Over the last few years, we’ve seen an increasing number of hacks and exploits targeting fundamental properties of underlying hardware, rather than relying on software vulnerabilities. One such attack, Rowhammer, targets specific areas of memory and then hammers adjacent rows in an attempt to cause a bit flip in the …

An international team of researchers has discovered more than 30,000 artifacts at Panga ya Saidi, a cave in the humid coastal forest of Kenya, which is shedding new light on the crucial time period when Homo sapiens first started showing signs of modern behavior. The discovery is reported in the …

Game streaming may not have conquered the world the way some pundits thought it might, but we’ve seen real improvements in the capability across the last few years. Nintendo’s Wii U was an early iteration on the concept, Sony added the ability to stream some games to the Vita from …

One of the enduring puzzles in astrobiology is why we haven’t found any aliens yet — and it’s worth another look, in light of Breakthrough Listen’s latest (and unprecedented) effort to find some in a new survey of millions of stars in our galaxy. Astronomers estimate there are between 200 …

A new study, undertaken by a team of University of Exeter researchers using captive Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber), has demonstrated the significant impact the animals have had on reducing the flow of tons of soil and nutrients from nearby fields into a local river system. Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber), a …

WAY-316606, a compound originally developed to treat osteoporosis, has a dramatic stimulatory effect on human hair follicles, according to a study published in the journal PLoS Biology. The new drug enhances human hair growth. Image credit: Pexels. Male androgenetic alopecia (MAA) is the most common form of hair loss in …

Earth is surrounded by a protective magnetic environment, the magnetosphere, which deflects a supersonic stream of charged particles from the Sun, known as the solar wind. As the particles flow around the Earth’s magnetosphere, it forms a highly turbulent boundary layer called the magnetosheath. In a new discovery, reported in …

It’s been nearly a month since the Cowboys let Dez Bryant go, and Bryant remains a free agent without having drawn much interest from the 31 teams that could be in play for his services. On Wednesday, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones stuck up for Bryant, saying that he believes Bryant …

Yesterday, at I/O 2018, Google showed off a new digital assistant capability that’s meant to improve your life by making simple boring phone calls on your behalf. The new Google Duplex feature is designed to pretend to be human, with enough human-like functionality to schedule appointments or make similarly inane …

Google has updated the mobile-friendly test and the rich results test tools to support JavaScript sites better. Google posted on Twitter that you now will see rendered HTML, console log, exceptions and stack traces. This means those who build sites in JavaScript, AJAX and other forms of JavaScript frameworks can …