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Gone With The Wind Posted: 3 months ago by suebe
The Full Scale Tunnel, at Langley AFB, is where researchers have spent the past 78 years readying many of the nation's airplanes for flight. Aviation pioneers, including Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes, walked its halls. But it is old, inefficient and not designed for the computer age. It also sits in a flood path.
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Inventions That Will End Work As We Know It Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
In America, we like to celebrate Labor Day by ditching work. But one day you may never have to labor again. Here are four inventions that will eliminate working-class and professional jobs in the next 50 years.
*warning:contains video that may bend the rules of...Plime*(this is a poor sarcastic remark, no harm intended)
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Britain's Oldest Computer Comes Back To Life Posted: 3 months ago by suebe
It was designed in 1949, first ran in 1951 and performed mathematical calculations at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, Oxfordshire.
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10 Technologies We Stole From the Animal Kingdom Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
People have been lifting ideas from Mother Nature for decades. Velcro was inspired by the hooked barbs of thistle, and the first highway reflectors were made to mimic cat eyes. But today, the science of copying nature, a field known as biomimetics, is a billion-dollar industry. Here are some of our favorite technologies that came in from the wild.
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Teenagers 'filmed sex act fearing Large Hadron Collider doomsday' Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
The incident occurred after the launch of the particle accelerator ring, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which some dubbed a "doomsday device", sources told The Courier-Mail.
It is understood the girl wanted to lose her virginity to the boy - believing that the world was about to end.
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A Library Without Books Posted: 3 months ago by suebe
“When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books,’’said James Tracy, headmaster of Cushing and chief promoter of the bookless campus.
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Internet addiction center opens in US Posted: 3 months ago by nateebiinature
The center, called ReSTART, is somewhat ironically located near Redmond, headquarters of Microsoft and a world center of the computer industry.
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50 Things that are being killed by the internet Posted: 3 months ago by soreen
Tasks that once took days can be completed in seconds, while traditions and skills that emerged over centuries have been made all but redundant.
The internet is no respecter of reputations: innocent people have seen their lives ruined by viral clips distributed on the same World Wide Web used by activists to highlight injustices and bring down oppressive regimes
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How 20 popular websites looked when they launched Posted: 3 months ago by nateebiinature
From Google to youtube, from craigslist to flickr - how some of today's biggest sites looked back in the early days of their existence.
*New sites added since This
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As hybrid cars gobble rare metals, shortage looms Posted: 3 months ago by nateebiinature
The Prius hybrid automobile is popular for its fuel efficiency, but its electric motor and battery guzzle rare earth metals, a little-known class of elements found in a wide range of gadgets and consumer goods.
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When the Internet Breaks, Who Ya Gonna Call? Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
Like a jazzy sports car that has never had its oil changed, the underlying protocols of the Internet have remained largely unchanged since it came into being in the mid-1980s. The Internet can be surprisingly fragile at times and is vulnerable to attack.
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Look Ma, No Pen! Electrical Impulses Can Reproduce Handwriting Posted: 3 months ago by nateebiinature
Someday, instead of typing your text message on a cramped iPhone keyboard, neuroscientist Michael Linderman says you’ll be scrawling your thoughts in the air.
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Apple denies 'exploding' iPhones Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
A number of iPhones that reportedly "exploded" in France were not due to the battery overheating as had been suggested, Apple has said, launches iGnore™
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Microsoft apologizes for changing race in photo Posted: 3 months ago by nateebiinature
Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.
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Bra recycling – newest trend in eco-consciousness Posted: 3 months ago by nateebiinature
Using the logic that everything can be recycled into something new, Japanese underwear manufacturer Wacol recently launched a bra recycling campaign. The collected bras were processed and recycled into solid fuel.
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Yucca Mountain nuclear project in meltdown Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
In the Nevada Desert, the US Federal government has spent the last 22 years hollowing out the inside of a mountain – but the whole project has been a complete waste of time. In a staggeringly expensive about turn, the Yucca Mountain project is about to be canned.
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Point. Click. Kill: Inside The Air Force's Frantic Unmanned Reinvention Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
The age of remote-control warfare isn't coming--it's here, and not even the Air Force, which made it happen, is entirely prepared.
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The Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
I'll come right out and say it: Star Wars has a badly-designed universe; so poorly-designed, in fact, that one can say that a significant goal of all those Star Wars novels is to rationalize and mitigate the bad design choices of the movies.
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How To Manage Your Online Life When You're Dead Posted: 3 months ago by cb__
As more and more people carry out their lives online, there's less being stored away in dusty attics for loved ones to discover and hang onto. Letters have become e-mails; diaries have morphed into blogs; photo albums have turned virtual and come with tags..
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Cell Phone Turns On Stove Posted: 3 months ago by suebe
A Brooklyn man can't sleep at night knowing that the bizarre inter-gadget relationship between his Sony Erickson PDA and his Maytag Magic Chef stove might leave him burned. Last Monday Andrei Melnikov discovered that his cellphone was turning on his stove when he got a call in the kitchen. *Calling the Maytag man?*
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Full steam ahead! British Steam Car hits 131mph. Posted: 3 months ago by topofall
...they finally beat that world record speed with a run of 131mph – but because the FIA wasn’t present, it’s not yet official.
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Flying taxi inventor dies in test crash Posted: 3 months ago by topofall
Inventor Michael Robert Dacre has died testing a prototype.
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Germany could get robots to moon by 2015 Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
Hintze said the mission is worthwhile because 40 years after Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin stepped onto the surface of the moon, it remains an "excellent research platform for the exploration of space," and an "archive of the solar system."
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Rescue drone swallows humans, carries them to safety Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
The latest entrant is a human extraction bot, designed to do the heroic fireman thing without risking the lives of any actual, uh, men.
*w/video*
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God Is the Machine Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
At today's rates of compression, you could download the entire 3 billion digits of your DNA onto about four CDs.
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