inspection box near the four iconic bronze lion statues was an animatronic leopard, placed there to highlight the plight of the species. The 50kg, 1.3 meter long robot named ‘Lily’ was designed by animatronics expert John Nolan and his team. Nolan said the leopard lookalike took fifteen people and several weeks to build. […]
by Pascale MOLLARD / Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France-Presse PARIS, France – Nearly 50,000 years before the invention of penicillin, a young Neanderthal tormented by a dental abscess ate greenery containing a natural antibiotic and pain killer, analysis of his teeth revealed Wednesday. The male, who lived in El Sidron in what is now Spain, ate an antibiotic fungus called Penicillium and chewed on bits of poplar tree containing salicylic acid — the active ingredient […]
by Estelle PEARD Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Volkswagen is on track for dealing with the recall of cars involved in the “Dieselgate” emissions scandal but, longer-term, needs to regain the trust of its customers, its chief executive Matthias Mueller said Tuesday. His comments came as the EU and European consumer protection agencies hiked pressure on VW to fully compensate European clients over the affair. The Dieselgate scandal erupted in September 2015 when VW […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Yellow taxi cabs have significantly fewer accidents than cabs of a darker hue, according to research that scientists say could end up saving lives and money. A study published Monday in the journal PNAS showed canary yellow cabs in Singapore were nine percent less likely to get into fender-benders or serious smash-ups than taxis that were deep blue. “Yellow taxis are safer to travel in […]
LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) — A new Kickstarter funded jewellery-based device makes it possible to convert your ideas into text. Senstone was devised by a team of programmers in the Ukrainian cities of Lviv and Kiev and transforms the user’s voice into notes stored on their phone or tablet. A small pendant with a diameter of 3 centimetres, the Senstone records the user’s voice and modifies it into printed texts sorted by topics created by the […]
(Reuters) — A vest designed to shield astronauts from deadly solar particles in deep space is set for trials on a lunar mission ready for deployment on any manned mission to Mars, its Israeli developers said. The AstroRad Radiation Shield has been devised by Tel Aviv-based StemRad, which has already produced and marketed a belt to protect rescue workers from harmful gamma ray radiation emitted in nuclear disasters, such as Chernobyl and Fukushima. The vest […]
