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  • The Perlan glider set a new altitude record

    Funded by the aerospace company Airbus Perlan, develops gliders designed to fly to the border of space. The developers reported about the new successful trials Panerai new altitude record which the aircraft was able to install. The first version of the Perlan glider took to the air in 2006 and was able to fly up…

  • Review game Knack II

    The management of Sony decided that to promote the new PlayStation 4 in 2013, the audience is vital to high-quality platformer. So was born the adventure game Knack, which, among other things, was to demonstrate the computing power of a modern at the time of iron due to the remarkable physical models and graphics in…

  • Life: a coincidence or a law of physics…?

    An understanding of the nature of life is one of the most difficult and interesting mysteries for humanity. Over time, the mystery is inevitably gone beyond the question of whether there is life only on Earth or did she have somewhere else in the Universe. Is the emergence of life in a random and happy…

  • Apparently, Apple and Amazon Are in a Bidding War for the James Bond Film Rights

    Image: MGM / Eon Productions Unnamed sources are telling The Hollywood Reporter that the fight for distribution rights to the James Bond films just got two new contenders: Apple and Amazon. Up until now Warner Bros. have been in the lead with the best bid, but let’s be honest. Apple and Amazon have deeper pockets.…

  • Bulletproof Coffee Announces Bottled Bullshit Launch at Whole Foods

    Image: thedabblist/Flickr If you agitate cream enough, you will make whipped cream. Continue agitating it and skim off the liquid, and you will make butter. Put that in your coffee, and you have now wasted a lot of energy to put cream into your coffee. Somehow, the company trying to capitalize on this time waste…

  • New Observations by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Are Shaking Up Theories About Jupiter’s Auroras

    Aurora at Jupiter’s southern pole, as seen by Juno. The colors represent different wavelength strengths of electrons hitting the atmosphere, where red is high, and blue is low. That weird auroral streak at top left is caused by Jupiter’s moon Io. (Image: G. Randy Gladstone) “For decades our understanding of Jupiter’s auroral emissions had relied…

  • Hackers Have Reportedly Gained ‘Operational Access’ to US Power Grids, But Don’t Freak Yet

    Hackers Built a Weapon to Trigger Blackouts—and It Could Work Anywhere The seemingly local cyberattack that cut power to part of Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, last December… Read more On Wednesday, the researchers at Symantec published a report that outlines the broad details of their investigation into the actions of a group they’re calling “Dragonfly 2.0.”…

  • Fuckup Congressman Threatens FBI Director Over ‘Pee Tape’ Dossier

    The House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian election hacking has been a bad joke from day one. But now it’s just getting sad. Chairman Devin Nunes recused himself from the investigation in March after admitting to a secret, late-night rendezvous with White House staffers (though, not before he was caught lying about it to a…

  • New Horizons Will Get Incredibly Close to Its Next Target

    Artist’s depiction of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flying by the possible binary 2014 MU69. (Image: Carlos Hernandez) On New Year’s Day 2019, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will zoom past MU69—a mysterious Kuiper Belt object located four billion miles from Earth. In anticipation of the upcoming flyby, NASA has just revealed the probe’s flight plan, and…

  • ‘Critical’ Security Flaw Found in Plugin Used by Everyone From the IRS to Office Depot

    Photo: Getty A newly-discovered vulnerability in a popular open-source framework could put major companies’ data at risk of theft or deletion, according to researchers who revealed the bug. The vulnerability, first reported by ZDNet, affects versions of the Apache Struts REST plugin dating back to 2008. The plugin is used in many web applications, but…