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Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has blamed a cyberattack for a recent multi-hour outage of its website and mobile app, which also resulted in the leak of user data. The company issued a statement on its website stating that it is presently investigating the event. According to the firm, the intrusion exposed contact information, prior and forthcoming […]
Coca-Cola says it is looking into a suspected data breach after a threat actor located in Russia began selling data supposedly belonging to the company. On Monday, the Stormous hacker group said it had hacked Coca-Cola’s servers and stole 161 gigabytes of data. The threat actors demanded 1.65 Bitcoin, which is presently worth roughly $64,000. […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday reached an agreement to buy with social media firm Twitter for roughly $44 billion. Twitter investors will get $54.20 in cash for each share of Twitter common stock they possess when the proposed deal closes, according to the terms of the agreement. “The Twitter Board conducted a thoughtful and […]
Ukraine’s national postal office, Ukrposhta, reported a cyberattack on Friday following sales of a postage stamp picturing a Ukrainian soldier making a vulgar gesture to the Russian cruiser Moskva that was sunk last week. Director General Ihor Smilianskyi said that Ukrposhta, the postal service, had been struck by a distributed denial-of-service attack that temporarily knocked […]
NASA Looking to Tiny Technology for Big Payoffs NASA works with industry partner Nanocomp Technologies Inc. of Merrimack, New Hampshire, to advance manufacturing of carbon nanotube composite materials. On Oct. 29, NASA visited Nanocomp’s facility to discuss next steps for this technology. NASA is advancing technology that could use large amounts of nanoscale materials […]
Parker Solar Probe Breaks Record, Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Sun Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun’s surface on Oct. 29, 2018, at about 1:04 p.m. EDT, as calculated by the […]
NASA Uses Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) to Reveal Hurricane Willa’s Rainfall (Update: 26 October 2018) NASA has used its Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data to calculate the amount of rainfall generated from Eastern Pacific Ocean’s Hurricane Willa. According to NASA, Tropical Depression 24E was formed on October 20, 2018, and it […]
The Coincidence between Two Overachieving NASA Missions Two vastly different NASA spacecraft are about to run out of fuel: The Kepler spacecraft, which spent nine years in deep space collecting data that detected thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, and the Dawn spacecraft, which spent 11 years orbiting and studying the main […]
Here’s What Happens When NASA Has a Pumpkin-Carving Contest While it may not be your typical Halloween fare, a pumpkin held aloft by a parachute and an air blower is par for the course when engineers engage in a pumpkin carving contest at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Once a year at […]
Mars 2020 Parachute a Go In the early hours of Sept. 7, NASA broke a world record. Less than 2 minutes after the launch of a 58-foot-tall (17.7-meter) Black Brant IX sounding rocket, a payload separated and began its dive back through Earth’s atmosphere. When onboard sensors determined the payload had reached the appropriate […]
The Town of Quispamsis is ready to co-host the 2018 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge. The tournament will be organized in Quispamsis and Saint John from November 3 to November 10, 2018. The organizers and the administration of both towns are expecting this tournament to boost to economy of the region. The event is being supported […]
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is inviting people across Canada to write an “out-of-this-world space-themed children’s story” for children aged 3 to 8, and submit it to the agency. Canadians aged 9 years and above are eligible to participate in this contest. According to CSA, selected stories submitted by the people will be published on […]
Researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T) are currently working to establish an archeological park and a research center in Turkey. According to U of T, university archeologists are currently holding talks with Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The archeological park will be established at ell Tayinat site in Amuq Valley, located […]
On Thursday, a grizzly attacked a female black bear and cubs in woods south of Whitecourt, and entire fight was captured on camera by Logan Hunter who was hunting with his father in this remote area at that time. Logan Hunter who caught this fight on his mobile camera later posted the video on Youtube. […]
Will the UK agree to an extended transition period, keeping it bound by EU rules for longer after exiting the EU? Here, Professor Kenneth Armstrong outlines three “potential models” to extend the transition period, as explored in his new research paper published today. For some time now, both the United Kingdom and European Union have […]
Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has announced that it is now optional for Sikh women to wear helmets in Chandigarh. The Union Territory administration of Chandigarh has been advised that for Sikh women riding a two wheeler or sitting pillion, it may be made optional to wear protective head gear, as per the extant […]
The Public Health Agency of Canada has announced that it is investigating the outbreak of salmonella infections in five provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Quebec. The source of outbreak is yet to be determined, although officials are investigating the role of cucumbers behind this outbreak as many people who became sick reported eating […]
University of Alberta (UA) paleontologists have helped identify the fossil of an ancient baby sea monster discovered in Kansas, United States. According to researchers, this fossil is about 85 million years old, and belongs to a newborn Tylosaurus that died shortly after its birth. At the time of its death, it had not developed the […]
After returning to the United States following last week’s aborted launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket, NASA astronaut Nick Hague shared the details of the incident to the Associated Press in an interview. The astronaut described what actually happened after failure of Soyuz rocket forced the capsule to fly away from the failing rocket at speeds […]
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Starts Asteroid Operations Campaign (Update: 24 August 2018) NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) was launched on September 8m 2016, and last week the probe captured the first glimpse of asteroid Bennu from a distance of about 1.4 million miles while beginning its final approach toward […]
Archeologists from the Indian Department of Archaeology have unearthed over 1,000 war rockets of 18th Century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan in India. These rockets are about 250–270 years’ old and were discovered from the silt of an abandoned well in a village named Nagara in Shivamogga region of Karnataka. The village is located about 385 […]
Researchers have unearthed 174-year-old fossils of a long-neck, plant-eating dinosaur in northwestern China’s Lingwu region. According to scientists, this dinosaur was a neosauropod—a member of the sauropods group of dinosaurs that were characterized by long necks and tails, small heads, and pillar-like legs. This latest discovery has forced researchers to rethink the history of long-necked […]
Lobbyists spent more than two billion dollars between 2000 and 2016 to influence climate-change-related legislation in the U.S. Congress, according to a new study carried out by the researchers from the Drexel University in the U.S. The analysis found that the fossil fuel companies, electrical utilities sector, and transport companies—which were likely to be hugely […]
France and Croatia have qualified for the World Cup Football 2018 final which will be played on Sunday, July 15, at 11 a.m. ET. In first semifinal, France – the pre-tournament favorite – beat Belgium to reserve a berth in the final. In second semifinal, Croatia proved doubters wrong to beat England 2-1 and move […]