How to combat future cyberattacks following the SolarWinds breach

How can and should governments respond to and better protect themselves from serious cyberattacks from hostile nations? Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The attackers who exploited a security flaw in SolarWinds' Orion…

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Testing of Microlino 2.0 electric bubble car prototypes begins

Back in early 2016, Micro Mobility Systems AG revealed an electric reworking of the front-loading BMW Idetta bubble car. Now the company has started building and testing prototypes ahead of manufacture in 2021.

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Residential building brings a BIG Smile to New York

BIG has completed a residential building in New York City. Named The Smile after its curving street-facing side, which looks like a smile from a bird's eye view, it contains a mixture of luxury housing, high-end amenities, and affordable housing.

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Five ways technology is helping get the COVID-19 vaccine from the manufacturer to the doctor’s office

Pharma companies are using every tool in the digital transformation toolbox to make and deliver billions of doses safely and quickly. Carrier is working with AWS to improve the cold…

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Metro Hop says its e-STOL plane can get airborne off a 25-meter runway

Short takeoff and landing aircraft might prove an efficient alternative to eVTOLs in the early days of electric flight, using super-short runways – maybe even on top of buildings – while flying much farther on a charge than the eVTOLs.

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CRISPR helps identify gene that regulates coral’s heat stress response

An international team of researchers has made a discovery that could prove useful to the efforts to preserve the world's coral reefs, using the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool to identify a key gene that regulates their response to heat stress.

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Neutron stars scanned for signals of dark matter turning into light

Dark matter should outnumber regular matter five to one, yet it remains frustratingly elusive. But there might be ways to spot it, and now astronomers have scanned neutron stars for telltale signals of a proposed dark matter particle called an axion.

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Airbus proposes detachable hydrogen propulsion pods for aircraft

With the move towards electric aviation comes new opportunities to explore what a powertrain looks like, and Airbus is experimenting with a new design that builds entire hydrogen propulsion units, tanks and all, into detachable pods along the wings.

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