KIC 8462862, a distant star, flickers erratically. Among the possibilities: occlusion by an alien "megastructure" surrounding it in space. Though it sounds far-fetched, and there's no other evidence of intelligence… Read the rest of the article: Alien "megastructure" mystery deepens, but probably isn't a Dyson sphere
Enjoy this remarkable montage of the Republican candidate for President of the United States flipping on virtually every position he's drawn breath to hold. His limited vocabulary makes it quite… Read the rest of the article: Trump disagrees with every position held by Trump
Donald Trump, sinking lately in the polls, is to "reboot" his campaign, writes the Wall Street Journal. Part of the issue for the New York businessman is that he has… Read the rest of the article: Trump reboot: ditch populism, adopt Republican platform, say Clinton is the crazy one
Gordon Tang and Huaidan Chen — Chinese nationals who live in Singapore — own a global property speculation and development empire whose US branch is called American Pacific International Capital… Read the rest of the article: Foreign influence: how a Chinese businessman funneled $1.3M to Jeb Bush's campaign
In Wire Wire: A West African Cyber Threat, researchers from Secureworks reveal their findings from monitoring a Nigerian bank-fraud ring whose members had unwittingly infected themselves with their own malware,… Read the rest of the article: Researchers learn about wire-fraud scam after Nigerian scammers infect themselves with their own malware
Malia Litman of Dallas TX describes herself as a stay-at-home mom. Unlike most moms (or dads, or anyone for that matter) she has spent $100,000 suing the U.S. government to… Read the rest of the article: Texas mom uncovers massive culture of corruption and sex scandals at US Secret Service
This is a demonstration of Omote, a real-time face tracking and projection mapping system.
Here's cobrakiller2000's homemade Levitron-style magnetic top. He says: The only non-electric way that I know off to get a magnet fully levitating over a magnet and with nice elevation too.… Read the rest of the article: Cool magnetic gyroscopic levitation
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Particle is a company makes low-cost Wi-Fi and cellular connected microcontrollers for prototyping the Internet of Things stuff. TJ Hunter used a Particle Electron and a GPS chip to make… Read the rest of the article: A cellular-connected Pokéball for finding rare Pokémon
This tiny computer isn't just cutest thing we ever did see, it's actually incredibly powerful too. If you play your cards right, you can program Raspberry Pi (no relation to… Read the rest of the article: A teeny, tiny Raspberry Pi computer
A team led by Ang Cui (previously) — the guy who showed how he could take over your LAN by sending a print-job to your printer — have presented research… Read the rest of the article: 1 billion computer monitors vulnerable to undetectable firmware attacks
In Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis, eminent Princeton security researchers Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan document the use of device battery levels — accessible both through mobile platform… Read the rest of the article: Web companies can track you — and price-gouge you — based on your battery life
Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has resigned from the Panamanian committee set up to probe the country's money-laundering industry in the wake of the Panama Papers leak, because the Panamanian… Read the rest of the article: Stiglitz quits Panama's official money-laundering panel over internal sabotage
If you live in the UK and watch live TV or use the Iplayer video-on-demand service, you have to pay a "license fee" that directly supports public media in the… Read the rest of the article: BBC will use surveillance powers to sniff Britons' wifi and find license-cheats
Uber's $62.5B valuation is an utterly speculative bet on a company that can only pay out if many sub-bets pay off: the timely arrival of self-driving cars, widespread adoption of… Read the rest of the article: How and why to short Uber
Tomorrow night, the Boogeyman descends on Los Angeles's Nicodim Gallery for an eerily compelling group art show, titled Omul Negro ("The man in black"). The theme is an exploration of… Read the rest of the article: Los Angeles: Freaky "Boogeyman"-themed occult art show (opens Saturday!)
Sarah Safi of Gary, Indiana was kicked out of a Family Dollar store by an assistant store manager who cited the woman's traditional Muslim dress, a niqab and hijab, as… Read the rest of the article: Muslim-American woman kicked out of Family Dollar store for wearing hijab and niqab
Two Muslim-American women were kicked off an American Airlines flight this week, basically for flying while Muslim.
When Lillian Cunningham, host of the podcast Presidential, offhandedly mentioned that Alec Baldwin resembles 13th President of the United States, Millard Fillmore, it didn't prepare me to find a photograph… Read the rest of the article: Alec Baldwin Is President Millard Fillmore's Doppelgänger
