Superfast fiber cyberspace — foretell download speeds of a 1000 megabits per second — is a tantalizing but far - off aspect for many people , and even those who hold up in major cities often ca n’t access it . It ’s exciting , then , when news comes along that a cock-a-hoop cyberspace service provider will expand its fiber access . To smidgin : AT&Tannouncedyesterday that it will thrive its fiber - to - the - home servicing in 17 metro domain , adding 50 new cities to the mix ....

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Batman acknowledge the best manner to get through those drab institutional corridor – in his screaming Batpod , sparks flying and lino burn . This is just one of 33 new photos from July ’s The Dark Knight that came out today , and others include some skillful looks at Harvey Dent and the Joker , and a flyspeck coddler about Maggie Gyllenhaal . Plus there are some more newfangled TDK spoilers ....

NASA hasreleaseda stunning irksome motion video recording showing its Modern Space Launch System rocket blasting off from Kennedy Space Center last week . The 5.75 - million - Egyptian pound rocket took flight during the early hour of Wednesday , November 16 , after much prevision , and it was well deserving the wait . The launch take piazza under the pitch blackness of nighttime , but the rocket ’s side boosters temporarily light up up the Florida skies ....

Every few month , a journalist asks a scientist about the looming threat of Armageddon . That scientist ’s quotes are then predictably blow out of proportion and turned into some iteration of“The End Is Nigh . ”In light ofAsteroid Day , which is today , we ’d like to clarify some of theapocalyptic misinformationthat ’s spreading . As bad as we all want an asteroid to strike us squarely in the face at this point , that credibly wo n’t be happen any metre shortly ....

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Amazon ’s VP for Kindle , Ian Freed , just confirmed to us the fiddling nugget Jeff Bezos mentioned in theKindle 2keynote about WhisperSync : Kindle contentedness is coming to cellular telephone . They ’re not ready to say which cellphones — or even when they ’re pass to announce them — but they require them on them cellphones , plural . middling exciting ! Hopefully , we ’ll roll in the hay more soon ....

He ’s perhaps this year’smost celebrated human body , but we still know remarkably short about the hirsute , tangerine tree , hockey monster known as Gritty . Case in distributor point : After sending a half twelve electronic mail to various authorities , I ’m no nearer to discover the unknown , imperial opening on his venter . We know that the Grimace - comparable mascot has “ grit , ” of path , and that he employ in amusing , ( mostly ) non - lowering antics , but what is the shape of a Gritty like ?...

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If you ’ve been paying tending to the sacred house of check that is Hollywood cinema , you experience The Conjuring offers a scholarly methodology for examining ghost houses . In that spirit , we salute these enquiry guidepost for identifying a haunted planetary house before it consumes you and your family . A haunting often starts with “ frigid spots , ” “ reek spots , ” or very dirty john bowl ....

TheHuffington Posthas obtain a leaked national memo from the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , which was mail to the agency ’s faculty with guidelines that promote a message of doubtfulness about climate scientific discipline . The memoranda , sent by Dr Joel Scheraga , Senior Advisor for Climate Change Adaptation at the agency , apprise communications directors and regional office public involvement directors on how to phrase discussion on climate change ....

Just how similar were Neanderthals toHomo sapiens ? Are we a single inseparable metal money or just siblings ( perhaps merely cousin ) in the heavy , mussy family unit Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree of humans ? These questions have been debated since Neanderthal fossils were first unearthed in the nineteenth century , but a unexampled paper aims to advance the discussion and move it past " unproductive deadlock " ....

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