Mars is littered with junk. Historians want to save it. No astronaut has ever stepped foot on Mars, but that doesn't mean humans haven't left their mark — literally. 12/20/2024 - 9:30 pm | View Link
How much litter have we amassed on Mars? A look at the Red Planet Some of the more notable debris on Mars includes pieces of the Viking landers, heat shields, pieces of insulation and, more recently, parachutes and backshells from rover missions Curiosity and ... 12/19/2024 - 9:01 pm | View Link
Mars rover Perseverance reaches top of Jezero Crater ahead of next phase of exploration NASA's Perseverance rover has summitted the top of the Martian Jezero Crater following a monthslong climb. Up next is a new phase of exploration. 12/17/2024 - 1:41 am | View Link
NASA's helicopter wreck on Mars could have a new purpose for the next two decades NASA's Ingenuity helicopter which crashed after three years of exploring Mars still has life in it yet. The 1.8kg helicopter made history when it became the first aircraft to achieve powered, ... 12/16/2024 - 10:18 pm | View Link
After accident crash on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter could live on as a weather station for 20 years "She still has one final gift for us, which is that she's now going to continue on as a weather station of sorts." ... 12/15/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Airlines, banks, casinos, package deliveries, and emergency services around the world are recovering today from what could be "the largest tech outage in history." the root cause was not a foreign agent but linked back to a software update issued by a u-s based cybersecurity firm called "Crowd Strike." Could this have been avoided?
In London, a mobile phone is stolen every 6 minutes. "If I steal your phone, I'm stealing a thousand dollars," says digital identity expert David Birch. But "If I can get into your bank account, I can steal $100,000. So that's what they really want." So there are important steps to take immediately - including turning off message preview.
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."