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Watch the live-stream of Apple’s announcement at 1 p.m. Eastern here.One month after the announcement of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, Apple is set to host another big event, though this one will probably be a smaller, more low-key soiree compared to September’s big show. Today at 1 p.m. Eastern/10 a.m. Pacific, at a get-together on Apple’s campus in Cupertino, Calif., the company is expected to talk about updates to the iPad line as well as more details and hopefully a release date for the next version of OS X, Yosemite....

Media Platforms Design TeamAs Gulf Coast residents patch up windows and following last week’s Hurricane Isaac, NASA is preparing to launch its most ambitious mission yet to study hurricane formation. The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel, or , is a five-year, $30 million project to fly unmanned aircraft laden with scientific instruments into and around developing hurricanes. Beginning this month, the planes will gather data for three September-to-October hurricane seasons and should help scientists better understand how the storms are whipped up — and why they sometimes turn deadly fast....

Laura Genung works the sliver of metal inside a padlock, probing the pins inside. “I’m so close I can feel it,” the 17-year-old Girl Scout says, exasperated. This catches the attention of her lockpicking instructor, Kellie Robinson. Robinson has come to this Cyber Camp at Collin College, a community college just outside of Dallas, to steer young girls toward the booming information security profession. She’s been running a lockpicking program at monthly Dallas Hackers Association meetings for two years and does presentations at information security conferences....

A documentary about the A-10 Warthog close air support jet was has somehow been leaked to the public on social media. The video, “Grunts in the Sky," was withheld from the general public until a Facebook group filed a Freedom of Information Act request. The video features interviews with A-10 pilots, the Air Force personnel who call in air strikes, and the U.S. Army troops they support on the ground.The video was chipped loose from the Pentagon bureaucracy by the Facebook group “Air Force amn/nco/snco....

A chemistry-combing algorithm uncovered a promising new antibiotic molecule called halicin.Researchers have spent tons of time and money searching for something to replace traditional antibiotics.Halicin worked well against three major resistant disease pathogens, including C. diff.Researchers at MIT have used brute-force computer power and artificial intelligence to identify a potentially game-changing new antibiotic medication. Using machine learning to comb through millions of options can help scientists think outside the box both chemically and financially....

On Wednesday afternoon, CEO Tim Cook issued a letter to Apple shareholders, warning them that the once-trillion-dollar company’s first quarter revenue is actually going to be a bit lower than originally expected. Cook lays out a bunch of reasons, including a slowing market in China and the effects of international exchange rates. But all of these factors trace back to something a bit more straightforward: Fewer people are buying new iPhones, which, of course they are....

Australia has been suffering through a major drought for years. One man is offering a cure-all, claiming he can enter wormholes and control the weather in the future. The weather peddler claims to have found buyers for his technology, although none of have gone on the record with verifiable claims. Australia has been suffering through a serious drought since 2017. The entire country has been hit by the lack of rainfall, including the southeastern state of Victoria, Australia’s largest agriculture producer with around 77,000 people working in the field....

A Marine Corps attack helicopter pilot on a training flight in northern Maine made an unorthodox stop this weekend, landing in a sports field between a pair of soccer goal posts. The reason: a lost cell phone.The Mount Desert Islander of Bar Harbor, Maine reports that the staff of the Thirsty Whale pub received a phone call from the local municipal airport. The caller had an unusual request: Could someone show up at the local sports field with a left behind cell phone?...

The bomb shelter business is booming. At least that’s the consensus of the men and women who design, construct and install underground sanctuaries. They attribute the growth in business to Kim Jong-un’s erratic missile lobbing, the intransigent Iranian clerics hell-bent on getting nuclear weaponry and the impending total collapse of the global financial system"For whatever reason—and we’re not totally sure ourselves—but business is incredible," Brian V. Camden, an engineer at high-end shelter builder Hardened Structures, says....

Cognitive scientists suggest in a new paper that machines could model human vulnerability in order to make better decisions.Humans in survival mode must make complex decisions with dire consequences, and scientists suggest modeling this mode could add depth and “emotion” to machines.A machine that understands risk and threat could, in turn, make better decisions in applications to care, industry, and more.How do you get machines to perform better? Tell them they could croak at any minute....

The rise of electric vehicles has already revolutionized the auto sector and set the stage for an infrastructural sea change as car chargers pop up around the U.S. Here’s another industry that will be deeply affected by electric vehicles: firefighting. America’s firefighters are already adapting to the challenges of climate change and crumbling infrastructure. Electric cars represent a serious design break from car engines of the past, and their big battery packs represent a fire danger if those packs are punctured during an accident....

Okay, for all of us that criticized the current Tundra for being a little too small compared to the other full-size pickups—we can all now collectively eat our words. Toyota unveiled the all-new Tundra yesterday and it isn’t just big, it’s downright supersize. Compared to a 2006 model the all-new one is larger in every dimension. Company officials call it the “biggest, boldest, bad-ass truck in Toyota history,” and one look at the future Tundra pickup tells us they can’t be wrong....

China just tested a hypersonic aircraft that could fire nuclear missiles at up to six times the speed of sound. The aircraft, called Starry Sky-2, can zoom across the sky at speeds of up to 4,563 miles per hour, and can switch directions abruptly mid flight (which means it could potentially bypass current missile defense systems). The Starry Sky-2 launched in a multistage rocket, then continued to soar at about Mach-5....

According to CNBC, Donald Trump has announced a dramatic $600 million savings in the troubled F-35 program. This follows negotiations between the president and F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin, as well as Trump’s pre-inauguration tweets criticizing the program’s budget. However, there’s evidence Trump may actually be taking credit for cost cuts that were going to happen anyway.The F-35 program is currently in a part of its development called Low Rate Initial Production, or LRIP....

EgyptAir flight MS804 disappeared from radar early Thursday morning as it flew above the Mediterranean Sea, en route to Cairo, Egypt from Paris. Here’s what we know so far about the incident. Authorities confirmed the plane crashed, according to The Guardian, which said it went down around the Greek island of Karpathos, where rescue efforts are focused. An Egyptian plane spotted two orange objects on Thursday believed to be from flight MS804, according to The Associated Press, but officials later determined the debris were not connected to the flight....

Hungarian researchers have followed up a major 2016 observation with a second similar one, both suggesting a fifth force of nature and a new kind of subatomic particle.The scientists used a radiation particle accelerator to blast helium nuclei in order to observe the explosion.Their paper is awaiting peer review and will likely spark a new wave of research to help explain what they saw.In 2016, Attila Krasznahorkay made news around the world when his team published its discovery of evidence of a fifth force of nature....

Seventy-five years ago, the largest seaborne invasion in world history began with D-Day. Setting up the Allied victory over the Nazis, the victory on June 6, 1944 has been celebrated ever since. It’s hard to think of an angle of D-Day that hasn’t been heavily detailed before, but two professors at Texas State University have done so—by looking up. A new study analyzing the night sky on the eve of D-Day shows how astronomy played a crucial role in the Allied victory....

For 200 million years, a skull lay buried in what would eventually become rural England, more specifically, Fell Mill Farm in Warwickshire. Discovered in 1955, the three-foot-long triangular skull was in exceptional condition for something so old. Now, thanks to modern medical technology, the ichthyosaur of Warwickshire is finally getting its due.Ichthyosaurs were giant marine reptiles that thrived from the Triassic period through the Late Cretaceous, from 250 to around 90 million years ago....

The math wizards at Numberphile have brought back an age-old multiplying algorithm known as halves and doubles, peasant math, Egyptian math, or—as math presenter Johnny Ball describes it—Russian multiplying.View full post on YoutubeTo do the method, begin by writing the two numbers you want to multiply at the top of two columns. In the left column, you progressively halve the number and take the integer floor of any “and a half” values, all the way down to 1....

View full post on YoutubeA pair of quirky Hyundai Azera ads directed by art house auteur Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums) aired during last Sunday’s Oscar telecast, exposing nearly 40 million American viewers to an unconventional side of the Korean carmaker.Unlike Acura, BMW, Chrysler, and Honda who purchased pre and post-telecast time slots, Hyundai advertised exclusively during the program using two water cooler-worthy spots: the hyperstylized Talk To My Car, embedded with tongue-in-cheek references to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Knight Rider to highlight their Blue Link connectivity system, and Modern Life, which promotes the car’s serene cabin through Anderson’s signature live action treatment....