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This Exoplanet Is So Hot, It Apparently Tears Apart Water Molecules
Computer simulation of WASP 121bImage: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Vivien Parmentier/Aix-Marseille University (AMU) There’s an exoplanet whose surface is so hot, it rips apart water molecules. It’s almost a star, but not quite; it’s an ultra-hot, Jupiter-like world located around 880 light-years from Earth. Researchers took a closer look at data on WASP 121b, where daytime temperatures can exceed…
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Hackers Can Turn Body Cameras Into Malware Spewing Machines, Security Expert Says
Photo: Getty Once lauded as tools to enhance police accountability, body cameras have been facing increasing scrutiny from privacy advocates, and now one researcher has identified them as cybersecurity time bombs. Speaking to Wired ahead of a Def Con presentation, Josh Mitchell, a consultant at the security firm Nuix, demonstrated that many body cameras are…
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New Evidence Contradicts Theory That Easter Island Society Collapsed
Easter Island statues, or moai.Image: Dale Simpson Jr. The indigenous people of Easter Island, the Rapa Nui, experienced a societal collapse after the 17th century because they stripped the island clean of its natural resources. Or at least, that’s the leading theory. An analysis of the tools used by the Rapa Nui to build their…
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Elon Musk Responds to Azealia Banks’ Claims of Ghosting, Tweeting, and LSD: I Don’t Know Her
Photo: Getty In 2018, you go unhinged or you go home. Azealia Banks, the prodigious MC who remains a Twitter villain even after being banned from the service and an underground rapper even after being dropped from multiple record labels, let loose on Instagram after an allegedly disastrous weekend at Elon Musk’s home to see…
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Earth’s Oldest Rocks Could Have Been Formed by Meteorite Impacts
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California Officials Admit to Using License Plate Readers to Monitor Welfare Recipients
Screenshot: EFF/Sacbee Since 2016, Sacramento County officials have been accessing license plate reader data to track welfare recipients suspected of fraud, the Sacramento Bee reported over the weekend. Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance Director Ann Edwards confirmed to the paper that welfare fraud investigators working under the DHA have used the data for two…
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It’s Time to Let MoviePass Die
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On chromebooks, you can install Windows 10
Google is preparing for chromebooks in Boot Camp from Apple, which will run on laptops with Chrome OS operating system Windows 10. Evidence of this was noticed by the user community of mobile developers XDA Developers tracking development project Chromium on GitHub. We are talking about the project, codenamed Campfire. The developers have launched a…
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Samsung once again laughed at the iPhone X
Samsung continued its campaign Ingenius, releasing two more commercials criticizing X and iPhone consultants at Apple retail stores. In the first clip called Power of the visitor tells the counselor that the Galaxy Note “really powerful”, it consultant replied that in his opinion “powerful” means “able to unlock the phone with face”, this visitor says…
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Called Sony smartphones who will receive the first Android 9.0 Pie
Sony has named their smartphones, which first updated to the latest Android operating system 9.0 Pie. Six models will start to receive update from September to November 2018. In the list of “lucky” includes Xperia XZ2, XZ2 Compact Xperia, Xperia Premium XZ2, XZ1 Xperia, Xperia and Xperia Compact XZ1 XZ Premium. Recall that the stable…