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Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo) Nerf ranks up there with Lego, Hot Wheels, and Barbie, as one of the most recognizable brands in the toy industry, but can you have just as much fun pinging your co-worker with foam ammo fired from one of its competitor’s products? I went hands on with two Nerf alternatives: the…

Photo: Peter Macdiarmid (Getty) The last time scientists visited Ile aux Cochons in 1982, an island that is part of an archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, the king penguin population was booming. Over 500,000 breeding pairs (around 2 million penguins total) huddled together there, making the island the largest king penguin colony in the…

Photo: AP Some of the top genomic-testing companies have agreed to abide by a new set of guidelines when sharing consumers’ DNA information with law enforcement and other third parties. Companies 23andMe, Ancestry, Habit, Helix, and MyHeritage released on Tuesday a guide, “Privacy Best Practices for Consumer Genetic Testing Services,” which the companies plan to…

The Large Hadron ColliderPhoto: Maximilien Brice/Julien Ordan/CERN You can feasibly put anything inside the world’s largest physics experiment, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, so long as it can be vaporized. You could even stick a sandwich in there. But for the first time, scientists have accelerated an atomic nucleus with electrons still attached. The…

Screenshot of a message Facebook is sending to users who planned to attend a counter-protest to the next Unite the Right event.Image: Facebook One event that Facebook identified by name was “No Unite the Right 2 – DC,” a counter-protest to a planned demonstration from the same Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia last year—an…

Photo: AP Less than a week after a damaging report exposed substantial flaws in facial recognition technology marketed to law enforcement by Amazon, five Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation into the commercial and government use, and potential abuse, of the technology. In a letter Tuesday, lawmakers raised concerns about the use of facial…

Photo: Getty An ice cream delivery driver smashed the window of his car with a rock early Friday morning last week after seeing his wife and mother unconscious inside the vehicle. He found his spouse was in critical condition and his mother was dead. The Pierce County medical examiner’s office believe the 77-year-old women died…