The US Citizenship and Immigrantion Services agency (USCIS), has released their update to the citizen test they issue to immigrants applying for citizenship. There are 100 questions (PDF format) in the test but a given applicant will receive 10 questions taken from that 100. They must answer 6 of the 10 given in order to [...]
The primary data format encoder onboard the Hubble Space Telescope has failed which has lead to people asking whether it’s worth repairing. Again. Well, let’s cut right to the chase on this one: Yes, it is. Since putting it into orbit in April 1990, the Hubble has been critical to a number of discoveries as [...]
As previously suspected, investigators looking into the cause of the crash of a commuter train in Los Angeles last month have discovered that the engineer – the guy who was supposed to be paying attention to the operation of the train – was involved in sending text messages. A commuter train engineer sent a cell [...]
