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  • German Enigma Machine Found at Flea Market Fetches $51,000 at Auction

    The Enigma 1 that sold at auction. (Image: Artmark) A professor of cryptology has auctioned off a rare and fully-functional Enigma machine used by the Nazis to encrypt messages during the Second World War. Incredibly, the collector found the machine at a flea market in Bucharest—which suggests Romania may house other machines still waiting to…

  • Our Best Look Yet at Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Finally Here

    Image: NASA The JunoCam community, a group of citizen scientists who process these images to create art, has already pounced upon the new pics and taken them to another level. Seriously, folks, this is where the magic happens: Some are even taking their art a step further, animating the images: More magnificent pics are sure…

  • Scientists Code an Animated GIF Into DNA

    Image: Seth Shipman What’s a strand of DNA but data? We often think of its units, the As, Cs, Ts, and Gs, as letters of the words in an instruction manual. But what if, instead, we think of them as biological computer bits, storing the smallest unit of information? What stops scientists from harnessing the…

  • Vizio’s Tolerance for LeEco’s Bullshit Has Come to an End

    Photo: AP By many accounts, LeEco was set to be the next major player in the US tech market. But its bank accounts indicate that this won’t be the case. Everything is going south for the Chinese startup and in the latest blow, Vizio is suing the company for $60 million. Vizio claims that LeEco…

  • Secretive Company Says It Could Be ‘Mining’ the Moon by 2020

    Image: Screen shot via collectSPACE/YouTube For years, private space company Moon Express has touted its grand ambitions of one day mining the moon for delicious resources that do not include cheese. After years of secrecy, today, the company stepped out of the shadows talk about just how it plans to achieve its lofty goals—apparently, it’s…

  • How Normal Guy Mark Zuckerberg Arranges All Those Candid Encounters With Real Americans

    In his new, obsessively documented mission to gather (and probably, in some way, monetize) the authenticity of Common People, Facebook’s putty-faced CEO is doing exactly what common people do: showing up to places uninvited, unannounced, and demanding absolute secrecy from strangers. As Amy Dudley, one of Zuckerberg’s handlers and a former aide to Tim Kaine…

  • Many tourists flee forest fires in Sicily

    TRAPANI – Due to forest fires in the extreme north-west of Sicily had Wednesday nine hundred people across the sea to be evacuated from a tourist village on the coast, Calampiso. Italian media reported that the tourists with boats to the larger San Vito Lo Capo are dangers and there in school buildings has been…

  • German trucker cell in for deadly accident

    HERSBRUCK – A truck driver is by a German court and sentenced to a term of imprisonment because he was an accident caused by which four people died, a mother and three children. The man drove on the A6 at the Nürnberg with his truck full speed into the back of a file. He received…

  • 9.5 years in prison for ex-president of Brazil

    BRASILIA – Ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday by a federal judge and sentenced to 9,5 years in prison for corruption and money laundering. Lula was by judge Sérgio Moro, along with six medebeklaagden convicted, reported the Brazilian media. Lula da Silva appealed. He was at the beginning of 2003 to 2011 president,…

  • Smartphone OUKITEL U11 Plus got two new versions

    OUKITEL U11 Plus very well sold on market and popular among those who want to have a smartphone with flagship performance, but do not want to overpay. Initially the device was available in black and white versions, but recently the range was joined by two other color variants. Now U11 Plus can be purchased in…