Hyundai unveils a 4-legged robot vehicle
South Korean automaker Hyundai on Monday presented a four-legged, mid-car, half-robot vehicle that can not only roll, but also walk and crawl for use on steep terrain during rescue missions. for example. “What if a car designed with robotics could really save lives in a…
NASA probe survives the furthest exploration of human history
NASA celebrated the New Year with the historic New Horizons spacecraft survey of the world’s farthest and perhaps the oldest surviving celestial object, Ultima Thule, located some 6.4 billion kilometers from the Earth, hoping to learn more about planet formation. A series of eagerly awaited…
There are planets made of sapphires and rubies
A collaboration of researchers from the University of Zurich and Cambridge, studying the formation of exoplanets, may have discovered a new class of exotic exoplanet that would be part of HD219134 b. This exoplanet located in the constellation Cassiopeia is 21 light-years from Earth and…
Facebook is preparing a cryptocurrency for WhatsApp
Facebook is working on developing its own cryptocurrency to enable money transfers via the WhatsApp mobile app (which has been owned by Facebook since 2014). According to Bloomberg , the company is working on a virtual currency indexed to the US dollar – called stablecoin – to minimize…
Would you accept $1000 to leave Facebook?
One Thousand dollars. This is the minimum amount that should be given to an average Facebook user to convince him to leave the social network for a year. This is at least the conclusion of a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal PLOS One,…
Microsoft repairs Internet Explorer vulnerability after attacks
Microsoft issued a critical update for Internet Explorer, after being warned that a vulnerability allowed hackers to take control of computers remotely. The vulnerability, detected by Google, allowed malicious people to infiltrate the computer of their victims to install software, view files or even create…