Billions of years ago, Mars may have been bustling with climate-changing microbes

Jezero Crater as it may have looked billions of years go on when it was a Martian lake. NASA/JPL-Caltech The Red Planet is home to some pretty nasty conditions: extreme cold temperatures of about –80 degrees Fahrenheit, an atmosphere that doesn’t provide much protection from the cold, and a very different definition of water. It…

Quantori is building an app development platform focused on life sciences

Life science businesses like big pharmaceutical companies have a singular set of needs when it comes to building applications. Their models and algorithms tend to be more sophisticated and data-intensive than most industries. Quantori, a Cambridge, MA startup, is building a Platform-as-a-Service tuned specifically to the needs of this vertical. The startup is attempting to…

Millie Bobby Brown doesn’t actually want Eleven to die in Stranger Things season 5

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown has clarified comments she previously made about wanting her character Eleven to die in season 5. Speaking to Total Film, Brown walked back on what she originally said about Eleven during Stranger Things season 4‘s press tour. Back in May, multiple outlets covered comments made by Brown, which suggested…

7 cybersecurity awareness tips to protect your data against malware apps

From fake camera editor software to VPN services, recent reports show how cybercriminals have refined their tactics in developing seemingly legitimate malware apps.  Meta has recently warned to uninstall over 400 malicious mobile apps after discovering that these tools were designed to steal people’s Facebook login credentials. The harmful services were so well-crafted that they…

US airports are being hit by DDoS attacks from Russia

The websites of a number of airports across the United States have been hit with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, rendering them unavailable for users. While the attacks did not disrupt flights, they did affect other airline services, it was said. According to a BleepingComputer report, a pro-Russian hacktivist group called KillNet took responsibility…

Microsoft Outlook update will stop sensitive emails ending up in the wrong hands

Business users will soon benefit from improved Microsoft Outlook functionality that will help ensure sensitive information is kept within the appropriate circles. Currently, Microsoft provides a sensitivity labels tool, which lets employees manually dictate the sensitivity status of an email message. There is also an automatic labelling feature that can detect personally identifying information like…