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Scientists Unearth The Truth Behind Ultra-Creepy Earthquake Lights

Have you ever heard of “earthquake lights”? I’ve spent a good chunk of my life in shake-happy coastal California and this phenomenon is news to me—but, for centuries, people have reported seeing a wide variety of illuminations just slightly before and during major tremblers. The origin of these glows have consistently baffled scientists—and no doubt freaked the hell out of eyewitnesses—but a new study seems to have found an explanation (one that doesn’t involve supernatural forces). Read more…        

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Mobile Substrate Updates for iOS 7, Supports More Jailbreak Tweaks

iOS ( Jailbreak ): The iOS 7 jailbreak came along with a bit of drama last week , and one of the problems with it was the fact that the backbone of most jailbreak tweaks, a system called Mobile Substrate, hadn’t been updated to support iOS 7. Mobile Substrate was updated this morning and many of your favorite tweaks and apps should work a bit better now. Read more…        

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Mobile Substrate Updates for iOS 7, Supports More Jailbreak Tweaks

Inside the Design of the New Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball

The bright ball that hovers over Times Square on New Year’s Eve is special this year. Sure, it’s iconic and colorful and mesmerizing as it always is. This year, however, the ball will captivate us all with a brand new crystal coating. And, boy, is it pretty. Read more…        

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The NSA Has Crazy Good Backdoor Access to iPhones

We already knew that the NSA had developed a taste for intercepting packages to put backdoors in electronics . Now, it turns out that those hacks provide it with almost complete access to the iPhone , too. Read more…        

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Stonehenge’s New Visitor Center Looks Positively Neolithic

The decrepit old visitor center at Stonehenge has been too small and too old for decades. In fact, it’s been described with typical Brit candor as “disgraceful” and an “embarrassment” to England. Finally, this month, a new, $44 million visitors’ center has opened—here’s a look inside. Read more…        

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Stonehenge’s New Visitor Center Looks Positively Neolithic

This Wacky Forward Wing Jet Flew Faster Than the Speed of Sound

The 1980s ushered in more than a few aeronautical revolutions thanks to the emergence of both composite manufacturing techniques and rapidly advancing digital technology. This uniquely designed experimental aircraft integrated all of them into a single system. Read more…        

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This Wacky Forward Wing Jet Flew Faster Than the Speed of Sound

What’s Happening with the iOS 7 Jailbreak? Should I Use It?

Dear Lifehacker, I heard rumors that the new jailbreak for iOS 7 has malware, but others are saying that’s false. I can’t make heads or tails of anything, can you tell what’s actually going on? Read more…        

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12 Maps of America From Before We Knew What It Looked Like

The island of California. A huge triangle of land called Florida. A great ocean that cut down from the Arctic into the Midwest. As the New World came into focus beginning in the 17th century, explorers and cartographers struggled to measure a massive expanse of land that would take centuries to accurately map. Read more…        

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Berkeley Researchers Create Robo-Muscles 1,000 Times Stronger Than Ours

The world may be oohing and awing over all the wonderful uses we’re finding for graphene, but there’s another super-material vying for the spotlight. Vanadium dioxide might eventually become a household name because in addition to revolutionizing electronics, researchers have now discovered it can be used as an artificial muscle 1, 000 times stronger than our own. Read more…        

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Berkeley Researchers Create Robo-Muscles 1,000 Times Stronger Than Ours

NSA Paid Security Firm $10 Million Bribe to Keep Encryption Weak

Reuters reports that the NSA paid massive computer security firm RSA $10 million to promote a flawed encryption system so that the US spook organization could wiggle its way around security. In other words, it bribed the firm to leave the back door to computers all over the world open. Read more…        

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