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7 years ago+6 6 0Walt Disney World Turned Epcot's Spaceship Earth Into the Death Star
Now that Disney owns Lucasfilm and everything Star Wars, the company’s theme parks are slowly becoming giant advertisements for the upcoming films. Which is totally cool with us if it means awesome publicity stunts like turning Epcot’s giant spherica ...
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Current Event
7 years ago+31 31 0Galaxy Note 7 broke basic engineering rules, says damning new report
A teardown of the Galaxy Note 7 may have revealed why the device was a fire-hazard, and eventually canceled. It's shown the battery didn't have enough space to expand naturally, potentially causing internal layers to touch, and eventually c ...
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Analysis
7 years ago+11 11 0Interns at tech companies are better paid than most American workers
A lot more.
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7 years ago+3 3 0Buy a Year of Dropbox Pro For $99, Get a $50 Amazon Gift Card
Well here’s something I didn’t expect to see today: Amazon is offering up $50 gift cards when you subscribe to a year of Dropbox Pro for $99, today only. That gets you 1TB in the cloud to store all of your stuff for a full year, and the Amazon gift c ...
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Current Event
7 years ago+31 31 0NFL overhauls its social media policy just 7 weeks after last change
Just seven weeks after making controversial changes to the social media policy that governs its 32 teams, the NFL is changing the policy again, Yahoo Finance has learned. NFL executives Brian Rolapp and Hans Schroeder sent a memo on Friday afternoon ...
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7 years ago+31 31 0Virgin Galactic's new spaceship completes its first glide flight
This early test of VSS Unity was an important step.
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7 years ago+10 10 0Kitten Survives 300 Miles Inside Car Bumper, Becomes Cover Of Royal Navy Calendar
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to go from the streets to stardom, but this kitten had a long road to get there—a 300-mile one, to be exact. After being discovered inside of the bumper of a naval helicopter pilot’s car, this adorable face became the c ...
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7 years ago+40 40 0 x 1Criminals can guess your Visa card details in just six seconds
Criminals can work out the card number, expiry date and security code for a Visa debit or credit card in as little as six seconds using guesswork, researchers have found. Experts from Newcastle University said it was “frighteningly easy” to do with a ...
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7 years ago+38 38 0 x 1Chimpanzees recognize each other’s butts the way we recognize faces
For chimpanzees, it’s all about the butt. You won’t find a female chimp going “My eyes are up here,” as it turns out that chimps often tell each other apart based on their behinds. Their brains even process butts in the same way that we process faces ...
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7 years ago+9 9 0New Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 trailer is packed with action and classic rock
Marvel just released a new teaser trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and it’s packed with plenty of action, humor, and classic rock.
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Current Event
7 years ago+30 30 0Big Data, Big Brother: China would restrict services on the basis of recorded behavior
The country wants to assign citizens a score that determines their eligibility for everything from loans to education.
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Expression
7 years ago+16 16 0For Marines who carry their own to burial: ‘The Last to Let You Down’
The Body Bearers cherish the ritual and honor of carrying fallen Marines to their graves at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Analysis
7 years ago+12 12 0Mercedes digital headlights project street signs and markings onto the road ahead
Mercedes has just announced a conceptual new set of lamps that can not only adapt their light distribution to cater to the environment, but can project high-res visual aids onto the road ahead, such as makeshift zebra crossings for nearby pedestrians ...
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Current Event
7 years ago+40 40 0 x 1Russian resupply ship destroyed en route to International Space Station
There's no word yet on a cause.
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7 years ago+25 25 0Watch Chernobyl's Huge Radiation Shield Slide in and Enclose the Damaged Nuclear Reactor
We already saw how the new $1.6 billion sarcophagus—the 843-foot wide, 354-foot tall steel shield that entombs the radioactive material leaking from the damaged nuclear reactor left over from the Chernobyl disaster—was going to be put in place to r ...
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7 years ago+15 15 0United Launch Alliance unveils website that lets you price out a rocket ‘like building a car’
This morning, United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno unveiled a new website that allows satellite makers to figure out what it will really cost to launch a vehicle on one of ULA’s rockets.
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7 years ago+9 9 0The oldest computer (not) on Earth
When Allan Lasser started his hunt for the Government's most ancient piece of tech, he hadn’t even considered that the oldest active computer might not even be on Earth.
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8 years ago+7 8 1Pluto’s Breathtaking Farewell to New Horizons
Backlit by the sun, Pluto’s atmosphere rings its silhouette like a luminous halo in this image taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft around midnight EDT on July 15.
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8 years ago+17 17 0Soar Over Pluto's Heart at 77,000 Kilometers in This New Animation
This animated flyover of the Norgay mountains and Sputnik plains on Pluto are based on the freshly-delivered close-approach images from the New Horizons flyby. See features just a single kilometre big as you experience what it would be like to hitch ...
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8 years ago+37 38 1 x 1These Pluto Truthers Insist NASA Images Are Fake
It wouldn’t be a monumental achievement in human history without some truthers on the internet calling it fake. And NASA’s historic Pluto flyby is no different. The conspiracy theory crowd has descended on the event as their too-good-to-be-true choic ...