Date of sighting: Oct 2023Location of sighting: USA (no other info given)Source: Dept of WarLink: https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+06&release=06#LLE-UAP-PR002-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Colorado-October-2023I was looking at the Dept of War website at…
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Background Movements for civil rights were a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law that peaked in the 1960s. In many situations…
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Background The following document was obtained by The Black Vault through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and was part of the “Stargate Collection” release.…
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Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) It's the weekend, which means the time has come for another Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the best tech deals from around the web includes a couple of discounts on Apple's 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros, with the former down to $1,799 at Amazon and Best Buy and the latter available for $2,299…
While 2022 was yet another year without an E3, game publishers big and small haven’t stopped releasing tons of hype-filled trailers during the usual summer promotional season. After sifting through Summer Game Fest and the Microsoft/Bethesda showcase, we’ve spent much of the week watching literally hundreds of trailers, as featured in the Future Games Show,…
Enlarge (credit: NIH) For billions of years after the origin of life, the only living things on Earth were tiny, primitive cells resembling today’s bacteria. But then, more than 1.5 billion years ago, something remarkable happened: One of those primitive cells, belonging to a group known as the archaea, swallowed a different one—a bacterium. Instead…
Enlarge / A long COVID patient sits with her daughter in her wheelchair while receiving a saline infusion at her Maryland home on Friday, May 27, 2022. (credit: Getty | The Washington Post) Among adults vaccinated against COVID-19, the odds of developing long COVID amid the omicron wave were about 20 percent to 50 percent…
Enlarge / AMD's Radeon RX 6800 and 6800 XT. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Cryptocurrency has had a rough year. Bitcoin has fallen by more than 50 percent since the start of the year, from nearly $48,000 in January to just over $20,000 as of publication. Celsius, a major cryptocurrency "bank," suspended withdrawals earlier this week, and…
USB Type-C, the most exciting boring connector in the industry right now. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) After the European Union (EU) announced that numerous consumer tech devices using wired charging would require USB-C by 2024, three US senators are seeking a similar standard. In a letter sent Thursday [PDF], Senators Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.),…
The fourth season of HBO's original series Westworld, returns on June 26. The teaser for the fourth season of Westworld that dropped last month was tonally evocative and visually stunning, but it told us very little about what to expect from the narrative. Now we have the full trailer, and it has made us eager to…
Enlarge / Bike rally by police personnel during "We Make Pune City Safe" awareness campaign on October 3, 2017, in Pune, India. (credit: Pratham Gokhale/Getty) Police forces around the world have increasingly used hacking tools to identify and track protesters, expose political dissidents' secrets, and turn activists' computers and phones into inescapable eavesdropping bugs. Now,…
Enlarge / The Abbott manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, on May 13, 2022. (credit: Getty | Jeff Kowalsky) As the US struggles to recover from a dire infant formula shortage, the Abbott formula plant at the center of the crisis has again shut down—this time due to flooding from heavy rain on Monday. The plant…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Amazon on Thursday announced that its latest Prime Day sales event is set for July 12 through 13. The company says the event will begin at 3 am EST and run for 48 hours across 20 countries. As in past iterations of the event, you'll need to be a…
