Saturday, March 5, 2016

These Photoshops of 'Little Marco' In a Giant Chair Are Getting Brutal

Uh oh. Remember when Donald Trump called Marco Rubio “Little Marco” in the last debate? Well, now the internet is having a field day with this photo of Marco Rubio sitting in a gigantic chair.

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Friday, March 4, 2016

This Meteorite Settles a Question About Which Elements Made Up the Early Universe

Scientists from the University of Chicago have taken a look at the Curious Marie, a bit of meteorite containing perhaps the most valuable ceramic in the world. These ceramic elements can tell us whether the early universe created heavy particles—without containing any of those elements.

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Thursday, March 3, 2016

This Argument for Why Apple Needs to Help the FBI Is Straight-Up Insane 

San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos has an, um, unusual take on why Apple should assist the FBI by creating software to help unlock a suspect’s iPhone: If Apple doesn’t, he argues, the county may never know if it is threatened by a “dormant cyber pathogen.”

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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Samsung's 16TB SSD Is Now an Actual Thing People Can Buy

Last year, Samsung made the rest of the world feel mighy inadequate by announcing a world-record 16TB SSD. Turns out that was more than just talk—Samsung is shipping drives to (very wealthy) customers today.

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Watch As SpaceX Tries To Launch SES-9 For The Third Time

SpaceX’s SES-9 mission is slated to launch later today at 6:46pm from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The mission has been scrubbed twice already, so maybe the third time is the charm?

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