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Image: Luciana Migliore Eight hundred years ago, teenager Laurentius Loricatus accidentally killed a man in Italy. He then headed to a cave where he lived for 34 years, whipping himself to atone for his sins. Today, his story lives in the Vatican Secret Archives, on a piece of parchment covered in purple spots. This kind…

SpaceX has pulled off some exhilarating launches and landings in the past, but today’s mission ranks among its most suspenseful. Today, sometime between right now and about 3pm ET, the company will send a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a US Air Force X-37B space plane from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, just days…

Photo: Getty Security researchers last month discovered a trove of scanned images depicting the credit cards and passports of more than 88,600 international travelers. It’s unknown for how long the documents, which were secured on Wednesday, had been sitting online, just waiting to be stolen. Researchers at the Kromtech Security Center say a cache of…

This part of the plan is where Amazon has lots of experience. It’s long been the company’s practice to work with local governments to come up with a set of deal that’s appealing to both parties, and location matters to Amazon since it wants to get orders to customers as quickly as possible. (Trading tax…

Image: NASA/GSFC/SDO The Sun’s impact on weather here on Earth is clear: It makes it hot or cold, it powers air currents, it causes water to evaporate making rain, et cetera. But with our increasing reliance on satellites and electronics, you can’t forget its more insidious effects—and some satellites got a taste of those yesterday.…

GIF The TS100 is an open-source, precision soldering iron that includes the ability to program its temperature. In service of that, the device uses a tiny OLED screen, which allowed YouTube’s Joric to hack the device and make playing Tetris another one of the tool’s many features. Playing Tetris on a Business Card Is Everything I…

Mexico-city – UPDATE 10.05 pm – at Least six deaths, the provisional balance sheet of a very heavy earthquake early Friday morning in Mexico. Five people in Mexico and one in Guatemala were killed in the strongest quake in the Latin American country in over eighty years. Mexico City Thursday: Queen Maxima visit the city…

ATLANTA – Kredietbureau Equifax is hit by a cyber attack. Hackers have gained access to credit card information, home addresses, dates of birth, and other information of a possible 143 million Americans. The hackers have also gained access to personal data of customers from Canada and the Uk, from Equifax. This applies to many fewer…

CHIAPAS – The epicenter of the powerful earthquake in Mexico was in Pijijiapan in the southern state of Chiapas. Chiapas has an area of 75.635 square kilometers and 4.224.800 inhabitants. In the east the region is bordered by Guatemala to the south, and the pacific Ocean. The area is predominantly mountainous. On the border with…

Liquid crystals were discovered in 1888 by Austrian scientist Friedrich Reinitzer, and in 1927, a Russian physicist Vsevolod Frederiks was discovered crossing, was named after him and is now widely used in conventional LCD displays. In the 1970-ies the company RCA was first introduced LCD monochrome screen. Liquid crystal displays have been used in electronic…