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  • Ugh, Today’s Google Doodle Is Really Good

    There’s also a crate of records full of classic hip hop samples and beats. “Apache,” “Get Ready,” “More Bounce to the Ounce”—all the good ones are in there, along with info cards that tell you what songs use the sample. It’s stupid fun!

  • Suspected Bomb From WW2 Found at Fukushima Nuclear Site

    Image: AP In a classic case of adding insult to injury, workers at the beleaguered Fukushima nuclear power plant have uncovered what appears to be an undetonated bomb dating back to the Second World War. As reported in The Mainichi, a Fukushima excavation worker uncovered the device while performing maintenance work on a parking lot…

  • Everyone’s Favorite Alien System Is a Cranky Old Grump

    Artist’s rendering of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system. (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Burgasser and his colleague, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program deputy program scientist Eric Mamajek, used various lines of known data about TRAPPIST-1 to piece together a statistical constraint, which is basically a damn good educated guess about the star’s age. For clues, the team looked at factors…

  • Google Expels Spyware From Play Store That Recorded Audio and Took Photos Without Permission

    Photo: Getty Android users are facing new threats to their privacy with the recent discovery of over a thousand spyware apps on the loose. A security firm found that at least three of these apps—which are capable of covertly taking photos, recording audio, retrieving call logs, and more—were available for download on Google Play. Google…

  • As Trump Tweets World Into Nuclear Standoff, Bomb Shelter Sales Are Booming

    All photos: Atlas Survival After North Korea threatened to launch an “enveloping strike” at Guam, the territory’s office of civil defense posted emergency guidelines on Friday, explaining what citizens should do in the event of a missile attack. (“Do not look at the flash or fireball—It can blind you. Take cover behind anything that might offer…

  • Oldest man in the world (113) death

    HAIFA The oldest man in the world, Yisrael Kristal, who survived the Holocaust, is Friday at the 113-year-old age and died in Haifa. The newspaper Haaretz called in a reminder that he only last year his bar mitswah’ fourth, the ceremony and ratification of the religious majority. That was a century later than usual for…

  • Gang cultivated cannabis in nuclear bunker

    LONDON – Three Britons are Friday convicted for running a massive cannabisplantage in a former nuclear bunker in an isolated area in the southwest of England. The gang used the bunker to more than 4,000 cannabis plants to grow, for an annual yield of 2 million pounds (2.2 million euros). The bunker was in the…

  • Trump sends envoys to Middle East

    WASHINGTON – The American president Donald Trump sends his son-in-law Jared Kushner and negotiator Jason Greenblatt to the Middle East to with regional leaders to discuss a path to substantive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks,” said an official of the White House. The deputy national security adviser Dina Powell will also join us on the journey, which…

  • First grown pigs whose organs can be transplanted to a human

    As you know, animals whose organs can be transplanted to a man almost without fear, are not our closest relatives, the primates, and pigs. The truth that transplant organs has a big drawback: the presence in pigs is extremely dangerous for human retroviruses. But a group of scientists from the USA managed to overcome this…

  • Review game Patapon Remastered

    Sony continues to please the owners of PlayStation 4 console HD remaster of their classic games. This year we have already managed to take part in a futuristic racing Wipeout Omega Collection, enough to play music in PaRappa the Rapper Remastered and jump in LocoRoco Remastered. The time has come to remind gamers about the…