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Cyber-warfare consists of co-ordinatedattacks of mass disruption (AMD). In the June summit between U.S. and Russian presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, cyber-warfare was a topic of discussion. While the Biden-Putin summit appears to be “quite constructive,” cyberwarfare remains perplexing to politicians. Attacks of mass disruption are similar to the latest ransomware attacks onSolarWinds andColonial Pipeline — imagine several co-ordinated similar attacks. For the time being, organizations should prepare for increasing disruptions and data losses caused by ransomware....

We first wrote about Ryan Holladay and his brother Hays the brothers behindBluebrain, a D.C. based band in March [story here] when they announced they were making the world’s first location aware musical album app. Their album, titled “The National Mall,” is an iPhone app that changes its rhythms and beats as the user walks around The National Mall in Washington, D.C. Users will be able to download the album [iOS here, free] over the Mall’s WiFi....

“There doesn’t exist a person who makes robots today that wasn’t inspired by characters like those in Star Wars or Astro Boy. And it works both ways. What motion graphics or 3D artist doesn’t have a robot on their reel? There is so much creative energy in these fields. I want to foster that connection between design and robots. It’s these connections that give meaning to work.” -Heather Knight This July 2011, the world’s firstRobot Film Festivalwill take place in New York City....

Come sun or high wind,InHabitat reportedon Friday that Scientists from the University of Liverpool have created the world’s first solar-power wind turbines. The team, led by Dr. Joe King simply installed new sets of spinning solar blades onto the existing infrastructure of traditional wind turbines. “While we are no strangers to windy weather here in the UK, it can be intermittent in other regions. Solar panels may only be useful here during our ten days of summer or an occasional heatwave, but in countries such as Morocco, Italy and Spain they could make a real difference....

What do you call an airport for flying taxis? A vertiport. And this week, we took a step closer to the option of catching a flying taxi. UK company Urban-Air Port opened the world’s first vertiport this week in a partnership with theSupernal, the Urban Air Mobility division of Hyundai. The vertiport iscalled Air-One and is poised tomeet the future demand forautonomous drones and electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) passenger vehicles....