الأحد، 12 يوليو 2015

Hands on with Apple News: Will it kill Flipboard? and 10 More

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Hands on with Apple News: Will it kill Flipboard?

Can Apple's new News app take on Flipboard and Facebook?

J.K. Rowling shuts down Serena Williams hater with one perfect tweet

Among Serena Williams' many celebrity fans is author J.K. Rowling, who tweeted her support of the tennis star throughout the Wimbledon championship.

Guys, it's never ever OK to wear open-toed sandals

Here's to hoping that these flip flops finally find their deaths.

Nature Valley shows chilling faces of children addicted to technology

Children are obsessed with technology, and the granola bar company wants us to be afraid.

This woman was body-shamed by a Tinder date — and she's fighting back

Michelle Thomas knows about body-shaming firsthand, thanks to a Tinder date gone bad. Now, she's doing something about it.

Bryan Cranston lays mic drop-worthy burn on unsuspecting fan

A 'Breaking Bad' fan is nursing emotional burn injuries following a verbal run-in with Bryan Cranston during a Comic-Con panel on Friday.

What the massive government breach means for your personal data

Here's a breakdown of the biggest questions about the government hack -- what you should know about the attack, who is affected and what it means for you.

'Hannibal' Comic-Con panel reveals a tantalizing glimpse of the Red Dragon

Ruby Rose on why she decided not to seek a sex change

"I realised I could kind of do both."

Mexico's most notorious drug lord escapes jail a second time

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is on the run again.

Donald Trump delivers bizarre anti-immigrant speech in Las Vegas

Donald Trump does not know how to tone it down.

ScienceDaily: Top News

Amazing flare from a black hole in a distant galaxy
Neutrons find 'missing' magnetism of plutonium
South African archaeological wonder-sites reveal more of the origins of our unity and diversity

Amazing flare from a black hole in a distant galaxy

Posted: 10 Jul 2015 01:10 PM PDT

Five billion years ago, a great disturbance rocked a region near the monster black hole at the center of galaxy 3C 279. On June 14, the pulse of high-energy light produced by this event finally arrived at Earth, setting off detectors aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other satellites. Astronomers around the world turned instruments toward the galaxy to observe this brief but record-setting flare in greater detail.

Neutrons find 'missing' magnetism of plutonium

Posted: 10 Jul 2015 01:09 PM PDT

Groundbreaking work has confirmed plutonium's magnetism, which scientists have long theorized but have never been able to experimentally observe.

South African archaeological wonder-sites reveal more of the origins of our unity and diversity

Posted: 10 Jul 2015 01:09 PM PDT

Two of South Africa's most famous archaeological sites, Sibudu and Blombos, have revealed that Middle Stone Age groups who lived in these different areas, more than 1,000 km apart, used similar types of stone tools some 71,000 years ago, but that there were differences in the ways that these tools were made .But this was not the case at 65,000 years ago when similarities in stone tool making suggest that similar cultural traditions spread across South Africa.