An app takes the “lost dog” poster into the digital age. Finding Rover uses facial recognition to match pictures of lost pets with photos of strays — images uploaded by shelters and other users.
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Affair-Enabling Website Ashley Madison Is Compromised By Hackers
Threats to release some 37 million users’ photographs and data come at a time when Ashley Madison’s leaders have been discussing a potential $200 million stock offering.
Federal auroral program to be transferred to UAF
The university system is loaning UAF $2 million dollars to get the facility back into operation.
Strange Worlds At The Edge Of Our Solar System Finally Come Into Focus
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back its best photos of Pluto and its moons. Scientists will puzzle over them for years to come.
Changing ocean conditions mean uncertain future for wild shellfish stocks
Throughout this discussion, there’s been an elephant in the room: wild stocks. Do wild coastal shellfish face the same 25 year end date that Alaskan hatcheries do?
Alaskan shellfish hatcheries look to Pacific NW for countering ocean acidification
A recent NOAA study named 2040 as the date for the potential end of Alaskan shellfish hatcheries, unless serious mitigation efforts are put in place to combat ocean acidification.
Scientist from the Last Frontier explores Final Frontier
Peter Delamere, space physicist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute, hopes to learn more about Pluto’s possible atmosphere by studying its interactions with particles from the solar wind.
Study: Ocean acidification threatens future of Alaskan shellfish hatcheries
New research paints an unsettling picture of the future of shellfish in coastal Alaska. The effects of ocean acidification are worsening and could mean the end of hatcheries in the next 25 years if costly mitigation efforts aren’t put in place.
Slow or no Internet access hinders remote Arctic communities
Dial-up Internet access is a distant memory for most of us. But slow connections to the web are still a fact of life in much of the far north.
Russian Rocket Poised For Crucial Supply Run To Space Station
After a string of launch failures, NASA says astronauts have just four months of supplies left. A Russian rocket launching early Friday could provide relief.