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New measurements from the Hubble telescope suggest the universe is expanding between five and nine percent faster than scientists initially thought. NASA and the ESA measured the distance to stars in 19 galaxies outside of our own and compared the da...

Following a controversial top-secret meeting last month, a group of scientists have announced that they're working on synthesizing human genes from scratch. The project, currently titled HGP-Write, has the stated aim of reducing the cost of gene synt...

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The couch gag on last night Simpsons episode was illustrated in the style of an Ikea instruction manual. See also the Ikea instructions for making Dick in the Box.

Tags: Ikea   The Simpsons   TV   video

The NYPD Mobility Initiative is paying off in spades for Gotham's police. The force's Deputy Commissioner for Information Technology Jessica Tisch recently revealed that thanks to the initiative that puts smartphones and tablets in police hands, resp...

Google's self-driving cars are not only getting smarter by the day, but they're also getting a little bit more polite. According to the project's latest monthly report, the self-driving car team has recently been teaching the car's AI when and how to...

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#tbt to #2011 #BurningMan when we watched the #EarthHarp being played at the #temple
#blackrockcity #nevada #desert #williamclose (at Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nv)

Primping and posing, and a little clowning.
#wedding #fun (at The Clarke Estate)

For those making their way to this year's Olympic games in Rio this August, Visa will be the only card accepted at official venues -- a pretty sweet deal for the credit provider. But, rather than be satisfied with exclusive access to the wallets of a...

Today, Yahoo made minor history by becoming the first company to publicly confirm that it has been issued National Security Letters (NSLs) from the FBI. It sounds like a simple story, but it's actually a huge win for transparency: until recently, gag...

Scientists at NASA's Environment and Climate Change Canada and researchers at University of Maryland, College Park and Dalhousie University discovered 39 unreported "major" sources of toxic air pollution. Using the space agency's satellite imaging, t...

First predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity, an "Einstein Ring" is a rarely observed, but incredibly interesting astronomical phenomenon that occurs when two distant galaxies are perfectly aligned, millions of light years apart. The li...

You would think that police would require a warrant to get your phone's location info, right? Not according to the US' Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. It just ruled that asking a company for cellphone location data you've offered to a third-party...

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How to threaten your dog. 🔊

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General Mills has issued a recall notice for three brands of flour due to a possible link with an E. coli outbreak.

A North Korean propaganda outlet has backed presumptive U.S. Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Storage in your laptop or smartphone is a compromise between volume, access speed and physical size. But, the industry's competition to shrink them while boosting their specifications is fierce. A few months after shipping a 16TB solid-state drive, S...

A video shows a giant alligator on a Florida golf course.

via http://9gag.com/hot/index/type/all/page/8

Planet Aid reportedly has ties to a secretive Danish organization founded by a man currently wanted for tax evasion.

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“These cute little birds were like this for over half an hour… Not giving up… So I thought I’d keep them warm.”

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If you were worried that a possible Senate bill requiring encryption backdoors would get enough support to become law, you can relax... for a while, at least. Reuters' government tipsters claim that the proposal, drafted by Senators Richard Burr and...

Mars is about to make its closest approach to Earth in the space of a decade... and this time around, it'll be trivially easy to watch this rare celestial event. Slooh is offering a live stream that will kick off around 9PM Eastern, when the sky sho...