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A Predator B drone has successfully completed tests with so-called sense-and-avoid radar, bringing it a step closer to legal operation in US and international airspace. You may be thinking, "haven't they already operated extensively in places like Ir...

Apple apparently wanted its smartwatches to focus heavily on health-related features, but the company was forced to changed direction mid-development. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company originally envisioned a device that can monitor h...

The New York Times reports that the CIA purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller. Read the rest

In the remarkable time-lapse video “Dubai Flow Motion” by photographer Rob Whitworth, Dubai is explored in a series of frenetic, seamlessly linked time-lapses. The video covers the length and breadth of Dubai, including the baggage sorting system of the Dubai International Airport, the interior of the Burj Khalifa (the world’s tallest building), and the tanks of the Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo.

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Stefano Boeri’s 'Bosco Verticale' towers have opened in Milan, with each of the 113 apartments featuring its own beautifully landscaped balcony irrigated by greywater recycled through the building.

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nbcsnl:

Times have changed.

“No matter how many mistakes you make, or how slow your progress, you’re still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.”

- Unknown

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The Barbarian Group  Clive Wilkinson Architects

"With these simple needs in mind, we imagined of a kind of endless table that connects everyone. The surface you work on should be the same as the surface your colleagues work on, and that surface could connect everyone in the company in a single mission. Like an electrical wire, the table surface itself becomes a medium for connecting and centering a community."

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Almost…there…just…a…little…further…

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mahramore:

shots fired

rockets launched

house-of-gnar:

One of  the Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group shoots down a Nazi Luftwaffe jet fighter.

ethertune:

steps to SAKURA (By teeco55)

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There's no doubt that doctors would prefer to treat cancer as soon as they spot it, and it looks like nanotechnology might give them that chance. Researchers at the University of Leeds have successfully tested gold nanotubes that are useful for both ...

We already know that it's possible to map your home's WiFi signal in 2D, but that doesn't help if you're holding your phone above your head to get connected. Step forward YouTuber CNLohr, who appears to have developed a reasonably low-tech way to ana...

Need further proof that AT&T's GigaPower internet service is meant chiefly as a response to Google Fiber? You're looking at it. AT&T has launched its gigabit fiber option in the Kansas City area (both in Kansas state and Missouri), the original Googl...

It's been known for a while that the NSA will intercept and bug equipment to spy on its soon-to-be owners, but the intellgency agency's techniques are apparently more clever than first thought. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered ap...

Rumor: Republican South Carolina state Senator Thomas Corbin said women are a 'lesser cut of meat.'

Rumor: An unretouched photo of Cindy Crawford will be published in an upcoming issue of Marie Claire magazine.