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spaceprobe.es – Data From Space!!

Check out this neat project website by Ariel Waldman and Lisa Ballard to catalog active man-made space probes – http://spaceprob.es Includes info on Voyager 1 and 2, some of my personal favorites:    

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Up to 4 Months of Credit Card Data Stolen in Potential Home Depot Security Breach

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a large number of stolen credit card numbers are showing up for sale, similar to the Target Hack earlier this year. The source of these stolen credit cards appears to be a security breach involving nearly all 2,000+ Home Depot Stores that went undiscovered since last April, according to security expert Brian Krebs.

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Rosetta space probe rendezvous with comet in space

After ten years in space, three gravity-assist maneuvers around earth, one gravity-assist maneuver around mars, five loops around the sun, and ten rendezvous maneuvers, the Rosetta space probe is closing in on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

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First there was the double rainbow and now double tropical cyclones!

First there was the famed Double Rainbow, and now a set of double tropical cyclones are in line to hit the Hawaiian islands this week!! According to an article from The Weather Channel a pair of tropical cyclones like this is rare, but not unheard of. A similar event happened back in 1982 with tropical depression Daniel and tropical storm Gilma.

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10 Shocking Stats About Display Ads

http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/horrifying-display-advertising-stats About 50% of clicks on mobile ads are accidental. Hubspot recently collected a bunch of stats about display ads from different sources and found some pretty shocking results. You are more likely to get into MIT than click a banner ad.