Google Chrome browser extensions expose users to hackers who can easily tap into their private data, including social security numbers, passwords and banking information, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M). The researchers further uncovered vulnerabilities involving passwords that are stored in plain text within HTML source code on
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The findings, based on a single electrochemical process, could help cut emissions from the hardest-to-decarbonize industries, such as steel and cement. In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking to carbon-capture technologies to decarbonize the most stubborn industrial emitters. Steel, cement, and chemical
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The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances, to aid monitoring of climate and coastal change. MIT researchers have demonstrated the first system for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit signals across kilometer-scale distances. This technique, which the researchers began developing several years ago, uses about
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Green energy and the push to electrify everything have been in the news recently but for all the wrong reasons. Instead of the green energy nirvana politicians and green energy advocates have promised, economic and physical reality has begun to set in. Start with the economic realities. Wind turbine manufacturers like Siemens and
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In the chaotic days since Elon Musk took over Twitter, now known as X, the social network has undergone numerous significant changes, including removing the iconic blue check. Revamping how the account verification works was one of the earliest changes made by Musk, and besides the confusion and chaos it caused,
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The head of the International Energy Agency urged the United States and China to set aside their differences and align on climate change, warning in an interview Monday that "geopolitical fractures" risked holding back the clean energy transition. Speaking at the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, Fatih Birol told AFP that
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The MIT-led Cosmic Explorer project aims to detect gravitational waves from the earliest universe. The search for space-shaking ripples in the universe just got a big boost. An MIT-led effort to build a bigger, better gravitational-wave detector will receive $9 million dollars over the next three years from the National Science
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Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, said with the commencement of commercial operation of the Blue Line Rail Mass Transit, the dream of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has become a reality. He commended President Tinubu, first governor of Lagos State, for putting in place the transportation master plan, including the rail, waterways
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Workers have begun construction in the North Sea on the offshore wind farm that will generate enough electricity to meet the needs of more than 1.2 million homes. The 1.4GW Sofia offshore wind farm is being built by energy firm RWE and, once complete, will be one of the world’s largest
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The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, the Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA) and Chief Electrical Inspector of the Federation, Aliyu Tukur Tahir, yesterday allayed fear over the proposed Standard Transfer Specification (STS) prepaid meters upgrading using Token Identifier (TID). Tahir said NEMSA would ensure that all electricity meters and instruments deployed
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