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Fearing Hackers, U.S. State Dept. Has Shut Off Part of Its Email System

The fallout from Hillary Clinton’s homebrew email setup is getting weird. The Department of State just shut down part of its unclassified email system in an attempt to eradicate malware they just found from Russian hackers. But State’s spokespeople say everything is okay. Probably. Read more…

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Fearing Hackers, U.S. State Dept. Has Shut Off Part of Its Email System

23AndMe Is Going to Mine Its DNA Data to Invent New Drugs

DNA testing startup 23andMe has been doing brisk business collecting genetic samples from over 800, 000 customers. But the company just announced a new plan that’ll launch it into the big pharma world: 23andMe is going to invent its own pharmaceutical drugs using the data it collects from customer DNA. Read more…

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23AndMe Is Going to Mine Its DNA Data to Invent New Drugs

Hillary Clinton Didn’t Encrypt Her Secretary of State Emails For Months 

New details have emerged about exactly how Hillary Clinton secured the homebrew private email servers she used as Secretary of State. The punchline? Clinton didn’t encrypt her emails or use a certificate for her first three months running the State Department. Read more…

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The World’s Largest Vertical Farm Is Being Built In an Old Steel Mill 

Across the Hudson and over Newark Bay, about 15 miles from Manhattan, a group of investors led by Goldman Sachs is financing the construction of what will become the largest vertical farm in the world inside a former steel mill. Read more…

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Most Survival Games Have Problems That S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Solved Long Ago

Bulletstorm and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter lead Adrian Chmielarz recently confessed that he liked the idea of survival games more than any survival games he actually played. I feel similarly, but his remark got me thinking about why that might be. Read more…

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A Brief History Of Star Wars Canon, Old And New

When a franchise is around for four decades, it can get impossibly unwieldy to try and grasp its lore — and Star Wars canon is no exception. Here’s a guide to the origins of Star Wars Canon, the rise and fall of one of the most prominent Expanded Universes in fiction , and where the saga stands with Disney today. Read more…

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A Brief History Of Star Wars Canon, Old And New

A Brief History of the Rubber Band

Cheap, reliable, and strong, the rubber band is one of the world’s most ubiquitous products. It holds papers together, prevents long hair from falling in a face, acts as a reminder around a wrist, is a playful weapon in a pinch, and provides a way to easily castrating baby male livestock … While rubber itself has been around for centuries, rubber bands were only officially patented less than two centuries ago. Here now is a brief history of the humble, yet incredibly useful, rubber band. Read more…

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