U.S. Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts just lit up in a bad way. It looks like somebody who’s claiming to be ISIS managed to gain access to the account and is currently tweeting images of documents, allegedly internal CENTCOM documents. The first tweet links to a Pastebin post with links to downloads of “confidential data.” Read more…
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Someone Claiming to Be ISIS Says They Hacked CENTCOM, Leaks Docs Online
8chan, the online message board that brought you some of the nastiest shit on the internet ( and Gamergate! ) has had its domain seized by its Bahamas-based registrar. According to the takedown notice, “child abuse” content on the site is to blame. Guess the internet’s trolls will have to find a different bridge to hide under. [ Ars Technica ] Read more…
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8chan, the online message board that brought you some of the nastiest shit on the internet (and Game
After a marathon weekend installation, the Golden Gate Bridge has finally gotten the $3o million movable median barrier system that it so desperately needs. These are the oversized mechanical zipper pulls that will be in charge of changing lanes (quite literally) twice a day to keep traffic flowing smoothly. Read more…
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The Golden Gate Bridge Gets the Massive Median Mover It Needed
Trying to shut down Silk Road, and any of its many-headed hydra reiterations, seems to be the ultimate lesson in futility. According to Motherboard , a new version of the online black market, called Silk Road Reloaded, launched today on the I2p anonymous network, dealing with several altcoin currencies. Read more…
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Silk Road Reloaded Ditches Tor for a More Anonymous Network
Sriracha, the hot sauce God would ask for if he ate on Earth, is still made from the same recipe when it first started decades ago. Only the chilis are hotter now. And the sauce is more popular. And the production is much, much larger. Hypebeast took a tour of the giant factory that makes Sriracha in the video below. Read more…
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Video: Inside the factory that makes Sriracha
Fat isn’t all bad . In fact, maybe you should celebrate it just a little bit: new research suggests that it plays a vital role in fighting off infections. Read more…
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Your Fat Is Fighting Off Infection
Good news for AT&T users on a shared plan: Starting January 25, any data you don’t use will get rolled over to the next month automatically. Of course, it only lasts one extra month , but hey—better than nothing. Read more…
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Good news for AT&T users on a shared plan: Starting January 25, any data you don’t use will get roll
Bill Gates loves the Janicki Omniprocessor, an amazing machine that turns human waste into electricity and drinkable water. He saw it and he is extremely impressed. So impressed in fact that he drank from a glass of water that was human poop only five minutes earlier. “It’s water, ” he said, obviously relieved. Read more…
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Bill Gates shows us the future drinking a glass of water made from poop
Kepler just can’t stop discovering exoplanets. Nearly two years after scientists said it was crippled, the planet-hunting telescope recently identified eight new planets. But that’s not all. They’re all in the Goldilocks zone of their respective stars, and two of them are more Earth-like than anything astronomers have ever seen . Read more…
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Kepler Just Found the Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Ever Discovered
Here’s a short video showing the before and after footage of a movie being color corrected by a colorist. It’s dramatic to see the difference between the initial footage and the final official scenes. It’s also fascinating to see the process and how certain things change slowly. Read more…
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See how much color correction can change the feel of a movie