Month: September 2018

Traditional international aid programs typically offer some combination of clean water, livestock, textbooks, and nutritional supplements. A new study funded by Google.org and the US Agency for International Development asks whether the poor would benefit more if they were given cash and free to spend […]

Satellite imaging and analytics company Planet is taking the wraps off its new manufacturing space in San Francisco. Founded by ex-NASA employees, Planet is leveraging some of the $183 million in funding it’s amassed to expand. In the basement of a nondescript office building in […]

While cyberattacks against large businesses are often carried out by cybercriminals, new research from the government-funded agency Jisc has discovered that staff or students could be responsible for cyber-attacks against colleges and universities. The agency examined the timing of 850 attacks that took place during […]

“I leghisti – secondo quanto viene riferito e riportato dall'Ansa – punterebbero a dedicare la loro dote quasi interamente alle pensioni, visto che le … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

This weekend, NASA is launching a new high-tech satellite to monitor the planet’s glacier and sea ice levels — with space lasers, naturally. ICESat-2 will be a huge boon for climatologists, and it’s also a bittersweet occasion: it will be the final launch aboard the […]

The researchers looked at 570 websites that groups like PolitiFact and FactCheck have noted as sites that produce false news stories, and they gathered the monthly Facebook engagements and Twitter shares of the articles those sites published between January 2015 and July 2018. They found […]

Nvidia has at long last announced the GeForce RTX 2080 at Gamescom 2018 in Cologne, Germany, and its a monster of a graphics card. By Nvidia’s own account, the RTX 2080 can be between 1.5-2x faster than the Nvidia GTX 1080 it’ll replace. And that’s […]