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Irma: Looking into the Eye of a Hurricane
What do you do when facing some of your biggest fears? With Hurricane Irma just hours away from approaching our Tampa Bay, Florida home, I became i...
Written by: Maura4u
Hurricane Irma Coming from a Floridian
Coming from a Floridian I'm honestly not to scared of this hurricane. Don't get me wrong though. If you are in the southeast of Florida it'...
Written by: The 1st Amender
Bitcoin expected to hit $5,000 USD in the Next Two Weeks
Bitcoin. Looked down upon masses of investors, brokers, and normal people. Back in 2013, it was a mere $125 per coin. By the time I finish writing thi...
Written by: Я солдат
Boring days but not so boring nights
My morning starts at 6:30,I head to school which starts at 7:20. I meet up with my small group of introverted nerds like me and we keep each other com...
Written by: comcast
What's the deal with Jews anyway?
What's the next step of their master plan? We all understand they mean to crash European civilization with no survivors, but to what ultimat...
Written by: Jack Chaerea
How this site (1stamender.com) could be improved.
First of all, to create a good and interesting website that people want to browser and post on we have to look at successful ones. Whether you like th...
Written by: pebble
PEACE Makers: Being the Change We Wish to See in the World
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ Gandhi As each of us contemplates the seeming chaos and division around us, we're co...
Written by: Maura4u
Conservative Author Starts Fundraser For Documantary
Acclaimed Conservative Author, Charles Vance, has revealed his latest endevor to the public; a feature-legnth documentary titled "How We Got Here...
Written by: George Bloom
Is the Golden Rule Still Golden?
The Law of Reciprocity Remember the Golden Rule? It’s the credo we learned as children, reminding us to do unto others as we would have them...
Written by: Maura4u
Feds Arrest Man Credited With Helping To Stop Ransomware Attack
Marcus Hutchins' Twitter account suddenly went quiet a day ago when the FBI took him into custody in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The 23-year-old Briti...
Written by: nherting
IBM and Sony cram up to 330 terabytes into tiny tape cartridge
IBM and Sony have developed a new magnetic tape system capable of storing 201 gigabits of data per square inch, for a max theoretical capacity of 330 ...
Written by: nherting
Intel Democratizes Deep Learning Application Development with Launch of Movidius Neural Compute Stic
Today, Intel launched the Movidius™ Neural Compute Stick, the world’s first USB-based deep learning inference kit and self-contained ...
Written by: nherting
WHAT GENE-SWAPPING CHEESE MICROBES COULD SAY ABOUT ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE
YOU AND YOUR favorite cheese—whether it's cheddar, Wensleydale, or a good aged goat brie—have something in common: You&rsquo...
Written by: nherting
After 3 straight wins, Porsche kills its Le Mans hybrid in favor of Formula E
As was sadly expected, on Friday Porsche confirmed its plans to end the all-conquering 919 Hybrid LMP1 racing program at the end of 2017. Like Audi be...
Written by: nherting
Blizzard shuts down “legacy” WoW fan server hours after it goes up
A highly anticipated private server intended to emulate the state of World of Warcraft during the decade-old "Burning Crusade" exp...
Written by: nherting
Judge: Waymo may be in “a world of trouble” if it can’t prove actual harm by Uber
SAN FRANCISCO—At a court hearing on Wednesday, US District Judge William Alsup questioned whether Waymo can really show the harm ...
Written by: nherting
Soul singer Aretha Franklin struck a common musical and social chord in 1967 when she released her mega hit entitled, Respect. In truth, we ...
Written by: Maura4u
Snooty The Manatee Dies, And A Florida Community Mourns
Two days after his 69th birthday, Snooty the manatee has died in what the South Florida Museum says was "simply a heartbreaking accident." T...
Written by: nherting
Aboard the NS Savannah, America’s first (and last) nuclear merchant ship
BALTIMORE—Alongside a former grain pier in a strangely quiet corner of this cargo port, there's a ship straight out of the future—the ...
Written by: nherting
Brains of former football players donated to science are rife with disease
Signs of a degenerative brain disease were widespread among a sample of donated brains of former football players, researchers reported Tuesday in the...
Written by: nherting
Welcome First of all, welcome to Gentoo! You are about to enter the world of choices and performance. Gentoo is all about choices. When installing ...
Written by: R. Stallman
People Are Now Getting Free Weed to Pick Up Trash
This article is not written by me. This is simply a repost of original content by Drew Shwartz on Vice here. This is simply to help repost content in ...
Written by: The 1st Amender
DOJ announces official takedown of AlphaBay, world’s largest Dark Web market
Department of Justice officials announced Thursday in Washington, DC that they had shut down notorious online Dark Web marketplace AlphaBay in conjunc...
Written by: nherting
Security guard robot ends it all by throwing itself into a watery grave
The automation revolution, where most of our jobs are replaced by robots and we spend the rest of our days floating around on rubber rings sippin...
Written by: nherting
Elon Musk knows what’s ailing NASA—costly contracting
The seas were calm in early December 2010 when a spacecraft fell out of the sky, deployed its parachutes, and splashed into the Pacific Ocean. No Amer...
Written by: nherting
Emoji is dragging us back to the dark ages – and all we can do is smile
This article is not written by myself. The original article is here. You can view it at any time to support their site. The entire purpose of this is ...
Written by: The 1st Amender
“By changing your reality, you change everything.” ~ Anonymous What does reality look like to you? I recorded this latest podcast a...
Written by: Maura4u
Russia has a plan to compete with SpaceX, but it has a flaw
For a long time, with its low production costs and efficient fleet of rockets, Russia has been the leading player in the global market for satellite l...
Written by: nherting
China’s crazy car-straddling elevated bus is just a giant scam, police say
Last August, we wrote about a crazy elevated bus that straddles road traffic in the Chinese city of Qinhuangdao near Beijing. In the we...
Written by: nherting
This giant crocodile was an apex predator 166 million years ago
For decades, paleontologists have wondered about a mysterious, toothy jaw fragment discovered on the island of Madagascar. Dating to the mid-Jurassic ...
Written by: nherting
Next Windows 10 update won’t include the most exciting promised feature
Arguably the most interesting forthcoming Windows 10 features that Microsoft showed off at its Build developer conference this year were "Ti...
Written by: nherting
Windows 10 will try to combat ransomware by locking up your data
The latest Windows 10 build, today's 16232, contains a few new security features. In addition to the richer control over exploit mitigat...
Written by: nherting
In attempt to achieve YouTube stardom, woman accidentally kills her boyfriend
A Minnesota woman has been charged with manslaughter after she shot and killed her boyfriend as part of the pair’s attempt to become Y...
Written by: nherting
Survey: Pain patients overwhelmingly prefer medical marijuana over opioids
When patients have a choice between opioids and medical marijuana for a painful condition, an overwhelming majority say they prefer marijuana, that it...
Written by: nherting
Walmart sued after teen steals machete and kills her Uber driver
There has been a lot of media coverage about Uber driver misdeeds—drunk driving, drivers stealing from their passengers, and even ...
Written by: nherting
Low-latency satellite broadband gets approval to serve US residents
A company seeking to offer low-latency broadband from satellites yesterday received a key approval from the Federal Communications Commissio...
Written by: nherting
Konami reportedly blacklisting ex-employees across Japanese video game industry
According to a Wednesday report in the Nikkei Asian Review newspaper, Konami is apparently blacklisting former employees in the Japanese vid...
Written by: nherting
How do you make yourself a better person?
It's a tough world when you see that there is a lot of bannings of content and silence going on. Creation of sub-communities to help promote...
Written by: The 1st Amender
Right to speak freely about engineering is subject of 1st Amendment lawsuit
An Oregon engineer who has been trying for years to convince state officials to elongate yellow traffic light times has a new cause: the First Amendme...
Written by: nherting
To kill net neutrality rules, FCC says broadband isn’t “telecommunications”
The Federal Communications Commission's plan to gut net neutrality rules and deregulate the Internet service market may hinge on the def...
Written by: nherting
Defense contractor stored intelligence data in Amazon cloud unprotected
On May 24, Chris Vickery, a cyber risk analyst with the security firm UpGuard, discovered a publicly accessible data cache on Amazon Web Services...
Written by: nherting
Uber engineer Levandowski, accused of massive theft from Google, has been fired
The Uber engineer at the center of the company's litigation with Waymo, Anthony Levandowski, has been fired. Levandowski's termination was ...
Written by: nherting
Killer antibiotic now 25,000× more potent—and resistant to drug resistance
With clever chemical tweaks, an old antibiotic can dole out any of three lethal blows to some of the deadliest bacteria—and give evolution one n...
Written by: nherting
Curiosity rover finds its crater was habitable for 700 million years
Gale Crater, the site being explored by the Curiosity rover, was chosen as a landing site because its structure and composition suggested that it migh...
Written by: nherting
Want to get a game on Steam? $100 is all you need
Valve announced today that anyone will be able to publish games on Steam through its previously announced Steam Direct program for "a $...
Written by: nherting
Reflecting on One Very Very Strange Year at Uber
I did not write this blog post. This blog post is something by feminist aligned Susan J. Fowler. I have reposted her content to commemorate...
Written by: The 1st Amender
WCry ransomware worm’s Bitcoin take tops $70k as its spread continues
WCry, the National Security Agency exploit-powered ransomware worm that began spreading worldwide on Friday, had reportedly affected hundred...
Written by: nherting
“Genericide” legal assault to nullify the Google trademark fails
What do a teleprompter, thermos, hoover, aspirin, and videotape have in common? They were once trademarked but lost their legally protected status bec...
Written by: nherting
Watching two waves of hot lava in the Solar System’s largest volcano
Volcanic activity appears to be a common feature in our Solar System; we have evidence of it on three planets and two moons and hints of it elsewhere....
Written by: nherting
15-second ads coming to Amazon’s Alexa
Where there's a media platform popular with consumers, advertisers are never far behind. Case in point, Amazon's digital assistant, Alexa...
Written by: nherting
Intel’s Itanium CPUs, once a play for 64-bit servers and desktops, are dead
Remember Itanium? Intel's first crack at 64-bit server processors from circa the turn of the millennium? Well, two things: Intel is releasing ...
Written by: nherting