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NASA Goddard Institute of Space Science Three independent agencies have confirmed July 2016 as the warmest month since they started keeping temperature records, the Weather Chael has reported. July is usually the warmest month globally, since the northe hemisphere has more land mass, and land heats up faster and retains more heat than the oceans.NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies found it topped the previous warmest July on its record, 2011, by 0.1 of a degree Celsius, 0.84 degrees Celsius above average, making it the warmest since 1880. The Japan Meteorological Agency's found that it was the warmest ...

Happy National Vinyl Record Day!You might assume milleials are the ones lining up on Record Store Day to drop coin on the latest special edition, 180-gram, splatter-paint record of the month, but you'd be wrong -- at least in the United Kingdom.According to a new study by market research company YouGov, UK music fans between the ages of 45 and 54 are actually more likely to hit record stores in search of vinyl. By contrast, the study found 18- to 24-year-olds are least likely to purchase vinyl, suggesting last year's sales explosion could be attributed to vinyl nostalgia rather than discovery. The study also unearthed two very bleak statistics that are depressing enough to make any collector...

I fell in love with music at a very young age. I can remember sitting in my parent's living room, listening to the crackle and pop that accompanied each new song, only to be replaced with a thumping drum intro or a sick guitar lick that seemed to leap from our Klipsch coer hos. This experience stuck with me through the introduction of cassette tapes, CDs and finally the current digital-music age. The convenience and quality of digital music is unparalleled, but with the recent resurgence of records -- and as any vinyl enthusiasts (and certain audiophiles) will tell you -- vinyl has a special sound that digital music just can't capture or replicate. I'm not immune to its pull; I've recent...

Atlantic Records is on the hunt for whoever leaked a song from the "Suicide Squad" soundtrack, and it's demanding Reddit help to find the culprit, according to TorrentFreak. Sometime around June 15, the song "Heathens" by Twenty One Pilots was uploaded to dropfile and leaked to the band's subreddit, a forum made by Reddit users to discuss the band. Atlantic stated in a complaint to a New York court that it gave a digital copy of the song to "an extremely limited number of individuals" before this date, the publication reported. "In each such case, the individual was barred from distributing the recording until the scheduled release date of June 24, 2016," it stated.Enlarge ImageThe leak of ...

Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's aouncement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've clea...

Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's aouncement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've clea...

Amazon Prime has an estimated 60 million members in the US, reaches 11 countries and even has its own fake holiday. For CEO Jeff Bezos, that's not nearly enough.The world's largest e-commerce company has been busy finding new ways to evolve and expand the $99-a-year Prime loyalty program. This week, Prime launched in India, the second most-populous country in the world, and arrived in Belgium in February. Prime Video can now be purchased as a standalone service in the US, making it a more direct competitor to Netflix, and Prime can be bought on a monthly -- instead of just aual -- basis, making it more affordable for more people.There now are rumors Prime Music will also become a standalone ...

Sony used photos of Buckley's records to digitally recreate his collection. Stay Golden Music An album collection is an incredibly personal item. Flip through someone's discs, and you get a window into not only who they are but who they've been. An unexpected reggae fan. A Top 40 worshipper. A teen with a penchant for bubblegum pop. A completist or a casual fan. Now followers of Jeff Buckley can explore the singer-songwriter's own music stash, digitally, through a new Sony project called Jeff Buckley: The Record Collection. For the unfamiliar, Buckley, who drowned in 1997 at the age of 30, recorded only one...

RoadshowNewsCar CultureWatch Rhys Millen set a new EV record at the Pikes Peak Hill ClimbThe Pikes Peak Inteational Hill Climb event is not for the faint of heart. More than 100 tus separate the driver at the bottom from the finish line up top, and without guardrails or other safety systems in place, it's even harrowing to watch. That's why Rhys Millen deserves more than a trophy for his record-setting run up the mountain.Strapped behind the wheel of his purpose-built electric vehicle, Millen made it to the summit in 8:57.118. It's the only EV to break the 9-minute mark, and it eaed Millen top honors in his class. It was fast enough to claim second place overall, falling short of taking it a...

The Galaxy Wide is designed for budget-conscious consumers. Samsung Samsung has cooked up a new smartphone, at least for South Korean consumers. The Galaxy Wide smartphone, unveiled Tuesday, is similar to Samsung's Galaxy On7 with such specs as a 5.5-inch, 1,280x720-pixel display, a 1.2GHz quad-core processor and a 13-megapixel rear camera. In many respects, the Galaxy Wide appears to be a rebranded version of Samsung's On7, according to blog site Sammobile. There are differences, though. The Galaxy Wide features 2 gigabytes of memory and 16GB of expandable storage, compared with On7's 1.5GB GB of RAM and 8...

Enlarge ImageNASA's Super Pressure Balloon. NASA Despite putting a satellite in orbit around Jupiter earlier this week, NASA is also setting precedents back on planet Earth -- or at least a lot closer to it. The latest experiment conducted by the space agency's Balloon Program Office saw the second test flight of its Super Pressure Balloon set an airtime record of 46 days, 20 hours, and 19 minutes, finally touching solid ground again on July 2.The SPB mission, which began on May 16, marked the first time one of the enormous balloons was carrying a payload, the University of Berkley's Compton Spectrometer and ...

Katja Kircher/Getty Images An Australian Uber driver has been fired after recordings emerged online of the man allegedly making homophobic slurs against a lesbian couple and threatening to "drag" them from the car. Melboue woman Lucy Thomas, who is also co-founder of the Australian anti-bullying group Project Rockit, posted the audio recording online this moing, saying it was taken during an Uber ride home with her girlfriend. In a post accompanying the audio, Thomas said the driver "realised we're in a same-sex relationship and became physically threatening and aggressive." Thomas then said she "found coura...