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Ring app is handing over user data to Facebook, Google and other third-parties, report finds

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Amazon’s Ring is under fire yet again. Security experts discovered that the Android app is sending customers’ personally identifiable information to Facebook, Google and other third-parties without permission. The names, private IP addresses, mobile network carriers, persistent identifiers and sensor data were discovered in the exchange. The report also found that some Ring users whose identify … Read more

Feeling lonely? It might be that you’re just cold according to new study

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Feeling like you want some company? It might be that you’re just cold according to new study, that links desire for companionship to dips in air temperature A new experiment reveals cold people are more inclined to reach out to friends Conversely, being warmer tends to leave people feeling less inclined to connect Based on … Read more

Proximity to concentration camps in World War II made people more likely to conform to Nazi beliefs

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Proximity to Nazi concentration camps during World War II made people more likely to conform to the Third Reich’s racist and intolerant philosophies, a study claims. Moreover, these values may be being passed down the generations by parental and peer influence, experts concluded after studying archive, survey and election data. According to the researchers, the values … Read more

One in five whale sharks has been injured by a commercial shipping vessel according to new study

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One in five whale sharks has been injured by a commercial shipping vessel according to new study, due to the world’s increasingly busy global shipping routes  A new study in Australia tracked 913 whale sharks between 2008 and 2013  The team found around 20 percent showed significant scarring or amputation These injuries are believed to … Read more

Map shows where Americans will move once climate change forces them out of coastal cities

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AI map reveals where millions of Americans will move once climate change forces them out of coastal cities – and Las Vegas and Dallas are among the top choices AI predicts where people living on the coast will move when sea levels rise  It found that many will choose  Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Denver and Las … Read more

Long-awaited app that lets iPhone users record video from two devices simultaneously rolls out today

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Long-awaited ‘DoubleTake’ app that lets iPhone users record from two devices simultaneously rolls out today DoubleTake for iOS can record from two iPhones  simultaneously The app is made by Filmic and was released on iOS today Users can visualize devices in a split-screen and picture-in-picture mode  The tool will look to curter cement iPhones’ reputation among creatives  By … Read more

Red Sea releases 220,000 tons of polluting hydrocarbon gases every year

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Red Sea releases 220,000 tons of harmful hydrocarbon gases into the atmosphere every year – more than the human pollution produced by the UAE, Kuwait or Turkey Reservoirs of underwater ethane and propane gas escape into the atmosphere  They then combine with nitrogen oxides produced by passing marine traffic The combination of the gases creates chemicals … Read more

NASA reveals ‘space habitat’ where ISS tourists can view Earth

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NASA selects a private ‘space home’ featuring padded walls and ‘the largest window ever constructed for space’ to accommodate the first tourists visiting the ISS NASA partners with private company Axiom Space to attach commercial module to the ISS for space tourism Tourists in low orbit will benefit from high speed Wi-Fi, video screens and … Read more

Stone tools from a cave in Siberia reveal the epic trek of Neanderthals from Europe 59,000 years ago

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Stone tools found in a cave in Siberia reveal that nomadic Neanderthals made an epic trek of more than 1,800 miles from Europe around 59,000 years ago. Analysis of the tools found that they were formed in the same manner as those used by Neanderthals in eastern Europe, rather than those found elsewhere in Siberia. Given … Read more