Technology
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What We Need -- and Don’t Need -- From Government in the Robot Age | Michael R. Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg. Photo from chicagoideas.com/years/2012/speakersMichael R. Bloomberg on how to think about wages, health insurance, and education in the wake of technological advances. June 22, ...
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Russian Cyber Hacks on U.S. Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known | Michael Riley & Jordan Robertson
Image from: money.cnn.com/2016/10/31/technology/internet-attack-election-day/index.html Attackers said to take measure of voting systems, databases A ‘red phone’ warning to the Kremlin from Obama Whi ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- June 5, 2017 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- June 5, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation June 6 10:00 a.m., Council member Robert White will present the Washington, DC, City Council with a ceremonial resolution in ...
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Space junk could destroy satellites, hurt economies | AFP
There are an estimated 170 million pieces of so-called "space junk"—left behind after missions that can be as big as spent rocket stages or as small as paint flakes — in orbit alongside some US$700 b ...
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CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations | Stephen Tsang and Laszlo T. Bito
CRISPR-associated protein Cas9 (white) from Staphylococcus aureus based on Protein Database ID 5AXW. Credit: Thomas Splettstoesser (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) May 29, 2017 (Phys.org) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 ...
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US takes down huge botnet as Spain arrests notorious Russian hacker | Paul Handley
From: incapsula.comApril 11, 2017 (Phys.org) -- U.S. authorities moved Monday to take down a global computer botnet behind the massive theft of personal data and unwanted spam emails, as Spain arrest ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- March 13, 2017 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- March 13, 2017 Friends Committee on National Legislation March 15 9:00-10:00 a.m., American Enterprise Institute, "The defense budget and emergency war spending: Does it help more ...
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Scientists reveal new super-fast form of computer that 'grows as it computes' | PhysOrg
DNA double helix. Credit: public domain March 1, 2017 (PhysOrg) -- Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown it is possible to build a new super-fast form of computer that "grows as it ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- February 22, 2017 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation February 22, 2017 Feb. 18-26 House and Senate President's Day recess. Feb. 23 Noon-1:00 p.m., Al Mauroni, U.S. Air Force Center for Uncon ...
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Scientists Discover New Form Of Matter: Time Crystals | Fiona MacDonald
Kent Schimke/Flickr Perpetual motion without energy Jan. 28, 2017 (ScienceAlert.com) -- For months now, there's been speculation that researchers might have finally created time crystals -- strange c ...
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Nuclear Calender -- Jan. 17, 2017 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation January 17, 2017 Jan. 14-19 House of Representatives Martin Luther King Jr. recess. Jan. 17 Noon, Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the ...
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