A Coffin
At a congressional hearing on Thursday, Microsoft's legal chief, Brad Smith, said that the company plans to file an amicus brief next week in support of Apple's resistance to helping the FBI hack the phone. Google will deliver its own supporting brief 'soon,' according to sources familiar with the company.
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A group of ISIS supporters have threatened to take down Facebook and Twitter, as well as their leaders. In a 25-minute propaganda video released by a group calling itself "the sons of the Caliphate army," photographs of both technology leaders are riddled with bullets.
The video was first spotted by Vocativ. The threats are being made over the two companies' efforts to seek out and remove terrorist-related content on their respective platforms.
The group is quoted as saying, "If you close one account, we will take 10 in return and soon your names will be erased after we delete your sites, Allah willing, and will know that we say is true."
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How the male body produces sperm has long been hidden inside its genitalia.
Trying to recreate the process in a lab for humans and other mammals has led to many failures - sperm development appeared to be dependent on unique conditions in the testes.
But a new technique may finally be bringing that process into the open.
A team of Chinese researchers reports turning a dish of a certain type of mouse stem cell into spermlike cells, which were then used to fertilize eggs and produce healthy mouse pups.
The approach could help researchers study mammalian sperm development more directly, and it could spur efforts to develop treatments for male infertility in people.
Uggh!
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In The Beginning God...
The conventional wisdom has been among scientists is that a myriad of Earth-like planets exist in the universe, some of which have to be the abode of life, even intelligent life.
However, Astrophysicist Erik Zackrisson from Uppsala University in Sweden has run a computer simulation of the universe, incorporating what we know about exoplanets thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope, the laws of physics, and the state of the early universe.
The computer simulation came up with exactly one Earth, which is to say the one we live on.
Every other planet in the universe does not have the conditions necessary to sustain life.
Indeed, strictly speaking, Earth itself should not exist, according to the computer model, according to the story in Discover Magazine.
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Opened my work van after working on a farm yesterday...
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Apple
explains why it refuses to help the FBI: If the government gets its
way, what is to stop them from demanding that we write code to turn on
the microphone in aid of government surveillance, or to secretly
activate the video camera, or track a user's location?***
She tried to warn us!
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TIL Apples originated in Kazakhstan and wild apples can taste like roses, strawberries, popcorn, anise, and many other flavors. 90% of modern apples can be traced back to 2 trees.
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Coptic Christian teenagers sentenced to 5 years in egyptian prison for video mocking muslim prayer
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This is nuts...
TIL that there's a ghost city in Cyprus that no one has been allowed to enter for over 35 years.
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Alcohol warnings in South Africa are a little different.
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The number of people sleeping rough in England on any one night has doubled since 2010 and increased by 30% in the last year, with an estimated 3,569 people now sleeping on the streets across England, according to new government figures.
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Wind Tunnel.
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What is built by a man who wants nothing to do with it?
What is purchased by a man who doesn't need it?
And used by a man who doesn't know he has it?
Answer:at the top of the page.
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