Orange Is the New Black star Ruby Rose revealed in a recent interview that she once thought about going through with gender reassignment surgery but then decided to just be comfortable in her own skin. … [Read more...]
Zooplankton Are Eating Plastic, And That’s Bad News For Ocean Life
Tiny ocean animals that make up a base of the marine food web are ingesting tiny particles of plastic pollution, and that could be bad news for the health of the oceans. … [Read more...]
Apple Pay Launched in the UK and Everyone is Angry at Their Banks Again
LONDON — Apple Pay launched in the UK Tuesday, and thousands of people shot out to sandwich shops to spend money using their phones and watches in the future we'd always dreamed of. There was one small problem though: Not all the banks were working with the payment service. … [Read more...]
Physically Feeling Video Game Damage on Your Chest Isn’t as Cool as it Sounds
Photorealistic graphics, 3D physics and virtual reality are all playing roles in making video games more realistic than ever before, but one thing remains hard to achieve: the sensation of physically feeling what's happening in a video game. … [Read more...]
US Authorities Knew El Chapo Would Plot an Escape
A very recently-retired federal agent who played a leading role in the capture of “El Chapo” 16 months ago said that U.S. officials knew of possible prison escape plans by associates of El Chapo, practically from the time he was back in prison. … [Read more...]
New Horizons Has Made its Closest Approach to Pluto!
After nine years and over 3.26 billion miles, the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto earlier today. Assuming it survived the encounter, the probe is now drifting away from the dwarf planet as it heads deeper into the Kuiper Belt. … [Read more...]
The LHC Has Discovered a New Sub-Atomic Particle Called a Pentaquark
After restarting to run at higher power than ever, the Large Hadron Collider has made its first proper discovery. Today, a team of scientists announced that they’ve found a new class of sub-atomic particles known as pentaquarks. … [Read more...]
Greinke, Keuchel named All-Star Game starters
Greinke is 8-2 with a major league-best 1.39 ERA for the first-place Dodgers and has not allowed an earned run in his last five starts, a span of 35 2/3 innings. He has allowed more than three runs in a start just once this season and has gone no fewer than six full innings in each of his 18 starts. … [Read more...]
Windows 10 Rollout Plans Reveal a Humbler Microsoft
Microsoft's Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of Operating Systems Group, speaks at an event demonstrating new features of its flagship operating system Windows at the company's headquarters Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, in Redmond, Wash. … [Read more...]
Arya Stark and Harry Potter Took the Most Magical Selfie at Comic-Con
So many magical worlds are colliding in a single photo. While at San Diego Comic-Con, Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams, a.k.a. Arya Stark, snapped a selfie with Harry Potter himself. Of course, he likes to be called Daniel Radcliffe these days. … [Read more...]