“A remotely-controlled robot sent to inspect and clean a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant had to be pulled early when its onboard camera went dark, the result of excess radiation,” reports Gizmodo. “The abbreviated mission suggests that radiation…

wisebabo writes: Say goodbye to our little whiskered friends! There is an effort to wipe out not just any species, (there’s been discussions to wipe out the mosquitos that carry Malaria), but a mammal. Specifically the house mouse which, along…

schwit1 quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Ever since 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, quantum dots have been in a market struggle to displace light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a backlight source for liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Now an advance by a…

Valve’s crowdsourced Greenlight submission program, which let the gaming community select which games get chosen for distribution via Steam, is shutting down after nearly five years. It will be replaced with a new system called Steam Direct that will charge…

Trailrunner7 quotes a report from On the Wire: A group of influential lawmakers, including Sen. Ed Markey and Sen. Ron Wyden, are pressing the Trump administration for answers about how an executive order that includes changes to the Privacy Act…

While there are interesting potential real-world applications for the technology, for now the Google team is focused on the theoretical advances

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Android developers, you’ve got until March 15 to rig up a decent privacy policy or have your app thrown out of the store

Ransomware is one of the hottest topics in infosec right now, and the RSA conference in San Francisco is devoting a whole day to it