While the Sony Pictures hack debacle continues to unfold, Sony has now made its first substantive comments about the whole ordeal—at least internally. The company has referred to what's happened as an "unparalleled crime" which is a "unprecedented in nature."
In my musical upbringing, Ghostface Killah is an oddity. Back in 2006, I was a senior in high school and my iPod was almost exclusively filled with classic rock tracks (thanks parents) and Rage Against The Machine (thanks teenage angst). There's no reason that Ghostface Killah's absolutely amazing Fishscale should…
Later tonight, you'll be able to watch a man attempt to become a 25-foot, giant green anaconda's dinner—willingly. And to make sure our human snake snack makes it out alive, scientists spent months designing, testing, and building one incontrovertibly snake-proof suit. Air mask, chainmail, pig's blood and all.
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Acclaimed warbird photographer, Cockpit 360 app impresario and good friend of Foxtrot Alpha, Lyle Jansma, takes us to the Hawaiian island of Oahu for an incredible visual tour of historic Ford Island on this the 73rd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Over the weekend, I watched the always wonderful and under-appreciated Titan AE (via HBO Go). It had been awhile since I'd seen it—maybe a five years or so—and I was amazed how great that movie still is. Think about it: an animated film that nearly kills the entire human race before the title screen. Gutsy.
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BBC News is reporting that the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has confirmed that another (stupid) amateur drone pilot almost hit an Airbus A320 as it was landing at Heathrow Airport on July 22nd, threatening the lives of nearly 180 people on board.
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This nasty-looking storm (yes, that's a storm not some hostile extraterrestrial unleashing otherworldly Armageddon) only confirms what we've always known: Mother Nature can be truly terrifying.
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The best thing about smartphones is that they're always improving thanks to developers looking for ways to make our pocket computers even better. This week we have lots of great downloadables for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Take a look and see if any strike your fancy.
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Welcome to Reading List, a short round up of great science and technology reads from around the internets. This week we have a sexy foray into the first erotic computer game and the story of a scientist whose discovery of the rare element francium ultimately caused her death. Get to readin'.
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This week's brain teaser will boldly go where no puzzle has gone before. Try and keep up.
Humanity has been obsessed with exploring the stars for millennia, it just took a little while for us to obtain the means of actually doing so. In his new book, The Art of Space, author Ron Miller explores both how we developed the technology necessary for space travel and how that technology has steadily migrated…
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Protesters are shutting down freeways, bridges, and tunnels across the U.S. The country's largest shantytown is being dismantled in the heart of Silicon Valley. And a proposal from a famous outdoor retailer could threaten Memphis's strangest landmark. It's What's Ruining Our Cities this week.
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After nine years and a journey of nearly 3-billion miles (4.8 billion km), NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons robotic probe has awoken from its hibernation in preparation for a unprecedented flyby of Pluto and other celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt.
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According to Bloomberg, the source of the huge Sony Pictures leak has been traced to a five-star hotel in Thailand's capital. Leaching off of the St. Regis hotel's high-speed wi-fi, the hackers, currently believed the work of the North Korea-linked group DarkSeoul, carried out their devastating and embarrassing…
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The new GoPro Hero4 Black is a 4K-shooting beast of an action cam, and if you missed out on a few Black Friday bundle deals, you're in luck today.
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On Friday Digital Einstein went live, bringing with it a treasure trove of Einstein letters, correspondences, postcards, and notes detailing the life of one of the world's greatest thinkers. As The New York Times reports, these are The Dead Sea Scrolls of physics and you can read them today for free.
NASA's Orion spacecraft, designed to ferry the first humans to Mars, lifts off from Cape Canaveral on Friday morning. Orion reached speeds of 20,ooo mph and traveled 3,600 miles from Earth before a successful splashdown in the Pacific. [Bill Ingalls/NASA]
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Traveling nowadays doesn't require much technological preparation. If you've got your smartphone, you're pretty much good to go. But there are still tons of gadgets that can make your trip from point A to point B—whether by plane, train, or automobile—more enjoyable.
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Soon Disney will begin lining its commercial Star Wars coffers with plastic action figures, T-shirts, and collapsible lightsabers. But one French 3D printing outfit took more of a "screw it, I'll do it myself" approach by creating a 3D-printed version of the new Star Wars lightsaber.
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The advent of the internet, torrenting, and legally dubious streaming sites have threatened theaters for years, but cinemas are still big business and Dolby is investing in its future with Dolby Cinema.
