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AR-15

Take An AR-15 and Make Into a Pistol: Meet the Ruger’s AR-556

The modular nature of the AR-15 platform, which allows the same operating system to drive guns of different calibers, barrel lengths, and other special features, has recently spawned a new subclass of the genre: AR pistols. Rugers AR-556 pistol, a short-barre…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Elon Musk

Elon Musk cracks a lewd joke at Jeff Bezos’ new ‘Blue Moon’ lander

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks before unveiling the Model Y at Tesla's design studio on Thursday, March 14, 2019, in Hawthorne, Calif. (Photo: Jae C. Hong, AP) The moon lander introduced Thursday by Blue Origin, the aerospace company run by Amazon CEO Jeff Bez…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Christianity

Scientists discovered a 2,624-year-old tree in a North Carolina swamp. Climate change could kill it.

A tree grows in North Carolina, and it has been growing there for a long, looooooong time. According to a new study published today (May 9) in the journal Environmental Research Communications, scientists studying tree rings in North Carolina's Black River s…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Virtual Reality

Directors are using virtual reality on set to find the perfect shot

A virtual camera in a virtual speakeasy Technicolor By Andrew Rosenblum Wearing a VR headset, Im immersed in a virtual speakeasy of the 1920s. A strange-looking wooden protagonist, played by a human actor whose footage has just been recorded, chit-chats w…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Putin

Pompeo to meet with Putin in Russia next week

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will arrive in Russia as experts raise alarms about Moscows intent to once again meddle in American elections. | Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Russia early next week to meet with …

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Google

India reportedly opens Android antitrust investigation

The CCI is reportedly looking into Google's alleged abuse of Android's dominance in the market to stifle competition. The agency started examining the issue last year. According toReuters, it opened a formal, full probe last month. The case is apparently sim…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Riots

Cong distances from Pitroda’s comment on 1984 riots

New Delhi: The Congress distanced itself on Friday from the "so what" remarks of Sam Pitroda about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and asked the leaders of the party to be careful and sensitive in future. Congress's chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the par…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Filter Bubble

IT Runs on Java 8

Sometime in 2011, I stumbled across an unassuming site called Hacker News. At the time, I was a data analyst working mostly with Excel and SAS, and almost all of the headlines there were foreign to me. Git diffs? PyPy? Real-time APIs? I realized quickly, tho…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Solar Storm

The K7RA Solar Update

05/10/2019We saw zero sunspots from April 21 through May 2, but on May 3 sunspots returned. Average daily sunspot number rose from zero last week to 16.1 this week, and average daily solar flux increased as well, from 67.5 to 73.5. Both the average middle la…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Blockchain

Larry Sanger hides ‘blockchain’ on Everipedia to keep users comfortable

Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, took the Hard Fork stage at TNW2019 to reinforce the idea that user experience (UX) is a catalyst for decentralization. Sanger, now Chief Information Officer for the blockchain-powered Everipedia platform, expressed tha…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Take An AR-15 and Make Into a Pistol: Meet the Ruger’s AR-556

Elon Musk cracks a lewd joke at Jeff Bezos’ new ‘Blue Moon’ lander

Scientists discovered a 2,624-year-old tree in a North Carolina swamp. Climate change could kill it.

Directors are using virtual reality on set to find the perfect shot

Pompeo to meet with Putin in Russia next week

India reportedly opens Android antitrust investigation

Cong distances from Pitroda’s comment on 1984 riots

IT Runs on Java 8

The K7RA Solar Update

Larry Sanger hides ‘blockchain’ on Everipedia to keep users comfortable

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