Category: science and tech

This ZMEScience article reports that matter and antimatter should cancel each other out — leading to the possibility that the universe should not (and may not) exist.

Are they in our future?  This arsTECHNICA piece asks the question.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/equifax-fake-website.html

And see this opinion piece …

 

Bill Gates has regrets.  A little late, though.

Some follow-up on the Equifax data breach:

1. C/Net reports that Equifax’s interactive process for determining whether you were impacted does not provide reliable or consistent answers, and they recommend that you should assume that your data was among that breached.

2. PBS last night reported that several weeks elapsed between the time the breach took place and when Equifax came public with the information, during which period some Equifax executives sold stock before it decreased in value by some 13% after the problem became generally known. PBS reporters also commented on the insufficient remedy offered by Equifax.

 

How to protect yourself: tips from our friend, the How-To-Geek.

Interesting piece on this evening’s PBS NewsHour: