Tumbleweed infestation

The way an US scientist proposes reflects American people's thinking: killing up all tumbleweed by a fungi.
Hairy Panic Infests Small Australian Town | 英会話ニュース教材 Daily News Article.

IoT surveillance devices are hacked.

IoT, Internet of Things, makes our lives more convenient, though it has weakness such a case presented in the article. The problems raised here were two: 1. babies can be talked by hackers directly; 2. households scene can be spied. These two problems are caused by the baby monitors feature: the security password is never changed and it does not have security measure. Such problems will occur while IoT become much more popular. The point is that customers try to watch and tell security levels of all IoT contents.

Baby Monitors Vulnerable to Hacking | 英会話ニュース教材 Daily News Article.

New life stile with a bus

The life stile mentioned in the article is very attractive. Furthermore, it is amazing that the couple, one man and woman, live in that way. The couple is artists who create and sell their own works, which is also curious information. The couple enjoy their own life in the bus.
My attention is paid to tax problem. Should they pay the tax to states they belong to or stay in, even if they do not have a stable house in them?

Couple Turns Old Bus into Mobile Home | 英会話ニュース教材 Daily News Article.

BOJ declared that they put department for Fintech in BOJ today, which is also fascinating news.

Japan Implements Negative Interest Rates to Boost Economy | 英会話ニュース教材 Daily News Article.

Scientific report about a requirement on Mars migrators

I'm wondering how this research mentioned in the article is useful despite of the research condition. The mice in the research were in outdoor pens, which is not the same with Mars environment. Though, they concluded that the body clocks affects mice's health, which I do not agree with.


Early Risers Not Fit to Live in Mars | 英会話ニュース教材 Daily News Article.

summary of an academic article

Improvement of IOT
Originality: PCA and GAWLS, which are combined with IOT

Problem: collinearity between wavelength and pure components are problems

Verification: using industrial data, the proposed method performance exceeded IOT performance.
The training data was many spectra whose mole fractions are the same.

The ASU trial for free tuition

Arizona State University Offers Free Tuition | 英会話ニュース教材 Daily News Article.

This is very good news and  I'm impressed that they focus on diversity of the university, which is not focused on in Japan.