An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Royal Jordanian airlines banned the use of electronics on flights servicing the U.S. after government officials here expressed concerns. Details are scant, but CNN is reporting that other carriers based on…
1.6 Billion-Year-Old Plant Fossil Found In India
Complex multicellular life began 400 million years earlier than we thought, according to a Phys.org article shared by Slashdot reader William Robinson: Scientists found two kinds of fossils resembling red algae in uniquely well-preserved sedimentary rocks at Chitrakoot in central…
The First Practical Use For Quantum Computers: Chemistry
“The first quantum computer to start paying its way with useful work in the real world looks likely to do so by helping chemists,” writes MIT Technology Review, “trying to do things like improve batteries or electronics.” An anonymous reader…
Your Hotel Room Photos Could Help Catch Sex Traffickers
100,000 people people have already downloaded an app that helps fight human trafficking. dryriver summarizes a report from CNN: Police find an ad for paid sex online. It’s an illegally trafficked underage girl posing provocatively in a hotel room. But…
NY Bill Would Require Removal of Inaccurate, Irrelevant Or Excessive Statements
schwit1 writes: In a bill aimed at securing a “right to be forgotten,” introduced by Assemblyman David I. Weprin and (as Senate Bill 4561 by state Sen. Tony Avella), New York politicians would require people to remove “inaccurate,” “irrelevant,” “inadequate”…
WikiLeaks Won't Tell Tech Companies How To Patch CIA Zero-Days Until Demands Are Met
“WikiLeaks has made initial contact with us via [email protected],” a Microsoft spokesperson told Motherboard — but then things apparently stalled. An anonymous reader quotes Fortune: Wikileaks this week contacted major tech companies including Apple and Google, and required them to…
Researchers Build An AI That's Better At Reading Lips Than Humans
An anonymous reader quotes the BBC: Scientists at Oxford say they’ve invented an artificial intelligence system that can lip-read better than humans. The system, which has been trained on thousands of hours of BBC News programs, has been developed in…
Could We Eliminate Spam With DMARC?
An anonymous reader writes: “The spam problem would not only be significantly reduced, it’d probably almost go away,” argues Paul Edmunds, the head of technology from the cybercrimes division of the U.K.’s National Crime Agency — suggesting that more businesses…
Some HTTPS Inspection Tools Actually Weaken Security
America’s Department of Homeland Security issued a new warning this week. An anonymous reader quotes IT World: Companies that use security products to inspect HTTPS traffic might inadvertently make their users’ encrypted connections less secure and expose them to man-in-the-middle…
Google's New Campus Will Open Its Restaurants To The Public
Google’s new 18-acre campus will feature a 595,000-square foot building for 2,400 employees, most of them engineers — and its bottom floor will be open to the public. An anonymous reader quotes Recode: People will be able to walk through…