Day: September 1, 2018

Fixing Our Privacy Settings

Posted on Saturday, 1 September, 2018 by Zheluo Cai

Alexa is my saviour. The digital voice assistant from Amazon hears me shoulder my way into the back kitchen door, arms loaded with bags and keys jangling from a pinkie. “Alexa, turn on the lights!” I command with a little desperation. Thanks, Alexa, I think as the lights blink on

Great Basin National Park

Posted on Saturday, 1 September, 2018 by Zheluo Cai

An Ice Age landscape of glacier-carved peaks rises more than a mile from the desert floor. The park takes its name from the vast region that extends east from California’s Sierra Nevada to Utah’s Wasatch Range, and from southern Oregon to southern Nevada, encompassing most of Nevada and western Utah.

The Deadly Consequences Of Unpredictable Code

Posted on Saturday, 1 September, 2018 by Zheluo Cai

As a child, mathematics was Cathy O’Neil’s passion: “math provided a neat refuge from the messiness of the real world.” After a stint in academia, she began working for a hedge fund (“the smuggest of the players on Wall Street”) just before the 2008 crash. That’s when she recognised the

Trade Of Coastal Sand Damaging Wildlife Of Poorer Nations

Posted on Saturday, 1 September, 2018 by Zheluo Cai

The secretive trade of coastal sand to wealthy countries such as China is seriously damaging the wildlife of poorer nations whose resources are being plundered, according to a new study. Sand and gravel are the most extracted groups of materials worldwide after water, with sand used in the concrete and asphalt