Society
London Mayor To Set Up Police ‘Online Hate Crime Hub’ In ‘Partnership’ With Social Media Firms breitbart
“The purpose of this programme is to strengthen the police and community response to this growing crime type” is was announced, and will “involv[e] a dedicated police team” backed by “volunteers”.
Illinois families fight transgender access to school locker room in.reuters
A lawyer for dozens of families from a suburban Chicago high school district argued in court on Monday that students' privacy was being violated at a school that allowed a transgender 'girl' access to the girls' locker room under an agreement with the federal government.
Also see Chicago parents seek injunction from transgender bathroom directive as school starts washingtontimes
Genetics
Human/animal hybrids? creation
While [NIH's decision to allow scientists to use federal money to make chimeras] raises all sorts of fantastical images of half-human monstrosities, the reality is not quite like that. This does not mean the moral issues are less clear, only that we have to step through this subject carefully. As Christians we should evaluate these issues from a biblical lens. What biblical ideas should inform our thinking in this area?
Researchers discover that DNA naturally fluoresces phys.org
A Northwestern University team recently caught DNA doing something that has never been seen before: it blinked. For decades, textbooks have stated that macromolecules within living cells, such as DNA, RNA, and proteins, do not fluoresce chemistry.about on their own. Technology instead relies on special fluorescence dyes to enhance contrast when macromolecules are imaged.
Space
NASA wants some assistance catching an asteroid engadget
If you haven't heard yet, NASA aims to capture an asteroid nasa.gov, drag it to the orbit between the Earth and the moon and ultimately send people to scour it for samples. While that sounds like a crazy plot from an astronaut movie, it's very much real. In fact, the agency has just announced that it plans to ask for help from aerospace companies to make it happen. Under the new Asteroid Redirect Mission Umbrella for Partnerships (ARM-UP) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) project, NASA will accept proposals for different aspects of the mission.
AI
DARPA: Autonomous Bug-Hunting Bots Will Lead to Improved Cybersecurity science.dodlive.mil v
This week, seven teams whose cyber reasoning bots played in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Cyber Grand Challenge cybergrandchallenge proved that machines by themselves could find and fix software safety problems in a simplified version of the code used everywhere, every day.
If you want to watch geeky people talk about geeky things, check out the videos (actually, both are pretty interesting even from a layman point of view). However, the core point is this is the first time completely automated machines have competed to find and automatically fix security vulnerabilities in never before seen software.
Russia-Iran
Russia and Iran Fly Across a Key Threshold in the Middle East time
Looks like the U.S. and its allies have a new “axis of evil” washingtonpost in the Middle East: Syria, Iran and Russia. The growing pro-Moscow alliance got a big boost Tuesday after Iran allowed Russia to fly its bombers from one of its bases to attack rebels in Syria.
Also see Syrian conflict: Russian bombers use Iran base for air strikes bbc
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