A bug in the service that delivers Google ads to thousands of websites went down this morning, producing acres of blank pixels where banner ads once resided . It was a little ad-vacation. Read more…
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Hope You Enjoyed Today’s Ad-Free Internet, Thanks to a Google Glitch
Christopher Becke, a high school physics teacher, made this outstanding size comparison showing what the Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko would look like next to famous spacecrafts from science fiction. His images show the comet next to ships from Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly and Battlestar Galactica. Read more…
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A size comparison of the comet 67P with popular sci-fi spaceships
Investigators are still trying to figure out exactly what went wrong in with the tragic crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo . While the National Transportation Safety Board has been looking into an issue with the braking system , the agency has released details from surviving pilot Peter Siebold about how he managed to escape the exploding spacecraft. Read more…
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SpaceShipTwo’s Surviving Pilot Ejected Into -70 Degree Air at 50,000 Feet
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
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
Listen to it! That’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko singing. This cosmic song was just discovered by the European Space Agency, which released the soundtrack for our enjoyment. It’s totally new and unexpected, say the scientists who will remotely land a probe on the rocky surface of the comet tomorrow. Read more…
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Rosetta’s Comet Is Singing and You Can Listen To It Here
Here’s a fun but depressing Saturday afternoon fact: taking and sharing photos of the Eiffel tower at night is a copyright violation that could land you with a hefty fine (not that it’s stopped the selfie-snapping masses, of course). Read more…
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Sharing Night-Time Photos Of The Eiffel Tower Is Illegal
Even the latest generation of nuclear power reactors can only harvest about five percent of the energy stored in their radioactive fuel supplies, and the toxic leftovers must then be buried deep underground to slowly decay over hundreds of thousands of years. But thanks to a new breed of sodium-cooled pool reactor, we may soon be able to draw nearly 100 times more energy from nuclear fuels, while slashing their half-lives by two orders of magnitude. Read more…
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Fast-Acting Nuclear Reactor Will Power Through Piles of Plutonium
There are three things you can count on in life: Death, taxes, and people buying drugs on the internet. Yesterday, the FBI seized black market website Silk Road 2.0 and charged the alleged admin Blake Benthall in federal court, trumpeting its bust with a sassy takedown notice . Read more…
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Silk Road 3 Is Already Up, But It’s Not the Future of Darknet Drugs
Silk Road 2.o, the illegal drug marketplace that cropped up to replace the original has been shutdown by the FBI and its alleged operator has been charged in Manhattan Federal Court. Read more…
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Silk Road 2.0 Shut Down By the FBI, Operator Charged In Federal Court