Science

From Roomba With Love: Could your robot vacuum be spying on you?

[ad_1] A team of researchers has shown that popular home robotic vacuum cleaners can be remotely hacked to act as microphones. This was achieved by manipulating the light-sensing technology used by the cleaners. The researchers – including Nirupam Roy, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland Department of Computer …

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Dueling dinosaur fossils donated to the North Carolina museum

[ad_1] The fossilized skeletons of two dinosaurs intertwined in what appears to be a final deadly encounter were donated to a North Carolina museum. The skeletons will be donated to the Raleigh Museum’s vertebrate paleontology collection. Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops horridus known as the dueling dinosaurs were buried together 67 …

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The mineral found in a Russian volcano is never seen before.

[ad_1] Although a volcano is generally regarded by us as a source of destruction, this fiery phenomenon also leads to creation. Russian researchers in their new study stumbled upon one of these creations: a mysterious mineral that had never been seen before. It is a very attractive and vibrant bluish …

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Pandemic curbs have reduced global NO2 concentrations by 20%: NASA

[ad_1] (MENAFN – IANS) New York, November 18 (IANS) Using computer models, NASA researchers found that since February, the pandemic restrictions of Covid-19 have reduced global concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by nearly 20%. Nitrogen dioxide is an air pollutant produced mainly by the combustion of fossil fuels used by …

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Will the little rockets finally take off?

[ad_1] Rocket Lab’s electron is just one of two proven small rockets that aim to serve the big market to put small satellites into orbit The boom in demand to put small satellites into orbit has increased interest in small rockets, but industry players don’t think the niche will become …

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