Ones and Zeros: We Narrowly Escaped Armageddon, Russians Expect to Meet Aliens

It’s only Tuesday and we’ve already had to deal with a near-apocalypse, a determined search for aliens and a spool of tape that’s causing a lot of trouble.

One: This ain’t Scotch tape, mayne. This is space tape (Discovery)

Zero: the dark science of the traffic jam (Daily Mail)

One: Russian scientists expect to meet aliens by 2031 (Reuters)

Zero: Online mobs (Globe and Mail)

One: Are you sure you are ready for this video of an astroid grazing Earth yesterday? (YouTube)

Zero: China sold the U.S. 59,000 trick microchips
(Business Insider)

ONE: Former Russian spymaster who talked to the Americans convicted of treason (LA Times)

ZERO: Sony hacker has taken a job at Facebook (Techunwrapped)

ONE: Can talking about technology make you smarter? (GCN)

Zero: Bubbles, yes, but everything will be OKAY — see graphic
(TechCrunch)

One: Heffernan on Google’s war on nonsense (New York Times)

Zero: Obama jokes about “keeping an eye on robots” (Huffington Post)