Google is now opening up its Fiber Internet network to public housing residents free of charge, the company publicly announced Wednesday, July, 15, 2015. The arrangement is in conjunction to Google’s partnership with the newly developed program ConnectHome, recently launched by the White House to bring Internet access to low-income families. The service will initially be …
A day after New Horizons first successful flyby, images have returned to us revealing ice mountains up to 11,000 ft high on Pluto’s surface. Absence of craters means that the surface is relatively young, no more than 100 million years old. Other images taken include this high res image of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. According to NBCNews: The scientists …
Last night, when most people were sleeping, a glitch on Best Buy’s website allowed customers to purchase a $200 gift card for a $15. A few people noticed this and news of the bargain spread from Reddit to Twitter in a matter of seconds, causing thousands of people to try to get in on the …
The now 94-year-old Oskar Groening, who was a Nazi guard at Auschwitz has been convicted by a German court for being an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 Jews. At the death camp he was responsible for the “bookkeeping”, inventorying the belongings confiscated from prisoners.Groening had admitted “moral guilt” but his lawyers argued that …
Japanese social media (especially twitter) has gone crazy over what probably wins (by a landslide) the award for cutest sea slug Called Jorunna parva, the sea slug’s “bunny ears” are actually rhinopores (chemosensory scent/taste organs). These “sea bunnies” can be found in the Indian Ocean from the Philippines to Japan. Image Credits & to see more