Jan 10, 2020
Maps are essential tools for the disaster relief worker — for making response plans, for estimating the number of people who might need help and, of course, for navigation. Today, aid workers rely on open source digital maps — particularly in lower-income...
Jan 9, 2020
Check Point Research has uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in TikTok that could have allowed attacks to manipulate content on user accounts and even extract confidential personal information saved on these accounts. TikTok is used mainly by teenagers and children,...
Jan 8, 2020
Global solar installations will continue double-digit growth rates into the new decade. This is according to the new 2020 Global Photovoltaic (PV) Demand Forecast by IHS Markit, which predicts that new annual installations in 2020 will reach 142 gigawatts (GW), a 14%...
Jan 7, 2020
NASA’s Planet Hunters TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) citizen science project has uncovered its first world with two stars. In 2019, when Wolf Cukier finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, he joined NASA’s Goddard Space...
Jan 2, 2020
A galaxy about 23-million light years away is the site of impressive, ongoing fireworks. Rather than paper, powder and fire, this galactic light show involves a giant black hole, shock waves and vast reservoirs of gas. This galactic fireworks display is taking place...
Dec 27, 2019
The past decade has been a period of unusually rapid change and disruption as organisations worldwide have implemented a breadth of technology solutions to transform how they understand their customers, empower employees and optimise operations. This is one of the...
