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In the Universe there is only one planet, is able to take care of complex, intelligent life and this Earth. Although distant worlds near other stars can, in principle, to be similar to Earth and even populated, we don’t know for sure. And still we close and have not found anything similar to our home…

SSD drives are becoming more common and are replacing the once popular HDD. The main problem of the nonvolatile NAND memory used in SSD drives is the limited number of cycles of read/write. Now, a team of researchers from Japan presented a new method for combining data compression technology and enhanced reliability of information storage.…

Justin Berry, right, listens Kurt Eichenwald testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee regarding sexual exploitation of children over the Internet in Washington in 2006. (Photo: AP) Well, this is ugly: On Monday evening, international secret-sharing website WikiLeaks, whose founder Julian Assange’s behavior of late has been slightly concerning, tweeted out what certainly looks…

Image: Shutterstock Something weird is going on with human sperm production. For decades, scientists have warned that sperm counts are dropping among Western men, but no one has really been able to prove it. In what is now the largest and most comprehensive study of its kind, scientists have presented compelling evidence in support of…

Here it is, hiding halfway down the company’s latest press release, like a guillotine in a crowded town square: “Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash.” Boom. That’s the sound of the blade dropping, and Flash, finally, thankfully, mercifully dying. Because Adobe just killed it. It’s actually slightly more complicated than that. Adobe is working with…

Photo: AP There are a lot of unusual things to do at DEF CON, the annual hacker conference that draws tens of thousands of security enthusiasts to Las Vegas in the depths of summer—you can learn to lockpick, go fed-spotting, or hack an internet-connected sex toy. But last year offered something new. Jeff Moss, the…

GIF Artist’s impression of a rogue planet causing a gravitational microlensing event. Image: J. Skowron / Warsaw University Observatory; Gif via Gizmodo Rogue planets sound adventurous, like pirates of the final frontier minus the scurvy. The reality is much more depressing: these bodies are untethered to a star, so they’re doomed to dance around the…

All images: Marina Galperina/Gizmodo This is opulence. Suddenly, there is extra light blasting from behind my TV screen, making a day-glow title sequence positively atomic. The DreamScreen, a backlighting system that’s designed to make your TV viewing more immersive, is a luxury that I absolutely don’t need. In theory, the supplementary lights change color based…

If you were one of the many, many sad people who missed out on snagging the NES Classic Edition before Nintendo inexplicably pulled the plug on it, there’s still a chance you can get one without spending hundreds on eBay as ThinkGeek has apparently stumbled onto a massive cache of the consoles. Update, 3:47 p.m.…

GIF GIF Source: Fight for the Future Verizon set off alarm bells among net neutrality advocates last week when customers reported that the ISP was throttling Netflix video. If true, that would likely be a violation of current FCC guidelines. Verizon responded that it was just testing throttling technology on all video. On Tuesday, it…