Stephen Slater spent a year digging into never-before-seen footage of Apollo 11, NASA’s first moon landing. The results speak for themselves. NASA's lost moon landing footage and the man who brought it back to life – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreParis Martineau / Wired: An app Who’s in Town shows how much of sensitive location data users unwittingly share on Instagram, and how much their shares reveal, when aggregated — By aggregating data from geotagged posts and stories, Who’s in Town can paint a detailed picture of the habits and haunts of anyone with a
Read MoreIf you are the operator of a vintage computer, probably the only one of its type remaining in service, probably the worst thing you can hear is a loud pop followed by your machine abruptly powering down. That’s what happened to the Elliott 803B in the UK’s National Museum Of Computing, and its maintainer [Peter
Read MoreWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Research has shown that working out at your optimum heart rate will not only improve your overall health, but also deliver the most effective performance gains. And what better way to measure your heart beat than with a specialized
Read MoreThe English rock band Joy Division released their debut studio album “Unknown Pleasures” 40 years ago. The front cover doesn’t feature any words, only a now iconic black and white data graph showing 80 wiggly lines representing a signal from a pulsar in space. To mark the anniversary of the album, we recorded a signal
Read MoreUntil the Apollo 11 mission, my family didn’t have a television. Then, for one weekend, we joined the rest of Planet Earth. Just Before the Eagle Landed, an Alien Arrived in Our Living Room Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWe are normally told that microwave ovens are strictly for food only, and that anything else will cause all sorts of bad things to come our way. There can be few readers who haven’t at some time seen the shower of sparks when an inadvertent metallic object finds its way onto the turntable. A particularly
Read MoreIt appears hackers briefly took over UK Metropolitan Police’s website, posting a series of bizarre messages on its press section and social media accounts, including one which read “FUCK THE POLICE.” The messages were sent around 22:30UTC on July 2019. The Met Police team has since confirmed the breach occurred via third-party software. “Last night,
Read MoreIt was only on the fourth orbit, when the spacecraft’s orientation had changed, that they had the vision for which their mission will always be remembered. Shortly after they had swept from night to day, a bright, colorful complexity came past the limb of the Moon and into view. —Oh my God! Look at that
Read MoreMegan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: Instagram “tag cleaners” have flooded a murdered user’s tagged photos with pleasant images to combat trolls and drown out tagged images of gore — Over the last few days, a teenager named Taylor has spent more than a dozen hours uploading north of 900 photos to Instagram. Instagram "tag cleaners"
Read MoreSpending an hour or two around any consumer-level padlock or house deadbolt lock with a simple lockpicking kit will typically instil a good amount of panic and concern about security. While it’s true that any lock can be defeated, it’s almost comically easy to pick basic locks like this. So, if you’re looking for a
Read MoreHeads up: Thanos was going to de-CAPitate Captain America. Avengers: Endgame writers, Russo brothers spill secrets at Comic-Con 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJon Favreau’s version of the classic offers incredibly lifelike characters, but at what cost? The Lion King review: Remake might be too realistic for its own good – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGet ready to see Rick Grimes and zombies on the big screen. Plus more details on AMC’s The Walking Dead season 10 revealed at SDCC. The Walking Dead movie with Rick Grimes will be shown in actual theaters – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreExclusive: Unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con, the Hasbro Star Wars toy features super realistic details and articulation. Hyperreal Luke Skywalker action figure has that Mark Hamill je ne sais quoi – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMasie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and more bring answers to big questions about the show. Game of Thrones San Diego Comic-Con panel 2019: What we learned – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe cast of Game of Thrones talk about how fans reacted to the final season. Game of Thrones panel addresses fan backlash at San Diego Comic-Con – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJonathan Vanian / Fortune: How Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are racing for dominance as cloud platforms for game streaming, as the gaming industry is set to generate $152B in 2019 — Streaming video games promises to be an all-out brawl among companies with the internet infrastructure to back it up. At stake? How Microsoft, Amazon,
Read MoreHarvesting energy from the human body may sound scary, but fortunately a Matrix-style setup exists only as a cinematic fiction. Instead a typical path lies in external contraptions that use the body’s natural motions to drive a small generator, a bit of flexible piezo material, and so on. A popular target for harvesting the body’s
Read MoreLauren Schmidt Hissrich says the show can “stand on its own two legs.” The Witcher doesn't 'need to be the answer' to Game of Thrones, showrunner says – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhotography enthusiasts say they purchased a $13,000 camera lens for $94 during Amazon’s annual marketing event. Experts say it was a pricing error. Amazon’s best Prime Day deal was probably an accident Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreYou may recall that approximately five years ago, Nvidia showed off its latest lighting tech (at the time) by recreating the Apollo 11 moon landing. The video was meant to help debunk moon landing conspiracy theorists who claimed some of the lighting in images from the landing was not possible. Obviously, it was. Well, it’s
Read MoreOklahoma shelter had an out-of-this-world idea to help find new Earth homes for orphan pets. Skip Area 51: Raid this animal shelter for tin-foil hat wearing dogs – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe static fire test completed Friday. SpaceX Falcon 9 will blast off for the ISS in July – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Equifax is nearing a ~$700M settlement to resolve federal and state probes and a national class-action lawsuit over the breach disclosed in Sept. 2017 — Credit-reporting firm nears deal to settle investigations into 2017 hack that exposed millions of Americans’ personal data Sources: Equifax is nearing a ~0M
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