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U.S. worker safety officials fined Elon Musk’s SpaceX $3,600 this month after an accident at its site in Washington State led to a “near amputation,” according to inspection records reviewed by Reuters.A Reuters investigation late last year found that Musk’s rocket company disregarded worker-safety regulations and standard practices at its facilities nationwide. Through interviews and government records, the news organization documented at least 600 previously unreported injuries of SpaceX workers since 2014.SpaceX has…

Apple has had its first box office flop. Argylle, the $200-million star-studded spy thriller from Apple Studios, debuted with $18 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film, directed by Matthew Vaughn, managed to lead the weekend box office, but still found little interest from moviegoers. (Also Read – US Box office: Mean Girls musical dominates, Hanuman impresses, where's Aquaman 2?) Dua Lipa and Henry Cavill in Argylle Although Apple has been in the original film business since…

The first human patient received an implant from Elon Musk's computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend, the billionaire says.In a post Monday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was "recovering well." He added that "initial results show promising neuron spike detection."Spikes are activity by neurons, which the National Institutes of Health describe as cells that use electrical and chemical signals to send information around the…

a, Map of the sampling sites in inner and outer Frobisher Bay where sediment cores were collected in 2017 and 2018. b, Map of the sampling sites in Koojesse Inlet near the City of Iqaluit that overlaps the same region of inner Frobisher Bay. Credit: Environmental Science and Ecotechnology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2023.100313 Although contaminant levels in Arctic environments are often lower than those in temperate locations…

Nigeria has witnessed a steady increase in active voice and internet subscriptions, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said. The NCC said this in a statement signed by Reuben Muoka, the director of public affairs of the commission, on Tuesday. Mr Muoka said this also includes a drop in teledensity which has been adjusted to reflect the latest population growth figures, in line with international best practices. He explained that the adjustment which is reflected in the telecom industry statistical…

Pollen and chemical proxies for landscape and environmental change 1159 to 2011 CE when the ice core was extracted, marking transitions through the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), Little Ice Age (LIA) and Industrial Revolution. Spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCP) are indicative of fossil fuel burning, while black carbon and ammonium suggest biomass burning of trees through human activities and/or forest fires. The purple dashed line indicates the point…

The U.S. National Security Agency is buying vast amounts of commercially available web browsing data on Americans without a warrant, according to the agency’s outgoing director. NSA director Gen. Paul Nakasone disclosed the practice in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, a privacy hawk and senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Wyden published the letter on Thursday. Nakasone said the NSA purchases “various types” of information from data brokers “for foreign intelligence, cybersecurity, and authorized mission…

Researchers at UNIST, in collaboration with Korea University, have significantly improved the stability and efficiency of perovskite solar cells, offering advancements in both solar energy and green hydrogen production. By developing a novel cathode interlayer, they achieved exceptional performance in photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices, marking a step forward in sustainable energy technology.A team of researchers from the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST, jointly led by Professors Sung-Yeon…

Somehow, one of the largest data breaches in recent memory has already been trumped. This week, the Cybernews research team and SecurityDiscovery.com owner Bob Dyachenko worked together to uncover a data breach containing 12 terabytes of information spread across 26 billion records. They claim the leak is possibly the biggest ever discovered, with user data from popular sites such as Tencent, Weibo, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn.As with most leaked datasets anywhere near this large, much of the data has appeared…

A team of researchers from Platform Aerospace, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) recently used a Platform "Vanilla" unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to conduct testing of flight-path planning software developed at NPS. The flight tests above the Arctic Circle employed NPS' "POTION" software, which is intended to optimize the operational efficiency and endurance of manned and unmanned aircraft. Credit: U.S. Navy…