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Strong Texas Winds Hit Elon Musk's Starship Prototype and Down It Goes
Elon Musk’s prototype of the Starship spacecraft—the payload of a system formerly known as the Big “Falcon” Rocket, and the vessel that may one day shuttle SpaceX colonists to their likely deaths on Mars—fell over in strong winds at its facility in Boca Chica, Texas on Tuesday.
Facebook Announces New Policies Aimed at Axing Pages and Groups Peddling Fake News
Long after it became painfully clear that Facebook was being manipulated as a tool to undermine democracy and cause harm, the social media company still struggles to keep its platform free of the kind of garbage specially engineered to effectively warp reality—even as recently as this month. And previous systems it’s…
The Best Drawer And Shelf Dividers For Socks'n'Stuff
January, with its focus on Getting Things Done, continues apace and perhaps you’ve recently undertaken, say, a clean out of your dresser drawers. That is a very good start-of-year thing to do! As a result, you might be thinking to yourself that you need some new organizing solutions for small items like socks,…
Key Data For NASA's Ice-Monitoring Satellite in Trouble Thanks to Shutdown
Last month, NASA researchers were gleefully sharing the early returns from their recently launched ice-monitoring satellite, ICESat-2, at the world’s largest annual meeting of Earth scientists. This month, many of those same researchers are furloughed as a vital airborne campaign needed to calibrate the satellite…
Nic Cage Is Getting Downright Lovecraftian for Color Out of Space
One of Lovecraft’s most beloved short stories is being turned into a movie—and Nicolas Cage is on board to star.
The 10 Best Deals of January 23, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
How Did Mark Zuckerberg Kill the Goat?
We have a lot of questions about Facebook’s CEO, some of which we’ve posed on this very website. But a new interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has introduced one mystery we absolutely must unravel: Did Mark Zuckerberg shoot a goat to death with lasers?
The 2020 GMC Sierra HD Lets You See Straight Through the Trailer You're Hauling
As we learned on Tuesday night, the 2020 GMC Sierra HD is significantly less ugly than its fraternal twin at Chevrolet, the 2020 Silverado HD, and has more cameras on board than a crowd at a Justin Timberlake concert. The cameras are fancy, too, with one letting a driver see right through whatever they’re hauling.
Millions of Financial Records Leaked at Texas-Based Data Firm
For at least the third time in as many days, a large cache of sensitive data has been reportedly exposed due to a misconfigured Elasticsearch server. In this case, a whopping 24 million financial and banking records are said to be involved.
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Pretty Fly for a WiFi (Router Deal)
If you haven’t upgraded your router in the past 5 years, it’s time. And Amazon is offering a solid deal on the Netgear Nighthawk AC1750 Dual Band Router.
Amazon and Chase Will Not Give Me a Straight Answer About What They Do With My Credit Card Data
Whenever I go out to dinner with a bunch of friends, and we split the check, multiple people wind up throwing in those heavy, slate-grey credit cards bearing Amazon’s smiley arrow.
People in Red and Blue States May Use Weed Very Differently—and Not Just Due to Legalization
A U.S. state’s politics could be influencing how people use cannabis, suggests a new study out Wednesday from Columbia University. It found that liberal states had higher rates of pot use than conservative states, but conservative states had higher rates of harmful, addictive use. These differences could be seen among…
Hulu Is Cutting the Price of Its Cheapest Plan—and Increasing the Cost of Live TV
Netflix is raising prices, but its competitor is opting for a different tack—sort of. Hulu’s just announced that its cheapest subscription plan price will drop to $6 a month—two whole dollars less than the current $8 price.
Get In The Head of Agent 47 for Just $30 Right Now
Agents, it’s time to clean out your glocks and shine your domes. Hitman 2 is on sale for just $30 on both Xbox One and PS4.
Microsoft Thought It'd Be a Good Idea to Add a 'Fake News' Tracker in the Edge Browser
NewsGuard is a startup organization that aims to evaluate the reliability of news organizations and give web users a quick rating for how much they should trust what they’re reading. As of this week, the company’s plug-in now comes packaged in Microsoft’s mobile Edge browser. It’s a development that everyone should…
How Brands Think They Can Make a Buck off Climate Change
Climate change is in the process of turning our world into a dystopian nightmare. But at least we’ll have the brands, brands that’ll continue to try and sell us crap to deal with our future hellscape.
Google's Plan to Limit Ad Blockers on Chrome Riles Developers
Top developers behind ad-blocking and anti-tracking browser extensions say they’re alarmed by potential changes coming to Chrome recently disclosed in a public Google document. As a result, at least one company is now threatening possible legal action.
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