AUSTRAC team will stamp out money laundering. The Australian government has set up a cyber-intelligence unit to identify terrorism financing, money laundering and financial fraud online because of "unprecedented" threats to national security. Justice Minister Michael Keenan said the new unit, set up under money-tracking agency AUSTRAC, would investigate online payment platforms and financial cybercrime to crack [...]
Just going to make a withdrawal. Customers will soon be able to get pizza from an ATM at one Ohio University. Xavier University in Cincinnati has partnered with a French company to install the first Pizza ATM in North America. The company, Paline, says the machine will hold 70 pizzas at once. Customers will be able [...]
The smallest state is getting a big upgrade. The United States is getting its first offshore wind farm, off the coast of Rhode Island. The weather off the coast of Rhode Island, and specially around the tiny Block Island, can get rough which makes it a good but challenging place for an offshore wind farm. Building [...]
Bask in the unearthly glow. You've probably seen a nuclear reactor on the big screen before, a huge mass of metal submerged in a bath of cool water with an array of plutonium rods gingerly lowered by a slow and deliberate robot arm. The thing doesn't glow all the time—this isn't the intro to The Simpsons—that creepy [...]
