Science & Technology

Conservators scan Ukraine’s wooden churches to help preserve them

Sacred Spaces

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, people have been evacuating and safeguarding Ukrainian works of art and museum pieces. Now, a team of conservators and students are also creating permanent, 3D records of buildings and objects that can’t be moved in case they are damaged or destroyed.

Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines

Uncategorized

Why a megacity in India is reviving the humble water well

Environment

Seafood cultivated in a lab could help mitigate the next pandemic

Science & Technology
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New project seeks to solve housing crisis using mushroom byproduct and troublesome weed

The Big Fix

Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth

Cybersecurity

An anonymous group of researchers known as Antibot4Navalny are striking a blow against Russian disinformation campaigns by finding and identifying them on Twitter, now known as X. And, as Dina Temple-Raston from the “Click Here” podcast reports, publicizing these Kremlin-backed operations has allowed the group to punch way above its weight.

This club in the Netherlands offers a much-needed break from technology

Internet

Most people are at least a little addicted to their phones. In the Netherlands, three young Dutchmen came up with an idea to counteract that. It’s called the Offline Club, where attendees pay for the opportunity to spend an evening phone-free.

Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s internet

Hacking

A US-based cyber security expert gets hacked by North Korea. He hacks back. Takes out the entire country’s limited internet for nine days. We get the story from Dina Temple-Raston, of the podcast Click Here.

A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects

Cyber warfare

In a battlefield abuzz with electronic warfare, a team of American techies MacGyver-ed a way to keep the power on in Ukraine. To make it work, they had to hack time. Dina Temple-Raston, host and managing editor of the Recorded Future News podcast “CLICK HERE,” has the story.

The company man: US glacial response to Nigeria’s detention of former IRS crypto investigator rankles federal agents

Cybersecurity

In a move that could send a chill among business people working overseas, a Nigerian court ruled on Friday that a former American IRS investigator, Tigran Gambaryan, could stand trial on behalf of his employer, the crypto currency exchange Binance, and denied his request for bail. Gambaryan has been held in Nigeria since February. Dina Temple-Raston, host and managing editor of the Recorded Future News podcast “Click Here,” has been following the story for months and explains.