NASA’s current work is arguably the most inspiring it’s been in the last 50 years, lending support to one of its key missions: to support education efforts in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). And there’s definitely evidence that space exploration inspires young people to study science. As the Council on Foreign Relations noted last year, the percentage of graduates holding bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering fields peaked in the late 1960s, around the time of the moon landing, but then declined slowly for several decades before the federal government began to reemphasize the importance of STEM education....

Also: The best TVs money can buy This article is designed to clarify the differences between two of the most popular technologies out there: Neo QLED and OLED. We’ll demystify what defines each technology, what the pros and cons of both are, and which might best serve you in your next TV. What is Neo QLED? Also: The best QLED TVs you can buy (from 50 to 98 inches) The benefit of this type of panel is that you have thousands of lighting zones....

Just so, what you are now is likely a function of things you have consumed, such as nutrients, yesterday, the day before, and for months or years, a fact which startup Twin Health is exploiting with machine learning to try to crack the code on medical conditions including diabetes. “We are solving for root cause of chronic metabolic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, a cluster that affect a billion people and cause twenty-five million deaths a year,” CEO and co-founder Jahangir Mohammed told ZDNet in an interview via Zoom....

The Nikon Z 30, a compact mirrorless camera, is one of the newer entries. Touted as being “packed with the features creators, vloggers and streamers want,” the device has been built with live streaming and social media content production in mind – but the question is, does the camera do still photos justice, too? 4K streaming video, constant footage recording, and audio are all key to producing video content and streams....

Apple Sport bands are $49 and offer a minimalist design with a solid soft fluoroelastomer material. A small round pin secures the band on your wrist. Nomad’s new Sport Band is priced at $59.95 and also uses a fluoroelastomer material. The Nomad Sport Band material is a bit thicker, has openings cut in the band for ventilation, and has concave sections in the band to support the flow of air and sweat so the Nomad option is better for those who work out with their Apple Watch....

Police said they have pressed four charges of using a carriage service to menace, harass, offend after arresting a 65-year-old Paddington man on Wednesday who allegedly threatened to harm police horses. “Investigators were alerted to comments posted on the website of a media outlet, which referenced the protest and outlined threats to harm police horses,” Police said. “A short time later, a search warrant was executed at a nearby home, where police seized electronic devices, a computer and mobile phones, which will undergo forensic examination....

Alongside the government’s aspiration to roll out this approach, it has also expressed interest in procuring two new digital identity systems: One to deliver digital proof of identity and the other for digital identity sharing. The NSW government envisions that the first system will have features such as facial matching and liveness detection to allow customers to easily provide their identity digitally for use cases such as renewing a licence or certificate....

Nvidia said in a statement that the platform “provides enterprises with instant access to powerful computing infrastructure wherever their data resides.” The tool is available to be rented for a monthly subscription price of $90,000. There is a three-month minimum to all subscriptions, Nvidia explained. Manuvir Das, head of Enterprise Computing at Nvidia, said the Base Command Platform makes it easy for enterprises to instantly access the power of an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD to “accelerate the AI and data science development lifecycle....

The company reported net income of $406 million, or $1.42 per diluted share. Total revenue came to $2.6 billion, an increase of 43 percent versus the year-ago period, and better than the mid-point of NXP’s guidance. Analysts were expecting earnings of $2.31 per share on revenue of $2.58 billion. “We continue to be very positive about the long-term demand trends across all our end markets, and while the supply environment will remain challenging in the near term we have taken actions to increase supply which underpin our confidence to drive very robust growth for the remainder of 2021, as well as into 2022,” CEO Kurt Sievers said in a statement....

To understand why this became the case, you need to know some of the features that defined each category. Unfortunately, this is an increasingly difficult task. Even if delineations between gaming and office started out clear-cut, they’ve become blurred over the years as each side continually borrowed from the other when a new feature arose that its own customers might find useful. The result is a nebulous situation in which it’s harder to tell what really makes a seat a gaming chair versus what makes it an office chair, aside from its accompanying ad copy, of course....

But that could be easier said than done: a survey from careers service Zety asked more than 1,000 US workers what their work expectations will be going into 2023, and 60% said they would rather quit their job than return to their desks five days a week. Workplace trends have been a bit tumultuous over the last two years. In 2021, the Great Resignation emboldened employees to quit their jobs en masse to find better opportunities....

Ransomware has evolved from barebone encryption and basic demands for payment into something potentially far more severe in recent years. Once, ransomware was used en masse to infect systems and extort blackmail payments from the general public – normally in cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin (BTC) – but now, operators are targeting high-value targets for larger payoffs. In what some cybersecurity experts call “big game hunting,” ransomware groups go for large enterprise firms, utilities, hospitals, and key supply chain players....

The OIN, the world’s largest patent non-aggression community in history, is adding the following programs and components to the Linux System: .NET, ONNX, tvm, Prometheus, Helm, Notary, Istio, Nix, OpenEmbedded, CoreOS, uClibc-ng, mbed-tls, musl, SPDX, AGL Services, OVN, FuseSoc, Verilator, Flutter, Jasmine, Weex, NodeRED, Eclipse Paho, Californium, Cyclone, and Wakaama, among others. Altogether 337 new software components are being added. This brings the total number of protected packages to 3,730....

On Wednesday, cybersecurity researchers from AT&T Alien Labs published a report on a new campaign, dubbed Chimaera, that is thought to have begun on July 25, 2021 – based on command-and-control (C2) server logs – and one that has revealed an increased reliance on open source tools by the threat group. TeamTNT was first spotted last year and was connected to the installation of cryptocurrency mining malware on vulnerable Docker containers....

The new arrangement is two-fold: First, Oracle and Telefonica will jointly offer cloud platform-as-a-service and applications to enterprises and public sector organizations. Next, Telefonica will serve as a hosting partner for Oracle’s upcoming cloud region in Madrid. Oracle has been expanding its cloud business across the globe rapidly – the Madrid region is one of at least 44 cloud regions Oracle plans to have open by the end of 2022....

Nearly 25 years later, though, in a computing environment unrecognizable from those days of Microsoft hegemony, the company has decided to withdraw support for native Office apps from a platform, and its owner has reacted with applause. This strange turn of events unfolded as Microsoft noted it would no longer support the Android version of Office on Chrome OS, instead directing Chrome OS users to the web-based versions of Office....

Avanan’s Jeremy Fuchs said the .ppam file – which has bonus commands and custom macros – is being used by hackers “to wrap executable files.” The company began seeing the attack vector in January, noting that the .ppam files were used to wrap executable files in a way that allows hackers to “take over the end-user’s computer.” Most of the attacks are coming through email. “In this attack, hackers are showing a generic purchase order email, a pretty standard phishing message....

Researchers found that prices for EU Digital COVID certificates as well as CDC and NHS COVID vaccine cards had fallen as low as $100. Fake PCR COVID-19 tests are also sold widely, and Check Point Research’s study found groups advertising the fake vaccine verifications in groups with more than 450 000 people. The report attributes the “majority” of these fake vaccine verifications to groups across Europe. In March, aprevious report from the company found that the price for fake vaccine passports was around $250 on the dark web and that advertisements for the scams were reaching new levels....

“Rather than broad, indicative, and non-binding durability guidance issued by a regulator, consumers, suppliers, and manufacturers would find far greater benefit from prominent labelling by manufacturers of minimum trouble-free lifespans,” the ACCC said in its submission [PDF]. “As manufacturers have detailed knowledge of the materials used and methods of construction they are far better placed to provide this information to consumers.” The ACCC advised that if such an approach were to be taken, the label should not limit consumer guarantees....

Also, this afternoon, storage networking pioneer NetApp reported fiscal Q1 revenue and profit that similarly topped expectations. The report sent NetApp shares up 1.50% in late trading. Pure Storage’s revenue for the quarter rose to $496.8 million, a growth of 23% year-over-year. Analysts had been modeling $471.1 million. Pure Storage’s CEO, Charles Giancarlo, said that its revenue growth made it “clear” that its long-term strategy to provide customers with modern data services is working....