Thylacine traffic warning sign raises eyebrows

Police in Australia are on the look out for whoever put up a sign warning people about the legendary cryptid. Despite the fact that the Tasmanian tige… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/333160/thylacine-traffic-warning-sign-raises-eyebrows…

Plex Launches Free, Ad-Supported Video Service in 200-Plus Countries, Territories

Media center app maker Plex officially launched its ad-supported video service with movies and TV shows from MGM, Warner Bros., Lionsgate and Legendary Wednesday. The service will be available in more than 200 countries and territories, making it the first ad-supported video service with a nearly global reach. From a report: Getting the rights to launch in so many countries was…

Go Master Lee Se-Dol Quits Because AI ‘Cannot Be Defeated’

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A master player of the Chinese strategy game Go has decided to retire, due to the rise of artificial intelligence that “cannot be defeated.” Lee Se-dol is the only human to ever beat the AlphaGo software developed by Google’s sister company Deepmind. In 2016, he took part in a five-match showdown against…

Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event as It Tries To Contain Backlash

Activision Blizzard, reeling from harsh reactions after it punished a tournament player for backing Hong Kong’s anti-Beijing protesters, canceled a New York launch event for an edition of its Overwatch game. From a report: The event, scheduled for Wednesday at Nintendo’s store in Rockefeller Center, was planned to support the release of Overwatch: Legendary Edition for the Nintendo Switch portable game…

Russia bids farewell to first man who walked in space

Hundreds of people including Russian and US astronauts and top officials bid farewell Tuesday to Alexei Leonov, a legendary Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to perform a spacewalk. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-russia-farewell-space.html…

Alexei Leonov, the First Human To Walk In Space, Has Died At Age 85

The Russian space agency confirmed Friday that legendary cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space and later the commander of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that docked with a NASA Apollo capsule, has died after a long illness. CBS News reports: An accomplished amateur artist and a widely respected statesman in the international space community, Leonov remained a lifelong…

Watch for Draconid meteors in 2019

The Draconid shower will likely produce its greatest number of meteors on the evening – not after midnight – of October 8, 2019. Try the nights of October 7 and 9, too. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/legendary-draconids-boom-or-bust…

Watch for the legendary green flash

People tell me when I go to the beach to look at the sunset to try to see a green flash. What is a green flash? Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/sunset-and-the-legendary-green-flash…