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In their recounting of Facebook’s “hellish two years,” Wired’s Nicholas Thompson and Fred Vogelstein tell the story of a company seduced by the allure of being an “open platform,” of hosting all information but making no editorial choices, only to…
The amazing image, captured by Oxford University physics PhD student David Nadlinger, has won the grand prize in a science photography competition organized by the UK’s Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council. The photo, titled ‘Single Atom in an Ion Trap’,…
KOROLEV (Moscow Region) (Sputnik) – Russian Progress MS-08 cargo spacecraft automatically docked on Thursday with the International Space Station (ISS) after being launched on Tuesday atop the Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the Mission…
Litecoin (LTC), one of the most popular cryptocurrencies on the market, gained 36 percent overnight, making it the fifth most capitalized cryptocurrency in the world. Here’s what led to the huge price rise. Litecoin gained 36 per cent in value in last…
He said that “[Holderness] was ready to throw glass onto the floor to smash and they both lunged for the glass and there was a struggle,” according to two people with knowledge of the account. Porter went on to say…
Amy Sherald, an artist from Baltimore, painted Michelle Obama’s portrait. She’s known for painting skin tones in grayscale — a way to “subversively” comment on race, she says — and incorporates color in clothing and backgrounds. In her portrait, Obama…
