Northwestern University lab members examine a donor human brain to study why some individuals, known as “super-agers,” have exceptional memories late in life. Tamar D. Gefen If people over 80 with exceptional memory—a group who Northwestern researchers call “super-agers”—had a symbol in the style of Superman’s “S”, it might be the “super neurons” in their…
Tools helping China’s netizens to bypass the Great Firewall appear to be facing a fresh round of crackdowns in the run-up to the country’s quinquennial party congress that will see a top leadership reshuffle. Greater censorship is not at all uncommon during countries’ politically sensitive periods, but the stress facing censorship circumvention tools in China…
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a hacker compromising cryptocurrency scam sites and diverting already stolen funds to his own wallets, and have already raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars this way. According to Trend Micro, a threat actor called “Water Labbu” found and breached 45 scam websites and replaced their wallet addresses with his own….
The homepage of GoodwillFinds. Goodwill Finds GoodwillFinds, a new secondhand online marketplace, launched on Tuesday. The website features thousands of curated Goodwill items ranging across brands and price points. The move comes as online thrifting continues to explode in popularity. Thrifting enthusiasts, rejoice: Goodwill just went online. The new marketplace, which officially debuted Tuesday as…
US President Joe Biden meets with Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy on October 5, 2022. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden dropped the F-bomb during his visit to Florida on Wednesday. “No one fucks with a Biden,” he’s heard telling Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy. Biden traveled to Florida to survey…
Pekic/Getty Images Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring California businesses to disclose salaries in job postings. Starting Nov. 1, New York City companies will have to include a ‘good faith salary range’ in job listings. An expert told Insider companies may not disclose salary to use it as a ‘negotiation point’ during the interview…
An unknown object briefly hung from one of Ingenuity’s landing legs, on September 24, 2022. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter captured footage of debris stuck to its leg during its 33rd flight on Mars. The chopper traveled to the red planet tucked in the Perseverance rover, which landed in February 2021. NASA is still trying to…
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Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images Four women have just been hired to run the world’s most remote post office, located in Antarctica. They’ll brave subzero temps and go without running water while counting gentoo penguins for five months. Take a look at Port Lockroy on Goudier Island, aptly nicknamed the “Penguin Post Office.” Talk about…
With less than 24 hours to go until the long-awaited reveal of EA and developer Criterion’s latest Need for Speed game, a full name, plus a release date, and screens have leaked online. All this comes via a listing, still live at the time of writing, on Japanese retailer Neowing’s website – which, assuming its…