The number of viruses made for macOS grew in 2019, according to data from Malwarebytes, which develops security solutions. Apple’s platform had a detectio n rate per user twice as high as Windows, but the vast majority of attacks were low impact. According to the data, Apple’s operating system had an index of 9.8 detected viruses per device in … Read more
A new study suggests that meteorites may be a food source for living things, more specifically a microorganism called Metallosphaera sedula, a metal-eating species. Metallosphaera sedula is a species of bacterial-like microbes originally isolated from a volcanic field in Italy. The first part of the name can roughly be translated as “metal mobilizing sphere”, while “sedu lus” means … Read more
Using the MeerKAT telescope, located in the Northern Cape, South Africa, scientists have identified a large radio-emitting explosion from a binary star. The phenomenon identified as “transitory” represents an important discovery about star studies. When an astronomical object suddenly appears and disappears, or shines more and less brightly for a certain period of time (seconds, days, … Read more
A group of US scientists has developed a new method that can help id entify exoplanets with the greatest potential to harbor life. The novelty was described in a study published in the scientific journal Astrophysical Journal Letters in November and may facilitate the work of the James Webb telescope, which will launch shortly. The team of Northwestern … Read more
Christina Koch, the astronaut who took part in the first all-female spacewalk alongside Jessica Meir, once again made history. It is that last Saturday (28), Koch broke the longest space mission record ever by a woman, surpassing the mark previously set by Peggy Whitson in 2017. Not that there is any rivalry among NASA w omen. In a series of … Read more
Scientists found a new mineral in a meteorite that crashed to Earth in 1951. It took almost seven decades of analysis to fin d the formation, which is just one of 500,000 to 600,000 minerals in the small stone, about 210 grams. The extraterrestrial composition was named edscottite, named after the cosmopolitan Edward Scott of … Read more
While both Sony and Microsoft have already confirmed that they will be releasing the next generation of thei r consoles in 2020, little is known about them – especially what we can expect on the hardware side. But a recent leak may have given the first clues about the capacity of both consoles. According to Eurogamer, GitHub has … Read more
TikTok ( Android | iOS ) is a video and social networking application that has seen its users grow considerably since 2018, when it was purchased by ByteDance, still under the name Musical.ly, and launched in the US thereafter. The app is currently in the top five in the Play Store, which has certainly caught the attention of digital influencers … Read more
New Year New Life. As we prepare for the arrival of 2020, many are already starting to make that traditional list of resolutions for the new year – and the suggestion is: why not also think about the way and how often we use mobile apps? After all, smartphones have become a very important part of our … Read more
The movie premiere calendar for 2020 is now full! Next year, we’re eagerly awaiting major movie releases on a calendar that will feature superhero films, revamped classics, sagas sequels, live-action, video game adaptation, among many other categories and genres. In 2020, for example, we’ll see the classic 1990s video game character, the blue porcupine Sonic, plus … Read more