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[ad_1] A 65-year-old woman was bitten by a shark Monday afternoon at Rockaway Beach, the authorities said, in what appeared to be the first confirmed shark bite in New York City waters in decades. The woman, Tatyana Koltunyuk, was bitten on the left leg as she swam near Beach 59th Street, a spokeswoman for the city’s parks department said. Ms. Koltunyuk was swimming alone when lifeguards heard her screaming for help, according to a police report. Lifeguards removed Ms. Koltunyuk from the water, applied a tourniquet and administered other first aid, and emergency responders then took her to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition. On Tuesday, her condition was listed as “serious but stable,” the police said. “We hope for a full recovery for this swimmer,” the parks department spokeswoman, Meghan Lalor, said in a statement. “Though this was a frightening event, we want to remind New Yorkers that shark bites in Rockaway are extremely rare.” The police report indicated that Ms. Koltuny

[ad_1] The ability of technology to solve global problems is often overhyped. But when it comes to saving the world from asteroid strikes, lines of code may prove to be our savior. Telescopes surveying the skies for errant space rocks are overseen by astronomers, but their systematic movements are driven by ones and zeros. With so much inky sky to peruse, scientists rely on algorithms to spot suspicious and speedy objects, including asteroids that may threaten Earth. Conventional algorithms need four images, taken during a single night, of a moving object to confirm whether it’s a genuine space rock. But new software developed by researchers at the University of Washington cuts the number of necessary nightly observations by half, boosting the ability of observatories to quickly identify these lithic projectiles. And the program, named HelioLinc3D, has already found a near-Earth asteroid that older surveys had missed. Analyzing data from the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestria

[ad_1] In this fast-digital era we live in, protecting ourselves from online dangers has sadly become an important part of our everyday lives. Also, with the ever-changing landscape of social media platforms, we find ourselves confronting a relentless barrage of cunning schemes and crafty ploys designed to fool folks just like you and me.   I'm on a mission to identify these ongoing cyber concerns and  let you know how to stay safe from danger on the rise.  Recently, one of our vigilant readers, Claire from Roswell, Georgia, reached out to us to share a phishing scam that she received. Here's what she had to say.  "There is a new trend on Facebook and Instagram where a message shows up in your notifications. It looks like a real message from FB or IG because it’s in your notifications (and this was in my organization’s page notifications.) But it appears to be phishing. It’d be great to see a section on your website dedicated exclusively to warnings of these sneaky

[ad_1] Tourists sheltered under umbrellas as they lined up at Florence’s majestic cathedral this week, looking for shade. Street vendors peddled fans and straw hats. Locals splashed their faces at water fountains, all seeking a respite from Europe’s latest heat wave. “It feels like home,” said Alina Magrina, a 64-year-old tourist from California, parts of which, like much of the southern United States, have been hit by sweltering temperatures, too. “But at home, we move from one air-conditioned space to the next.” Walking in the sun in Florence was making her chest hurt, she said, stopping to buy an extra fan on the Italian city’s iconic Ponte Vecchio. Extreme heat has now become a fixture of summer months in many parts of the world, not only in the United States, but especially in Europe, a continent defined by its almost immutable architecture and ways of life. Yet, though Europe is warming more swiftly than the global average , each year it seems particularly unprepared. Exper

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT can influence users' moral judgments, according to new research.  Researchers found that users may underestimate the extent to which their own moral judgments can be influenced by the model, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. Sebastian Krügel, from Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt in Germany, and his colleagues repeatedly asked ChatGPT whether it is right to sacrifice the life of one person in order to save the lives of five others. The group found that ChatGPT wrote statements arguing both for and against sacrificing one life. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT STEP IN? AMERICANS WEIGH IN The logo of the chatbot ChatGPT from the company OpenAI can be seen on a smartphone on April 3, 2023, in Berlin, Germany.  (Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images) It indicated that it is not biased toward a certain moral stance.  Next, the study's authors presented more than 760 U.S. parti

[ad_1] This year’s heat can seem relentless, and appears to be only the beginning of a lifetime of hotter summers. It’s even hot in the oceans . And then there are the wildfires, droughts and floods, which have recently hit the seeming paradises of Hawaii and California. The weather extremes are enough to drive some people to pick up their lives and look for more climate-friendly places to live. Jesse Keenan, a climate adaptation expert at Tulane University living in low-lying New Orleans, is among them. “Another Katrina is going to happen,” he said, referring to the hurricane that struck the city in 2005. “I tell my students this: ‘Within your lifetime, Tulane will no longer be a university. Your alma mater will relocate or disappear because of where it is.’” Are there places that are better suited to deal with climate change? Yes, experts say. The Midwest, inland Northeast and northern Great Plains are three examples in the U.S., and parts of Canada, Russia and Scandinavia coul

[ad_1] If you use X, formerly known as Twitter , you might've seen gray or gold-verified accounts promoting cryptocurrencies.  They often pose as actual cryptocurrencies. While you would think these cryptocurrencies are legitimate — in reality, it's the work of hackers who hijack X accounts. These hackers target politicians, companies and other official accounts that you trust in order to trick you into buying into their crypto scam. Some act as middlemen, selling accounts to malicious actors. CLICK TO GET KURT’S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK VIDEO TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, AND EASY HOW-TO’S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Example of X verified accounts with gray and gold check marks (X Corp.) Using trusted accounts for crypto scams Cybersecurity experts MalwareHunterTeam found accounts belonging to a Canadian senator, a Brazilian politician and a nonprofit all being used to push cryptocurrencies. According to their reports, hackers used the Canadian politician&#

[ad_1] Landowners in England will be rewarded for environmental work as well as for producing food. [ad_2] Source link https://worldnews2023.com/science-environment/elms-england-green-farming-subsidies-detail-unveiled/?feed_id=306619&_unique_id=666eaafe51d53

[ad_1] First the bad news. The two coffee species that most of us drink — Arabica and robusta — are at grave risk in the era of climate change. Now the good news. Farmers in one of Africa’s biggest coffee exporting countries are growing a whole other coffee species that better withstands the heat, drought and disease supersized by global warming. For years, they’ve just been mixing it into bags of low-priced robusta. This year, they’re trying to sell it to the world under its own true name: Liberica excelsa. “Even if there’s too much heat, it does fine,” said Golooba John, a coffee farmer near the town of Zirobwe in central Uganda. For the past several years, as his robusta trees have succumbed to pests and disease, he has replaced them with Liberica trees. On his six acres Mr. John now has just 50 robustas, and 1,000 Libericas. He drinks it, too. He says it’s more aromatic than robusta, “more tasteful.” Catherine Kiwuka, a coffee specialist at the National Agricultural Research U