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Comet 67P Repeatedly Changed Color During the Historic Rosetta Mission

Comet 67P Repeatedly Changed Color During the Historic Rosetta Mission

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Comet 67P Repeatedly Changed Color During the Historic Rosetta Mission A review of data taken over the course of the two-year Rosetta mission shows that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was sometimes reddish in appearance, while at other times it assumed a bluish hue. Sounds weird, but scientists have come up with a sensible explanation that doesn’t involve aliens with paint guns. Read more... Go to Source
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Birds of Prey Is a Colorful, Explosive Comic Book Extravaganza

Birds of Prey Is a Colorful, Explosive Comic Book Extravaganza

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Birds of Prey Is a Colorful, Explosive Comic Book Extravaganza Birds of Prey is not a Suicide Squad sequel. It is not DC and Warner Bros.’ follow up to Joker. It’s really not even particularly a comic book superhero movie, outside of the fact that it stars comic characters. Hell, depending on your point of view, whether or not it’s a Birds of Prey movie might be an argument. But…Read more... Go to Source
Beneath the Arctic’s Sea Ice, Robots Are Illuminating a Mysterious World

Beneath the Arctic’s Sea Ice, Robots Are Illuminating a Mysterious World

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Beneath the Arctic's Sea Ice, Robots Are Illuminating a Mysterious World Less than 200 miles from the North Pole in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, the German icebreaker Polarstern sits frozen into the ice and shrouded in darkness. Several times a week, a handful of crew members venture forth from the relative safety and warmth of their vessel into a realm of bone-chilling temperatures,…Read more... Go to Source
Charge All Your Devices For Cheap With Today’s RAVPower Gold Box

Charge All Your Devices For Cheap With Today’s RAVPower Gold Box

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Charge All Your Devices For Cheap With Today's RAVPower Gold Box RAVPower Charger Gold Box | Amazon If you’re tired of your phone and all the other devices you own just dying on you, you should probably stack up on RAVPower Portable chargers and accessories since they’re up to 30% off. Prices start at $12, but just remember that Gold Box deals only last for the day and can sell out…Read more... Go to Source
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Jalopnik At $11,500, Could This Turbocharged 2000 Honda CR-V Be A Real BFD?  |Jezebel Things Seem to Be a Little Icy Between Pelosi & Trump, for Some Reason  |The Root Black History Month Is for White People  |The A.V. Club Happy 10th anniversary to Undercover Boss, the most reprehensible propaganda on TV  |Read more... Go to Source
‘We Feel Really Terrible About That,’ CEO of Firm Behind App That Ruined Iowa Caucuses Says

‘We Feel Really Terrible About That,’ CEO of Firm Behind App That Ruined Iowa Caucuses Says

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'We Feel Really Terrible About That,' CEO of Firm Behind App That Ruined Iowa Caucuses Says CEO Gerard Niemira of Shadow Inc., the developers of the unfortunately named election app that caused Monday’s Democratic presidential caucus in Iowa to turn into a much bigger shitshow than it usually is, told Bloomberg on Tuesday night that he’s really sorry about all that. But he argued that the app was actually…Read more... Go to Source
Disney+ Reveals When The Mandalorian Will Return and When Marvel Will Arrive

Disney+ Reveals When The Mandalorian Will Return and When Marvel Will Arrive

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Disney+ Reveals When The Mandalorian Will Return and When Marvel Will Arrive When the summer movie season ends this year, Disney+ heats up. Disney CEO Bob Iger announced today that Marvel Studios’ first streaming show, The Falcon and Winter Soldier, will debut in August. It’ll be followed by season two of The Mandalorian in October, and WandaVision in December.Read more... Go to Source
Alleged CIA Leaker Joshua Schulte Was Made Scapegoat for Being ‘a Pain in the Ass,’ Defense Argues

Alleged CIA Leaker Joshua Schulte Was Made Scapegoat for Being ‘a Pain in the Ass,’ Defense Argues

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Alleged CIA Leaker Joshua Schulte Was Made Scapegoat for Being 'a Pain in the Ass,' Defense Argues Defense lawyers for former CIA software engineer Joshua Adam Schulte say that the CIA and federal prosecutors don’t actually know for certain who was behind a 2017 leak of cyber espionage documents, let alone whether it was their client, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Instead, they said he really pissed…Read more... Go to Source
CEO of Creepy Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI Says He Has First Amendment Right to Billions of Photos

CEO of Creepy Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI Says He Has First Amendment Right to Billions of Photos

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CEO of Creepy Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI Says He Has First Amendment Right to Billions of Photos Hoan Ton-That, the CEO and founder of a face recognition company that he freely admits could help lead to a surveillance “nightmare” and a “dystopian future or something,” says he has a First Amendment right to scrape whatever images he damn well pleases off public websites like Twitter to pad out his company’s…Read more... Go to Source
How Birds of Prey Stands Out in DC’s Post-Wonder Woman World

How Birds of Prey Stands Out in DC’s Post-Wonder Woman World

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How Birds of Prey Stands Out in DC's Post-Wonder Woman World Margot Robbie has been hoping to get a movie like Birds of Prey on screen for years—and this Friday, that dream will finally be achieved. But in the time since Birds of Prey first became an idea over at DC, the superhero cinema landscape has slowly but surely begun to change. From Wonder Woman to Captain Marvel,…Read more... Go to Source
Couple Receives 55,000 Identical Bills from Student Loan Company In the Mail

Couple Receives 55,000 Identical Bills from Student Loan Company In the Mail

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Couple Receives 55,000 Identical Bills from Student Loan Company In the Mail Having delivered the last of this season’s letters to Santa, the United States Postal Service marches into bad winter determined to ferry bundles of wishlists from the wide-eyed children of the College Avenue Student Loan Company, who really really wanted a couple to pay their bill this quarter. The company addressed…Read more... Go to Source
Alphabet’s Jigsaw Develops Tool to Help Journalists Identify Manipulated Imagery

Alphabet’s Jigsaw Develops Tool to Help Journalists Identify Manipulated Imagery

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Alphabet's Jigsaw Develops Tool to Help Journalists Identify Manipulated Imagery The proliferation of doctored or misleading images that manage to spread like wildfire has required that newsrooms, fact-checkers, and journalists be especially wary of disinformation and targeted campaigns in various media. Jigsaw, an Alphabet-owned company, has announced a new tool aimed at helping journalists…Read more... Go to Source
The MTA Is Dangling a Big Bag of Money in Front of Uber and Lyft

The MTA Is Dangling a Big Bag of Money in Front of Uber and Lyft

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The MTA Is Dangling a Big Bag of Money in Front of Uber and Lyft It’s been said that, despite a robust transit system, all New Yorkers do is complain about the subway. This is true! We like complaining. But every bit of bile stored for the next unplanned service outage is nothing compared to the gallons of piss and vinegar that should deservedly be poured onto the MTA’s pilot plan…Read more... Go to Source
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Stop Buying the MacBook Air

Stop Buying the MacBook Air

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There’s A Good Chance Climate Change Will Kill The Rally Sweden

There’s A Good Chance Climate Change Will Kill The Rally Sweden

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There's A Good Chance Climate Change Will Kill The Rally Sweden Rally Sweden, with its treacherous snow-packed roadways and unique winter conditions, has been a longstanding gem in the World Rally Championship calendar. But the fate of this month’s February 13-16 event is currently hanging in the balance because there’s just not enough snow.Read more... Go to Source
Why the Birds of Prey Are Finally Taking Flight

Why the Birds of Prey Are Finally Taking Flight

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Why the Birds of Prey Are Finally Taking Flight DC Entertainment is about to achieve something that Marvel Studios hasn’t. When Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) opens on February 7, it will be the first comic book movie starring an all-female superteam. And assuming the CW picks up the Arrow spinoff and Birds of Prey-inspired …Read more... Go to Source
Neural Networks Upscale Film from 1896 to 4K, Make It Look Like It Was Shot on a Modern Smartphone

Neural Networks Upscale Film from 1896 to 4K, Make It Look Like It Was Shot on a Modern Smartphone

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Neural Networks Upscale Film from 1896 to 4K, Make It Look Like It Was Shot on a Modern Smartphone There are lots of valid reasons to be worried about how deep learning techniques could potentially be used to manipulate footage for nefarious reasons. But as Denis Shiryaev demonstrates by upscaling some old black and white film footage from 1896, those AI-powered tools can also be a powerful way to bring the past…Read more... Go to Source
Twitter Admits to Helping Spread Election Disinformation During Iowa Caucuses

Twitter Admits to Helping Spread Election Disinformation During Iowa Caucuses

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Twitter Admits to Helping Spread Election Disinformation During Iowa Caucuses The Washington Post’s Tony Romm reported on Monday night that Twitter has decided it will allow certain right-wing accounts to spread disinformation about the Iowa Democratic Caucuses, including tweets that suggest the results are being “rigged.”Read more... Go to Source
Alphabet Finally Discloses Size of YouTube’s Ad Business: Over $15 Billion in 2019

Alphabet Finally Discloses Size of YouTube’s Ad Business: Over $15 Billion in 2019

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Alphabet Finally Discloses Size of YouTube's Ad Business: Over $15 Billion in 2019 Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has disclosed how much YouTube’s advertising business rakes in for the first time, writing in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the streaming giant made just shy of $15.15 billion in ad revenue in fiscal year 2019. It made some $4.79 billion of it in Q4 2019…Read more... Go to Source
Sci-Fi Has Never Been More at One With Nature Than in These Posters

Sci-Fi Has Never Been More at One With Nature Than in These Posters

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Sci-Fi Has Never Been More at One With Nature Than in These Posters When you think sci-fi, you think metal. You think space. You think speed, technology, lasers, and everything mechanical. You don’t think trees. You don’t think grass, rivers, or flowers. And yet, the crossovers between nature and sci-fi are everywhere, which is especially evident in this beautiful new art show.Read more... Go to Source
Iowa Caucus Results May Take a Few More Hours to Roll in Due to Election App Problem [Update: Hoo Boy]

Iowa Caucus Results May Take a Few More Hours to Roll in Due to Election App Problem [Update: Hoo Boy]

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Iowa Caucus Results May Take a Few More Hours to Roll in Due to Election App Problem [Update: Hoo Boy] Update: 11:30 p.m. ET: Prior accounts of some problems with the app the Iowa Democratic Party is using to collect and tabulate results appear to have been somewhat... understating the situation. It is now hours after the process of releasing caucus results was expected to begin—and instead, there’s been little beyond…Read more... Go to Source