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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor Satellite operator hopes crowdsourcing will help locate missing aircraft Authorities have yet to locate Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which mysteriously lost contact with air traffic control on over the weekend, but a satellite operator in the US hopes that crowdsourcing could help find it. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe has sent two of its satellites to survey the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea, targeting areas that…

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As reported on Engadget. By Timothy J. Seppala A unmanned Russian Proton-M rocket exploded moments after leaving the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today, destroying its payload of three satellites intended for Russia’s Glonass GPS system. Fortunately no-one was injured, but local news service Interfax is reporting that nearly 500 tons of fuel from the craft has contaminated the crash site. There’s no word on what caused the disaster, but this model’s recent history is fraught with equipment failures — so if you’d…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Henry Blodget Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images   Everyone’s still going nuts about Manti Te’o’s “fake” girlfriend–the one practically every media outlet in the country was obsessed with, the one he tweeted with, the one he talked on the phone with for hours every night. This girlfriend, everyone is now saying, was a complete fabrication. She didn’t exist! Now, it’s certainly possible that Manti Te’o is lying and this girlfriend was, in…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Michael Kelley Up to 50 people have been injured as a commuter ferry from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, met a hard landing on Pier 11 in Lower Manhattan. First responders are currently treating injured riders on Pier 11. At least one person is in critical condition. Watch the live coverage from MyFoxNY here. It appears that the riders, several of whom were standing as they prepared to leave the boat, were tossed on impact. The ferry has no…

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As reported on Wired. BY ADAM LANKFORD   Photo: gcfairch / Flickr   With the Sandy Hook shooter dead, we may never fully understand why he gunned down 26 random strangers at a public school. Even when such killers have survived, their self-explanations have done little to shed new light on acts the rest of us can only grasp as psychotic. Inevitably, we are left with the bare facts of the attacks themselves to frame our understanding.…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Henry Blodget ABC News Kaitlin Roig, who hid her students in the classroom bathroom. The most detailed account yet of the Sandy Hook massacre has been written by Edmund Mahony and Dave Altimari of the Hartford Courant. A link to their story follows. The details are beyond horrific. The only positive note is that decisions by two teachers, Kaitlin Roig and Victoria Soto, may have saved the lives of nearly 20 children.…

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