The RECC’E - DAY 70 | 03.11.22 | PASSWORDS

Day 70 / 365

36YEARS ago today marked 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st, 753 BC.

RECC’E OF THE DAY

6CHARACTER passwords -  regardless of whether numbers, letters or symbols are included - can be cracked instantly according to new research. Meanwhile 8 character passwords of any type can be cracked in just 39 minutes.

438TRILLION YEARS is how long it would take someone to hack an 18 character password made up of numbers, letters and symbols. Quite a bit longer than the sub 1 second it would take to recover the password ‘123456’ used by 103,170,552 people worldwide. 

TRACKING

2.3mPEOPLE have now fled Ukraine; this includes 400k people who have fled from the high risk conflict zones.

47PEOPLE have been laid to rest in a mass grave in Mariupol after 1207 bodies were collected from the streets and it became impossible to reach burial sites. 

7mPEOPLE in Ukraine are over 60 and there are 2.7m people with disabilities across the country. The disaster Emergency Committee has warned it is becoming increasingly difficult for the most vulnerable people in the country to flee the war zone.

$100bnWORTH of damage to infrastructure and property has now been caused by Russian attacks across Ukraine. Google is now building a client into the OS of Android devices for the governments ‘Air raid Alerts’.

60+HOSPITALS have now been damaged or destroyed by Russian shelling in the last 2 weeks. Ukraine recently reported 3 civilians killed in a maternity hospital in Mariupol however Russia argued this was “staged provocation”.

1KEY REQUEST of president Zelenskyy is still not being fulfilled by NATO - the no fly zone. The president has urged the alliance to reconsider, stating millions will die if they do not however NATO has reconfirmed it’s position on not wanting direct conflict with Russia.

10amMOSCOW time (7am GMT) has been set by Russian officials as a fixed time slot for humanitarian corridors every day from this point onwards. This comes as Putin sacks 8 generals for a failure to take Ukraine in ‘days’ and he admits Western sanctions have ‘created problems’.

NEED-TO-KNOW

86%CHANCE of becoming pregnant at 20 years old drops to 36% by the age of 40. Now new research shows scientists in Israel have been able to reverse the age of older eggs in mice using anti-viral medication. This is a breakthrough providing hope to millions of women worldwide. 

0WORDS need to be spoken or heard in order to cause a phenomenon known as ‘linguistic convergence’ - where we unknowingly imitate someone’s way of speaking - according to new research. Experiments have now shown that just the ‘expectation’ about how others may speak is enough for us to alter our own language.

$1000PER LITRE for fetal bovine serum (FBS) - used to cultivate the cells required to produce lab grown meat - means the meat would have to sell at $200k per pound just to break even. The industry, backed by Hollywood celebs, had been celebrated for tackling water intensive, methane producing farming activities however at this time, without major biotech advancements it’s just not viable.

SHOULD-KNOW

500kSTUDENTS across 72 countries surveyed by scientists to measure competition, self-confidence and careers found that women are more likely to blame themselves in they fail at something; while men tend to put their failures down to bad luck. 

62%ACCURACY has been achieved by Deepmind’s machine learning project ’Ithaca‘ when restoring letters in damaged ancient Greek texts. The AI’s deciphering goes further, it can attribute an inscription’s geographic origins to one of 84 regions of the ancient world with 71 percent accuracy and can date a text to within, on average, 30 years of its known year of writing.

0.34NANOMETER wide transistors -  the component that acts as an electronic signal switch or amplifier - made using 2 atomically thin materials have set a new size record. Designed to be just a single carbon atom in length, the team behind the design has made sure that the whole transistor is easy to make and relatively compact. A nanometer is near the scale of a billionth of a meter. 

GOOD-TO-KNOW

20MILES wide, the Hiawatha crater in Greenland was suspected to be a few thousand years old, now scientists have discovered it was caused by a huge asteroid which struck the earth 58m years ago - just 8m years after dinosaurs became extinct. The Chicxulub crater in Mexico - caused by that extinction event - is nearly 6.5 times larger than Hiawatha.

2mPEOPLE use Tor - a privacy-protecting and censorship evading network - daily. Now Twitter is launching a Tor service for more secure and private tweeting; likely expedited following a Russian ban. Contrary to popular belief the ‘dark web’ accounts for only 3% of the entire Tor traffic and half of all dark web domains are, in fact, legal.

2POINTS of a gravitational field can be pulsed with lasers by Quantum gravity sensors - ordinarily used to detect the impact of gravity on different features of the Earth - to now detect pockets of ground water or tunnels on other planets. A successful test on earth was the first time an object hidden below ground has been detected using quantum technology and it is the first effective use of a quantum gravity gradiometer outside of laboratory conditions.

SIGN-OFF STAT

60kMILES long - thats the length of a child’s entire circulatory system— veins, arteries, and capillaries—if it were laid out flat. By the time we reach adulthood, our bodies have become home to approximately 100k miles of blood vessels.

  

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