Planetary Ventures LLC, a Google shell company, just signed a very expensive lease on a very large building and airfield in Silicon Valley. The lease in question will cost the search giant $1.16 billion over the term of 60 years. The building and airfield in question is the Moffett Field, where Google’s founders have been landing their private jets for years. Read more…
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Google’s Spending $1 Billion on an Old NASA Hangar, No One Knows Why
As if it wasn’t suffering from enough problems already, the United States Postal Service said Monday its systems had been hacked, and employee information had likely been compromised. Read the rest
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China suspected in U.S. Postal Service hack affecting personal data of at least 800,000 people
In-flight WiFi is great (because Snapchat on planes!) but also terrible (because paying $12 for two hours of dial-up era internet), something that AT&T was planning to change by offering its own in-flight WiFi. Sadly, AT&T just announced that it’s nuking that idea. Read more…
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AT&T’s Killing Its In-Flight WiFi Plans
New York City police will stop arresting people for posessing small amounts of pot. The policy change reflects mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign promise to repair difficult relations between the nation’s largest police force and people in the city who are not white. Read the rest
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Last month, the biggest sunspot in 22 years traversed across the Sun. Labelled AR 2192, it was big enough to see without the need for a telescope. This awesome timelapse animation can show you what you missed. Read more…
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This Ultra-HD timelapse shows the biggest sunspot in 22 years
Live in a Microsoft bubble? Then you might be able to make good use of its new Work & Play Bundle, which wraps up all its subscription services in one place for $200 a year. Read more…
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All of Microsoft’s Best Subscription Services Are Now in a $200 Bundle
Glenn Fleishman reports on a hack in the wild that may trick users into installing malicious apps. But don’t panic! Though potent, the malware has significant real-world limitations. Read the rest
For hundreds of years, x has been the go-to symbol for the unknown quantity in mathematical equations. So who started this practice? Read more…
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Why We Use "X" as the Unknown in Math
In a world where any show with “The” and “Dead” in the title is a runaway success comes, er, another one. That’s because Starz has teamed up with Sam Raimi to produce a new TV series that’ll follow cult movie trilogy The Evil Dead . The 10-part show will chronicle the later life of square-jawed hero Ash (Bruce Campbell) who will once again be called upon to battle the forces of Deadites. Given that the press release mentions Ash’s role as a “stock boy, ” it’s easy to presume that the character will be still working at the S-Mart where he was left at the end of Army of Darkness – rather than the post-apocalyptic future we saw in the director’s cut of the same movie. The series will begin next year, so be prepared for Twitter to be nothing more than an endless stream of people saying Groovy #Groovy. Filed under: Misc , HD Comments Source: Starz
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Following a police shooting in northern Brazil, people started getting messages . On WhatsApp, they were warned to stay indoors that night. Some of the WhatsApp messages were texts, though the most popular was an audio file with a dire warning: “Don’t go to Guama, Canudos or Terra Firme tonight. It concerns your security, ” it said, according to the BBC . “One of our policemen was killed and we will be cleaning the area.” Read more…
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Brazilian Vigilantes Used WhatsApp to Warn People of a Coming Massacre