Technology

Researchers at the universities of Reading, Bath, and Bristol, have studied how the electric charge emitted by radiation from the detonations in the 50s and 60s impacted rainclouds.Using records from 1962 to 1964 compiled by a research station in...

President Trump on Friday signed the Executive Order on Securing the United States Bulk-Power System over threats foreign adversaries could exploit vulnerabilities in the nation's power supply network.The executive order identifies emerging threats by America's adversaries as they could be plotting attacks. The...

The CDC will launch a new "surveillance and data collection system" to track the spread of coronavirus in the US, per the coronavirus relief bill signed into law Friday. The agency would receive emergency funding as part of...

Iran has a fleet of dolphins specially trained to attack enemy ships in Kamikaze-style suicide missions, it has been reported.The military marine mammals were also trained to kill enemy frogmen - military scubadivers - with harpoons strapped onto their heads.Originally trained...

Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday that he wants to work on brain-controlling wearable and implantable technology, and Facebook’s recent acquisition of CTRL-labs was a step in that direction.“The goal is to eventually make it so that you can think something and control...

Artificial intelligence can predict a person’s chances of dying within a year by looking at heart test results – even when they look normal to doctors. How it does so is a mystery.Brandon Fornwalt at healthcare provider Geisinger in Pennsylvania,...

Seoul, South Korea — North Korea confirmed Friday it conducted its third test-firing of a new "super-large" multiple rocket launcher it says expands its ability to destroy enemy targets in surprise attacks.The latest launches extended a months-long streak of weapons...

A new report by Wells Fargo & Co., warns that nearly 200,000 US banking jobs are at risk of being displaced by robots.As we've explained in the past, accelerating technological advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning have...

Key Point: The concern is that once Russia and China have perfected their own hypersonic capabilities the technology will begin spreading, as it often has historically with everything from missiles to nuclear weapons technology. It is extremely likely that Iran...

It comes amid anger in Pyongyang at ongoing US-led military exercises with South Korea - which the North views as a rehearsal for invasion.And there is growing frustration in Kim Jong-un's regime at stalled talks between the US and...