NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has captured this incredible image of an object 1,000 light years away from Earth. It looks like an awesome Klingon spaceship accelerating to Warp 10. Or a majestic 12-mile-long Cylon Basestar that flies through the cosmos rotating eleven times every second. More »
Ubuntu users who’ve been thirsty for the first stable release of Valve’s Steam Client can officially consider themselves quenched. After months of rigorous beta testing, Newell’s platform has finally arrived in the Software Center for download. You’ll be even more enthused to know that it’s currently packing 100 games, all of which are temporarily discounted 50- to 75-percent (until Feb. 21st, 1PM EST) to get the party started — Team Fortress players also get a “Tux penguin”. And with that, we’ll steer you to the source link below to download it for yourself.
Source: Canonical
Police locked down Harrisburg Area Community College’s campus after reports that a student was abducted from her classroom by her boyfriend, according to CBS 21.
Administrators issued a campus safety alert at 7:16 Wednesday night on the Harrisburg campus, reading simply, “HACC Harrisburg Campus closed – domestic dispute. Harrisburg PD searching for individuals. Remain in classroom. If not in classroom, exit the campus.”
Campus safety alerts are most often issued when there is an immediate threat to individuals on campus. Since the alleged abductor remained on campus for a short time after the incident, police said, the lockdown wasn’t lifted until just before 8 p.m. when they believed the suspect had left the scene.
Last week’s hot app, Mailbox, is currently down. In very RIM-esque fashion, the startup’s servers are not forwarding mail, resulting in a very quiet Valentine’s Day. I’m pretty stoked about it. I think this should be a feature.
According to Mailbox’s twitter page, the company is busy fixing the problem. They quickly issued a couple of official responses but one is not very helpful. This one details the problems, stating that they are seeing intermittent issues with our servers syncing mail and new mail created will not be lost.
Mailbox launched with much fanfare last week. I love it. It’s the perfect cross between Mail and Gmail. However, today’s outage is what I fear the most.
The app’s novel features work because email is routed through Mailbox’s servers. Thus, if and when these servers crash (like right now), the mail is no longer forwarded to the app.
Since the app generated so much interest before it launched, the company instituted a reservation system, purposely limiting the amount of users (and strain) on its servers. Mailbox told us in a statement this afternoon that they received over 900,000 reservation requests and have so far managed to fill 20 percent. This is the first outage since the launch last week.
But think about it. Today is Valentine’s Day. It’s a day you’re supposed to enjoy with your sweetheart. I’m about to head off to my son’s kindergarten Valentine’s Day party. I won’t be distracted now. I’ll be able to participate like a good dad. Thanks, Mailbox! I love you even more right now.
In other news Mailbox’s reservation line is also paused.
Are you still wondering what the $&%^ The-Dream was wearing at the 2013 Grammy Awards the other night? So are we.
Want to get rid of every last trace of your ex on your Facebook page?
There’s now a quick and painless way to do it. KillSwitch, a new app that launches — ironically enough — on Valentine’s Day, takes care of everything for you, removing all photos, status updates and wall posts concerning your ex when you just can’t bring yourself to do it.
But KillSwitch is hardly the first app to make breakups a little less complicated. The recently launched Should I Break Up With My Boyfriend app tracks your feelings over the course of two weeks, then presents you with a graph quantifying what you should do, along with some personalized advice.
A California-based teen sent HuffPost Gay Voices his senior project, which tells the story of 10 gay men from the ages of 15 to 82.
Devon Yaffe named his project “Overcoming Adversities as a Gay Teen: One Generation A Time,” and tells us in an email: “Going into my senior year of high school, I was given the task of creating a senior project, which was a research project based on a topic of interest.”
He adds, “As a newly active member of this ever-growing community, I reached out to the gay community in order to hear the stories of gay youth … I hope that gay youth all over can see what I have created and be inspired to add their voice to the community. I feel I have created one of the best kinds of documentaries there is: the true life testimony of those who have grown up gay in a heterosexual world.”
A 10-year-old pit bull named Baby rescued a family and its dogs not once, but twice, during a house fire.
On Tuesday, Rhonda Westenberger and her sister, Evelyn, were sleeping when their Wellston, Okla., home of 17 years began filling with smoke and flames, KOCO reports.
Immediately, their pit bull, Baby, began barking and pounced on them until they woke up.
WASHINGTON — Online rumors about a big government munitions purchase are true, sort of.
The Homeland Security Department wants to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the next four or five years. It says it needs them – roughly the equivalent of five bullets for every person in the United States – for law enforcement agents in training and on duty.
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Those Motown crooners still really have a hold on us.
From a little house on Detroit’s Grand Boulevard, Berry Gordy Jr. made Motown Records one of the most influential record labels of all time. His influence helped propel racial integration in the 1960s and pioneered the “Motown Sound” — soul music with high-powered pop beats and classical accoutrements.
Most importantly, he found and nurtured stars like Stevie Wonder, the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson … the list goes on and on. And year after year, until Motown Records decamped for Los Angeles in 1972, “Hitsville U.S.A,” as it was called,” churned out over 100 Top 100 hits.
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