By the mercy of some higher power, the giant panda—an oversized mashup between a raccoon and a sloth whose offspring can’t shit on their own—is no longer endangered. At a meeting of the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii this weekend, experts took giant pandas off the IUCN’s official Red List, citing a population rebound in China. Read more…
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Giant Pandas Are No Longer Endangered
The European Space Agency lost contact with its Rosetta mission’s plucky little lander, Philae, in May 2015. Now the orbiter’s high-resolution camera has found Philae wedged into a dark crack on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Read more…
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Lost Philae Lander Found Wedged Into a Crack on its Comet
The White Ocean camp at Burning Man says that it’s made up of “dreamers that blur the lines between reality and the impossible.” Unfortunately for White Ocean, however, “reality” recently meant getting its shit fucked up by a bunch of vandals. Read more…
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Fancy Burning Man Camp Ransacked by Vandals
New Horizons is currently making its way to the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt en route to a distant destination beyond Pluto. Along the way, the intrepid spacecraft has captured unprecedented images of a distant object called Quaoar—a dwarf planet about half the size of Pluto. Read more…
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NASA Spacecraft Catches a Rare Glimpse Dwarf Planet Quaoar
When you drop hundreds on an HDTV, you expect it to work out of the box. Yet somehow, in 2016, we still have to tweak color settings, adjust brightness, and make other changes to get the best picture. How is it possible that with all the technical leaps televisions have made over the years, TVs still require calibration? Read more…
For the past year YouTubers have been trying to navigate a deluge of false copyright claims and a changing algorithm that rewards needlessly-long videos. Now, allegedly, the platform is starting to withhold paychecks. Read more…
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YouTube Stars Are Blowing Up Over Not Getting Paid (Update)
Marcel Lazar, better known as Guccifer, the hacker who terrorized politicians in 2013, pled guilty to various computer crimes in May. Today, he was sentenced to 52 months in prison. Read more…
Earlier this month, Leoni AG, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wires and electrical cables, informed investors that the German company lost almost 40 million euros (or about $44.6 million) to online scammers. Today, we finally know how: According to investigators, the thieves simply spoofed emails to look like official payment requests, a tactic known as “ CEO fraud .” Read more…
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An Email Scam Cost One of Europe’s Biggest Companies $40 Million
At IFA in Berlin Lenovo announced a nice array of refreshed laptops and tablets, updating great devices like the Lenovo Yoga 900 series (now the Lenovo 910) with 7th generation Intel processors, but one device stood out among the rest. It’s the tiniest laptop Lenovo has on display, so tiny the company is classifying it as a tablet. The Lenovo Book is just 0.38-inches thick, which makes it the thinnest laptop currently available, and makes ultra slims like the half-inch thick Samsung Notebook 9 and Apple Macbook look positively chunky. Read more…
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The Thinnest Laptop in the World Needs a Touchscreen Keyboard
Kaby Lake, Intel’s latest processor family, wasn’t supposed to exist . Earlier this year Intel announced the end of its well-known tick-tock release schedule, whereby it trots out a new processor every September. The tick is the shrinking and improvements of the current microarchitecture, while the tock is a whole new architecture. Instead last year’s “tock, ” Skylake , was going to hang around a while, with no new “tick” in sight. Read more…
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Intel’s New Kaby Lake Processors: What You Need to Know