The story behind the funniest e-mail Hillary Clinton has ever sent
The body of the e-mail is five words long. It reads: “Where are we on this?”
The subject line, meanwhile, says only: “Gefilte fish.”
September 1, 2015 at 12:51PM
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NASA Crashes a Plane to Make Finding Crashed Planes Easier
Sometimes, you’ve got a good reason to take a 1970s plane, fill it with dummies and electronics, and drop it 100 feet onto a pile of dirt. At least, NASA does.
September 1, 2015 at 12:51PM
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A Visual Evolution Of Google Logos
Google is almost old enough to vote, so they made a retrospective for themselves.
September 1, 2015 at 11:41AM
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Google’s New Logo Is Its Biggest Update In 16 Years
You will very soon notice that Google has a new logo that’s sleeker, brighter, and for the first time, animated. And then, you probably won’t notice it at all.
September 1, 2015 at 11:05AM
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Drones: Now Taking All The Nuance Out Of Fishing
On the plus side, now you don’t need to buy a boat!
September 1, 2015 at 10:57AM
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Seniors citizens’ use of computers and mobile phones might shave 10 years off their mental age
Everyone fears a decline in mental ability as they age. However, if you are an avid user of technology, that decline could be delayed. at
September 1, 2015 at 07:02AM
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Facebook’s New Spam-Killer Hints At The Future Of Coding
Facebook has spent the last two years rebuilding the system that removes spam — malicious, offensive, or otherwise unwanted messages — from the world’s largest social network. That’s no small task — Facebook juggles messages from more than 1.5 billion people worldwide. To tackle the problem, the team made an unusual choice: they used a programming language called Haskell.
September 1, 2015 at 07:02AM
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Inside The Inscrutable Physics Of A Heart Murmur
Coming up with a complete mathematical description of turbulence, in which a fluid can be described at every point using what are known as the Navier-Stokes equations, is one of seven Millennium Prize problems put forth by the Clay Mathematics Institute. Showing that solutions to these equations _always_ exist (or don’t) then comes with a million dollar bounty.
September 1, 2015 at 07:02AM
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Secret Service agent pleads guilty to stealing money from Silk Road dealers
Shaun Bridges, a former Secret Service agent who was investigating the Silk Road website, pled guilty today to charges of money laundering and obstruction of justice. After Silk Road admin Curtis Green was arrested, he debriefed agents in Baltimore. Bridges took his admin credentials and started locking Silk Road drug dealers out of their accounts. He then looted them, grabbing about 20,000 Bitcoins.
September 1, 2015 at 06:35AM
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Brain Cancer Surgery Is Stuck ‘In The Middle Ages’ — Is There A Better Way?
Telling cancer from non-cancer is tough for brain surgeons. Scorpions, Amazon and the legacy of a dying girl might change that.
September 1, 2015 at 06:33AM
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