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.
Senators who have refused to cosponsor a resolution affirming California's ability to enforce vehicle fuel economy standards to limit greenhouse gas emissions have received almost 15 times more campaign money from major oil and gas interests than lawmakers supporting the measure, according to a MapLight analysis.
Seven weeks after the second fatal crash of a 737 MAX in March, a Boeing engineer submitted a scathing internal ethics complaint alleging that management - determined to keep down costs for airline customers - had blocked significant safety improvements during the jet's development.
Kitty Hawk, the aviation startup backed by Google co-founder Larry Page and Boeing, has today lifted the lid on another electrically-powered aircraft, the third in its lineup. Details are scarce on the technical capabilities of the newly announced Heaviside, but the company is very keen to emphasize how little noise it makes during flight.
The Heaviside follows in the footsteps of the Flyer, which emerged in 2017, and last year's Cora, a two-seat electric aircraft designed with short trips in mind. Like the Flyer, Kitty Hawk's newest aircraft is a single seater but appears far more passenger-ready than that earlier prototype, which amounted to rotors fixed to an open-air pipe structure and a pair of pontoons for landing and taking off on water.
A fierce battle over the regulation of the internet was riddled with millions of fake comments in the most prolific known instance of political impersonation in US history.
The administration's moves to weaken the Affordable Care Act have taken hold, and companies are cashing in.
When you visit a new website, your computer probably submits a request to the domain name system (DNS) to translate the domain name (like arstechnica.com) to an IP address. Currently, most DNS queries are unencrypted, which raises privacy and security concerns. Google and Mozilla are trying to address these concerns by adding support in their browsers for sending DNS queries over the encrypted HTTPS protocol.
But major Internet service providers have cried foul. In a September 19 letter to Congress, Big Cable and other telecom industry groups warned that Google's support for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) "could interfere on a mass scale with critical Internet functions, as well as raise data-competition issues."
"The Turkish threats mean that the situation in this region will return to point zero," warned the SDF on Monday. "There will be chaos once again."
Airborne bacteria and other pathogens can be a real hazard, particularly in environments like hospitals. Now, researchers at Rice University have developed a new air filter made of graphene foam, which can kill captured microbes with small zaps of electricity.
The device is made using a type of graphene previously created at Rice called laser-induced graphene (LIG). As the name suggests, this material is made by zapping a sheet of polyimide with a laser, which causes it to puff out into a foamy form of graphene.
It's 1502 A.D. and Sultan Bayezid II sends out a request for bids: He wants someone to build an enormous bridge, spanning the Golden Horn and connecting Istanbul to neighboring Galata. If you're Leonardo da Vinci, you don't have modern rebar or asphalt to rely on. Forgoing wood planks and even mortar joints, your design uses only three geometrically daring principals: the pressed-bow, the parabolic curve and the keystone arch. With these, you design what at the time would have been the world's longest bridge, with an unprecedented single span of 790 feet.
And after the sultan's rejection, you would have to wait more than 500 years for your bridge design to be tested by a team of ambitious MIT engineers and their handy 3D printer.
Drivers in the U.S. may one day no longer have to crane their necks to check their blind spots if regulators agree to let high-tech cameras and screens replace the humble side-view mirror.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a notice on Wednesday that is is seeking public and industry input on whether to allow so-called camera monitoring systems to replace rear- and side-view mirrors mandated by a longstanding U.S. auto safety standard.
AT&T tacks on fee after locking customer into contract, raises it from 3% to 7%.
Annoyed victim hacks back ransomware gang and releases all their decryption keys, along with a free decrypter.
Pacific Gas & Electric's (PG&E) shutoff of electric supply to residents in California's Bay Area has caught the attention of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has announced that he would be offering a price reduction of approximately 10% for a solar panel and Tesla Powerwall battery installation. The discount will be available to anyone interested in powering their homes with solar energy, not just the 800,000 affected homes in the Bay Area.
Google is looking to improve the web-browsing experience for those with vision conditions by introducing a feature into its Chrome browser that uses machine learning to recognize and describe images. The image description will be generated automatically using the same technology that drives Google Lens.
If you loved playing retro MS-DOS games from the '90s like 3D Bomber, Zool and Alien Rampage, you can now replay those, and many more, with the latest update from Internet Archive.
On Sunday, Internet Archive released 2,500 MS-DOS games that includes action, strategy and adventure titles. Some of the games are Vor Terra, Spooky Kooky Monster Maker, Princess Maker 2 and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.
Today, Microsoft announced that it's rolling out filters that will let Xbox Live players automatically limit the text-based messages they receive to four maturity tiers: "Friendly, Medium, Mature, and Unfiltered." That's a long-overdue feature for a major communication platform that's well over a decade old now, but not really anything new in terms of online content moderation writ large.
President Trump's decision to give a green light for a Turkish invasion of Kurdish-populated regions of northern Syria has been faced with swift bipartisan opposition. Apparently, no one in the diplomatic, military or intelligence community - much less the leadership of the self-governing Kurdish enclave the U.S. has armed and supported and is now under siege - was consulted beforehand.
Creating meat from cells is no longer the realm of science fiction: a Russian cosmonaut did it aboard the International Space Station, and it is just a matter of time before these products arrive in supermarkets.
Tests carried out in space in September led to the production of beef, rabbit and fish tissue using a 3D printer.
A Utah businessman paid $1.32 million for a dime last week at a Chicago coin auction.
When a mixed formation of cruise missiles and small drone aircraft rained explosive charges on the Saudi Arabian state oil group Aramco sites at Abqaiq and Khurais on 14 September they halved national oil output, cutting 5.7 million barrels of crude per day from the company's production.
But they did more than economic damage. This attack has had a huge impact on how nations think about protecting their airspace.
Companies are now developing and deploying sophisticated new defences, from frying the electronic circuits with powerful beams of microwave radiation, to precise jamming systems.
Reddit-born hyperloop and engineering collective rLoop has bought the intellectual property of Arrivo, a fellow hyperloop startup that went out of business last December, The Verge has learned. rLoop co-founder Brent Lessard confirmed the sale, but he would not disclose how much the group paid.
Lessard said rLoop might try to revive some of the deals that Arrivo had been working on, like a test track outside of Denver, Colorado, and that it may hire back some of Arrivo's former employees. But, Lessard said, rLoop is still only in the "final stages" of assessing the progress Arrivo's employees had made toward developing a type of hyperloop that relies on magnetic levitation (as opposed to the vacuum-based solution that was originally proposed by Elon Musk when he introduced the hyperloop idea in a 2013 white paper).
A joint investigation between Motherboard and the German broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) has uncovered new details about a spate of so-called "jackpotting" attacks on ATMs in Germany in 2017 that saw thieves make off with more than a million Euros. Jackpotting is a technique where cybercriminals use malware or a piece of hardware to trick an ATM into ejecting all of its cash, no stolen credit card required. Hackers typically install the malware onto an ATM by physically opening a panel on the machine to reveal a USB port.
Artificial intelligence
is learning to decipher damaged ancient Greek engravings. The AI seems to be better than humans at filling in missing words, but may be most useful as a collaborative tool, where researchers use it to narrow down the options.
There are thousands of ancient inscriptions we already know about, with dozens more discovered every year. Unfortunately, many have become eroded or damaged over the centuries, resulting in segments of text being lost. Figuring out what the gaps could be is a difficult task, involving looking at the rest of the inscription and other similar texts.
The nation's first statewide system will send emergency alerts to cellphones, giving residents up to 20 seconds of warning before shaking begins.