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...and the kitchen sink Facebook has Messenger and WhatsApp, but Instagram is one of its most overlooked messaging platforms. Michael Allison 26 Feb 2021 0 Source: Joe Maring / Android Central When it comes to messaging apps and services, there are a fair few stalwart apps you'd expect to see brought up in conversation. Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are obvious. Despite many people hating the primary platform, both offshoots have seen great commercial success and now boast billions of users. If you're messaging someone in 2021, there's a very high chance you're using one of those. Then there's Signal and Telegram, a pair of apps interlinked only by their focus on privacy and their shared desire to topple the duo at the top. Finally, there's iMessage and Google Messages, one of which has succeeded at being the default message service for all users on its platform, and the other of which hasn't gotten its message out on why you should use it. … [Read more...] about Instagram is the low-key biggest messaging app that no one talks about

1. Reefs in Princess Charlotte Bay Taken April 20, 2013 by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. These formations are part of the Great Barrier Reefs in Australia. This area lies on the east coast of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula. Image: NASA 2. Fires in Cuba and Florida Taken Feb. 3, 2003 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite. Fires are marked in red. Image: NASA 3. Florida Keys Taken Dec. 5, 2003 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite. Image: NASA 4. Cloud Vortices in the Pacific Taken May 22, 2013 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite, captured behind Isla Socorro, a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean located off the western coast of Mexico. Image: NASA 5. Steam Plume from Gaua Volcano Taken May 31, 2013 by a member of the International Space Station crew using a Nikon digital … [Read more...] about 55 Astonishing Images of Earth From Space

Microsoft Corp's failure to fix known problems with its cloud software facilitated the massive SolarWinds hack that compromised at least nine federal government agencies, according to security experts and the office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden. A vulnerability first publicly revealed by researchers in 2017 allows hackers to fake the identity of authorized employees to gain access to customers' cloud services. The technique was one of many used in the SolarWinds hack. Wyden, who has faulted tech companies on security and privacy issues as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, blasted Microsoft for not doing more to prevent forged identities or warn customers about it. "The federal government spends billions on Microsoft software," Wyden told Reuters ahead of a SolarWinds hearing on Friday in the House of Representatives. "It should be cautious about spending any more before we find out why the company didn't warn the government about the hacking technique that the … [Read more...] about Microsoft failed to shore up defenses that could have limited SolarWinds hack: US senator

Near the Markha River in Arctic Siberia, the earth ripples in ways that scientists don't fully understand. Earlier this week, NASA researchers posted a series of satellite images of the peculiar wrinkled landscape to the agency's Earth Observatory website . Taken with the Landsat 8 satellite over several years, the photos show the land on both sides of the Markha River rippling with alternating dark and light stripes. The puzzling effect is visible in all four seasons, but it is most pronounced in winter, when white snow makes the contrasting pattern even more stark. Why is this particular section of Siberia so stripy? Scientists aren't totally sure, and several experts offered NASA conflicting explanations. Related: Earth's 8 biggest mysteries One possible explanation is written in the icy ground. This region of the Central Siberian Plateau spends about 90% of the year covered in permafrost, according to NASA, though it occasionally thaws for brief intervals. … [Read more...] about Mysterious stripes spotted over Russia in satellite images — and NASA is perplexed

For birds, size matters in one key organ.  Those with bigger noggins outsmart and outlive their small-brained relatives. This could help them adapt to global warming and shrinking habitats, researchers say. After a study that compared brain and body sizes with mortality rates for 220 bird species in polar, temperate and tropical regions, the researchers say they are the first to show that larger brains, relative to body size, help birds dodge  death. Compared with other organs, the brain requires extra energy to develop and maintain. Therefore, researchers have theorized that a bigger brain makes up for its high metabolic price tag by giving animals the mental agility to survive environmental challenges. This idea is known as the “cognitive buffer” hypothesis. "We have shown that species with larger brains relative to their body size experience lower mortality than species with smaller brains, supporting the general importance of the cognitive buffer hypothesis in the … [Read more...] about Bigger Brains Help Birds Dodge Death