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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin It’s only been a few decades since astronomers have been able to confirm the existence of planets around other stars beyond our solar system, and we’re really just getting the tools online to start checking those distant worlds for signs of life. A big presumption in this most important of all searches is that other Earth-like planets are probably the best type of exoplanets focus on, but new research supports broadening the search. A team of researchers from Switzerland used computer models to determine that liquid water could exist on planets very different from Earth for long periods of time, up to tens of billions of years, even. "One of the reasons that water can be liquid on Earth is its atmosphere," Ravit Helled from the University of Zurich explains in a statement. "With its natural greenhouse effect, it traps just the right amount of heat to create the right conditions for oceans, rivers and rain.” … [Read more...] about Alien Life May Be Feasible Even On Planets Without A Star, New Study Suggests

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Our global society is heavily dependent on space-based technologies. Most of us are aware that space positioning, weather and communications systems are critical to our transportation activities. I’m writing this article on a plane that is using GPS to route my flight safely around severe weather patterns that have been identified by satellites. If I finish this article inflight, I’ll upload it for publication at Forbes via a geosynchronous communications satellite. Still, many people would be surprised to learn that modern factories also depend on satellites . Manufacturing automation systems synchronize the operations of multiple robots on their production lines using the timing signals provided by GPS satellites . In fact, GPS is really a collection of 24 (plus spares) orbiting atomic clocks, each continually broadcasting time data. Your Uber is guided by tiny differences in the time signal emanating from four or more … [Read more...] about Cyber Threats Beyond Earth: Securing In-Space Manufacturing

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin While we think of the moon as a static place, sometimes an event happens that reminds us that things can change quickly. On March 4, a human-made object (a rocket stage) slammed into the moon and left behind a double crater, as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. Officials announced June 23 that they spotted a double crater associated with the event. But what’s really interesting is there’s no consensus about what kind of rocket caused it. China has denied claims that the rocket was part of a Long March 3 rocket that launched the country’s Chang’e-5 T1 mission in October 2014, although the orbit appeared to match. Previous speculation suggested it might be from a SpaceX rocket launching the DISCOVR mission, but newer analysis has mostly discredited that. On a broader scale, the value of LRO observations like this is showing how the moon can change even over a small span of time. The … [Read more...] about A Mystery Rocket Left A Crater On The Moon

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin F or Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter to work out as he’d like, Musk must find some way to supersize the company. Its business is long-undersized compared to the platform’s presence in culture and politics. As a model, Musk has set at least some sights on the original so-called super app, WeChat, which is owned by China-based Tencent. In Musk’s first town hall meeting with Twitter employees last week, he directly mentioned WeChat, indicating that building something like it would further his broader goal of nearly quintupling Twitter’s user base to a billion people. “There’s no WeChat equivalent out of China,” he said at the meeting. “There’s a real opportunity to create that.” Much of what Musk says can seem outlandish. (At the meeting, he also discussed the possibility of alien life.) But his thinking about WeChat isn’t, though it is not especially novel. WeChat’s success has tantalized many a Silicon Valley mogul; … [Read more...] about Elon Musk And The Super Alluring Dream For A ‘Super App’

- A + A (June 27): Russia defaulted on its external sovereign bonds for the first time in a century, the culmination of ever-tougher Western sanctions that shut down payment routes to overseas creditors. For months, Russia had found paths around the penalties imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. But at the end of the day on Sunday, the grace period on about US$100 million of trapped interest payments due May 27 expired, a deadline considered an “Event of Default” if missed. The route to this point has been far from normal, as Russia has the resources to pay its bills — and tried to do so — but was blocked by the sanctions. Those restrictions also mean there’s huge uncertainty about what comes next, and about how investors can go about getting their money. “With Russia benefiting from the high price of its energy exports, it clearly has both the means and the desire to pay its foreign debt,” said Giles Coghlan, chief analyst at HYCM Group. It’s a … [Read more...] about Russia slips into historic default as sanctions muddy next steps

Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor (Photo by Zahid Izzani/The Edge filepix) - A + A KUALA LUMPUR (June 27): Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor has once again filed an application to challenge the appointment of Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram as senior deputy public prosecutor in her RM1.25 billion solar hybrid project corruption trial and to nullify the entire trial proceedings since 2018. Rosmah, 70, filed the judicial review application on June 24 through Messrs Akberdin & Co in the High Court (Appeal and Special Powers), naming the Attorney-General/Public Prosecutor, Government of Malaysia and Sri Ram as respondents. Rosmah, the wife of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had earlier filed a similar application at the Criminal High Court here. However, her application was dismissed by the High Court and her appeal against the court ruling was also rejected by the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court. In her latest application, Rosmah sought to declare that the … [Read more...] about Rosmah files bid to challenge Sri Ram’s appointment again

The pandemic’s shift to remote work could have long-lasting positive implications—if we get it right. advertisement advertisement We can already feel that we’re in a period of change, even if we can’t quite analyze it with the benefit of historic context yet. As Brian Chesky recognized in AirBnB’s going fully remote: “You can’t fight the future, we can’t try to hold on to 2019 any more than 1950. We have to move forward.” During the pandemic, the US went from only a 6% remote workforce to 22% . That is an astounding increase in a dramatically short time frame. The most remarkable byproduct of this transition is just how much employees came to embrace this new format for work. In a continuous year-long survey of US workers published by the Chicago Booth Review , 60% said working from home was better, substantially better, or hugely better than they expected; 26% said about the same; and under 15% said worse. Now that remote work is becoming … [Read more...] about Remote work shouldn’t be the antithesis of in-person work. Here’s how to do the format correctly

About 65 million years ago, right around the time dinosaurs went extinct, bats evolved the ability to echolocate. They would produce clicks with their mouth or nose and listen for echoes of those clicks bouncing off surfaces and animals in the dark. Bats were major predators of moths, so many moths evolved ears that are sensitive to that echolocation—but not all of them. advertisement advertisement Some species, like furry silk moths, never grew ears. Instead, they used another defense mechanism that was already at their disposal: sound-absorbent wings. acoustic camouflage ” was discovered in 2018, when a team of researchers at the University of Bristol found that furry moths have a coating on their wings that can absorb up to 85% of the sound that hits them, making it hard for bats to locate them because their calls would be poorly reflected. Now a new study from the same team suggests that these moth wings could inspire a new type of ultrathin … [Read more...] about A 250 million-year-old insect could inspire an ultrathin wallpaper that absorbs sound

KUALA LUMPUR: Southern Cable Group Bhd is targeting higher overseas revenue in the financial year ending Dec 31, 2022 (FY22) on the back of improving regional demand in line with recovering economic activities. As at March 31, Southern Cable is slated to fulfil RM628.6mil worth of orders in hand over the next two years, of which overseas represent less than 1%. In a statement, the cable and wire manufacturer said it also hopes to penetrate into the United States market in the second half of 2022. Managing director Tung Eng Hai said the group is ready to support the improved economic activity, especially in the existing markets of Myanmar and Singapore, as they accelerate the pace of infrastructure and development projects. “Building on our strong track record in supplying power cables and wires, we are also undergoing final stages of testing and evaluation for our in-house developed XHHW-2 industrial cables for a customer in the US, for use in residential, commercial and … [Read more...] about Southern Cable targeting higher exports in FY22

KUALA LUMPUR: After an unsuccessful bid for a digital banking licence, Pertama Digital Bhd (PDB) is now in discussion with incumbent conventional banks to provide digital banking products via its neobank services channel. A neobank is a combination of a technology company and a licenced bank providing digital banking services. PDB is an Internet software company providing digital solutions to both the government agencies, banks and government-linked corporations. "We are working with a number of banks, at least more than one, existing conventional licenced banks to roll out this service. We will announce the details as soon as they are finalised,” PDB chairman Tun Datuk Seri Zaki Tun Azmi said in a press conference at PDB's annual general meeting here today. He said the company had obtained a lot of data from which they were able to form "a very solid business plan” which they are now using to work with some of their partners to operate neobanking products, he said. PDB … [Read more...] about Pertama Digital exploring with banks to provide digital banking products