Author: Nick

Watch the enormous QE2 binary asteroid pass by Earth

Posted by | May 31, 2013 | |

Don’t worry, this big boy isn’t on a collision course. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) An asteroid the size of a small town, and its smaller satellite “moon,” are zooming past Earth this week, and you can watch on Friday afternoon as binary asteroid “1998 QE2” reaches its closet point to Earth for the next 200 years. The 1.7-mile-long asteroid and its smaller satellite, which was just discovered this week, will come closest to Earth around 2 p.m.

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LinkedIn gets a little safer with two-step verification

Posted by | May 31, 2013 | |

Following Twitter’s lead, LinkedIn introduced two-step verification as an optional security feature members can use to protect their accounts. LinkedIn’s new security measure emulates the two-step verification process of other sites and requires members to input a code, sent via SMS, when logging in from an unrecognized device for the first time.

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