A movie starring actress Sharon Stone, set to be filmed in Mississippi in June, will now be shot elsewhere due to the religious accommodations law. Sharon Stone was set to star in a movie that would be filmed in Mississippi, but that went out the window when Gov. Phil Bryant signed the Religious Accommodations Act. Rick Moore of Film Mississippi, …
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Loch Ness monster found by Norwegian scientists (But Don’t Freak Out)
Loch Ness Monster hunters disappointed after ‘Nessie’ find at bottom of loch turns out to be 1970s film prop. An underwater robot mapping the depths of Loch Ness has found a “monster”, but not the lake’s mythical creature. The sonar-equipped robot, named Munin, was developed by technology company Kongsberg Maritime and will study areas never accessed before in a bid …
Read More »Pat McCrory: ‘NC governor’ tries to backpedal on LGBT “bathroom bill”
Pat McCrory signed an executive order Tuesday rolling back several controversial provisions of the state’s controversial “bathroom bill.” The law banned local governments from passing anti-LGBT discrimination laws and required transgender people from using only the bathrooms designated by their sex at birth. The governor’s order expands protections against discrimination for state employees to include sexual orientation and gender identity. …
Read More »NASA funds plan to protect Earth from doomsday asteroids, Report
NASA has ploughed cash into a pioneering project aimed at working out how to hijack asteroids and turn them into controllable space ships. The objective of this study is for Made In Space (MIS) to establish the concept feasibility of using the age-old technique of analog computers and mechanisms to convert entire asteroids into enormous autonomous mechanical spacecraft.
Read More »NASA’s Kepler stable after being rescued from Emergency Mode
After a nail-biting few days, NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has recovered from emergency mode, officials announced Monday. Contact with the telescope was lost on April 7, just before it was supposed to begin its ‘Campaign 9’ mission to observe the galactic center. Kepler went into Emergency Mode (EM) and engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California had to commandeer …
Read More »Researchers Need Your Help Looking at Pictures of Lovable Penguins
If you need a break at work, trying counting penguins: An oddly addictive website called Penguin Watch will show you a photo from Antarctica and ask you to tag baby penguins and adults, all in the name of science. Scientists at Oxford University recently launched PenguinWatch 2.0, and they are asking the public to help them observe penguin colonies in …
Read More »SoundCloud turns Twitter Moments into a neat tool for playlists, Report
Moments launched late last year as a way for Twitter to own the news its platform generates – and it’s just gained one awesome new feature. Twitter has teamed up with SoundCloud to integrate music directly into the Moments platform.
Read More »The Story So Far singer dropkicked a fan off stage (Video)
California pop-punk act The Story From Here is facing an online backlash after the lead singer was captured drop kicking a fan off the stage at a Toronto Concert. The band has yet to comment on the situation, but both the fan who was forcefully booted from the stage and the venue have spoken out — taking totally opposite stances.
Read More »Ford to produce limited edition GT ‘supercar’, pricing in the mid-$400000s
If you a passion for speed, performance and technology — and if you have about $400,000 in reserve — you now have the chance to apply to own the new Ford GT supercar. That price tag was estimated up until now, but with the new FordGT.com website live, the exact price of custom ordering the eagerly awaited GT will come …
Read More »Ontario parents protest ‘devastating’ autism funding changes
Controversial changes to how the province handles children with autism were being debated at Queen’s Park today. Parents of autistic children watched from the gallery as MPP’s from all sides argued the merits of the Liberals new plan which now limits intensive behavioural intervention therapy to children between two to four. The Liberal government recently announced a new Ontario Autism …
Read More »NASA planning mission to explore life on Europa, Report
NASA is planning an ambitious mission for exploring the possibility of life on the moon of planet Jupiter, Europa. The researchers of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will work with other scientists around the world to perform the mission. “We are planning to mount an international effort. We are trying to formulate a mission to go Jupiter’s giant moon …
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