Mars probe captures groundbreaking new images of the red planet’s discrete aurora

It isn’t only the USA and China that are exploring Mars. The UAE has captured new images of the red planet’s discrete aurora, which could deepen our understanding of the interactions between solar radiation, Mars’ magnetic fields, and the planetary atmosphere. Up front:  The images were taken by the Mars Hope Probe’s EMUS (Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer) instrument, and show a ghostly glow known as the discrete aurora. The pictures fully characterize the discrete aurora phenomenon in Mars’ atmosphere for the first time in history. Scientists believe they could challenge the notion that large scale solar events are needed to drive Mars auroral events “The…

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Slack’s new tools help you cut down on video calls

Slack announced a bunch of tools today to improve the experience of work meetings. And, of course, a Clubhouse clone is a part of this. The enterprise communication firm’s live-audio conversation product is called Huddle. You can start a Huddle in a channel or a DM — even if they’re not a part of your organization. Just like other real-time conversation products, you can hop in and hop out of it any time. The idea is to avoid scheduling a video meeting for something that could be discussed in a couple of minutes. Plus, you can also share your screen to…

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Slack’s new tools help you cut down on video calls

Slack announced a bunch of tools today to improve the experience of work meetings. And, of course, a Clubhouse clone is a part of this. The enterprise communication firm’s live-audio conversation product is called Huddle. You can start a Huddle in a channel or a DM — even if they’re not a part of your organization. Just like other real-time conversation products, you can hop in and hop out of it any time. The idea is to avoid scheduling a video meeting for something that could be discussed in a couple of minutes. Plus, you can also share your screen to…

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CTemplar makes sure your emails are never unprotected — even after you send them

TLDR: CTemplar takes email security to its farthest reaches, offering fully-encrypted, fully-secured email correspondence that always protects you and your sensitive information. A hacker cracked the Washington, D.C. Metro Police Department and stole 70,000 emails, including many which led to some serious embarrassment and questions about the department. Meanwhile, two years’ worth of emails from several City of Chicago employees were also stolen recently as authorities try to determine the scope of the information that was compromised. So if agencies like city governments and police departments aren’t safe from having their emails exploited, what chance do the rest of us…

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The world needs a unified approach to dealing with cyberattacks

Cyber-warfare consists of co-ordinated attacks of mass disruption (AMD). In the June summit between U.S. and Russian presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, cyber-warfare was a topic of discussion. While the Biden-Putin summit appears to be “quite constructive,” cyberwarfare remains perplexing to politicians. Attacks of mass disruption are similar to the latest ransomware attacks on SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline — imagine several co-ordinated similar attacks. For the time being, organizations should prepare for increasing disruptions and data losses caused by ransomware. Attacks of mass disruption may not cause massive casualties, but nations could lose their ability to function and respond…

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We charted the battery life of the iPhone 12 range

Batteries, am I right? You can’t live with ’em, you can’t… Ah screw a fancy lede: This is an article where I chart the battery life of the iPhone 12 range. We’ll find answers to which of Apple’s phones has the worst and best battery life and, hopefully, have a bit of fun along the way. We may even learn something. But… before we begin the comparison of the iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max, let’s have a quick chat about the methodology behind this. How we’re comparing the battery life of the…

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FINALLY! US car makers now must report autonomous vehicle crashes

The National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) has implementing a new policy that mandates automakers report incidents involving vehicles with semi and fully autonomous systems within 24 hours of being notified of a crash. According to the Standing General Order issued on Tuesday, this applies to all vehicles equipped with a Level 2 advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) or with a Level 3 to 5 automated driving system (ADS), in case the systems are engaged during or right before the accident.  All car companies operating such vehicles on the US public roads must report electronically through a form any crash that also…

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These greedy black holes just swallowed two neutron stars and it’s a pretty big deal

One of the best things about being an astronomer is being able to discover something new about the universe. In fact, maybe the only thing better is discovering it twice. And that’s exactly what my colleagues and I have done, by making two separate observations, just ten days apart, of an entirely new type of astronomical phenomenon: a neutron star circling a black hole before being gobbled up. The two observations were made in January 2020, by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo Observatory, both of which detect gravitational waves from the distant cosmos. After 18 months…

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Ex-Googlers hope you’ll pay $4.95/month for their search engine

Google has a tight grip over internet search and there’s not much to argue over there. Data from Statcounter suggests that close to 90% of internet users in the US use the Big G, followed by Microsoft’s Bing at 5.43%. While Google‘s dominance on the search market will seemingly continue for at least a few years, there have been questions over the company’s privacy-related practices. Now, two former Google execs, Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan, have launched a new search engine called Neeva. Its claim to fame is that it’s private and ad-free — but you’ll have to pay for it. The…

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How a 1930s Soviet miner helped create today’s toxic work culture

One summer night in August, 1935, a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov managed to extract 102 tonnes of coal in a single shift. This was nothing short of extraordinary (according to Soviet planning, the official average for a single shift was seven tonnes). Stakhanov shattered this norm by a staggering 1,400%. But the sheer quantity involved was not the whole story. It was Stakhanov’s achievement as an individual that became the most meaningful aspect of this episode. And the work ethic he embodied then – which spread all over the USSR – has been invoked by managers in the…

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GitHub introduces an AI pal to help you code better

GitHub is already one of the most popular platforms to build and host coding projects. Last year, it launched a built-in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to let you code directly into the browser. Now, it’s introducing an AI-powered automcompletion tool called GitHub Copilot. The aim of this feature is to learn how you write code, and to suggest lines and functions automatically, learning how to. What’s more, the Copilot tool helps you find alternative ways to solve a problem and use, new APIs easily. GitHub has developed this feature in partnership with OpenAI, but it’s not based on GPT-3. Here’s what the company said…

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Kris Kristofferson went into music…

Kris Kristofferson went into music after studying at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He moved to Nashville and made ends meet as a helicopter pilot. After trying unsuccessfully to get Johnny Cash to hear some of his songs, he finally got Cash’s attention by landing a helicopter on his lawn.

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So you want to conquer the Earth? 5 science tips for would-be supervillains

Meanwhile, back in North America… The western seaboard is boiling beneath an angry yellow sun and the good people of Earth exist precariously on the edge of heat-induced psychosis. At any moment the tension could erupt into chaos. And maybe that’s your thing. We try not to judge here at Neural. After all, planet Earth is currently at the mercy of at least half a dozen billionaires who could destroy life as we know it with the metaphorical wave of their hand. Anyone ever wonder what would happen if Jeff Bezos hit a killswitch on Amazon Web Services? Does anyone…

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Facebook announces Bulletin, a newsletter platform to take on Substack

Another day, another product category Facebook wants to dip its toes in. Today Facebook announced Bulletin, a newsletter product built to take on platforms like Substack and Twitter’s Revue. Bulletin will allow writers to post free and paid newsletters and podcasts. Some benefits will of course be behind a paywall, like badges and subscriber-only Facebook groups. Transactions are handled via Facebook Pay, naturally. The platform won’t be open to the public at launch, but Facebook has summoned a bevy of writers on different topics for Bulletin’s launch, although according to an earlier report by Recode, the company is trying to avoid more…

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