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First Images Ever Taken of a Planet Being Formed, 450 Light-Years From Earth

Zothecula writes: Of the many new exoplanets discovered over the past two decades, all have been identified as established, older planets – none have been acknowledged as newly-forming protoplanets. Now scientists working at the Keck observatory have spied just such a planet in the constellation of Taurus, some 450 light-years from Earth (abstract), that is only just beginning its life, collecting matter and spinning into a brand new world. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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First Images Ever Taken of a Planet Being Formed, 450 Light-Years From Earth

Farmer Discovers Priceless Trove of Ancient Roman Coins While Removing a Molehill

A cache of over 4, 000 silver and bronze coins dating back to ancient Rome has been discovered by a Swiss farmer. Buried some 1, 700 years ago, it’s one of the largest treasures of its kind ever found in Switzerland. Read more…

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Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4

An anonymous reader writes: The Digital Foundry blog reports that Sony has added functionality to the PlayStation 4 that allows it to act as an emulator for some PlayStation 2 games. Surprisingly, the company did not mention that this functionality is live; a new Star Wars game bundle just happened to include three titles that were released on the PS2. From the article: “How can we tell? First of all, a system prompt appears telling you that select and start buttons are mapped to the left and right sides of the Dual Shock 4’s trackpad. Third party game developers cannot access the system OS in this manner. Secondly, just like the PS2 emulator on PlayStation 3, there’s an emulation system in place for handling PS2 memory cards. Thirdly, the classic PlayStation 2 logo appears in all of its poorly upscaled glory when you boot each title.” Sony has confirmed the games are being emulated, but declined to provide any further details. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Plasma-Cutting Steel Underwater Is a Wondrous Phase of Shipbuilding

Thanks to this explanatory video full of really cool time lapse footages, we can take a look inside BAE Systems’ shipbuilding halls in Scotland, where the new offshore patrol vessels for the Royal Navy are being built as part of a £348 million contract, or about $530 million. Read more…

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Find Your House On This Map and Watch the Satellites Passing Above You

There are more than 2, 250 satellites orbiting the Earth right now. But that abstract number didn’t prepare me for the shock of watching a Soviet-era rocket body whipping over my house in real-time. Read more…

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Los Angeles Is The First City To Take Autonomous Cars Seriously

The Los Angeles International Auto Show opened with the Connected Car Expo and the announcement of the creation of the Coalition of Transportation Technology established by the City of Los Angeles, which is quite possibly the most important urban planning project of the 21st Century. Read more…

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What Happened to the Guy Who Created the World’s First Viral Video?

In 2003, a rudimentary Flash animation called “The End of the World” appeared on eBaum’s World . It spread like a virus in the pre-smartphone, pre-YouTube era. Ever wonder what happened to the teen who made it? Read more…

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Brand New AC-130 Ghostrider A Total Loss After Going Inverted While Out Of Control

One of the Air Force Special Operations Command’s brand-spanking-new AC-130J Ghostrider Gunships has to be scrapped due to a test flight that went horribly awry. Luckily nobody was harmed but the $115 million dollar highly-modified Super Hercules will never fly again. Read more…

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A bunch of Apple services are down, it’s not just your imagination!

A bunch of Apple services are down, it’s not just your imagination! The App Store, iTunes Store, and a bunch of other Stores you didn’t even know about aren’t working. Use your time free from capitalist digital tyranny carefully. Read more…

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Physicists Prove That Spooky Action At a Distance Is Real

Entanglement is one of the strangest aspects of quantum mechanics, whereby two subatomic particles can be so closely connected that one can seem to influence the other even across long distances. Albert Einstein dubbed it “spooky action at a distance, ” and two new experiments have now definitively shown that the phenomenon is real. Read more…

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