The farm was founded by English settler John Tuttle, who came to the New World with a land grant from King Charles II, the Globe said.
Tuttle's landmark property has passed from father to son since 1632, the Globe said.
Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover nearly 6,000 previously unknown species of virus. The work, presented on 15 March at a meeting organized by the US Department of Energy (DOE), illustrates an emerging tool for exploring the enormous, largely unknown diversity of viruses on Earth.
Although viruses influence everything from human health to the degradation of trash, they are hard to study. Scientists cannot grow most viruses in the lab, and attempts to identify their genetic sequences are often thwarted because their genomes are tiny and evolve fast.
The showdown in the Florida statehouse last year had all the drama of a knock-down political brawl: Powerful industries clashing. Warnings of death and destruction. And a surprise last-minute vote, delivering a sweeping reform bill to the governor's desk.
The battle wasn't about gun control, immigration or healthcare, but about making it easier to ignore national guidelines on building codes. To the surprise of the insurers, engineers and safety advocates who opposed the change, the home builders won -- in a state that gets hit by more hurricanes than any other.
The tech industry has a persistent problem with gender inequality, particularly in its leadership ranks, and a new study from LivePerson underscores just how depressingly persistent it truly is. When the company asked a representative sample of 1,000 American consumers whether they could name a famous woman leader in tech, 91.7% of respondents drew a complete blank, while only 8.3% said they could.
But wait, it gets worse: Of those 8.3% who said they could name a famous woman tech leader, only 4% actually could-and a quarter of those respondents named "Siri" or "Alexa." Now, granted, this represents only about 10 people in the survey group, but that's 10 people for whom the most famous woman in tech is a virtual assistant.
A new bill being considered by the French parliament makes a bold move to fight sexual harassment, hitting men where it hurts the most-in their wallets.
Marlène Schiappa, the French gender equality minister (a government position dedicated to combating sexism), told the press on Wednesday that under this law, sexual harassers caught on the street would be subject to pay fines on the spot. The fines would range from 90-750 euros ($110-$920), and could be higher for repeat offenders or severe violations.
It's been a rough quarter for the rollout of Tesla's Model 3. There were faulty robots at the Nevada battery factory and an idled production line in California. Reservation holders from San Diego to Brooklyn, New York, saw their delivery times pushed back. What should have felt like a cascade of electric cars flooding American streets seemed more like a trickle.
Now, with less than two weeks left in the quarter, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is looking to make up for lost time. "Just got back from Gigafactory," he said on Twitter before dawn Thursday. "Will be at our Fremont factory in the morning. Tesla team is going all out."
Those efforts appear to be paying off.
Targeted geoengineering to preserve continental ice sheets deserves serious research and investment, argues an international team of researchers. Without intervention, by 2100 most large coastal cities will face sea levels that are more than three feet higher than they are currently.
Digital downloads had a short run as the top-selling format in the music industry. It took until 2011, a decade after the original iPod came out, for their sales surpass those of CDs and vinyl records, and they were overtaken by music streaming services just a few years later.
Now, digital downloads are once again being outsold by CDs and vinyl, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
Tim Berners-Lee also essentially tells Zuck to buck up: 'You can fix it'
Norway
-home to the world's highest per capita number of all-electric cars-is also planning to go emission-free in the friendly skies.
The Scandinavian country aims to be the first in the world to switch to electric air transport.
State-owned Avinor, which operates most of the country's airports, plans to adopt battery-powered planes in the coming years to help slow climate change, Reuters reported.
"In my mind, there's no doubt that by 2040 Norway will be operating totally electric" on short-haul flights, Dag Falk-Pedersen, head of Avinor, said at an aviation conference in Oslo.
Nissan has announced a project to recycle old electric vehicle (EV) batteries for smart lighting solutions in cities.
Last week, the Yokohama, Japan-based automaker said that the new project, titled " The Reborn Light," will breathe new life into old EV batteries in order to provide residents of Namie, Japan, with public lighting.
In a statement, Nissan said that old batteries from the Nissan Leaf electric car, coupled with solar panels, will power the new streetlights.
Elon Musk has sold millions of dollars of branded hats and flamethrowers, and now, he says his Boring Company will sell "interlocking bricks" made from the rock that its tunnel-creating machines excavate from the ground. In other words, think Lego, he says, except giant, heavy, and made of earth.
This study considered only wind and solar. If other sources, such as hydroelectricity, biofuels, or even nuclear power were added, it would be relatively straightforward to reach 100% clean energy. Furthermore, people are learning to use energy more wisely, either by using more efficient products or purchasing electricity during off-peak hours. These behavioral changes can also help us reach a 100% clean energy target.
The point is, the use of clean energy to power an entire country (or a group of countries) is achievable. It's no longer viable to say "we can't."
Snowmaking, as everybody knows, is Plan B. We'd all rather ski on natural, God-given powder that falls from stormy clouds. The real stuff is always going to be better than the fake stuff. But as times move forward, the odds are we'll be skiing more and more of the fake stuff whether we like it or not.
Microsoft will ban 'offensive language' and 'inappropriate content' from Skype, Xbox, Office and other services on May 1, claiming it has the right to go through your private data to 'investigate.'
The fallout from the Cambridge Analytica fiasco has done a great deal of damage to not only Facebook's reputation, but also its finances. In the short term, the social network can afford to take a hit on share prices, but in the longer term there is the trust of users to regain.
A survey conducted in the wake of the #DeleteFacebook campaign that followed revelations about the data breach and the logging of Android users' calls and texts, found that a surprising number of tech workers were ready to delete their Facebook accounts.
Last week, a federal judge at the US District Court for the Northern District of California held a five-hour tutorial to lay the scientific foundation for two lawsuits against the five biggest oil companies in the world.
The plaintiffs, the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, brought three world-renowned climate scientists to the tutorial. The defendants - BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and ConocoPhillips - sent one lawyer, from Chevron. And when it was his turn to present, the Chevron attorney agreed that human activity is changing the climate and that it warrants action.
Power grids may face "massive" upheaval as more uneconomic plants close, according to the report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The problem is particularly bad in Florida, Georgia and elsewhere in the Southeast, where the distance from major coal mines drives up prices. The study examined the monthly economic performance of every U.S. coal plant in operation since 2012.
Still, many coal plants manage to shield themselves from economics. About 95 percent of those with operating expenses exceeding revenue operate in regions where regulators set rates, the study found. Instead of allowing market forces to determine their fate, regulators and utilities often keep struggling plants open to ensure stability on their grids.
A new research paper from Princeton University has found that 90 percent of affiliate posts on YouTube and Pinterest aren't disclosed to users.
Affiliate links are customized URLs that content publishers can include in their posts. They're essentially ads, and publishers receive money from companies when users click on them. In the US, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires that content makers identify when they're being paid to post something, but despite that, influencers continue to skirt around disclosures. The FTC has previously sent out letters to influencers reminding them of the requirement to communicate paid relationships with brands to their followers.
According to the most recent data available from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Saudi Arabia is the second largest oil producer in the world. It produces 13 percent of the world's oil and gets 60 percent of its own electric energy from petroleum.
But the desert nation, whose Paris agreement action plan was rated as "critically-insufficient" by Climate Action Tracker in November 2017, is about to go from zero to hero on the green scale.
On Tuesday, it announced that it would partner with Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank to build the world's largest solar power project, Bloomberg reported.
Except that "world's largest" doesn't quite cover of size of the project's ambitions.
Brexit has hit the internet, and not in a good way.
In an official statement Thursday, the European Commission announced it will cancel all 300,000 domains under the .eu top-level domain that have a UK registrant, following Britain's eventual departure from the European Union.
The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look.