Category: prize

Google spent a record sum rewarding researchers for hacking its products

Post author By Randall
Post date January 29, 2020
Categories In Apple, bounty, bug, business, cash, flaw, gear, Google, Hack, Internet, Mobile, personal computing, personalcomputing, prize, researchers, Security, Tech, Tesla, tomorrow, vulnerability rewards program

[ad_1] Google’s Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRP) have been around since 2010, designed to reward researchers for discovering bugs and flaws that Google might have missed. The initiative has expanded steadily since then to cover its other products, including Chrome and Android, and last year the company extended its Google Play security reward arm to include […]

The first ever black hole image lands scientists $3 million prize

Post author By Randall
Post date September 6, 2019
Categories In black hole, breakthrough, event horizon, Film, image, picture, prize, Science, Space, Tech, telescope, tomorrow, Video

[ad_1] The prize will be split between the 347 scientists that worked on the ground-breaking project, which produced the very first image of a black hole. The data behind the image — which could confirm or at least pose significant questions about our understanding of the universe — was equivalent to the number of selfies […]