Amazon is reporting an outage in its Service Health dashboard which is affecting several big-name sites including Reddit, Coursera, Imgur, Flipboard, FastCompany, Heroku, Airbnb, Github, VYou and many more.
According to BBC UK, a house burnt to the ground yesterday after five children attempted to recreate a scene from the Wizard of Oz by burning an old Halloween witch costume. The mother, Kerry Wheeler, had been cleaning out a spare room in her home when she found some old Halloween costumes. She laid them…
Six Italian scientists and one ex-government official have just been sentenced to six-years in prison for multiple manslaughter after failing to accurately predict deadly 2009 earthquake. The courts found that the scientists gave falsely reassuring statements after studying tremors that had shaken the Italian city of L’Aquila. The 6.3 magnitude quake killed 309 people.
The Permian-Triassic mass extinction occurred 252 million years ago. It is Earth’s most devastating mass extinction event with up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of land animals becoming extinct. Researchers now believe they know what caused it and why life took over 5 million years to recover – extreme, lethal temperatures up…
Photo by Unknown via Wired Magazine The heavily fortified, 925,000 square foot Utah Data Center (UDC), also known as the Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is being constructed on the grounds of Camp Williams in Bluffdale, Utah at a cost of $2 billion, by the National Security Agency (NSA). According to the NSA,…
On April 26, 1986, reactor four in the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in Ukraine suffered a catastrophic power increase which lead to explosions in its core. This dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere. Unprotected workers near the accident received fatal doses of radiation within minutes. Residents of nearby Prypait began…
We’re not sure why these unbelievable tree houses were built but we guess the owners never had one as a kid and are making up for lost childhood memories. Here’s a collection of the wildest, coolest tree houses you’ve ever seen.
We’re not sure who GitHub pissed off but they are having one hell of a week with four outages in five days and two separate Denial of Service attacks. Currently they are being hit with another DDoS attack, the second one in two days. The site is currently hobbled but not down and out.
With all the hype over 3D television dying and the HDTV free-for-all all but dead, the Consumer Electronics Association has made the move to ensure the next “big thing” prods customers to empty their pockets for the latest and greatest television experience. Meet “Ultra High Definition” television, the successor to HDTV.
If you thought you could carve a mean pumpkin, you might want to check out Ray Villafane’s pumpkin carvings. Ray’s Halloween pumpkins are so hauntingly lifelike that they often inspire stunned silence and awe. Not bad for a guy who’s allergic to pumpkin. (His skin and eyes get really itchy after a couple of days…
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