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Cybersecurity Gaps Could Put Astronauts at Grave Risk

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Gregory Falco , an assistant professor of civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins, explored the topic in a recent paper presented at the spring 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference. Inspiration for the study, he says, came from his discovering a relative lack of cybersecurity features in the Artemis crew’s next-generation spacesuits.

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The First U.S. Human-Operated Submersible Changed the Course of Oceanography

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After the conference, the research office sent a delegation, including Vine, to Italy to see the 18-meter-long, 45-tonne vehicle. The crew escaped unharmed, but the food they brought for lunch sank with the ship. During a 1956 symposium about deep-sea exploration held in Washington, D.C.,

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Indeed, hyped-up product announcements at industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show (now CES ) and the Game Developers Conference have become regular features of the digital world. Once Kahn found a venue for the demo—at the International Conference on Computer Communications (ICCC), to be held in Washington, D.C.,

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Q&A: Why the Metaverse Needs to Be Open

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The name comes from author Neal Stephenson's dystopian sci-fi classic Snow Crash , which envisaged a gigantic 3D playground where millions of people escaped the drudgery of the real world. That's why early pioneers came together last week at leading computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH 2021 to chart a path forward.

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Q&A: Why the Metaverse Needs to Be Open

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The name comes from author Neal Stephenson's dystopian sci-fi classic Snow Crash , which envisaged a gigantic 3D playground where millions of people escaped the drudgery of the real world. That's why early pioneers came together last week at leading computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH 2021 to chart a path forward.

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BREAKING NEWS: US Science Report Proves All Out Effort To Fight Climate Change Needed Right Now Or Everyone Is Screwed. Get It?

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We don’t have but a handful of years to step up with a drastic, all out, game-changing World War II like response or you will have doomed your children to a disaster-filled miserable existence from which they will not be able to recover or escape. Is that plain enough? Happy to help. I know because I’m a subscriber.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. And in the Xerox environment in ’76, all of a sudden you could create things and make lots of them.” and is currently manager of programming environments at Sun Microsystems in Mountain View. “Or

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