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Air-Breathing Fish 'Hibernate' in Pods on Dry Land (Video)
Live Science - 31 Jul 2017 17:41Slow cooker do's and don'ts that home cooks should live by
Digital Trends - 31 Jul 2017 18:15
For many home cooks, slow cookers make meal prep quicker and easier. Lucky for you, our guide will teach you how to use a Crock-Pot, so your meals turn out better, safer, and more flavorful. The post Slow cooker do’s a...
'Game of Thrones' Recap Season 7, Episode 3: The Fury That Drives You
Wired - 31 Jul 2017 19:49
Who will you be when the whip is finally in your hand: the woman who gets to wield it, or the one who drops it in the sand?
The cheapest Ryzen Threadripper yet: AMD's new Threadripper 1900X will cost $549
PC World - 31 Jul 2017 04:30
Continuing its attack on Intel's high-end desktop chips, AMD on Monday unveiled a third Ryzen Threadripper CPU priced at $549. The Ryzen Threadripper 1900X will feature 8-cores and 16-threads of computing power, but unli...
We're Not Totally Sure How Much the Planet Will Warm This Century--But We Still Need to Act
Gizmodo - 31 Jul 2017 17:00
It's a well-worn fact that our round Earth is warming, and that human carbon emissions are the cause. What's less well-known is how much warming we've already committed our planet to in the future. A new study crunched s...
Getting NASA astronauts safely out of Orion
Engadget - 31 Jul 2017 16:39
As Project Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom learned, NASA spaceflights are not over after splashdown. During his 1961 mission, the hatch blew too soon and nearly took him and the "Liberty Bell" capsule to the bottom of the ...
Picture perfect
EurekAlert! - 31 Jul 2017 06:00
(University of California - Santa Barbara) When taking a picture, a photographer must typically commit to a composition that cannot be changed after the shutter is released. For example, when using a wide-angle lens to c...
Anthony Scaramucci, White House Communications Director (July 21, 2017 - July 31, 2017)
Gizmodo - 31 Jul 2017 20:48
The New York Times reports that President Trump has removed Anthony Scaramucci from his role as White House communications director. It has only been ten days since the wealthy New York financier was named for the job.
Google Tells City 'Local Adolescents' Are Throwing its Bikes Into a Mountain View Creek
Motherboard - 31 Jul 2017 20:15
Mountain View public records show Google asked for help in retrieving its abandoned bikes from Stevens Creek.
GT-R-powered Ford Focus makes valiant bid to dominate Pikes Peak hill climb
Digital Trends - 31 Jul 2017 18:54
Tony Quinn, a race car driver from New Zealand, stuffed a Nissan GT-R-sourced 3.8-liter V6 in a Ford Focus in a bid to dominate Pikes Peak. His brakes failed this time, but he's already preparing for next year's edition....
Soccer robots compete in RoboCup 2017, hope to beat human players by 2050
Digital Trends - 31 Jul 2017 18:44
Every year for the past two decades, teams have met in a friendly tournament called RoboCup, which seems them compete in soccer matches and more practical challenges like industrial production and rescue missions. The po...
Every Voting Machine at This Hacking Conference Got Totally Pwned
Gizmodo - 31 Jul 2017 18:25
A noisy cheer went up from the crowd of hackers clustered around the voting machine tucked into the back corner of a casino conference room--they'd just managed to load Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" onto the Wi...
New Technique Creates Stunning 3D Images of Live Insects
Gizmodo - 31 Jul 2017 17:30
When taking high-resolution 3D scans of insects, scientists typically have to kill their test subjects, which isn't always ideal. By taking advantage of an insect's ability to survive oxygen-poor conditions, scientists h...
Google Searches About Suicide Increased After Netflix's '13 Reasons Why'
Motherboard - 31 Jul 2017 17:02
Many mental health experts worried the show glamorized suicide.
The Era of Human Gene Editing Is Here--What Happens Next Is Critical
Singularity Hub - 31 Jul 2017 17:00
Scientists in Portland, Ore., just succeeded in creating the first genetically modified human embryo in the United States, according to Technology Review. A team led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health & Science Univ...
Europa and Enceladus 'Will Have No Habitable Period,' Says Study on Ice Worlds
Motherboard - 31 Jul 2017 17:00
New research in Nature Geoscience predicts the hellish future fates of ice worlds like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Leak: Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL cases on Amazon may show Google's new designs
BGR - 31 Jul 2017 16:48Scramble to download VPN apps as they vanished from Apple's China App Store
Mashable - 31 Jul 2017 16:33Soyuz rocket delivers new crew to the ISS
Space News - 31 Jul 2017 16:32Neil Armstrong's Solid Gold Moon Lander Replica Stolen From Museum
Gizmodo - 31 Jul 2017 16:30
It's been a bad couple of weeks for priceless artifacts from NASA history. First, a moon-dusted sample bag from Apollo 11 was privately auctioned, and now a solid gold moon lander replica that was gifted to Neil Armstron...
Japan's potential SpaceX competitor achieves mixed results in first launch
TechCrunch - 31 Jul 2017 16:25
A Japanese startup commercial rocket launch attempted to launch a 10-meter tall ‘Momo’ rocket to orbit on Sunday, but while the rocket achieved liftoff, it only made it about one-fifth of its total target altitude. T...
Another Clue About Apple's Next iPhone May Have Just Dropped
Time - 31 Jul 2017 16:14
Developers found hints about the iPhone 8 hidden in Apple's code