BFR is considered the spiritual successor to Falcon Heavy, and in its current design would use a total of 37 Raptor engines (31 on the booster rocket, 6 on the spacecraft) that should deliver twice the boost of a Saturn V rocket. It’s meant to be completely reusable and would be SpaceX’s first vehicle designed…
With the new buzz around exploiting unauthenticated JSON-RPC services on localhost ignited by Tavis Ormandy, The first thing that came to my mind was ethereum clients(Geth, Mist and Parity). Most of the ethereum clients run a JSON-RPC service on port 8545 on localhost, but since it’s on localhost, we can’t access it directly from user’s…
Rubik’s Cube record.Hardware hackers Ben Katz and Jared Di Carlo have smashed the previous record for solving the Rubik’s cube robotically. Their machine solved the puzzle in 0.38 seconds—a 40-percent improvement over the previous record of 0.637. “We noticed that all of the fast Rubik’s Cube solvers were using stepper motors and thought that we could do…
When Bose announced its AR intentions, it did so with a pair of sunglasses, not headphones. This might lead you to think there’s still a visual component, but there isn’t. The reason Bose chose a pair of specs is because a set of “smart headphones” would be predictable, and Bose wanted to shake things up…
The Boring CompanyElon Musk started The Boring Company in late 2016 because he was frustrated by sitting in his car in Los Angeles traffic. A system of tunnels, he reasoned, would alleviate certain traffic choke points. The idea turned into reality throughout 2017, as Musk tore up the parking lot outside of his SpaceX headquarters,…
Depression can strike anyone, but there’s mounting evidence that genetic variations can disrupt the circadian system to make certain people more vulnerable. Several clock gene variations have been associated with an elevated risk of developing mood disorders. Stress can then compound the problem. Our response to it is largely mediated through the hormone cortisol, which…
The experience was also enhanced by the fact that, upon our arrival, we were welcomed by a Host wearing an all-white dress — like you’d see welcoming guests to the park on the show. She was standing behind a shelf full of western-style guns and knives, though we weren’t actually able to choose a weapon…
Photo: AntrixIndia’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket launched on 12 January 2018.On 12 January, a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket blasted off from India’s eastern coast. While its primary cargo was a large Indian mapping satellite, dozens of secondary CubeSats from other countries travelled along with it. Seattle-based Planetary Resources supplied a spacecraft that…
The Federal Communications Commission has dismissed a complaint against Comcast filed by a rival that said it was forced “to pay a punitive ransom” of $3.5 million in order to keep airing Comcast-owned TV programming. Wave Broadband filed what it called a petition for declaratory ruling, claiming that Comcast engaged in unfair acts and practices…
Cisco released 22 security advisories yesterday, including two alerts for critical fixes, one of them for a hardcoded password that can give attackers full control over a vulnerable system.
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