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The first Bank cards appeared in America in the late 19th century. They were made of cardboard and have served only to confirm the creditworthiness of the owner outside the Bank. In 1914, Western Union issued the first card with a fixed credit amount for each customer. Ten years later to replace short-lived the paper…

Photo: Twitter In the midst of his semi-regularly scheduled bonkers morning tweet rant, in which he deleted and re-posted tweets multiple times, Donald Trump mixed things up by throwing in an undank meme. Trump’s morning tweets give the world a sense of what he has been stewing over for the past 24 hours. Based on…

Image: YouTube / MattHossZone Matt Hosseinzadeh (a.k.a. Matt Hoss) is easy to mock. The parkour-loving comedian runs a YouTube channel full of misogynistic videos, including “a comedy series about a confident and funny man who picks up women, beds them, and gets into all sorts of crazy trouble.” But when two other YouTubers made a…

GIF All images: Andrew Liszewski/Gizmodo There’s an entire standup routine waiting to be written about how smart home accessories can be incredibly dumb and complicated. But one of the easiest smart home upgrades, smart lighting, has just gotten easy enough for even your parents to install without calling you—if they’re living in Apple’s ecosystem. Smart…

Cool space art (Image: NASA) “I don’t know!” is among the most scientific phrases you can utter. “I don’t know” is the reason you do science, after all. “I don’t know” means more funding, more jobs, more mysteries, and ultimately, more “now I knows.” Astronomers have now uncovered an “I don’t know” that might become…

China's Giant 'Alien-Hunting' Telescope Comes With a Human Cost China is building the biggest radio telescope on Earth. And the country is displacing over 9,000… Read more The FAST telescope is 200 meters (656 feet) larger than the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico which, at 305 meters (1,000 feet), was the previous record holder for…

Image: Fredrik Rubensson/Flickr Coffee seems to be the most overstudied beverage; seemingly every day we’re bombarded with another study about it causing or curing cancer. But surprisingly, there are plenty of scientists who don’t really understand its many effects. In fact, it may even be changing the way we taste all the other things we…

Photo: Getty A 36-year-old Chinese national was arrested in Los Angeles this week in connection with a computer hacking conspiracy involving malware linked to the 2014 US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. Yu Pingan of Shanghai, China, was arrested on Wednesday while traveling at Los Angeles International Airport. Also identified by the hacker…

BOGOTA – The government-Maduro in Venezuela, news coverage curtailed. The controversial left-wing regime decided the Colombian radio and tv stations Caracol and RCN from the air. Thursday morning went to the channels for all major cable networks in the capital Caracas on black. Caracol-director Juan Roberto Vargas said that the news of the last years…

SALVADOR – By the capsizing of a Brazilian boat Thursday eighteen passengers were drowned. According to the news portal G1 could 89 other passengers in time from the waters of the Allerheiligenbaai be achieved. The ship was of Mar Grande on the way to Salvador da Bahia. It was the second scheepsongeluk in less than…