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Have you heard the famous Winston Churchill quote that “the fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists”? Well, it’s a fake quote. Churchill never said it. But that didn’t stop Texas Governor Greg Abbott from tweeting the fake quote late last night. And while Abbott is rightly being taken to task, the responses to…

Illustration of the Solar System.Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA doesn’t just randomly decide what telescopes and satellites to shoot into space and what planet to study next. Instead, a committee of outside scientists drafts a set of goals and recommendations in what’s called a decadal survey. And though it notes some financial setbacks, a midterm review of…

Photo: Ashley Steel (Flickr) Given their current popularity, you might assume that probiotics—capsules containing a mix of “good” bacteria that are said to rebalance our gut’s bacterial content—would be perfectly harmless. But a team of gastroenterologists from Augusta University in Georgia is challenging that assumption. Their recent study is the latest to suggest some people…

Photo: Snap, Inc. A portion of Snapchat’s source code was leaked and hosted on the code repository platform GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft) before a copyright takedown request from Snap led the company to remove the offending leak. The leak occurred after a botched update to the company’s Snapchat iOS app in May. While the…

Screenshot: YouTube Anti-government conspiracy theorist turned pro-Trump mouthpiece Alex Jones found his hard-won followings on the web’s biggest platforms stripped away this week. In this day and age, there’s just nowhere left online for a red-blooded patriot to speak his mind. Nowhere, it seems, except for Google+. The frequently shirtless Truth Crusader best known for…

It seems that the efforts of the Federal Antimonopoly service of Russia for the suppression of intra-network roaming has finally brought fruit. Operators Beeline, MegaFon and MTS, almost simultaneously, announced the cancellation of fees for incoming calls in national roaming when traveling across the country. First, the statement made a Beeline, MegaFon. “Beeline” zeroing all…

In the second half of 2018, the market of gaming laptops in the world will change significantly. This was reported by Taiwan resource DigiTimes, a well-known for its connections with sources in the supply chain of the production. According to sources in the industry, the company ASUStek Computer and Micro-Star International is gradually becoming incapable…