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The outdoor Olympic diving pool, which turned a startling shade of green Tuesday, is now closed. It reportedly smells like farts and may be causing eye itchiness among athletes.

Since Tuesday, Olympic organizers have repeatedly assured athletes and fans that the pool is safe. Rio organizing committee spokesman Mario Andrada told reporters on Wednesday that “the pool should go back to its classic blue color during the day.”

The Maria Lenk Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 9, 2016. A diving event at the Rio 2016 Olympics (Women's Synchronized 10m Platform Final) is about to start. (credit: Getty | AFP / Odd ANDERSE)

That clearly didn’t happen. Instead, reports trickled in that the adjacent pool used for water polo and synchronized swimming also began to turn green.

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Poor HTC. The company's flagship handset, the HTC 10, is apparently not selling well. T-Mobile has decided to dump the device after just two months on the market.

T-Mobile hasn't come out and ended sales officially, but the HTC 10 is no longer available from T-Mobile online. The phone used to live on T-Mobile's website at http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phones/htc-10.html, but that link now redirects to a generic HTC page that only shows the HTC Desire 530. A Reddit thread notes that the HTC 10 vanished from T-Mobile's site in July, which gives it a shelf life of just two months. TmoNews says it was originally told that the 10's disappearance was "a glitch" and that the phones would be back. But as Android Police points out, the 10 is still gone, and local stores don't have any plans to receive more units.

Too bad. We called the HTC 10 the "the best Android flagship of 2016." HTC finally cleaned up the huge front bezels, and we were won over by its metal body and a software package that was close to stock Android. None of that seems to be translating into sales, though. After a 35 percent year-over-year decline in revenue for 2015, HTC is on pace for a 50 percent year-over-year decline in 2016.

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At four to five meters in length, the Greenland shark (Squaliformes, Somniosus microcephalus) is the largest fish native to the Arctic waters. Getting that big must take a while, and scientists have long known that these sharks grow less than one cm per year. So these sharks probably live a very long time, but little was known about their longevity and maturation.

In an investigation recently published in Science, a team of researchers used radiocarbon dating to put together a timeline of the Greenland shark's lifespan.

Because Greenland sharks lack bones—they’re cartilaginous fish—conventional methods of tracking growth, like carbon dating of bones, won't work. Instead, the team used a modified radiocarbon dating technique that has worked before on other boneless animals: tracking the chronology of the eye lens. The eye lens nucleus is composed of inert proteins. The central portion of the lens is formed during prenatal development, and during growth, the tissue retains the original proteins, which were largely made before birth.

Easy, efficient, gamebreaking... and illegal, according to Riot Games. (credit: LeagueSharp)

League of Legends maker Riot Games is now combating cheating in the game with legal tools as well as technological tools. In a lawsuit filed in the US District Court for Central California (and obtained by The Rift Herald), Riot argues that popular cheating tool LeagueSharp (a.k.a L#) has "cause[d] serious harm to Riot and its community" by illegally circumventing the game's DRM and breaking the Riot's Terms of Use.

The lawsuit accuses a trio of German hackers—Matthias "Jodusmame" Oltmann, Stefan "0hm" Stefan Delgato, and Tyrone Tom "Beaving" Pauer—of being behind a Peruvian shell company that publishes LeagueSharp. The software, which costs between $15 and $50 a month, is advertised as "easy, efficient, gamebreaking." Riot, on the other hand, calls it "a product that is specifically designed to enable a subset of LoL players who do not wish to play fair to gain substantial unfair advantages over legitimate players (in other words, to cheat)" in its lawsuit.

In addition to making and distributing LeagueSharp, Riot accuses the hackers of conducting "repeated attacks on Riot’s game servers" and advising players on how to avoid detection. What's more, Riot alleges, the hackers or their associates "disseminated personal and non-public information about a Riot employee, threatened that employee, and posted offensive comments on the employee’s social media."