Month: February 2022
Russia’s involvement in ISS and Mars missions
The European Space Agency has said it is ready to “take decisions” about its cooperation with Russia on space projects, in a new statement. The space agency will continue to support those joint missions which include the International Space Station and the exploration of Mars for now, said Josef Aschbacher, its director general. The missions
PlayStation VR2 headset
Sony has offered a first glimpse at its new virtual reality headset – the PlayStation VR2 – the new VR system for the PlayStation 5 console, saying it will mark “a giant leap forward in the way we play games in virtual reality”. Virtual reality gaming has become steadily more popular in recent years as
Facebook on climate change denial content
Facebook has been accused of failing to add warning labels to half of the posts from the largest publishers of climate change denial articles, with campaigners warning the social network is causing the “pollution of the information ecosystem”. Meta keeps claiming it cares about climate change but they have failed to stop the spread of
Britain braced for cyber attacks
The UK must be braced for repercussions, including cyber attacks, after standing up to Russia. Home Secretary Priti Patel said British officials were on alert for such attacks, plus disinformation campaigns. Boris Johnson said there would be global consequences stemming from Russia’s aggression. Boris Johnson told MPs Britain is offering “unwavering support” to Ukraine, telling
Facebook Stops Russia State Owned Media from Advertising
Facebook is prohibiting Russian state media from advertising or monetising on its platform amid the invasion of Ukraine. Meta has drawn up rules to deal with transparency around state-controlled media outlets because it believes people should know if the news they read is coming from a publication that may be under the influence of a
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Says Lagging Behind in 5 G
Mobile internet speed is a central advancement of 5G, which enables a new domain of breakthrough applications with potent economic and national-security implications, ‘The step up to real 5G speeds will lead to analogous breakthroughs in autonomous vehicles, virtual-reality applications like the metaverse, and other areas that have yet to be invented’ Dr Schmidt and
Testing Dolphin Pregnancy Using Drones
Data on failed pregnancies could provide information on how healthy a particular dolphin is as well as helping to identify the causes of changes in the population. By using aerial photos this will allow us to routinely monitor changes in reproductive success in this protected bottlenose dolphin population, supporting conservation. The aim is to remotely
Taiwan Covid-19 technology
Taiwan has maintained some of the lowest case rates in the world throughout the pandemic lasting more than 200 days in 2020 without a single case. When Covid-19 reached Taiwan in early 2020, g0v began to crowd source solutions to emerging problems thrown up by the crisis, such as mass contact tracing and mask rationing.
cyber-attacks in Ukraine
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are designed to knock a website offline by flooding it with huge amounts of requests until it crashes. Ukraine has been hit by more cyber-attacks, which its government says are “on a completely different level”. The latest attack began on Wednesday afternoon when internet connectivity company NetBlocks tweeted about
drone system use in fight against Malaria in Zanzibar
The malaria parasite is mainly spread by female Anopheles mosquitoes, which tend to bite at dusk and at night. When an infected mosquito bites a person, it passes the parasites into the bloodstream. Controlling the mosquito larvae is considered a crucial part of malaria eradication, but from the ground it is hard to predict when