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When Did Ajit Pai Know?
Photo: Getty Set to appear before a Senate oversight committee next Thursday, Ajit Pai will face a barrage of questions about why multiple senior officials at the agency he leads, the Federal Communications Commission, provided false information to members of Congress—a federal crime, punishable by up to five years in prison, had they done so…
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An Ailing Orca Was Given Medication in the Wild for the First Time Ever
Marine wildlife experts extract a breath sample from J50, or Scarlet, an ailing orca. A similar device was used to administer a dart containing antibiotics. Image: NOAA Fisheries A team of experts injected an ailing orca calf with a dose of antibiotics, in a medical intervention that’s never been tried before on a wild killer…
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Florida Man ‘Went Off the Deep End’ After Facebook Political Feud and Shot a Stranger in the Ass
Photo: Getty Political fights online are always hazardous. But a recent Facebook dispute between two strangers in Florida led to a bullet in the butt. Brian Sebring, 44, faces felony charges after he decided to take an argument offline. “I went off the deep end,” he told the Tampa Bay Times. “I wasn’t thinking right.…
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Facebook Starts Forcing Popular Page Admins to Prove Who They Are
Photo: Getty On Friday, in the latest round of Facebook’s whack-a-mole attempts to fix itself, the company launched new requirements for admins of Pages. Today’s changes to the admin privileges for Pages has been in the works since April, when Facebook said it would “[require] people who manage high potential reach Pages to get authorized…
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How Will NASA Get this Probe to the Sun Without It Melting?
Artist’s depiction of the Parker Solar Probe near the Sun.Illustration: NASA A human-made spacecraft is finally heading to the center of the Solar System. NASA’s first launch window for the Parker Solar Probe begins at 3:33 a.m. ET this Saturday, and if all goes well, the ship will then begin its journey to the Sun.…
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New Horizons Spacecraft Sees Possible Hydrogen Wall at the End of the Solar System
Artist’s impression of New HorizonsIllustration: NASA As it speeds away from the Sun, the New Horizons mission may be approaching a “wall.” The New Horizons spacecraft, now at a distance nearly four billion miles from Earth and already far beyond Pluto, has measured what appears to be a signature of the furthest reaches of the…
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Raccoon Vs. Crow Is the Alien Vs. Predator of Trash Animals
Screenshot: Russ J (YouTube) Nature isn’t always pretty. Sometimes it’s just gnarly as hell. A recent video titled “Raccoon vs Crow” illustrates this well, showing two of the world’s most iconic urban animals engaging in a dramatic—if brief—battle to the death. Gizmodo prefers not take sides in cases of natural predation, but according to science…
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Wikileaks Served With DNC Lawsuit Over Twitter
Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth (AP) In what may be a first for the American legal system, Wikileaks—the radical transparency organization turned Russia propaganda cell run—was served a lawsuit today in a tweet by law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC. The firm, which has not tweeted from this account before or since, appears to have…
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Sunken Warship Said to Have Billions in Gold Looks Like It Was a Cryptocurrency Scam
Photo: Wikimedia Last month, a sunken Russian warship believed to have been carrying billions of dollars worth of gold was “discovered” by a South Korean company that immediately started making claims of how it was going to distribute its found treasure. Now, police are investigating leaders of the company and have reason to believe it…
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Screen fingerprint scanners will soon begin to appear in low-cost smartphones
Smartphones with fingerprint scanners integrated directly into the screen has released a few manufacturers including Vivo, Huawei, Xiaomi and Meizu. All of them belong to the flagship category. But soon the situation will change and display the scanner are not uncommon in models of the middle level. This is evidenced by data collected by Taiwan…