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
As scary as Heartbleed was this past Spring, it looks like virtually every Microsoft Windows user is in for a little deja vu. Microsoft just released a critical patch for a huge server vulnerability —one that affects every current version of Windows out there. Read more…
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All Current Versions of Windows Have a Huge Vulnerabilty, Get the Patch Now
Bloomberg crunched the numbers on “self-made” billionaires in the U.S. and found that about a quarter of them were college dropouts . Ten of America’s 43 self-made billionaires dropped out. One, Harold Hamm , never even attended college. Read more…
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One in four self-made American billionaires dropped out of college
Last month, the biggest sunspot in 22 years traversed across the Sun. Labelled AR 2192, it was big enough to see without the need for a telescope. This awesome timelapse animation can show you what you missed. Read more…
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This Ultra-HD timelapse shows the biggest sunspot in 22 years
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
Amazon Studios just announced its next slate of television pilots, which will debut sometime in early 2015. Once they’re released, feedback will help decide whether Amazon will order them to series, the same as previous pilot rounds . Read more…
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