Speckling the surface of one of Mars' oldest impact basins, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted a sprawling expanse of'honeycomb' landforms, with individual cells of up to 6 miles wide. The origin of these textured features has long remained a mystery, as scientists debate which type of natural process could be responsible, from glacial events to wind erosion. It's possible that multiple processes are at play, according to NASA, with evidence suggesting the honeycombs and the surrounding landscape in Mars northwestern Hellas Planitia may still be undergoing activity today. Speckling the surface of one of Mars' oldest impact basins, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted a sprawling expanse of'honeycomb' landforms, with individual cells of up to 6 miles wide. According to NASA, the area has features of different natural processes, suggesting activity may still be reshaping the land today.

Monsanto has sued Arkansas over dicamba bans in that state, but a court battle doesn't appear likely in North Dakota. The company says it prefers to work with states and will urge North Dakota officials to be flexible on the cutoff date if conditions warrant.

Over a third of the nearly 22 million comments that poured into the Federal Communications Commission regarding its plan to repeal net neutrality protections included one of seven identical messages. More than half were associated with duplicate or temporary emails, including some 7,500 affiliated with the address "example@example.com." Dozens included references to the animated film Bee Movie, a film about a disillusioned worker bee that has become fodder for several popular memes. Roughly one million comments came from Pornhub.com email addresses. And more than 7,000 comments were submitted by a gentleman--or woman--named, simply, The Internet.

There's a big connection between my love for water sports and hardware design -- both involve observing waves and planning several moves ahead. Four years ago, when we started sketching the POWER9 chip from scratch, we saw an upsurge of modern workloads driven by artificial intelligence and massive data sets. We are now ready to ride this new tide of computing with POWER9. It is a transformational architecture and an evolutionary shift from the archaic ways of computing promoted by x86. POWER9 is loaded with industry-leading new technologies designed for AI to thrive.

Famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking announced his latest venture to unlock the secrets of the universe's origins and find out more about black holes this week. Utilizing a supercomputer, Hawking's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (COSMOS) aimed to search for details about the Big Bang, the facility said. Hawking is no stranger to humankind's deep questions. The physicist is known for his groundbreaking strides in physics and cosmology and has often leveled predictions about the fate of humanity throughout his storied life. Hawking's prophesies over the years have dealt with the effects of global warming on earth, the implications of artificial intelligence, and what humans should do if they ever make alien contact.

Conducting a survey of a population is not easy. It requires extensive manpower to produce the census data for the U.S. every year. A Census of the population helps a government gauge the changes in population, new trends and how the population of a country form societies and co-exist. It is estimated that the U.S. Census Bureau spends $1 billion surveying the population. The demographic makeup of any nation is revealed with the Census data alone, which is why it is done regularly.

For the NASA drones to successfully fly around a course, the devices need to know where they are in space. For that, they use two onboard cameras--one that looks forward, and the other, down, a common setup for mid-to-high-level consumer drones. Drones that fly around outside can make use of GPS, but that's not an option when flying indoors, in a complex environment, at speeds of 30 to 40 mph. The drone also needs an onboard three-dimensional map of the course at hand, so it can match what it sees with the cameras to that internal map and know where it actually is. That process is known as relocalization.

GDPR will be the Y2K of 2018: Companies are publicly touting their GDPR readiness, but behind closed doors, I expect a lot of uncertainty about the ability to comply with these new and incredibly strict guidelines. While GDPR won't result in the same public hysteria as Y2K, IT practitioners who were around at the turn of the century will feel a bit of déjà vu. Healthcare has become a high value target as technology in this industry is widely disparate, but is being connected over networks that are still catching up from a security perspective. Brands have been quick to jump on the IoT bandwagon, but they will have their hands full. In 2017, we saw KRACK and BlueBorne exploit WiFi and bluetooth, opening fresh holes in our already battered perimeters.

The bruising legal fight between Uber and Waymo over self-driving car tech took another explosive turn today, after the judge overseeing the case discovered Uber was withholding evidence that it had a department dedicated to gathering intelligence from competitors. The evidence also showed that Uber used systems that encrypted and deleted communications to prevent them from ending up in court. The evidence in question is a letter written by an attorney for Richard Jacobs, a former member of Uber's intelligence group. According to a filing by Waymo's legal team, the letter was sent to Uber lawyers more than six months ago, and was obtained by the US attorney's office as part of its own criminal investigation into the ride-hailing company. The letter was produced as part of a since-settled legal dispute between Jacobs and Uber.

A federal judge on Tuesday delayed a high-profile trial between Uber and Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Alphabet, Google's parent company, saying that a new letter contradicted earlier statements made by the ride-hailing company. Waymo requested that the court push back the trial date to gather more information gleaned from the letter, which was only shared with the judge last week, and described Uber's alleged efforts to steal trade secrets from rivals. The letter was written by a lawyer for a former Uber employee, Richard Jacobs, who worked as a security analyst. Jacobs testified at Tuesday's hearing that Uber deliberately used messaging technology to avoid leaving a paper trail, including apps that automatically delete correspondence. He said that a special team at Uber was tasked with gathering code and trade secrets from competing businesses.