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1 day ago
Image spacepopperHalo of the Cat's Eye
Not a Falcon 9 rocket launch after sunset, the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its haunting symmetries are seen in the very central region of this composited picture, processed to reveal an enormous but extremely faint halo of gaseous material, over three light-years across. Made with data from ground- and space-based telescopes it shows the extended emission which surrounds the brighter, familiar planetary nebula. Planetary nebulae have l...
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1 day ago
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North Korea-Sponsored Hacks Comprise 65 Percent of Total Crypto Stolen
Out of fourteen separate exchange breaches, five have been attributed to the group, among them the industry record-breaking $532 million NEM hack of Japan’s Coincheck this January. The report, dedicated to hacks in 2017 and 2018, identifies the allegedly state-sponsored hacker group Lazarus as responsible for $571 million of the $882 million total in crypto that was stolen from online exchanges during the studied time period; almost 65 percent of the total sum.
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3 days ago
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Right on
Posted in: Do it anyway
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3 days ago
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Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars?
George Chapline believes that the Event Horizon Telescope will offer evidence that black holes are really dark energy stars.
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3 days ago
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Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought
New research shows a pattern of exoplanet sizes and spacing around other stars unlike what we see in our own system
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4 days ago
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What will be left of the people who make our games?
Buried deep in Harold Goldberg’s wide-ranging feature for Vulture about the making of Red Dead Redemption 2 is a reminder of why one of Rockstar’s founders, Dan Houser, rarely gives interviews: his stunning admission that “we were working 100-hour weeks” at multiple points in 2018. In a report peppered with numerical superlatives (1,200 actors; 300,000 animations; 500,000 lines of dialogue; 2,000 pages of script; a budget in the millions), it’s that hundred-hour statistic that shocks t...
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5 days ago
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Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Jupiter looks a bit different in ultraviolet light. To better interpret Jupiter's cloud motions and to help NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft understand the planetary context of the small fields that it sees, the Hubble Space Telescope is being directed to regularly image the entire Jovian giant. The colors of Jupiter being monitored go beyond the normal human visual range to include both ultraviolet and infrared light.
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5 days ago
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Saudi state-owned media warns Russia will exploit vacuum if US imposes sanctions
A top state-linked Saudi media figure has warned that imposing US sanctions on Riyadh in response to the Khashoggi crisis could lead to Russia opening a military base in the kingdom. The general manager of a Saudi-state-owned media company published an op-ed Sunday suggesting that if the U.S. imposes sanctions in response to the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the situation will get so dire that Saudi Arabia would allow Russia to install a military base in the nation....
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6 days ago
Oh god all the text and colors!
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6 days ago
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Level 34
spacepopper is now level 34 with 3,555,020 XP.
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6 days ago
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Saudi Media Are Promoting A Ludicrous “Fake Fiancé” Conspiracy Theory About Missing Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Amid international outrage over Saudi Arabia’s role in the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi media outlets are spreading a ludicrous conspiracy theory that Khashoggi has a “fake fiancé.” This appears to be an attempt to discredit accusations from Turkish and American intelligence sources that he was killed after visiting the Saudi Consulate in Turkey.
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10 days ago
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This is literally the beginning plot of one of the final destination movies, but minus all the death.
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11 days ago
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Sun Dance
Just some solar flares getting their groove on.
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12 days ago
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Christian leader Jerry Falwell urges Trump support: 'He’s a moral person'
Donald Trump is a “good moral person” and an example to the nation, according to one of the most prominent evangelical Christians in the US. Jerry Falwell, who is credited along with other evangelical leaders with delivering a huge Christian vote for Trump in 2016, said he had “no doubts, no hesitations” about supporting the president. “He is like Ronald Reagan on steroids.” In an interview with the Guardian, Falwell also described the Democrats as fascists and “Brownshirts”, and...
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12 days ago
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Genius: Denmark to label food according to effect on climate
New labelling on food packaging will enable consumers in Denmark to see the effect of their shopping on the environment. Food products will be marked with stickers showing their environmental impact, according to a proposal expected to be included in a new climate package to be presented by the government this week. “We want to give consumers the means to assess in supermarkets the environmental impact of products,” Minister for the Environment Lars Christian Lilleholt said.
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2 weeks ago
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The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star
That's not a young crescent Moon poised above the hills along the western horizon at sunset. It's Venus in a crescent phase. About 54 million kilometers away and less than 20 percent illuminated, it was captured by telescope and camera on September 30 near Bacau, Romania. The bright celestial beacon is now languishing in the evening twilight, its days as the Evening Star in 2018 coming to a close. But it also grows larger in apparent size and becomes an ever thinner crescent in telesco...
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2 weeks ago
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Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide (Study)
Netflix remains the 800-pound gorilla of the streaming world: Video from the service consumes a significant 15% of all internet bandwidth globally, the most of any single application. That’s according to the latest Global Internet Phenomena Report from Sandvine, a vendor of bandwidth-management systems. Netflix was followed by HTTP media streams, representing 13.1% of all downstream traffic; YouTube (11.4%); web browsing (7.8%); and MPEG transport streams (4.4%).
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2 weeks ago
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Apple's Tim Cook: 'Don't believe' tech companies that say they need your data
Apple CEO Tim Cook hit out at tech companies that claim more customer data leads to superior products, saying that's a "bunch of bunk." In an exclusive interview with Vice News Tonight that aired Tuesday, Cook did not name any names but appeared to admonish the likes of advertising giants Facebook and Google, which rely on data sharing with third parties. "The narrative that some companies will try to get you to believe is: 'I've got to take all of your data to make...
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2 weeks ago
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CD Projekt calls demand for payment by Witcher creator Andrzej Sapkowski 'groundless'
CD Projekt has responded to a demand for payment by The Witcher’s original creator, Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. Eurogamer reported that CD Projekt received the demand yesterday, in which lawyers acting on Sapkowski’s behalf filed a demand of payment of PLN 60m, (£12.4m/$16.1m) in additional royalties.
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3 weeks ago
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World's first human case of rat disease discovered
For the first time, a case of rat hepatitis E has been discovered in a human in Hong Kong. A 56-year-old man has been diagnosed with the disease, researchers from the University of Hong Kong said. It was not previously known the disease could be passed from rats to humans. "Previous laboratory experiments have found that rat hepatitis E virus cannot be transmitted to monkeys, and human hepatitis A virus cannot be transmitted to rats," said Dr. Siddharth Sridhar...
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3 weeks ago
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Charges Filed, McDonald's Worker Tainted Deputy's Drink
The Allen County, Kansas Attorney files one count of aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer today against a 22-year-old Iola, Kansas resident (Sept. 26, 2018). On September 12th, 2018, Iola police arrested 22-year-old Trevor Hockaday. Authorities say Hockaday was working at McDonald's and put a peroxide-based cleaner in an Allen County Deputy's drink. According to investigators, the deputy picked up their food and drink while going through the restaurant's drive-thru. Of...
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3 weeks ago
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Republicans are slowly warming to climate change—Is it already too late?
As Hurricane Florence took hold of the Carolinas in mid-September, partisan talk swirled like the winds. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blamed the Trump administration for listening to “naysayers” who didn't want to switch to clean energy. Fossil fuels, she told reporters, absolutely contributed to the severity of the hurricane: “This is something that we have to look at in a big way, and it’s not served by denial of the facts.”
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3 weeks ago
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Ex-boyfriend douses Tennessee teen in gasoline, threatens to 'cut her head off'
A Middle Tennessee girl's ex-boyfriend is behind bars after he and a friend allegedly tried to light her on fire. According to the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office, the 15-year-old girl's 17-year-old boyfriend sloshed gasoline on her, ignited a lighter, then threatened to burn her. Police say the boy forced himself into the Fall Creek Drive home and demanded $300 from her. He also threatened to "cut her head off" in front of her grandmother and a roommate, each also in...
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3 weeks ago
This! Especially on a low budget tablet/netbook.
Posted in: Why I’m done with Chrome
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3 weeks ago
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U.S. Divorce Rate: Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet
Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: They’re staying married. New data show younger couples are approaching relationships very differently from baby boomers, who married young, divorced, remarried and so on.
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