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Kendrick Lamar gets bak with shit all over him
People are more concerned about the craziest things. Kendrick Lamar is one of the largest and most important rappers of the moment, his ability is estimated at approximately 16 million euros. Recently he bought his sister a car, because her diploma had been obtained. This shot, however, going down the wrong way for different people.…
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Apple Just Made Its Top Secret iPhone Screen Repair Machine a Little Less Secret
Photo: Flickr / Faris Algosaibi Have you ever been to the back room of an Apple Store? That’s a trick question, because the back room at the Apple Store is a mythical place, filled with elves, warlocks, and a magical machine that fixes iPhone screens. At least, it was until this week. Apple just revealed…
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Scientists Weigh a Star Using Gravity, Proving Einstein Wrong by Proving Him Right
Artist’s depiction of a white dwarf (right) in orbit around a white giant star. (Image: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)) Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, called general relativity, is probably the best physics theory ever formulated. It just keeps working, often for things Einstein himself didn’t believe, like the accelerating expansion of the universe.…
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Why the US Air Force Is Teaming Up With SpaceX
Image: SpaceX via Flickr Over the last several months, SpaceX has been seriously diversifying its clientele: in May, it flew a spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). On Tuesday, the U.S. Air Force announced that in August, it’ll be launching a reusable X-37B mini-space shuttle on board a Falcon 9 rocket. While some…
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So Did T. Rex Have Feathers or Not?
Image: calamity_sal/Flickr There’s something about dinosaurs that makes them strangely endearing, despite murdering humans in an umpteen number of films, having big teeth, and being related to one of the meanest types of living animal, birds. So lots of people (us, mainly) got excited about evidence showing that Tyrannosaurus rex might look more like an…
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Incredible Discovery Pushes Back Origin of Homo Sapiens By 100,000 Years
Two views of a composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) based on micro computed tomographic scans of multiple original fossils. (Credit: Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig) The remains of five early Homo sapiens have been unearthed at a site in northwest Africa. At around 300,000 years old, the…
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Uber’s CEO Searches for Enlightenment in Company Lactation Room
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Scott Pruitt Wants Some Kind of Strange Climate Change Showdown
Photo: Getty EPA head Scott Pruitt has spent the last week insisting that the Trump administration never discussed climate change when debating the decision to withdraw from the Paris Accord on climate change. But now that we’ve withdrawn from that agreement, he thinks it’s a great time to have a public debate in what sounds…
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Apple Rolls Out New Feature That Permanently Associates Devices with Apps, Even After Deletion
Photo: Getty Tim Cook once scolded Travis Kalanick about Uber’s practice of tracking users even after they deleted the app from their iPhones. But in its newest operating system, iOS 11, Apple is rolling out a feature that will allow the same type of tracking—but with fewer privacy implications. Apple’s new feature is called DeviceCheck and,…
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Russian Hackers Testing Malware With Britney Spears’s Instagram
The smoking gun comment The malware was directed to scroll through the comments on Spears’s photos and search for one that had a specific hash value. As you can see, the comment in question isn’t exactly a normal post but it passes as basic spam and no one would give it a second thought. But…