The rocket launch Monday night should be visible across the East Coast, according to NASA officials preparing the launch at the Wallops Flight Facility in coastal Virginia. The Antares rocket will be launching a Cygnus spacecraft with cargo bound for the International Space Station. This is commercial rocket provider Orbital ATK’s sixth mission to the…
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Hurricane Matthew makes Waffle House Index to be red
The Waffle House Index is an informal metric used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to determine the impact of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery. The measure is based on the reputation of the Waffle House restaurant chain for staying open during extreme weather and for reopening…
delete your yahoo account
There’s no good reason to have a Yahoo account these days. But after Tuesday’s bombshell report by Reuters, indicating the enormous, faltering web company designed a bespoke email-wiretap service for the U.S. government, we now know that a Yahoo account is a toxic surveillance liability. Reuters’s Joseph Menn is reporting that just last year, Yahoo chose to comply…
Facebook’s Project Storm – Crash Data Centers in Real-World Stress Test
“It’s easier to take a data center down than to put it back together,” says Facebook vice president of engineering Jay Parikh. But the company’s software engineers are getting better at the putting-it-back-together part, thanks to a series of regular stress tests conducted on Facebook’s operational network by the company’s disaster special weapons and tactics,…
decoding-hidden-meanings-olympic-symbols
The sports showcased in an Olympiad rarely change, but the pictograms depicting them do. The symbols, designed to instantly communicate the essence of a sport, are in some ways quite literal. Cycling features a bicycle, equestrian a horse, basketball, well, a basketball. Yet designers invariably infuse these illustrations with elements that reflect the culture of the…
Deer collides with competitor at Dublin city triathlon
Image copyrightERIK SCRAGGSImage captionThe deer collided with competitor Shane O’Reilly as he cycled in Phoenix Park in Dublin Triathlons are tough at the best of times, but one competitor in the Dublin city event got more than he bargained for when he and a deer collided. Photographer Erik Scraggs snapped the moment Shane O’Reilly was…
Online mega-retailer Amazon.com is launching a fleet of 40 full-sized cargo jets
Amazon Prime Is Delivering Its Own Fleet Of Massive Delivery Jets Online mega-retailer Amazon.com is launching a fleet of 40 full-sized cargo jets to ship the immense quantity of crap we’re all buying on the site. The “Prime Air” flagship, a Boeing 767-300 christened Amazon One, makes its debut in Seattle today. Online mega-retailer Amazon.com…
Delta has published a waiver for customers traveling on Aug. 8 through Aug. 12
7:30 a.m. ET UPDATE: Outage affects departing flights today 7:30 a.m. ET UPDATE: Delta has published a waiver for customers traveling on Aug. 8 through Aug. 12. A power outage in Atlanta, which began at approximately 2:30 a.m. ET, has impacted Del (16KB)
Free Sandwich from Chick-fil-A
Q. How long does the free offer promotion last? A. Customers receive the offer by joining Chick-fil-A One™ after downloading or using the latest version of the Chick-fil-A One™ app between June 1 – June 11, 2016 and may redeem their offer through June 30th, 2016 at participating restaurants. Q. What is the free offer…