quote [ When Americans are trying to rib me for being British, they tend to go for at least one of three jokes. They act like I love or have an intimate knowledge of the royal family, which I don?t; they mention terrible British food, which is fair, (though y?all invented spray cheese); or they?ll bring up tea. Haha, uh, cup of tea much, you limey? ]

quote [ Nayana, a web hosting provider based in South Korea, announced it is in the process of paying a three-tier ransom demand of nearly $1 million worth of Bitcoin, following a ransomware infection that encrypted data on customer' servers. ]

quote [ CERN, Europe's nuclear research organization, operates the Large Hadron Collider (or LHC, for short) ? the largest particle accelerator in the world. Inside this almost 17-mile ring of tubes and superconducting magnets, beams of high-energy particles collide at nearly the speed of light. The LHC is also, apparently, a "hardon" collider, according to certain reaches of the internet ? including CERN?s own site. ]

quote [ The data leak contains a wealth of personal information on roughly 61 percent of the US population. Along with home addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers, the records include advanced sentiment analyses used by political groups to predict where individual voters fall on hot-button issues such as gun ownership, stem cell research, and the right to abortion, as well as suspected religious affiliation and ethnicity. The data was amassed from a variety of sources?from the banned subreddit r/fatpeoplehate to American Crossroads, the super PAC co-founded by former White House strategist Karl Rove. ]

quote [ I knew the future would be shocking but this is a whole other level. ]

quote [ A monthlong expedition into one of the deepest, least-documented places on the planet discovered hundreds of unknown species. The finds included a "faceless fish" undocumented there since 1873. ]

quote [ Near the end, Linde made a seemingly flippant suggestion that our Universe itself might have been knocked together by an alien ?physicist hacker?. The paper?s referees objected to this ?dirty joke?; religious people might be offended that scientists were aiming to steal the feat of universe-making out of the hands of God, they worried. ]

quote [ Flame-wars, bad news, fake news, worse news and anxiety-fueling comment sections meant that social media is no longer the escapism it once was. Along comes Binky counter all of that, creating the ultimate anti-social media app. ]

quote [ Robots may not take our jobs, but it appears that they will take our video game high scores. ]