Credit to Author: Maddie Bender| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 19:16:01 +0000
Astronomers have discovered a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf for the first time, giving us a new place to look for planets and a rare glimpse into the future of our Solar System.
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Credit to Author: Maddie Bender| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 19:40:03 +0000
“Anyone who writes cats off as sort of moody or distant is probably underestimating them,” said the lead author of the study, which shows that cats are trying to communicate with their faces. Most of us just suck at reading them.
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Credit to Author: Karl Bode| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 14:27:26 +0000
A company is charging inmates by the minute to read ebooks on “free” tablets. The FCC could have stopped prison telecoms from gaining so much power, but didn’t.
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Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 20:04:04 +0000
“With the debut of AI in Go games, I’ve realized that I’m not at the top even if I become the number one through frantic efforts,” said Go master Lee Se-dol.
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Credit to Author: Lauren Kaori Gurley| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:57:11 +0000
The campaign to pressure consumers and lawmakers to take action arrives after five U.S. senators sent a letter to Jeff Bezos demanding answers about how the tech giant uses its surveillance data.
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Credit to Author: Maddie Bender| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:57:17 +0000
An ongoing trial is putting people into suspended animation in time for potentially life-saving surgery. We ask: WTF?
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Credit to Author: Maddie Bender| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:38:48 +0000
“Such a strong signal has never been measured in ground-based gamma ray astronomy—this is the first time.”
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Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:17:03 +0000
A rusted Titan II missile silo in Arizona could be yours for $395,000. Missile not included.
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Credit to Author: Karl Bode| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:09:10 +0000
Despite fifteen years of scandal and investigations, it’s still not clear that Trump’s CIA Director learned the right lessons.
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Credit to Author: Maddie Bender| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:08:05 +0000
Species that aren’t closely related can look identical thanks to a bizarre trick of evolution. A new study reveals part of the mechanism for creating nature’s unrelated twins.
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