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Blasting Off Is Anticlimactic When It’s Entirely Indoors
Image Cache: Astronaut John Glen was one of the Mercury Seven, the first Americans trained for spaceflight. Before Glen became the first American to orbit the Earth in his Friendship 7 mission on 20 February 1962, he went through a lot of training.
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Americans Are Too Busy Watching Netflix To Pirate Content
Streaming video services now comprise 70 per cent of Americans’ Internet use at night — which means that hardly anyone is using BitTorrent anymore. RIP, piracy. Arise, Sir Netflix.
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Will Technology Progress Enough Over The Next Billion Years To Save Us From The Dying Sun?
So you think the human race is going to survive the next billion years?
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Google Life Sciences Division Is Now Called… Verily?
Alphabet Inc., the newly founded parent company of Google, just added a new name to its portfolio: Verily. This Google[x] spinoff used to be the experimental lab’s life sciences division. Now, it’s Alphabet’s first new company and a creative use of the letter “V”.