Science
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These are the tech accessories that never leave my car
Sep 5, 2016News Hour: The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships so we may get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Technology has infiltrated every part of our lives, whether we’re... -
No need to tell people there’s a dot in your Gmail address — it really doesn’t matter
Sep 5, 2016News Hour: My Slate email address is will.oremus@slate.com. If you email willoremus@slate.com, your message will bounce. There is no willoremus@slate.com. If there were, though, it’s a good bet that he’d get a lot of messages that were intended for me (poor... -
Scientists unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years
Sep 1, 2016News Hour: Life on Earth is even older than we thought, said Australian scientists on Thursday as they unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years, reports BSS. The fossilised structures — called stromatolites —... -
68 million Dropbox passwords stolen by hackers
Aug 31, 2016Earlier this week, Dropbox reset user passwords for all accounts that hadn’t changed them since 2012, following its discovery of a file containing hashed and salted passwords that were obtained in a previous security breach. Now,... -
Flaws in criticism of St. Jude cyber security
Aug 31, 2016News Hour: University of Michigan researchers on Tuesday said their own experiments undermine recent allegations of security flaws in St. Jude Medical Inc’s pacemakers and other implantable medical devices. Shares of St. Jude fell 5 percent... -
i-Pad apps to be as effective as sedatives on children needing anaesthesia
Aug 30, 2016News Hour: New research presented at this year’s World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) in Hong Kong (Aug 28 – 2 Sept) shows that allowing children to use iPads to distract them before surgery requiring general anaesthesia... -
Google hires Airbnb exec to commercialize self-driving cars
Aug 26, 2016News Hour: Alphabet Inc’s Google self-driving car project took a step closer to market with the hire of a top executive from Airbnb, the online vacation home rental marketplace. Shaun Stewart is joining Google as a... -
Scientists: Eat your food packaging, don’t bin it
Aug 24, 2016News Hour: Scientists are developing an edible form of packaging which they hope will preserve food more effectively and more sustainably than plastic film, helping to cut both food and plastic waste. The packaging film is... -
A problem that has been holding back a technological revolution
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: Imagine an electronic newspaper that you could roll up and spill your coffee on, even as it updated itself before your eyes. It’s an example of the technological revolution that has been waiting to... -
Fluorescent jellyfish proteins light up unconventional laser
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: Safer lasers to map your cells could soon be in the offing – all thanks to the humble jellyfish. Conventional lasers, like the pointer you might use to entertain your cat, produce light by...
