GPS device and service provider Garmin confirmed Monday that the global outage that wiped out the vast majority of its offerings for five days was caused by a ransomware attack. “Garmin Ltd. was the victim of a cyber attack that encrypted some of our systems on July 23, 2020,” the …
Read More »School girls in India discover a terrestrial asteroid
By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – Two teenagers from India discovered a terrestrial asteroid by studying images from the University of Hawaii telescope, an Indian space education institute said Monday. The asteroid is currently near Mars and its orbit is expected to cross that of Earth in about a …
Read More »NASA’s next Mars rover is the most powerful and smartest yet
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) – With eight successful landings on Mars, NASA is upping the ante with its new scout vehicle. The Perseverance spacecraft, scheduled for launch this week, is NASA’s largest and smartest Martian rover to date. It has the latest landing technology, plus most cameras and microphones ever …
Read More »NASA will soon try to fly a helicopter over Mars: “It really is like the Wright brothers’ moment”
With eight successful landings on Mars, NASA is upping the ante with the spacecraft Perseverance. Set for takeoff this week, the new rover will carry a helicopter for a test flight from another world. The 4-pound helicopter, Ingenuity, will travel to Mars by grabbing the belly of the rover and, …
Read More »‘No vaccine, no recovery’: RSM economist
The next stimulus policy expected from Washington in the coming weeks is “absolutely critical to the condition of the American economy,” says RSM chief economist Joe Brusuelas. “The real economy is in recession. Financial markets were V-shaped [recovery]Brusuelas told Yahoo Finance’s “On The Move”. “Of course, housing will be the …
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