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Two months before Napoleon’s historic defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused heavy rains in Europe that may have ended his rule. Universal History Archive / Getty ImagesA translation of the Battle of Waterloo issue inThe Sunday Timesin 1888 . The defeat of French emperorNapoleon Bonaparteat the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 is wide believed to be due to the inclement weather condition in England ....

• Vivid Video is suing PornoTube over right of first publication infringement . I never thought I ’d say this , but I hate you , Vivid Video . [ Ars Technica ] • Facebook Beacon is n’t only invasive andpotentially embarassing , it may also be illegal . [ Boing Boing ] • The BudCase fund your ear bud on your keychain . I need this , and for $ 15 , I may just get it ....

About 20 hour intowatching new sci - fi thrillerNo One Will Save You , I say to myself , “ hold off , has anyone spoken in this yet ? ” for sure , there had been intelligent . tidy sum of very interesting , creepy speech sound . And there ’d been music too ; redolent , atmospherical medicine . But little to no dialogue . Which is precisely when I agnize “ Oh , this is something different ....

It seems like just days ago we were all face frontward to basking in the summer Sunday ’s radiating bosom the way nature mean . But suddenly , summer ’s almost over , which mean fall ’s right around the quoin — and with ita raw season of Ryan Murphy ’s American Horror Story . The first pair of teasers for the 1984 episode inaugurate us to a chemical group of carefree youths — encampment counselors , one imago — score their way to Camp Redwood for what they believe is go to be a summertime of sun - drenched fun ....

A smattering of letters from the first hundred CEhave been unearthedat a fort along Hadrian ’s Wall in the UK.Far from the stuffy nature of many diachronic documents , these texts show the ancient Romans in a personal and bizarrely familiar light , admit a asking for leave from employment . Previous tablet talk about a suffer natal day invitation , a guy necessitate his boss for more beer , and somebody complaining about the condition of the road ....

The Biden administration on Monday gave the green light to anenormous oil and petrol project in Alaska , take after months of increasing oppositeness from environmental activists who say that the favorable reception head for the hills counter to the administration ’s hope to act on mood . The Interior Department discharge arecord of decisionMonday approving the Willow Project , an $ 8 billion oil and gun drilling task have by oil giant ConocoPhillips ....

According to the Hollywood newsman , Bill Murray will make an appearing in the upcoming reboot of Ghostbusters . The doer portray Dr. Peter Venkman in the original 1984 film , and was spotted in Boston , Massachusetts in the beginning this hebdomad , where the film is currently in yield . Murray ’s role in the film is unnamed as of yet : his original co - wiz , Dan Aykroyd , will have a cameo appearance in the picture show , and is n’t reprising his character from the earliest movie ....

Another original Star Wars castmember is willing to revert for the new trilogy . Michael Bay is letting net rumors work the Transformers 4 casting process . One Doctor Who loyalist tell he has n’t been asked to turn back for the show ’s anniversary . And think which CW show is doing an alive sequence ? raider forwards … Top image from Man of Steel . If you were hoping to see The Hobbit in the 48 frames per second adaptation that the picture was photograph in , you may have to go looking for it ....

Bryan Fuller put an image of a Star Trek : Discovery make up test online yesterday . And my is it intimate . https://twitter.com/embed/status/762727048318070784 It reckon like the option are either a newfangled specie or Andorian . Without knowing the texture or , more revealingly , the color , it ’s impossible to know for sure . But to wildly speculate , which I am happy to do about Star Trek , possibly until I have pass from this world , I ’d say the animate being is most likely to be Andorian ....

Beloved scorecard game for despicably minded people Cards Against Humanity took to the Bay Area Science Festival Last week with a new pack of cards laden with skill - theme glee – and if you ’re raring to play with them , you could even download them in good order now . The cards will be released online as a retail face pack betimes next yr , with gravid pack art bySaturday Morning Breakfast Cereal‘s Zach Weinersmith – check out a few of the black and white cards below :...

Oh dear God , here come the holiday . Get your iPad quick for culinary selection , ultimately condition your gmail with a “ aboriginal ” app , and you know what , permit ’s check out Japan . If you ’re thinking about the holidays in Asia , Japan ’s pretty honeyed . If you want to see all the apps on one pageboy click here . https://gizmodo.com/food52-easy-as-pie-fotopedia-japan-gmail-5861020 FOOD52 Holiday Recipe & Survival Guide...

HotHardwaretook a look at this consumer - focused PCI - Express SSD from Fusion - io , and find that while it ’s pretty damn expensive at $ 900 for 80 GB , it ’s blazingly tight , hit 700MB / s scan and 300MB / s write speeds . Unfortunately , in addition to the disbursal , it ca n’t be used as a bootable drive quite yet , although nuclear fusion reaction - io claim that feature is coming ....

An Australian bailiwick has shown that long distance drivers who drink caffeinated beverages , like coffee or Department of Energy drinks , are at a decrease risk of exposure of getting into fomite accidents equate to those who do n’t . And the departure is n’t pocket-size . Drivers hopped up on caffeine have a 63 % tighten chance of crashing . The new study , which now appearsin the British Medical Journal , was conducted by Mark Stevenson , Lisa Sharwood , and their colleague at theGeorge Institute for Global Healthin Sydney ....