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The self-driving car revolution continues apace, but until now autonomous vehicles needed to have a flesh-and-blood, human driver as back up if they were allowed out in the road. Not any longer.Over in California, where a lot of these software-controlled cars are currently being put through their paces, authorities have given the all clear for them to set off without anyone in the car to take control if something goes wrong.The new legislation only applies at a couple of testing sites in the state, so self-driving cars can't go solo on real r. ...
After closely following comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for 786 days as it rounded the Sun, the Rosetta spacecraft's controlled impact with the comet's surface was confirmed by the loss of signal from the spacecraft on September 30, 2016. One the images taken during its final descent, this high resolution view looks across the comet's stark landscape. The scene spans just over 600 meters (2,000 feet), captured when Rosetta was about 16 kilometers from the comet's surface. Rosetta's descent to th [...] ...
Breast cancer sign Doctors intend to improve their methods of diagnosing diseases, and now they are trying new ones for breast cancer. Currently, such tests include mammogram analyses and tissue samples, which can be quite unpleasant and painful for patients. Now specialists suggest blood tests and genetic analysis as an alternative method, which can actually turn out to be easier and less expensive. The Australian National University put specialists to work on a study that aims to create a new method to diagnose breast cancer. The researcher.. ...
Marine biologists are crossing their fingers after New Caledonia's coral reef, a UN-inscribed natural wonder of the world, was hit by bleaching this year. ...
Gwyneth Paltrow and her publication, Goop, have been sharing her celebrity lifestyle since the site launched in 2008. It's jealousy-inducing for some, while others have complained that it's totally "out of touch." But when it comes to health tips, the site is full of dodgy information, with unfounded warnings about things that are safe — like bras and sunscreen — and zealous promotion of things with little-to-no proven benefits — like cleanses and vaginal steaming. Some of the alternative medicine practices on the site could even be... ...
A Century of War and Gray Zone Challenges” has a September 2015 briefing slide produced by the Intelligence Directorate of U.S. Special Operations Command. The slide analyzes US military actions and wars and rates them as wins, losses or draws.SOCOM Intelligence Directorate’s assessment of the last century of American war — 12 and nine with a mind-boggling 43 “ties.”The command counts just five full-fledged wars in which the United States has come up with three wins (World War I, World War II, and Desert Storm), one loss (Vietna ...
Kobe or LeBron. Coke or Pepsi. WWF or WCW. PlaySation or Xbox. Rivalries between two of the biggest in any industry always spawn fierce debates, with fans usually becoming unreasonably loyal. While Apple is the more "sexy" rival to Samsung to media in the west, in reality, the biggest rival to the South Korea electronic giant, especially in its home country, is LG. ...
New footage taken from Titanfall 2's single-player campaign looks fresh and exciting. ...
EU antitrust regulators plan to order Alphabet’s Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search exclusively on their devices and warned the company of a large fine, an EU document showed. The document, running to more than 150 pages, was sent to complainants last week for feedback. Google received a copy in April in which the European Commission accused it of using its dominant Android mobile operating system to shut out rivals. The EU competition enforcer in its charge sheet, known as a stateme.. ...
About 600 American troops will be deployed to Iraq to further enable local security forces as they prepare to retake the key Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.The addition of more than 600 additional troops in the coming weeks will bring the force management level to 5,262 U.S. troops.There are 9,800 US troops in Afghanistan and the current plan is maintain 8,400 troop level through to the end of 2017.NATO countries have contributed a few thousand troops to the Afghanistan mission since it began in 2001. As of Ma ...
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Although Google Play Store has gotten better in dealing with malicious, malware-infected apps in recent years, some still manage to find their way through the inspection process. As it turns out, there’s currently over 400 of them hosted by the most popular Android app store on the planet, cyber security firm TrendLabs reports. It’s worth pointing out that the company’s experts were only looking for very specific apps infected with something they refer to as DressCode malware. Like the name suggests, these are seemingly harmless apps whic ...