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The U.K. government’s mass surveillance powers were deemed unlawful on Tuesday in a court ruling that could force changes to the country’s spy laws. Three judges at London’s Court of Appeal found that a sweeping data retention law, which allowed…

ift.tt/2DNsbyW The recession of Earth’s ice caps is among the most obvious bellwethers of human-driven climate change. Scientists have captured this decades-long trend from space with satellite reconnaissance, but groups like the Aotearoa New Zealand Ross Ice Shelf program are…

ift.tt/2EqdXRI Good news, America! January 30th, 2018 is upon us, which means President Donald Trump (repeat that aloud if you didn’t experience enough joy just reading the words) will be delivering his first real State of the Union address. If…

ift.tt/2dT3NKr Congratulations, you’ve made it to the end of the work week! What will you do with two whole days stretched out in front of you? Might be a good time to get going on a nice ravioli-making project, clean…

ift.tt/2FkaDXw Before the word “hack” was in anyone’s vocabulary (or before anyone even knew what a kitchen hack was), we had Julia Child. Plugging away in her iconic blue-green kitchen, this master of French cuisine discovered more handy tips and…

ift.tt/2nhenl4 One of the largest affiliate programs on the Internet, and arguably the one that skyrocketed affiliate marketing into the forefront, is Amazon Associates. There are tons of ways for you to boost your earnings through this program, but there…

ift.tt/2DHG6q6 Earlier this week, we reported on a subreddit called "deepfakes," a growing community of redditors who create fake porn videos of celebrities using existing video footage and a machine learning algorithm. This algorithm is able to take the face…

The 45th President and His Administration A federal judge in Maryland ruled Friday that Jared Kushner’s family real estate company could not keep secret the identities of its partners in Baltimore-area apartment complexes that are the subject of a class-action…

ift.tt/2DCSaVu A close up of the fossilized teeth. Gerhard Weber/University of Vienna When did humans leave Africa? Once, archaeologists believed that Homo sapiens journeyed from this origin point and outwards to Europe and Asia about 60,000 years ago. But that…

ift.tt/2nb3GRP In June 1950, protesting bartenders descended on New York’s Fifth Avenue and called for an end to the Moscow Mule. That, at least, was the story the late drinks salesman John Martin told the Hartford Times in 1964. “They…

ift.tt/2E936eQ “I’m not racist…” “As a college graduate, I can say…” “Well, I wouldn’t call myself a ‘conspiracy theorist’ per se, but…” “No, I didn’t read it, but based on what I hear…” “But if women really wanted to be…

ift.tt/2rAxwnp A faith-based humanitarian group that provides aid and shelter to undocumented migrants on the southwestern border fears it has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration advocates. Eight members of the group, No More Deaths,…

ift.tt/2DtlXjI The Kilopower fission reactor will offer a more efficient and more powerful portable power source for solar system exploration. An artist’s conception shows Kilopower fission-reactor units on the surface of Mars. NASA NASA announced a new style of…

ift.tt/2F8JM0B A paper that crossed my desk this morning proves timely in light of our recent discussions about brown dwarfs. Specifically, the question of when to declare an object a planet or a brown dwarf has come up, with the…

ift.tt/2n4CAf8 If you’ve been on the internet long enough, there is a good chance that you’ve stumbled across the term search engine optimization at some point or another. You’ve probably used Google or another search engine millions of times. The…

ift.tt/2DtMsFw by Rob Weychert Grid systems are fundamental to many visual design processes. They govern the spatial relationships in a layout by establishing a set of standard sizes and positions for various elements. In addition to helping achieve a visual…

ift.tt/2n4hGfr In the wake of the 2016 election, a group of despairing Democrats in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, formed a new political group to ensure that they would never be out-organized locally again. Faith leaders, small-business owners, social workers, nonprofit leaders, teachers,…

ift.tt/2E1WGhy Did you know that tomorrow (January 24th) is National Beer Can Day? In honor of this unofficial holiday we’ve picked out 24 awesome looking beer cans. Crack one open and scroll through!  1. Krone Is Asserting Its Throne With…

ift.tt/2n3NYqZ WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans on Capitol Hill, who this week are to begin considering economist Marvin Goodfriend for a Federal Reserve board seat, will find much they like in his criticism of Fed bond buying, support for low inflation,…

ift.tt/2rgJpid Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 January 17 In the Valley of Orion…