Techstrong News Recap – July 14, 2022

Hi, I'm nitan Solomon. Today's July 14th. And here the headlines first NASA unveiled the first full-color images from the 11 billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope.

The five images released are a massive achievement for Humanity under the culmination of over 26 years of research the pictures show swirls of galaxies Galactic clusters black holes atmospheres of distant planets and even a stellar Nursery Where Stars Are Born James Webb has an unprecedented capacity to view objects in the infrared Spectrum allowing us to see our universe with more clarity than ever before. One shocking finding is signs of water and even evidence of clouds on exoplanets leading us closer to the answer of a fundamental question. Is there life elsewhere in the universe?

The telescope also provided beautiful pictures of planetary nebulas which are areas of cosmic dust and gas generated by dying Stars. One of the most stunning pictures gives us an in-depth. Look at the Karina nebula a region of the Milky Way Around 7600 light years away.

The pictures of these Cosmic Cliffs give us insight into the way Stars Are Born and why they take on certain characteristics. One picture named Webb's first Deep Field shows a swirl of galaxies and this seems like a massive shot. But in reality NASA explained it really only represents a slice of the universe the size of a grain of sand on the tip of your finger at arm's length.

Overall. The pictures are just jaw-dropping. Next the solar powered Airbus Zephyr s has spent 26 continuous days Airborne breaking the record for the longest flight of an unmanned aircraft Zephyr flies high in the atmosphere to avoid commercial air traffic and bad weather.

The aircraft has an onboard batteries allowing it to stay airborne overnight and eliminating the need to stop to refuel. Airbus's latest flight tester intended to test the uav's energy storage capacity battery longevity solar panel efficiency and station keeping abilities set a spokesman from the company. In other news Canadian mobile and internet giant Rogers says it will give credits to millions of customers after a nationwide outage last week.

The outage which lasted more than 15 hours also affected Transportation Banking and emergency services with more than 11 million. Subscribers. Rogers is one of Canada's largest telecom companies in a tweet Rogers said, it would credit customers the five days worth of service instead of the two days.

It had previously offered now Canada's radio and television commission which regulates the sector wants a detailed account explaining how and why the outage happened as well as the measures Rogers will take to ensure it won't happen again during the blackout Bank machines were all fine and many emergency phone services reported difficulties with incoming calls in Canada. Three companies Rogers Bell Canada and tell us Corps control 90% of the telecoms market, so it'll be interesting to see how the outage may affect this distribution. Next Amazon's ring said in its latest transparency report that it turned over a record amount of doorbell footage and other info to us authorities last year in two biannual reports covering 2021.

Ring said that it received 3,147 legal Demands a 65% increase from the year prior more than 85% of the legal demands process were through Court issued warrants allowing ring to turn over information about a ring user as well as the footage from their accounts Amazon executive Brian huisman told lawmakers in a letter that ring shared doorbell footage with us authorities without the consent of the owner at least 11 times so far in 2022. In the most recent episode of the Twitter Elon Musk Saga Twitter is suing the Tesla CEO in an effort to force him to follow through with his deal to purchase the social media company. Musk originally agreed to a blockbuster 44 billion dollar acquisition agreement before backing out due to the large number of Bot users on the platform with Twitter's most recent lawsuit.

The deal was most likely headed for a lengthy Court battle which will determine if musk's termination of the deal is actually legal with all the negative publicity. It seems Twitter has been negatively affected as it's trading 34% below its price the day Twitter and musk originally struck a deal. Another social media platform making headlines is tiktok as they've started to developing a new system to restrict certain types of mature content from being viewed by adolescence content levels.

The first version of the system is set to launch in the next couple of weeks. It will also introduce a new tool that will allow users to filter videos with specific words or tags from showing up in their feeds. com.

We have an article talking about code Logix newest toolkit that increases developers visibility into app dependencies by scanning binaries runtime application behavior and database connections the toolkit uses graph technology to Mark connections and dependencies in real time. The increased visibility will allow developers to have a better understanding of how a code might impact other components boosting efficiency and productivity. Finally on Security Boulevard.

We have an article talking about data privacy becoming a growing consideration for Biometrics and identity access management. Whether it be fingerprint scans or face scans Biometrics have had an increasing foothold in IAM, but this is also generated concerns about human rights and data privacy as these authentications become more mainstream data protection and risk assignment assessments must also be a priority for security and it teams the article argues and that's today's headlines.