The film The Matrix Resurrections has been nominated for a 2022 Bafta in the special visual effects category. BBC Click’s Al Moloney spoke to DNEG’s VFX Supervisor, Huw Evans, to find out about the challenges of recreating a world made …
The cameras that capture fragile deep-sea jellies in their element
On an expedition with the Schmidt Ocean Institute off the coast of San Diego in August 2021, MBARI sent the pair of tools—along with a specialized DNA sampling apparatus—hundreds of meters deep to explore the midwaters. The researchers used the …
Brave takes on the creepy websites that override your privacy settings
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Why some crypto fans are praising Joe Biden
President Joe Biden’s long-awaited executive order about cryptocurrency is finally here. While the order is the first major attempt to bring the government together around regulating crypto, it’s not quite the crackdown some expected from an administration that has spent …
The secret US mission to bolster Ukraine’s cyber defenses ahead of Russia’s invasion
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AI is helping treat healthcare as if it’s a supply chain problem
To support MIT Technology Review’s journalism, please consider becoming a subscriber. In addition to monitoring shortages, BroadReach tracks individual patients across more than a thousand clinics in several African countries, monitoring whether they are getting the treatment they need as …
Russia-Ukraine: Is internet on verge of break-up?
But James Griffiths, author of The Great Firewall of China, thinks the plug could be pulled at any time: “Cutting off the internet, making sure Russians are only consuming the content that the Kremlin approves of, that kind of thing …
New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong?
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Network Time Protocol servers (about 556x), Plex media servers (about 5x), Microsoft RDP (86x), and the Connectionless Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (at least 50x). Just last week, researchers described a new amplification vector that achieves a …
5 Top Reasons Ecommerce Carts Are Abandoned and How to Give Shoppers Checkout Confidence
If there’s one silver lining about living in an era of wild uncertainty, it’s the surge in digital innovations, including how quickly retailers and businesses adapted to the ecommerce space. Yet even before the pandemic, demand for online shopping has …