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MEXICO-CITY – Hurricane Katia has the east coast of Mexico was reached. Although, for a real hurricane comes, gets it not for its rivals today by the Caribbean rant and anywhere heavy devastation havoc. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in the United States share Katia in category one in. The storm shrinks after landing in…

HAVANA – Hurricane Irma is on the Sabana-Camagüey archipelago drawn, a series of small islands right in front of the North-Cuban coast. There are no reports about victims. A weather station on one of the islands mat Saturday morning (local time) wind speeds of 200 kilometers per hour. Thousands of residents of the archipelago were…

Image: ESA Humans have had such a dramatic impact on Earth that some scientists say we’ve kickstarted a new geological era known as the Anthropocene. A fascinating new paper theorizes that alien civilizations could do the same thing, reshaping their homeworlds in predictable and potentially detectable ways. The authors are proposing a new classification scheme…

Image: NASA Now here’s both the natural and false color images just for fun:

Debris from a collapsed wall sits in Oaxaca, Mexico. (Image: AP/Luis Alberto Cruz) The strongest earthquake to hit Mexico in a century has struck off the nation’s West Coast, shaking buildings for hundreds of miles and triggering tsunami warnings. At least 16 people have been killed, but officials are expecting the death toll to rise.…

Facebook’s ‘Tag Your Friends’ feature uses faceprints Broadly, face recognition works by measuring people’s faces and assigning them a “faceprint.” In this particular study, the software was shown the faceprints of men and women who identified themselves as gay or straight. It found patterns and then, when shown pictures it had never seen before, it…

Image: Aurora Torres, German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research Summer is coming to an end, and you may be thinking fondly back to times spent lounging on a beach, soft white sand flowing between your fingers and toes as you napped under the Sun. Well, forget relaxing and start worrying, baby! Researchers writing in the…

Image Source: Rotten Tomatoes Hollywood is struggling through a particularly rough financial patch at the moment, and it’s throwing blame in every direction. Its favorite target over the last ten years has been technological disruption. Netflix, home theaters, and MoviePass have all been cited as box office grim reapers. The latest target, Rotten Tomatoes, is…

Photo: Getty In April, the US Department of Labor accused Google of gender pay discrimination. The tech behemoth denied the allegations, and when the DoL requested historical salary records from the company, Google argued that the endeavor was too expensive. Lucky for Google, good samaritans at the company have led efforts to compile the wage…

Photo: Getty Virginia’s Board of Elections voted unanimously to decertify all of the state’s touchscreen voting machines, which are considered by cybersecurity experts to be vulnerable to manipulation by hackers. The race is now on to replace the machines, which are used in 22 counties, before Virginia’s elections in November. Industry experts and and the…