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Quest for Planet Nine turns up 'extreme objects' on edge of solar system
CNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN
(CNN) — Even with an entire universe to explore, our own solar system is still full of mysteries. Welcome the newest members of our space family, found only recently in the "no man's land" beyond Neptune.
SpaceX is recycling a piece of history to launch a satellite 22,000 miles above Earth
Business Insider - Dave Mosher
SpaceX is about to answer its critics with a historical first for the company: the reuse of an orbital rocket booster that it previously launched and landed. But Elon Musk's aerospace company isn't just
Florida man shoots at Pokémon Go players, mistaking them for burglars
Polygon - Owen S. Good
Late-night encounter and teen saying 'Did you get anything?' set off the shooter Orlando police say a Florida man fired at two teenage Pokémon Go players very early on Saturday morning, believing they
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Tesla is Rethinking Its Radar System to Better Prevent Crashes
Fortune - David Z. Morris
In the wake of the first fatality of a driver using autonomous features, Tesla Motors is working to make changes to the radar system in its vehicles. …
The Meme of Week Goes to (What Else?) Pokémon Go
VOGUE.COM
The world is in the throes of a new, all-encompassing obsession: Pokémon Go. (You know, the game you are probably playing while reading this post.) Since its release, Pokémon Go has gone on to become of
Game of Thrones
16 Shows To Keep You Busy Until The Next Season Of "Game Of Thrones"
BuzzFeed - Susana Cristalli
12 Great Authors Pick Their Essential American Book
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Hole in ozone layer is closing and will be 'healed' by 2050, scientists say
The Telegraph - By Sarah Knapton
The hole in the Antarctic ozone layer is beginning to close, scientists have discovered. Researchers from the University of Leeds and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, have confirmed
Twitterbot that produces endless entries in an imaginary daemonological grimoire
boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow
The Lesser Bot is a twitterbot that is writing a machine-generated grimoire, complete with summoning runes, which is timely, given that we're …
Film Festivals
Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense
Ars Technica - Annalee Newitz
For Sunspring's exclusive debut on Ars, we talked to the filmmakers about collaborating with an AI. Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of …
Old-fashioned board games, not tech, are attracting the most money on Kickstarter
Quartz - By Joon Ian Wong
Kickstarter has become less about Oculus Rift and more about Cards Against Humanity. The ”games” category on the crowd-funding platform has attracted $495 million since Kickstarter’s inception in 2009,
Secret Meeting Of Scientists To Discuss Creating Synthetic Human Genome Fuels Speculation
iflscience.com - By Josh Davis
After being told not to talk to the media or tweet during the event, last week more than 100 scientists, researchers, and lawyers gathered in secret …
Hidden PlayStation 4 features only power users know about
mygaming.co.za
Sony’s PlayStation 4 console has many great features, a number of which are hidden deep in the sprawling branches of its menu structure. Some features …
Palmyra's Ancient Arch, Destroyed By ISIS, To Rise Again In London
NPR - Deborah Amos
Armed with a 3-D printer and a computer-guided stonecutter, cultural heritage advocates are taking on the jackhammers of the Islamic State and its destructive ideology. When Islamic State militants seized
Royal Caribbean
Landslide win for 'Boaty McBoatface' in $300M research ship naming poll
CNN - By Tiffany Ap, CNN
(CNN) — The internet has spoken -- and "RRS Boaty McBoatface" is the people's choice to name a $300 million state-of-the-art polar research ship. Over 7,000 names were submitted to the Natural Environment
11 Tips for Setting a Table That Say "I’ve Got My Life Together"
Bon Appétit - Josie Adams
How you set your table says a lot about you. Here, Alex Grossman shows us how to set one that says you're simple, beautiful, and not a lot of fuss. In a very official study conducted by professional scientists
Petition to Allow Guns at Republican National Convention at Nearly 25,000 Signatures
Mic News - By Tom McKay
Gun rights supporters angry over the no firearms policy at this year's Republican National Convention in Cleveland — or someone claiming to be them — …
Xiu Xiu Announce "Twin Peaks" Covers Album, Share "Falling"
Pitchfork - by Sheldon Pearce
Photo by Joan Chen Xiu Xiu's last two studio albums were released in the span of a few months in early 2014, Angel Guts: Red Classroom and Unclouded Sky. Now the band is prepping a new project, Plays Music
Solar Panels
MIT Grew A Solar Cell Light Enough To Slap On Just About Anything
Fast Company - By John Brownlee
They’re 400 times lighter than current solar cells, but still powerful enough to juice your iPhone without adding any weight. Solar cells are a great way of collecting and storing energy to power gadgets.
Alan Tudyk
NBC's DC Comedy "Powerless" Adds Alan Tudyk, Danny Pudi, Christina Kirk
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Following the announcement that Vanessa Hudgens would star in "Powerless," NBC's upcoming workplace sitcom set in the DC Universe, Variety has …
This Salt Lake City Day Care Has Become a Magnet for Conspiracy Theories
VICE - Eric Peterson
Is it a drug front? An organ harvesting operation? Or is it just a normal, slightly creepy day care? Visit Salt Lake City in February, in inversion season, and you'll hardly see further than 50 yards.
Generation X Is Sick of Your Bullshit
Gizmodo - Mat Honan
You're going to read this, and you're going to say, how is this about tech? I'm gonna head you off at that pass: This is a message from Internet, the …
Confronting Reality by Reading Fantasy
The Atlantic - Joe Fassler
Author Lev Grossman says C.S. Lewis taught him that in fiction, stepping into magical realms means encountering earthly concerns in transfigured form. By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss
Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition
scientificamerican.com - Caleb A. Scharf
The announcement of the first detection of stormy gravitational waves from a pair of black holes that merged over a billion years ago marks a very …
Robots could learn human values by reading stories, research suggests
The Guardian - Alison Flood
Scientists have been running tests where artificial intelligences cultivate appropriate social behaviour by responding to simple narratives More than 70 years ago, Isaac Asimov dreamed up his three laws
Philip K. Dick
Always Wanted to Do LSD With Philip K. Dick? You'll Love Playing Californium
WIRED - Julie Muncy
Never let it be said that science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick didn't grapple with big ideas. "The two basic topics which fascinate me," he once …
Elections
Judge: Wichita State statistician can’t have tapes to audit voting machines
kansascity.com - By Dion Lefler
A Sedgwick County judge has ruled that a Wichita State University statistician won’t get access to paper tapes from voting machines to search for …
Let China Miéville Plan Your Week in Weird Entertainment
io9 - Charlie Jane Anders
Now that the wonderfully weird author China Miéville has a new book out—with another one coming later this year!—he’s doing some press. And there’s a …
Data transmission rates are hitting ludicrous speeds in the lab
Mashable - Kellen Beck
Imagine a world without buffering, a world where downloading HD movies takes less than one second, a world where your favorite web pages load before …

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Quest for Planet Nine turns up 'extreme objects' on edge of solar system

SpaceX is recycling a piece of history to launch a satellite 22,000 miles above Earth

Florida man shoots at Pokémon Go players, mistaking them for burglars

Tesla is Rethinking Its Radar System to Better Prevent Crashes

The Meme of Week Goes to (What Else?) Pokémon Go

16 Shows To Keep You Busy Until The Next Season Of "Game Of Thrones"

12 Great Authors Pick Their Essential American Book

Hole in ozone layer is closing and will be 'healed' by 2050, scientists say

Twitterbot that produces endless entries in an imaginary daemonological grimoire

Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense

Old-fashioned board games, not tech, are attracting the most money on Kickstarter

Secret Meeting Of Scientists To Discuss Creating Synthetic Human Genome Fuels Speculation

Hidden PlayStation 4 features only power users know about

Palmyra's Ancient Arch, Destroyed By ISIS, To Rise Again In London

Landslide win for 'Boaty McBoatface' in $300M research ship naming poll

11 Tips for Setting a Table That Say "I’ve Got My Life Together"

Petition to Allow Guns at Republican National Convention at Nearly 25,000 Signatures

Xiu Xiu Announce "Twin Peaks" Covers Album, Share "Falling"

MIT Grew A Solar Cell Light Enough To Slap On Just About Anything

NBC's DC Comedy "Powerless" Adds Alan Tudyk, Danny Pudi, Christina Kirk

This Salt Lake City Day Care Has Become a Magnet for Conspiracy Theories

Generation X Is Sick of Your Bullshit

Confronting Reality by Reading Fantasy

Spacetime Ripples and the Human Condition

Robots could learn human values by reading stories, research suggests

Always Wanted to Do LSD With Philip K. Dick? You'll Love Playing Californium

Judge: Wichita State statistician can’t have tapes to audit voting machines

Let China Miéville Plan Your Week in Weird Entertainment

Data transmission rates are hitting ludicrous speeds in the lab