Scientists have uncovered 2 billion-year-old water in an Ontario mine. (Image: University of Toronto) Canadian Geoscientists have uncovered water that dates back a whopping two billion years. It’s the oldest water ever discovered on Earth, and it could broaden our understanding of how life emerged on our planet—and possibly elsewhere. Read more…
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Two Billion-Year-Old Water Found in Canadian Mine
There’s something a little inelegant about covering your gifts with odd bits of tape. It’s quite literally the rough duct tape solution to wrapping presents. If you don’t have any tape or ribbon want to avoid a tacky aesthetic, this Japanese method can keep your presents wrapped sans sticky tape. Read more…
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Wrap Gifts Without Any Tape or Ribbon Using This Japanese Method
Alaska Airlines and Virgin America are coming together to form the fifth largest U.S. carrier, and if you fly either airline often their merger means a few changes for you. Here’s what you can expect. Read more…
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Alaska Airlines and Virgin America Are Merging, Here’s What It Means for You
Hot damn. A snorkeler in Hawaii stumbled on this underwater scrap between an octopus and a terrifying moray eel and it looks like it’s going to be a tangled fight to death. The moray eel looks like it has the clear advantage because, well, it’s a big ass bully with the octopus in its jaws but after a few whips around, the octopus grapples the eels with its tentacles and then unleashes an ink bomb in time to confuse the eel and escape. Phew. Read more…
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I’m Not Sure Who Won This Octopus vs Eel vs Human Fight
Using stock images and Johannes Vermeer’s 1664 painting The Concert as a base, photographer Erik Almas admirably recreated the lost masterpiece in Photoshop. Heck, it might be able to fool you into thinking it were the real thing… if you were standing and squinting from very far away. Still. It’s pretty neat to see Almas’ workflow and how creative he gets in trying to mimic the original. Read more…
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Recreating a 17th Century Painting in Photoshop Is Basically Magic
It’s freaky enough when hackers can disable brakes, control a steering wheel or shut down an engine as a vehicle goes down the road. But hacking can happen when a car is vacant, and there’s apparently a device making its way over from Europe that tricks keyless systems into unlocking and starting a car for theft. Read more…
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There’s A New Way People Can Break Into Cars With Keyless Entry Systems And Drive Off
Normally a glitch is a bad thing. Maybe it means your video game character gets stuck in a wall or maybe a glitch gets you wrongfully arrested . For an Australian man named Luke Moore, a simple bank glitch meant that he was able to blow $1.3 million on cars, travel, strippers and drugs over the course of two years. Read more…
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Bank Glitch Allows Man to Spend Over $1 Million and Walk Away Free
Good news, everyone: Biologists have discovered a species of marine worm that, when still in its larval stage, is nothing more than an algae-gobbling, disembodied head. Read more…
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Horrifying Worm Larva Is Basically a Disembodied Head
The price of communal living at New York’s WeLive, the lavish space operated by co-working giant WeWork, is about to go up. Read more…
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Absurd ‘Co-Living Space’ WeLive Is Jacking Up Its Prices
An electronic dance music party came to a tragic end late Friday night when a fire broke out, leaving at least nine dead and another 25 people unaccounted for. The evening was part of Golden Donna ’s west coast tour—a DJ from Madison, Wisconsin. The fire broke out around 11:30PM in a Fruitvale district artists… Read more…
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Nine Dead, 25 Missing After Fire Breaks Out at Oakland Rave