Americans Shop And Bank Online, So Why Can’t We Vote Online?  It Comes Down To Security And Anonymity. 

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A cashless future? How technology is erasing the need for cash

How much cash do you have in your wallet right now?  If you’re from Sweden, there’s a good chance that answer is, none. It’s not that the Swedes are broke—far from it. Rather, advances in mobile payment technology have spurred speculation that Sweden may become the world’s first cashless society. And as it turns out, the rest of the world may not be too far behind.

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Hidden Galaxy IC 342

Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy. Even though IC 342’s light is dimmed by intervening cosmic clouds, this sharp telescopic image traces the galaxy’s own obscuring dust, blue star clusters, and glowing pink star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy’s core. IC 342 may have undergone a recent burst of star formation activity and is close enough to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the local group of galaxies and the Milky Way.

Credit & Copyright: T. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), H. Schweiker,  WIYN, NOAO, AURA, NSF.

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