It's all very well to get into a thick book with a slow burn, but the best books are the ones that grab you from the very first sentence. Here are MY favourite openers to books...
I refuse to believe this image of the eclipse is real, as much as I wish it were. Not that it couldn't be real. It can. I've seen plenty of photos of eclipses taken from space, but this one is just too awesome to be real.
You've probably heard that Android is free and open source. But that's not entirely true, and the team behind Replicant wants to change that. Replicant is an independent version of Android that includes no proprietary software whatsoever. But the Replicant team doesn't like the term open source. They prefer the term "free software," because to them, Replicant is all about freedom.
Videre is a secretive group on a mission to film and expose human-rights abuses, for which its operatives risk their lives. Here, key members talk publicly for the first time
NSA staff drew a smiley face to illustrate the point where the agency intercepted the transfer of user data between Google's international data centers. The diagram prompted an internet meme
Travis Doering is raising funds for CLASSIFIED : THE EDWARD SNOWDEN STORY on Kickstarter! Classified: The Edward Snowden Story is a feature length biopic that will tell the story of former CIA and NSA employee Edward Snowden.
Rosa Luxemburg helped found the German Communist Party and was brutally murdered 90 years ago for her efforts. Today, she continues to provide inspiration to lefties and feminists the world over. But do those who revere her really understand her?