Alex Fitzpatrick

Alex Fitzpatrick is a Senior Editor at TIME on the health and science desk.

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Before Buying Clippers, Steve Ballmer Wanted to Play

Steve Ballmer wanted to be an athlete. Now he's getting his own team

By Alex Fitzpatrick

NASA Takes #GlobalSelfie

It's probably the biggest selfie ever.

By Alex Fitzpatrick

AT&T Buying DirecTV in $48.5-Billion Deal

The company confirmed that it will pay roughly $95-per-share in a stock-and-cash transaction based on AT&T's Friday closing price and officially acquire DirecTV in a deal worth approximately $48.5 billion

By Alex Fitzpatrick

PHOTO: Pope Floats

A wayward balloon got between the Pope and a photographer today

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Congressman Accepts Bitcoin Campaign Donations

Rep. Jared Polis of Coloardo has launched a website for supporters to contribute to his campaign using the digital currency, becoming the first to do so under new federal guidelines, and has received "well over" $1,000 worth of bitcoin in less than 24 hours

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Few Aware of Heartbleed Bug Changed Passwords

A new Pew report finds that while 64 percent of Internet users heard about the widespread security bug that targeted OpenSSL encryption, only 39 percent reacted by changing their passwords or deleting online accounts

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HBO Just Made a Brilliant Move to Hook Younger Viewers

HBO and Amazon aren’t only targeting their shared enemy, Netflix, with their major content licensing deal announced Wednesday. They’re going right after me and my friends, millennials aged 18-25, because we’re vaguely aware The Sopranos...

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Report: New Star Wars Will Film in Morocco

Disney reportedly has its sites set on locations in Abu Dhabi or possibly Morocco for the seventh installment in the sci-fi franchise. Meanwhile, the original 1970s Tatooine sets that were used in the first film are still standing in the Tunisian desert

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Heartbleeding Out: Web Bug Worse Than We Thought

Warnings from Cisco and Juniper suggest the encryption bug is much more widespread—and potentially catastrophic—than initially thought as the networking companies check the vulnerability of their browsers

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Protesters Seize Buildings in Eastern Ukraine

Hundreds of pro-Russia demonstrators occupied government buildings in Donetsk on Monday and declared the eastern region a "people's republic" that is independent of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev

By Alex Fitzpatrick and Maddy Fry

Senate Blasts CIA Interrogation Methods in New Report

A new Senate Intelligence Committee report lambasts the CIA for minimizing the brutality and exaggerating the efficacy of Bush-era interrogation techniques. The committee will ask the White House to make parts of the classified report public this week

By Alex Fitzpatrick

Secret Service Agents Booted from Obama's Eurotrip

Three agents from President Obama's security detail were sent packing after it became known they were drinking before his arrival to Amsterdam. One of the agents was reportedly found passed out in a hotel hallway

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Obamacare Deadline Extended for Last-Minute Sign-ups

The White House is giving Americans who begin the Affordable Care Act signup process on or before the March 31 a little extra time to complete it, a move top Republicans are already knocking as just another Obamacare delay

By Alex Fitzpatrick and Zeke J Miller

Redskins Owner Still Won't Change Team's Name

Daniel M. Snyder has instead announced the creation of the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation, an organization meant to help struggling Native American tribes across the country, as controversy over the Redskins name heats up again

By Alex Fitzpatrick

Flight Computer Changed

A new report suggests the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 made its first off-course turn to the west after a heading change was entered into the aircraft's flight computer, a move that requires advanced knowledge of the plane's flight systems

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Hockey Player 'Stable' in Hospital After Collapsing During Game

Stars-Jackets encounter was postponed after the incident

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HBO GO Technical Troubles Mar True Detective Finale

True Detective fans took to Twitter Sunday evening to complain of apparently wide-reaching HBO GO technical troubles preventing them from viewing the hit show’s finale. HBO GO is HBO’s online content platform.Many users shared screenshots...

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Hubble GIF Shows Never-Before-Seen Asteroid Breaking Up In Space

New images reveal an asteroid crumbling to approximately 10 smaller pieces, a space scene never before captured in such dramatic detail.

By Alex Fitzpatrick

Researchers 3D Print a Whale Graveyard So They Can Study It Later

After road construction on the Pan-American Highway revealed a mysterious whale graveyard in Chile, researchers scrambled to figure out why so many of the mammals died in the same spot. After ongoing construction threatened to...

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Bob Costas Is Not In Good Shape

His eye infection is getting visibly worse

By Alex Fitzpatrick
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