Tonight, presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will meet for their first debate. Here’s how to tune in for free online, even if you don’t have cable. Read more…
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How to Stream Tonight’s First Presidential Debate Online, No Cable Required
When teens get in trouble for posting things online, there’s often something nefarious afoot, like drunken antics, offensive behavior, or criminal activity. But for one high school student, publicly calling out her school’s nasty water situation was apparently enough to do the trick. Read more…
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Student Suspended for Posting Photo of Nasty School Water Online
Want a drone to fly longer and farther? Give it a bigger battery. But that adds weight, which in turn reduces the drone’s flight time. It’s quite a conundrum. It seems like an unresolvable catch-twenty-two, except that someone has finally found a way to use wireless power to keep a drone flying . Read more…
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This Drone Can Fly Forver Without a Battery
In recent months, there’s been growing evidence that Pluto is hiding a liquid water ocean beneath its frozen surface. New models by researchers at Brown University support this hypothesis, and take it one mind-boggling step further: Pluto’s ocean may be more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) deep. Read more…
Most of us can only imagine what it was like in the early 2010s, when visual content was still primarily consumed via plastic video discs, but one lucky urban explorer got to experience it firsthand when he discovered a deserted but otherwise intact Blockbuster store in south Texas. Read more…
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Perfectly Preserved Blockbuster Offers a Fascinating Glimpse of Life in 2010
Health officials in the US have identified a cluster of gonorrhea infections that exhibited unusual resistance against the last two main antibiotics known to work against the dreaded sexually transmitted disease. Read more…
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Our Last Line of Defense Against Gonorrhea Is Failing
Windows/Mac/Linux: A few months ago, Opera launched its own free, built-in VPN, but you could only get it if you manually enabled it in the dev version of the browser . Now, it’s available for everyone in the stable version of Opera. Read more…
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Opera’s Free VPN, Built Right Into the Browser, Rolls Out For Everyone
Amazon just launched a long-overdue photo printing service , and you can mark the occasion with 50 free 4×6 prints with promo code BABY50FREEPRINTS, plus free shipping. You’ll need to be an Amazon Cloud Drive or Amazon Photos customer —the latter is free for Prime members—and upload the photos you want to the service prior to selecting your prints. Read more…
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Go Print 50 Of Your Favorite Photos Right Now For Free, Courtesy of Amazon
Researchers in Poland have uncovered a time capsule, dating from 1934. But this isn’t some ordinary time capsule with the run of the mill items you might expect. Sure, it has newspapers, coins, and books—common items for any time capsule. But these items were buried by Nazis. The books inside? Two copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf , in perfect condition . Read more…
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Nazi Time Capsule Opened In Poland, But It’s Missing a Movie From 1934
Fiber-based internet service is great (ask any jealous New Yorker not eligible for FiOS) but laying fiber cable costs tens of thousands of dollars per mile. Infrastructure projects to bring it to every household in a given area so expensive, even Google can’t foot the bill . So AT&T decided to use stuff most places had already to piggyback a wi-fi signal. Read more…
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AT&T Wants to Blanket the Nation With Gigabit Wi-Fi From Utility Poles