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Apple ‘ s Patenterede iPhone-Panik-Knappen Kan Ikke Gøre Dig Meget mere sikker
Foto: AP Kunne fremtidige iPhones kommer med en indbygget panik-knappen for at diskret tilkalde politiet? Det er bestemt en mulighed, at dømme efter Apple ‘ s seneste patentansøgninger. Ifølge et patent, der er meddelt at Apple på tirsdag for “Biometriske Initieret Kommunikation,” panik knap kunne operere fra en række af inputs, herunder “en bestemt finger…
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Frozen Couple Unearthed By Climate Change (and a Ski Lift Company)
Image: Björn S/Flickr It’s not often that you’ll hear someone thank climate change for something. But today, it seems to have offered some closure on a 75-year-old mystery. So, thanks climate change, at least for this. Workers at a Swiss ski resort recently found a pair of corpses frozen in the Tsanfleuron glacier in Switzerland,…
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WhatsApp Becomes the Latest Victim of China’s New Wave of Internet Censorship
Chinese Censors Have Apparently Blocked ‘Winnie the Pooh’ Over a Silly Meme Winnie the Pooh, the adorable cartoon bear with an obsession for honey, has been censored in China. … Read more According to the New York Times, WhatsApp users in China are reporting widespread disruptions to the messaging app. It has reportedly been partially…
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More Evidence Mars’ Shitty Moons Might Have Formed After Giant Asteroid
The Amazingly Creepy Way Mars Will Kill Its Moon It was a rough month for Phobos, as astronomers decreed—yet again—that Mars is ripping its lumpy… Read more The researchers also looked at Martian meteorites to understand more about the planet’s geographical oddities. Obviously, they found even more questions. The meteorites were chock full of rare…
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What the Hell Is This Sponge-Like Crap Washing Up on France’s Shores?
Image courtesy Sea-Mer Association Late last week, strange sponge-like clumps began washing ashore in northern France. By the weekend, thousands of the foamy yellow balls were seen along nearly 20 miles of the coastline. Local authorities aren’t sure where the unsightly stuff is coming from, and an investigation is currently underway. As reported in The…
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Strange Pulses From Nearby Star Probably Aren’t From Aliens
Artist’s depiction of a red dwarf sprouting a solar flare. This could very well be the source of what the UPR astronomers detected at Aricebo. (Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger) Astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory have picked up some strange signals coming from Ross 128, a red dwarf star located 11 light-years from…
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What Would Happen If You Actually Walked on the Sun? [Updated]
Photo: NASA We just realized it’s the 20th anniversary of Smash Mouth’s “Walkin’ on the Sun,” a song about not being a normie or giving into ephemeral fads like soul patches. Smash Mouth never did that. “Walkin’ on the Sun” is also the title of the official Smash Mouth biography, which is very good according…
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Pushing Particles Forwards Might Make Them Go Backwards Because Quantum Physics Is Bonkers
Image: Brocken Inaglory/Wikimedia Commons You are very lucky that you ended up about the size that you are today, somewhere between one and ten feet tall and weighing somewhere between one and one thousand pounds. This is a very good size. Not to body shame, but if you were, say, a quadrillion times shorter and…
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Aardvarks Might Be Doomed Because of Climate Change
Image: Ewen Roberts/Flickr Creative Commons Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer) are probably the most endearingly doofy-looking animals ever to grace the African continent. These Seussian snufflers look like someone threw an anteater, a rabbit, a pig, and an armadillo into a smelter. Aardvarks have entered the consciousness of millions of children as both the first animal in…
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Russian Government Investigating Fidget Spinners, a ‘Political Technology’ That ‘Controls Children’
In America, we regularly endure news reports about some sort of War on Christmas, so don’t feel too smug. But in Russia, there’s currently an effort to paint fidget spinners as a devious plot by the opposition to “zombify” kids using “political technologies.” We Regret to Inform You That Fidget Spinners Are Now Exploding After…