The Air Force’s secret space plane sets a new record: 718 days in orbit
By Marc DeAngelis From engadget But what the heck is it doing up there? The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane has been orbiting Earth since September 7th, 2017, crossing the 718 day mark and breaking its previous record of…
French man spent five days with head trapped in ladder
From BBC This one wasn’t in the DIY manual: a man decorating his bathroom in eastern France slipped and got his head stuck in his stepladder… for five days. French media report that the man, in his 60s, was still…
Visual phenomena
2018 Best of Visual Phenomena By Rain Noe From Core77 Eye candy means different things to different people. To us, it means photos and videos of unusual objects, interiors and phenomena. We’ll take a vintage Soviet control room over a…
Makerspaces are dying
Why are Makerspaces Dying? Can Designers Bring them Back to Life? By Paul Sohi From Core77 Back in 2008, I was an architecture student in England living a blissful student life of beans on toast, late nights in the studio…
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10 of the most bizarre details people have reported finding in Jeffrey Epstein’s NYC mansion, from a painting of Bill Clinton in a dress to prosthetic breasts mounted on a bathroom wall
By Libertina Brandt From Business Insider Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on July 6 on suspicion of sex trafficking minors in his Manhattan and Florida homes from 2002 to 2005. On August 10, he was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell in an apparent suicide. An…
Tesla Model 3 owner implants RFID chip to turn her arm into a key
By Kirsten Korosec From TechCrunch Forget the keycard or phone app, one software engineer is trying out a new way to unlock and start her Tesla Model 3. Amie DD, who has a background in game simulation and programming, recently released a…
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Legendary Hollywood diva Faye Dunaway being sued for calling assistant a ‘Little Homosexual Boy’
By Ryan Lattanzio From Indie Wire The Academy Award winner is once again in hot water amid the unfolding disaster of her busted Broadway bow in “Tea at Five.” Faye Dunaway is having a rough summer. Once called the worst person…
Gadget of the week
This Ornate 3D-Printed Chair Made Using Generative Design Can Fold Down Flat By Alexandra Alexa From Core77 Patrick Jouin’s latest prototype pushes the process to new limits Industrial designer Patrick Jouin has been using 3D printing in his designs for…
The story of the first ever space wedding, when a woman on Earth married a cardboard cutout of her astronaut boyfriend while he watched on from the International Space Station
By Sinead Baker From Business Insider The first space wedding took place on this day 16 years ago, when Ekaterina Dmitriev stood on the ground in Texas as her husband orbited in the International Space Station. She married her new…
Two dead, dancing stars challenge astronomers’ expectations
By Jon Fingas from engadget They spin around each other in minutes and don’t produce X-rays. Stars still have plenty of surprises despite (or perhaps, because of) advances in astronomy. Researchers using Caltech’s Zwicky Transient Facility have discovered a binary white dwarf system 8,000…
