Day: June 30, 2019

ISS is home to super-tough molds that laugh in the face of deadly radiation

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Mold spores commonly found aboard the International Space Station (ISS) turn out to be radiation resistant enough to survive 200 times the X-ray dose needed to kill a human being. Based on experiments by a team of researchers led by Marta Cortesão, a microbiologist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, the new study Read more about ISS is home to super-tough molds that laugh in the face of deadly radiation[…]

Boeing falsified records for 787 jet sold to Air Canada. It developed a fuel leak

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Boeing staff falsified records for a 787 jet built for Air Canada which developed a fuel leak ten months into service in 2015. In a statement to CBC News, Boeing said it self-disclosed the problem to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration after Air Canada notified them of the fuel leak. The records stated that manufacturing Read more about Boeing falsified records for 787 jet sold to Air Canada. It developed a fuel leak[…]

Germany and the Netherlands to build the first ever joint military internet, some contractor wins huge and achieves massive vendor lock in

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Government officials from Germany and the Netherlands have signed an agreement this week to build the first-ever joint military internet. The accord was signed on Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium, where NATO defense ministers met this week. The name of this new Dutch-German military internet is the Tactical Edge Networking, or TEN, for short. This is Read more about Germany and the Netherlands to build the first ever joint military internet, some contractor wins huge and achieves massive vendor lock in[…]

This weekend all Microsoft e-books will stop working. A gentle reminder that through DRM you don’t own what you think you own.

Posted on by Robin Edgar

If you bought an ebook through Microsoft’s online store, now’s the time to give it a read, or reread, because it will stop working early July. That’s right, the books you paid for will be literally removed from your electronic bookshelf because, um, Microsoft decided in April it no longer wanted to sell books. It Read more about This weekend all Microsoft e-books will stop working. A gentle reminder that through DRM you don’t own what you think you own.[…]