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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Mercedes Is Making a Self-Driving Semi to Change the Future of Shipping
The latest truck concept from Mercedes-Benz doesn’t look like anything crazy. Its design is a bit unusual, and it’s loaded up with LEDs instead of headlights and cameras instead of side mirrors. But those modest tweaks to conventional design hide the fact that this is a serious bid to revolutionize the trucking industry. That’s because…
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
Jazz ink 5-year-old with leukemia to contract
The Utah Jazz signed a 5-year-old, free-agent guard to a one-day contract for a special scrimmage Monday night.
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
The Honeymoon Murder Trial of British Millionaire Shrien Dewani Begins
Shrien Dewani looked like a broken man after the November 2010 carjacking that left his new bride dead. But South African prosecutors say he arranged it all to cover up a secret life.
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10 years agoReview Nolan
Testing a $35 Firefox OS phone—how bad could it be?
Review: A masochistic journey into the world of the Intex Cloud FX.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Our cities' water systems are becoming obsolete. What will replace them?
Population growth and global warming are stressing our water supplies. Here's how we'll adapt.
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10 years agoReview Nolan
The Closed Mind of Richard Dawkins
His atheism is its own kind of narrow religion.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
The Man Who Smuggles Traders Joe’s into Canada
Michael "Pirate Joe" Hallatt and his unmarked white van are Canada's number-one supplier of Trader Joe's items. And, so far, Trader Joe's hasn't been able to stop him.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Why are wind farms killing so many bats?
Infrared video reveals bats get up close and personal with spinning blades.
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10 years agoImage Nolan
"Out of Many, One"
Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada's six-acre sand and soil "facescape" stretches across the JFK Hockey Field on the north side of the Reflecting Pool along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on October 1, 2014. Titled "Out of Many, One" and composed of 2,500 tons of sand, 800 tons of topsoil and eight miles of string, the piece is the artist's interpretive blending of 30 different men's faces. Rodriguez-Gereda used high-precision global positioni...
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
Violent clashes break out in Hong Kong after counter-protesters storm sit-in
About 1,000 people opposed to pro-democracy movement fight 100 demonstrators after Leung Chun-ying’s talks offer
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
How Joe Biden made raves more dangerous
In many ways, the RAVE Act is a metaphor for the entire war on drugs.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
A new golden age of horror movies - the 31 best movies of the last 15 years
Last year Tom and I spent the month of October covering 30 years of horror movies, from the first red blood in a Hammer film on through to the dusty desert vampires of Near Dark. We covered the rise of the genre into the modern era and mainstream acceptance. We wrote about some of the …
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10 years agoUnspecified Nolan
Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes in FBI’s Story
New court documents released this week by the U.S. government in its case against the alleged ringleader of the Silk Road online black market and drug bazaar suggest that the feds may have some ‘splaining to do.
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
Diet firm allegedly fakes endorsement from Fresh Prince’s Carlton
As Roca Labs sues an online reviews site, '90s actor disagrees with ad being used.
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10 years agoExpression Nolan
Patronising the 'pretty' fighter jet pilot
Fighter jet pilot Mariam al-Mansouri is the UAE's poster girl for the ISIL campaign - as much as she is for the US.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Angry Birds maker Rovio lays off 130 staff and tries to 'reignite growth'
Layoffs affect 16% of Finnish firm’s workforce as it focuses on its games, media and consumer products businesses. By Stuart Dredge
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
A Year After Death of Silk Road, Darknet Markets Are Booming
They're not safe, they're full of scams, and they're entirely fractured—but online places to buy drugs and weapons aren't going away any time soon.
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10 years agoUnspecified Nolan
Uber Rider Might Lose An Eye From Driver's Hammer Attack. Could Uber Be Held Liable?
Roberto Chicas, a 35-year-old San Francisco bartender, climbed into an UberX car around 2 a.m. last week and expected to get home safely. Instead, he landed in the hospital after his driver allegedly bashed in his face with a hammer after a dispute over the route. The hammer attack left Chicas with [...]
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
The Mythology of Dog Years
For years, we've been inundated with the "fact" that one human year is equal to seven "dog years." There's just one problem: It's a crock of shit.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
America’s Advanced Stealth Jet Flies on 1990s Tech
The Pentagon is counting on the F-22 Raptor for missions over Syria—and maybe, one day, against Russia, too. Too bad so much of its hardware is so retro.
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
A Double Agent App Targets Hong Kong’s Protesters
A mobile app marketed as a tool for activists is actually a spying program, protesters have discovered.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
31 Films, 31 Countries, One Halloween
They say that the genre is the real star of any horror film; that the characters and setting are secondary to the effect of hiding beneath a blanket in a dark room. Filmmakers around the world bank on this, using the horror genre as a way to tell stories unique to their culture that still appeal to international audiences. What follows is a list of 31 examples from 31 countries; there are found footage films, zombie comedies, creature features, and even a couple of horror-musicals mixed in for.....
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10 years agoExpression Nolan
MythBuster Adam Savage Reveals Why He’s Obsessed With Recreating Movie Props
In 1981, a young Adam Savage was dead set on seeing the movie Excalibur. John Boorman’s tale of King Arthur and his knights was what Savage describes as a “hard ‘R’” movie. “It was bloody and there were guts and crows eating eyeballs and skeletons and there was sex,” he told the crowd at Wired…
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
Tracy Morgan incredulous Wal-Mart blames him for accident injuries
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comedian Tracy Morgan, who was injured in a road accident that caused the death of his friend, was incredulous on Tuesday that retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc blamed him and others in
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
Beijing/Hong Kong: A Tale of Two Cities as Demonstrations Continue
As China’s independence day arrives, the massive protests in Hong Kong unsettle the Beijing leadership and underscore the territory’s hopes for political freedom.
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