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Ever wonder why all 1,800 lights in Central Park are on 24/7 wasting electricity? Because some genius thought it would be a good idea to wire all the security cameras to the same power source as the light poles. Meaning the lights have to be on for the security cameras to work. Mr. Hewitt visited the office of his City Council representative, Helen Rosenthal. A member of her staff, Ned Terrace, dug into the matter. "The answer I received was that the power source for the streetlights is the same as the power source for the security cameras that the N.Y.P.D. has in Central Park, meaning that they have to be operating so that the cameras can remain on," Mr. Terrace wrote on Nov. 11. Comments

Data-mining and analytics firm Palantir, co-founded by Gawker-bankrupting tech billionaire Peter Thiel, remains a secretive purveyor of intelligence-gathering tools. While a May report revealed the company's struggles retaining blue chip commercial c...

Just days after Open Whisper Systems concluded the Egyptian government had blocked access to its encrypted messaging service, Signal, the company rolled out an update that circumvents large-scale censorship systems across Egypt and the United Arab Em...

According to Pentagon officials, Russia has successfully completed tests of an anti-satellite missile that could be capable of crippling the US military communications and navigation network. The test, which went off on December 16th, was actually th...

Wouldn't it be great to have the ability to concoct medicine anywhere the sun shines, even if it's on another planet? A team of Dutch scientists from Eindhoven University of Technology have developed an artificial leaf-like device that could make tha...

Nokia announced today that it has sued Apple for patent infringement in Germany and the US. According to the suit, Apple did agree to license a few Nokia patents in 2011, but has declined offers since then. "Through our sustained investment in resear...

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I don't know why people insist on calling these crooks "hackers." Scammers have been pulling this type of scam for years. The only thing that makes this case different is that crooks don't usually get access to millions of dollars worth of bitcoins. Thanks to cageymaru for the link. A hacker had faked his identity and transferred his phone number from T-Mobile to a carrier called Bandwidth that was linked to a Google Voice account in the hacker's possession. Once all the calls and messages to Kenna's number were being routed to them, the hacker(s) then reset the passwords for Kenna's email addresses by having the SMS codes sent to them (or, technically, to Kenna's number, newly in their possession). Within seven minutes of being locked out of his first account, Kenna was shut out of of up to 30 others, including two banks, PayPal, two bitcoin services — and, crucially, his Windows account, which was the key to his PC. Comments

Rogue One! It’s a Star Wars film, that’s for sure, and yet in many ways it has eschewed the tropes of the standard “Saga” movies with a style all its own. Of course, that was the intention of Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and director Gareth Edwards in introducing this first standalone Star Wars movie, i.e. a story set outside of the Skywalker family soap opera.

So let’s take a look at some of the things Rogue One did differently than the rest of the Star Wars movies to date -- from little things like onscreen text changes to bigger stuff such as music, digital character creation, and

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Yes indeed, some major spoilers follow.

That’s right -- it never says “Star Wars” during the opening of the film. The traditional Lucasfilm logo followed by the full screen “Star Wars” and the blaring fanfare just isn’t a part of Rogue One. And when the Rogue One title (finally) appears onscreen, there’s nary a sign of the subtitle “A Star Wars Story.” It’s just “Rogue One.” And it’s pretty cool.

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A new prostate cancer treatment that combines lasers and deep-sea bacteria could be "truly transformative," according to a team of researchers. A trial conducted with 415 men across Europe finished with nearly half completely free of cancer compared...

Last week Google released the GBoard update as an apk for users to try on their android devices. On Saturday, Google released the official update through the Play Store. Since Google has given us this early Christmas present we figured a little How-To was in order to showcase some of the great features of this app.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is more than just a prequel; it's an answer to a question that's been lingering in the Star Wars universe since the opening crawl in A New Hope first ran in 1977.

"It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire," the set-up for the first Star Wars film reads. "During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star."

But Rogue One goes farther than just showing the story behind those pivotal three sentences. Here's a breakdown of all the ways the new Star Wars film sets up events that play out in A New Hope. Full spoilers for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, as well as A New Hope and Return of the Jedi, continue below. Also make sure to check out IGN's review of Rogue One, and see if you caught all the Easter eggs, references and trivia!

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For the first time, NASA has successfully grown and harvested fresh greens in space.

In a post on the official NASA homepage, astronaut Shane Kimbrough began nurturing six romaine lettuce seedlings aboard the International Space Station on October 25, and on December 2, he enjoyed the first fruits of his labor as a "mid-afternoon snack."

The grow is part of NASA's "Veggie" experiment, which acknowledges that "future long-duration space missions will require crew members to grow their own food, so understanding how plants respond to microgravity is an important step toward that goal."

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Warning: spoilers for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ahead.  

Rogue One director Gareth Edwards went through a lot effort to include two particular cameos in the film.

In the new film, Garven Dreis/Red Leader (the late Drewe Henley) and Jon Vander/Gold Leader (Angus MacInnes) show up looking exactly like they did nearly 40 years ago in the original Star Wars. While speaking to RadioTimes, Edwards revealed that he was able to pull these scenes off by finding unused footage from Star Wars discovered in the archives at Skywalker Ranch.

Explained Edwards, "We’re walking around, and doing all the cool things and looking at the Millennium Falcon and trying on Han Solo’s jacket and things like that, in the back at the bottom was all these cans of film. And we said ‘what are they?’ and they said ‘Oh, it’s Star Wars.’"

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Following the theatrical debut of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story last week, director Gareth Edwards has come forward to discuss the film's ending.

Warning: Major Rogue One: A Star Wars Story spoilers below. We're not kidding on this one!

...One extra spoiler warning to be safe!

Edwards discussed the film's dramatic conclusion on the Empire Podcast (via Heroic Hollywood), shedding light on the bold decision to kill off every member of the Rogue One crew. "I think there was an early version - the very first version they didn’t

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Details regarding the contract for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story's highest-paid actor have reportedly been revealed, suggesting the actor may one day reprise their role in a future Star Wars film.

Warning: Possible Rogue One: A Star Wars Story spoilers follow.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jyn Erso star Felicity Jones was the highest-paid member of the film's cast, earning the biggest paycheck by a large margin.

Sources told the outlet that she was able to negotiate a seven-figure salary after earning a best actress nomination for her role in The Theory of Everything, with one "knowledgeable source" in particular saying, "she knows her worth." Meanwhile, other members of the film's cast, like Ben Mendelsohn and Diego Luna, were given substantially smaller paychecks that were no more than mid-six figures in size.

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UPDATE: A representative for Bill Gates confirmed to us that the package is authentic and that Mr. Gates has participated in Reddit’s Secret Santa program for the last few years.

Each year, members of Reddit sign up to be part of the largest Secret Santa gift exchange on the planet. This year, one redditor's Santa also happened to be the world's richest person.

According to a post on Reddit, a mysterious package was delivered via FedEx to Reddit user Aerrix's residence this morning while she was out. After tearing into the larger-than-expected box and clearing away some of the bubble wrap, Aerrix said she uncovered a photo and her "jaw. Just. Drops."

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Here are the coolest Easter eggs, references and pieces of trivia from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Make sure to check out our review of Rogue One.

Warning: this article contains spoilers!

Let’s start with some movie references, which you may or may not have noticed depending how strong you are with the Force.

There’s a glass of blue milk in the Erso home just like Luke drank with his aunt and uncle in A New Hope.

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Spoilers follow for Rogue One.

So Darth Vader’s castle is in the new Star Wars movie… how about that, eh!? My kid, upon seeing it, called out “the Tower of Orthanc!” I get that, only the Tower of Orthanc didn’t sit amid treacherous lava rivers on a planet of death and horror. Darth Vader’s home, apparently, does.

Because yes, the castle is on Mustafar, that awful world where the Sith Lord’s final transformation from Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader took place as he battled Obi-Wan Kenobi and lost several limbs, and his soul, for his trouble. (Oddly, while Rogue One goes out of its way to tag each planet’s name with onscreen titles, Mustafar is not specifically named. But Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalgo recently all but confirmed that’s where the castle is located.)

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story had a strong debut this weekend, earning $290.5 million worldwide and $155 million in North America.

As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, this now makes the release of Rogue One the second-biggest debut ever for the month of December. Meanwhile, Star Wars: The Force Awakens remains number one and currently stands as the third-highest grossing film in history, with over $2 billion in global sales. The J.J. Abrams-directed film earned a whopping $247.9 million at the North American box office when it released last December.

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Sam Esmail is apparently taking a very unusual strategy for his next big project beyond Mr. Robot: he's tackling one of the earliest sci-fi epics. Hollywood Reporter sources say that Esmail is creating a miniseries based around Metropolis, Fritz Lan...

President-elect Donald Trump is an active Twitter user and has over 17.4 million followers. Those are facts. The contents of his tweets usually aren't. Or they aren't whole truths. As a way of fact checking our nation's next leader's online musings,...

Amazon has successfully delivered a customer package by drone — without a human pilot.

Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon and serves as the company's CEO, announced the achievement on Twitter. "First-ever Amazon Prime Air customer delivery is in the books. "13

— click to delivery," he said.

The completed Amazon Prime Air delivery occurred in Cambridgeshire, England, on December 7. The drone works autonomously, flying under 400 feet from warehouse to household.

Amazon Prime Air is only in the private testing phase right now, but the company is hoping to expand the program in the years ahead. In fact, Amazon announced drone delivery back in 2013.

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Xiaomi's Mi Pad 2 is over one year old at this point, so you'd expect a successor to show up pretty soon, right? Right. Meet the Mi Pad 3, which has been leaked today in all its glory in China thanks to some newly uncovered promotional materials. The Mi Pad 3 will be bigger than both of its predecessors, opting to sport a 9.7-inch 2,048x1,536 touchscreen, matching Apple's iPad Pro 9.7 in both size and resolution. Speaking of which, the Mi Pad 3 is barely thinner than Apple's tablet, coming in at 6.08mm compared to 6.1mm. Xiaomi's device weighs only 380g, 57g less than the iPad, and it...

Trinus PSVR is an unofficial driver that lets you play virtually any SteamVR game using Sony's PlayStation VR headset.

"Trinus PSVR lets you play PC games using your Playstation PSVR headset," reads the Trinus website. "This is an early stage version, it supports SteamVR games (without VR controllers) and non-VR games (through mouse emulation)."

To get started, head to the Trinus website and download the driver. Run setup, then go into display settings and set up extended displays so the PC knows to output to your PSVR. Make sure to set up SteamVR control to track head movement.

Trinus' driver provides an attractive alternative for players interested in VR games on PC but decidedly uninterested in shelling out $600 for an Oculus Rift or $800 for HTC Vive. PSVR only costs $400 and, provided Trinus continues to roll out updates, has access to a growing number of VR games made for PC.