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Cryptocurrency mining to restore Alpine village’s goldrush fever
A new kind of mine is providing hope for a Swiss mountain village that has seen its share of misfortune over the years. Gondo, with 40 inhabitants, is no longer mining for gold, but for cryptocurrencies. On the face of it, Gondo - an isolated community on the Swiss-Italian border - is hardly the most likely location for such a cutting-edge, disruptive and divisive technology. It has nevertheless been chosen as the venue for a cryptocurrency mine by start-up Alpine Mining.
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LG has made a 4K TV you can roll up like a sheet of paper
A couple of years ago, LG Display showed off an intensely futuristic 18-inch OLED display that could be bent and rolled up just like a newspaper. Today, that prototype has grown to 65 inches in size, with the company announcing that it’s managed to scale up the tech to the dimensions of a large TV. At CES 2018, LG Display will be demonstrating the new 65-inch rollable OLED prototype, which also happens to have UHD (aka 4K) resolution.
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A woman put 50m stolen articles online so you can read them for free
Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10 billion-per-year paywall of academic publishers. Elbakyan has kept herself beyond the reach of a federal judge who late last year issued an injunction against her site, noting that damages could total $150,000 per article...
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Nothing to See Here, Just a Functional Knife Made of Fish
That was a fish, once. Tuna specifically. Katsuobushi—repeatedly smoked, fermented fish—holds the record as the hardest food on earth, bearing more in common by the end of its processing to petrified wood than to sealife.
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Cyclist 'draws' 88-mile virtual snowman
A cyclist has "drawn" an 88-mile (141km) virtual snowman across London. Anthony Hoyte, from Cheltenham, spent 10 hours cycling the streets of the city, using the exercise and route sharing app Strava to "draw" the giant festive artwork. The cyclist has created several virtual doodles including Fowl Play in Bristol, which took first prize in the city's Strava art competition in September.
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Student Whose 3DS Was Stolen Is Given A Replacement By His Schoolmates
Losing something precious is never a pleasant thing, but losing it at Christmas is especially heartbreaking, and that's what happened to Antioch High School student Shawn Hawkins. His beloved 3DS XL was stolen, and he wrote messages on the school's notice board begging for it to be returned. Trouble by his obvious distress, one of his fellow schoolmates decided to raise the cash to replace the lost console...
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Engineers create plants that glow
Imagine that instead of switching on a lamp when it gets dark, you could read by the light of a glowing plant on your desk. MIT engineers have taken a critical first step toward making that vision a reality. By embedding specialized nanoparticles into the leaves of a watercress plant, they induced the plants to give off dim light for nearly four hours. They believe that, with further optimization, such plants will one day be bright enough to illuminate a workspace.
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Alabamian with diabetes built her own artificial pancreas, gives away plan for free
Dana Lewis is a good name to remember the next time you hear somebody say Alabama's mostly good for football and barbecue. Lewis, a University of Alabama graduate who grew up in Huntsville, used social media, computer skills and mail-order parts to invent an artificial pancreas for people with diabetes. Along with co-inventor and husband Scott Leibrand, she's now giving her discovery away.
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Man spots himself in fiancee's childhood photo
A man discovers he crossed paths with his fiancee years ago after spotting himself in the background of one of her childhood vacation photos.
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Baby has heart put back inside chest
A baby born with her heart outside her body has survived after surgery at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. Vanellope Hope Wilkins, who has no breastbone, was delivered three weeks ago by Caesarean section. She has had three operations to place her heart back in her chest. The condition, ectopia cordis, is extremely rare with only a few cases per million births, of which most are stillborn.
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A bitcoin booster got $1.5 million after being “bitshamed” for being poor
Andreas Antonopoulos received more than 150 bitcoins in donations after being mocked on Twitter by a man known as "Bitcoin Jesus."
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Teacher Whose Son Has Leukaemia Fights Back Tears After His Students Buy Him A Switch
"You know I just walk by the Switches at Target every time I'm there?"
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Reddit found this dude's stolen car in a matter of hours
Getting your car stolen is one of the worst things, but finding it can be MUCH easier than it was a decade ago. Over Thanksgiving week, Sebastiaan de With, a freelance designer and photographer, got his Land Rover Defender stolen in the San Francisco Bay Area, after just having purchased it a little over a year ago.
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Real-life Iron Man breaks record for fastest speed in a jet-powered flight suit
An inventor who built a real-life Iron Man suit so that he could fly through the air like Tony Stark has earned himself a world record. On a dramatic day at Lagoona Park, Reading, British entrepreneur Richard Browning achieved a speed of 32.02 mph (51.53 km/h) on his third timed attempt, before mistiming a turn and dropping into the lake. He has been awarded the Guinness World Records title for the fastest speed in a body-controlled jet engine power suit - a brand new title created just for him.
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An American Woman Just Won the NYC Marathon for the First Time Since 1977
Shalane Flanagan dethroned Mary Keitany on Sunday and became the first American woman to win the New York City Marathon since 1977, potentially ending her decorated career with her first major marathon victory. Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya won the men’s race, holding off countryman Wilson Kipsang by 3 seconds for his first major victory.
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Here’s the World’s Fastest RC Jet Going 727 km/h (451 mph)
RC pilot Niels Herbrich first set the Guinness World Record on 14 September 2013 with a speed of 706.97 km/h at the WLP Ballenstedt landing strip in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. In planning for another official world record time (seen here), Niels is seen here taking his turbine demonstrate stream for a trial and achieving informal rates of 727 km/h (451 mph).
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Japanese firm gives non-smokers extra six days holiday
A Japanese company is granting its non-smoking staff an additional six days of holiday a year to make up for the time off smokers take for cigarette breaks. Marketing firm Piala Inc introduced the new paid leave allowance in September after non-smokers complained they were working more than their colleagues who smoked.
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This 7-Year-Old Girl Is Pitching at the World Series With a 3D Printed Hand
On Saturday, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros will meet for Game 4 of the World Series. As with any Major League Baseball game, the competition will kick off with a ceremonial pitch. But this one will be especially awe-worthy, featuring a 7-year-old girl with a 3D-printed hand.
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Man locked in store's beer cooler stays, drinks all night
A 38-year-old Wisconsin man who got locked in a convenience store's beer cooler overnight didn't despair: He decided to enjoy the experience, according to police. The man, whose name was not released, told police that he went to a Kwik Trip here to buy some beer but became trapped inside the walk-in cooler when it was locked at about 11:50 p.m. Tuesday, according to a police report. Rather than bang on the glass door to be let out, he warmed up to the idea of staying inside — where temperatures hover around 32 degrees — all night to sample the merchandise.
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"Stranger Things" Season 1 Getting VHS-Style Blu-ray Release at Target!
Yes, the rumors have been officially confirmed. Last week, the above photos began circulating around the net, suggesting that Netflix was finally going to be bringing the first season of “Stranger Things” to DVD/Blu-ray… in retro-style, VHS-inspired packaging! We were holding off on reporting until we got official word, which we’ve just received tonight.
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