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It Took Four Years of Lying on a Riverbed for a Photographer to Capture This Shot
Image: Louis-Marie Preau/biographic Paparazzi these days will do literally anything for the shot. Even go snorkeling underwater every night for four years. This photo, shared on bioGraphic yesterday, shows a hungry Eurasian beaver swimming with a poplar branch, on her way to feed her pups in western France’s Loire region. Other people have taken photos…
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Rocket Lab’s Adorable Rocket Just Blasted Into Space For the First Time
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Coordinated Boa Attacks Are a Horror You Didn’t Know Existed
Image: Ger Dekker / Flickr Creative Commons As twilight descends, nocturnal bat species rouse from their daily resting places to feed, creating spectacular clouds as they pour out of caves en masse. But look closer at Jamaican fruit bat colonies as they emerge from sinkhole caves in Cuba, and you may catch a glimpse of…
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Guess What the One App on Trump’s Phone Is
Photo: AP Go on, guess. Did you guess Pokémon GO? FaceApp? Elevate (Brain Training and Games)? No, you didn’t, because you know exactly what it is. It’s Twitter. Of course it’s fucking Twitter. Axios’ Mike Allen reports this morning that Trump currently uses an iPhone equipped only with the public meltdown app. He probably doesn’t…
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An AI Is Now the Best Player of Humanity’s Most Complicated Game
Google's AlphaGo Handily Beats Teen World Champion in First Match Humanity could really use a win right now, and the latest test comes out of China, where a teenager … Read more Created by DeepMind, Google’s AI division, AlphaGo isn’t officially ranked as a player, but the string of victories is a landmark moment for…
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Mexican Politician Says He Meant to Use #Campaignhashtag as His Campaign Hashtag
GIF GIF: Javier Zapata Facebook We’ll never know for sure if Mexican politician Javier Zapata intended to use “#hashtagcampaña”—“#campaignhashtag” in English—as an official hashtag for his run for governor, or if it was just dummy text that made it through the printers. But if he wanted to raise his profile, it’s definitely working. Recently, at…
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Cordcutting Hits an All-Time High as Cable TV Reaches New Lows in Popularity
Photo: Getty According to pretty much everyone, we’re in the “golden age” of television. But new data shows a huge jump in people who are ready to ditch cable as well as disastrous satisfaction ratings for the industry. Despite investing $300 million in fixing its customer service problems, Comcast managed to sink another six percent…
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Florida Republican Who Teamed Up With Guccifer 2.0 Says Secretly Working With Russia Is NBD
Photo: Getty The WSJ revealed today that a GOP operative named Aaron Nevins requested and received confidential files stolen from the Democrats by hacker Guccifer 2.0 last year. Nevins, a former aide to Florida State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, confessed to the Journal that not only did he receive files stolen from the Democratic Congressional Campaign…
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Trump Team’s Go-To Vetting Process Was ‘A Quick Google Search’
This Old FBI File Is a Great Reminder of Just How Screwed Trump's Lying Cronies Are Martin Friedman, the head of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, died last May at the age of 90.… Read more According to Trump, Carter Page was a foreign policy advisor for his campaign around the time that the…
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Square Enix urgently looking for professionals to work on a Final Fantasy VII Remake
The company Square Enix urgently looking for new staff to work on announced in 2015, the year Final Fantasy VII Remake. It turns out that the staff of developers are still understaffed. The publisher has placed an ad on the immediate recruitment of professionals of various profiles. Need artists, 3D modelers, and so on. According…