Our galaxy’s weirdest star, KIC 8462852, is even weirder than previously thought, showing changes never observed before in a star like this. Article by IFL Science To quickly recap, last year it was announced that the object experienced dramatic and rapid changes in brightness, which led to the wild speculation that the object was surrounded […]

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has outlined his highly ambitious vision for manned missions to Mars, which he said could begin as soon as 2022 – three years sooner than his previous estimates. Article by Nicky Woolf However, the question of how such extravagantly expensive missions would be funded remains largely in the dark. “What I […]

Tiangong 1, China’s first space laboratory, will come to a fiery end in late 2017. The average decommissioned satellite either burns up over a specific ocean region, or is ejected to a far-off orbital graveyard. But Tiangong 1’s demise is shaping up to be something different. Article by Ben Guarino Chinese officials appeared to admit […]

Washington (AFP) – Facebook, Twitter and news organizations including Agence France-Presse have joined a coalition of  media and technology groups seeking to filter out online misinformation and improve news quality on social networks. Article by AFP First Draft News, which is backed by Google, announced Tuesday that some 20 news organizations will be part of […]

In a recent report, analysts at BofA Merril Lynch told their clients that there is a 20-50 percent chance we’re all living in a virtual reality simulation ala The Matrix films. Article by Melissa Dykes BANK OF AMERICA: There’s a 20%-50% chance we’re inside the matrix and reality is just a simulation Myles Udland pic.twitter.com/TltpYbjPxI […]

Tens of thousands of subscriber accounts for media company Infowars are being traded in the digital underground. Article by Joseph Cox Infowars, created by famed radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, produces radio, documentaries and written pieces. The dumped data relates to Prison Planet TV, which gives paying subscribers access to a variety of […]

This three-minute video is a primer for the must-hear discussion between Talk Network radio host Richie Allen and Dane Wigington, the fearless ambassador who is a tireless prophet declaring the devastating effects of geoengineering. All life on earth is being impacted by the destructive activities of geoengineering. It’s bigger than GMOs, vaccines and, according to Dane […]

Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America’s 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services. For more than a decade, professional snoops have been able to search troves of public and nonpublic records—known addresses, DMV records, photographs of a person’s car—and condense them into comprehensive reports costing as little as $10. […]

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has “arrested or summoned” around 450 social media users over their online activities, a website linked to the powerful Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday. (Article by Agence France-Presse) Gherdab, the cyber arm of the Guards, said the people targeted administered pages on social networks and smartphone apps such as Instagram, Telegram […]

Ah, you can never get enough paranoia nowadays, can you? Security researcher Mike Patterson — founder and CEO of security analytics organization Plixer — says Microsoft’s Windows 10 sends encrypted data from your machine every five minutes, and there’s basically very little you can do to stop it. (Article by Sead Fadilpasic) Even when he […]

The Star Wars franchise depicted the fictitious “Death Star,” a moon-sized space station capable of firing concentrated beams of radiation across space. Even something as menacing as the Death Star, however, is outmatched by a recently discovered super massive black hole, which is pumping out a stream of particles three times longer than the diameter […]

I’ve been away from school for a couple of decades or so. I went to college in the ’70s, dropped out, and eventually finished in the ’90s. I leaned toward the theatrical, philosophical, sociological, communicable disciplines and ignorantly ignored the burgeoning planned obsolescence of male and female, which would eventually be rebranded as Human 2.0 where flesh melds with […]

As yet more proof that you’re living in a totalitarian police state regime run by mentally insane criminals named Jerry Brown and Nancy Pelosi, California is about to pass a law that would explicitly criminalize undercover investigative videos of all “health care providers.” (Article by Mike Adams) This means any journalist who records nursing homes […]

Chalk up thousands of job losses for middle America. The Fourth Industrial Revolution has begun its ascent into the trucking industry. Well, somebody has to be in the truck, I guess, to help unload until the robots come, or keep track of time, or sleep or maybe hold a second job. As a child of […]

Astronomy abandons our intuitions about the nature of the universe somewhere between the horizon of a black hole and its singularity. Although black holes don’t exactly seem hospitable to life, a new analysis by Tomáš Opatrný of Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, claims black holes may be able to provide life-sustaining energy to orbiting […]