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Jan282021 by adminNo Comments

NASA prepares most sophisticated Mars rover for ‘dangerous’ landing

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ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- NASA will spend the next three weeks preparing its biggest and most sophisticated Mars rover, Perseverance, to make a dangerous seven-minute landing Feb. 18 on the Red Planet. At stake is a multinational effort to find evidence of life on Mars and the planned return of rock samples the rover will drill out of the Martian surface. Advertisement The rover and its landing system have an updated system called terrain relative navigation. The last NASA rover mission to Mars, Curiosity in 2012, had a similar system, but Perseverance's is better -- using its computer brain, maps and cameras to pick a safe landing site, said Allen Chen, a lead engineer on the mission. The landing process "is replete with danger," Chen said in a briefing for the media Wednesday. "Th...

Jun192020 by adminNo Comments

Australia targeted by ‘sophisticated’ cyber attack – by ‘state-based’ actor

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Australia is currently the target of a "sophisticated" cyber attack - and an unnamed foreign government is behind it.Scott Morrison, the country's prime minister, says the attacks have targeted all levels of the government - as well as political organisations, essential service providers and operators of other critical infrastructure. "We know it is a sophisticated state-based cyber actor because of the scale and nature of the targeting," he said at a news conference. Image: Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has stopped short of naming the country responsible Mr Morrison has stopped short of naming the country responsible for this "malicious" activity, but warned: "There are not a large number of state-based actors that can en...

Nov122019 by adminNo Comments

Labour hit by ‘sophisticated, large-scale cyber attack’

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Labour says it has been hit by a "sophisticated and large-scale cyber attack" on its digital platforms.A party spokeswoman said the cyber attack "failed" because of their "robust security systems" and that she was confident no data breach occurred. "Security procedures have slowed down some of our campaign activities, but these were restored this morning and we are back up to full speed," she said."We have reported the matter to the National Cyber Security Centre."Sky News' Technology Correspondent Rowland Manthorpe said apparently it was a DDOS attack - a Distribute Deniable Of Service attack. Advertisement "What that is is it involved bombarding websites or digital services with large numbers of traf...

Oct242018 by adminNo Comments

Bible helps scientists develop more sophisticated translation algorithm

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Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Computers are getting better at translation, but they're not yet as capable as humans, who can capture nuance in the language and translate text for different affect, depending on the audience. To develop more sophisticated translation algorithms, capable of translating for style, researchers at Dartmouth College turned to the Bible. Because the Bible has been translated so many times, the text and its many derivatives offer machine learning algorithms a uniquely vast dataset from which to learn. Researchers used the many translations of the Bible's 31,000 verses to produce more than 1.5 million unique translation pairings. The dataset allowed the algorithms to learn how the same text can be translated myriad ways -- each offering a unique style. "The English-language Bi...