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From the blog of Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch: I live a fairly simple life and that didn’t change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn’t buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large. I live near Seattle and there’s a big boating culture up here. I found a small company that builds boats [...] News.Sky.com British troops are using a nano drone just 10cm long and weighing 16 grams on the front line in Afghanistan to provide vital information on the ground. They are the first to use the state-of-the-art handheld tiny surveillance helicopters, which relay reliable full motion video and still images back to the devices’ handlers in the battlefield. The Black Hornet Nano Unmanned Air Vehicle is the size of a child’s toy, [...] The great thing about eBay is that it has a little bit of everything, but this De Haviland Firestreak missile may be a first.
The De Haviland was employed for 31 years by the UK, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia from 1957 to 1988 and was the first of its kind for the Royal Air Force. The Firestreak used the aircraft’s radar to lock onto a target and the state-of-the-art technology provided the first effective British air-to-air missile ever. It could [...] “The 2045 initiative has received the blessing and support from the Dalai Lama, as it prepares to announce the second Global Future 2045 Congress, being held in New York, June, 2013. Dmitry Itskov, founder of 2045, met His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in his residence in Dharamsala, a small mountain town in northern India. They discussed the three major steps of 2045 Avatar Project. First, the creation of a [...] Amid increasing talk of a possible Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities, Iran has begun construction of a new, state-of-the-art, anti-aircraft missile base. The new base, located near the city of Abadeh, in southern Iran, will cost $300 million, be home to 6,000 personnel, and host seven battalions, Iran’s Fars news agency reported Tuesday. The Deputy Commander of the Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base, Mohammad Hosseini, said the base, the largest of its kind [...] Russia’s air force will get 1,600 new warplanes and choppers by 2020, announced President Vladimir Putin. The program will cost Moscow some US $723 billion. “We are talking primarily about providing our forces with state-of-the-art modern technology,” Putin said at an air show in the Moscow Region ahead of the 100th anniversary of the country’s air force. “Over 600 new warplanes and 1,000 helicopters will come into service by 2020 – not mentioning [...] With sprawling housing developments and state-of-the-art skyscrapers, the outward impression is of a bustling metropolis. But look closer and the so-called Kangbashi New Area of the Chinese city of Ordos is anything but teeming with people. Known as the ghost town district of the wealthy mining city, it was built to house a million residents. But less than 30,000 live in this spanking new town, the construction of which started in 2004. Yet it [...] There is now hope for those who wish to see the face of their departed loved ones in a device that doubles as a box to hold their ashes. Cremation Solutions, a Vermont-based memorial products service, is taking the idea of a traditional urn and turning it on its head, using state-of-the-art facial recognition software and 3D printers to produce human faces as realistic monuments. The company says it can design the [...] Construction on the Kangbashi New Area of the city of Ordos started in 2004 With sprawling housing developments and state-of-the-art skyscrapers, the outward impression is of a bustling metropolis. But look closer and the so-called Kangbashi New Area of the Chinese city of Ordos is anything but teeming with people. Known as the ghost town district of the wealthy mining city, it was built [...] Ride located at the theme park deep in woodland This is the terrifying Russian rollercoaster that was supposedly designed to make even the most daring of thrillseekers vomit on themselves. The state-of-the-art ride – located at a theme park set deep into woodland – spins, flips and rocks passengers in all directions for the ultimate stomach-churning effect. The rollercoaster is thought to be [...] Problem affects ‘wi fi only’ models Apple is quietly replacing units of the new iPad affected by slow, unreliable wi-fi. The company’s Applecare support service has been told to replace affected units, according to a leaked internal memo seen by 9to5Mac. The memo says that Applecare is ‘actively investigating’ problems including an inability to connect to nearby networks and slow speeds. The new [...] Hundreds of complaints on official forums Apple’s new iPad might have a state-of-the-art HD screen but the tech giant seems to have forgotten something – the web connection. Users on Apple’s forums have reported that the new gadget has trouble picking up and holding on to wi-fi signals. A thread on Apple’s official forums has [...] (Independent.co.uk) Lady Gaga allegedly left “large amounts of blood” in a hotel bath. The eccentric singer reportedly shocked staff when she checked out of London’s lavish Intercontinental Hotel last summer and they discovered a pool of red liquid in the tub of her suite. One housekeeper claimed the pop superstar was “bathing in blood as part of a Satanic ritual”. She told website Truthquake: “Lady Gaga left large amounts of blood in the suite [...] Niall Ferguson has a series on Channel4 (UK television) “Civilisation: Is the West History“. I thought it rather strange that 21m50 into episode 4, about medicine, that he would take (in my view) potshots at the theory of man-made climate change. The important point to note is that 100 years ago work like Galton’s was at the cutting edge of scientific research. Racism wasn’t some backward looking reactionary ideology, [...] A lawyer married a woman who had previously divorced ten husbands. On their wedding night, she told her new husband, “Please be gentle, I’m still a virgin.” “What?” said the puzzled groom. “How can that be if you’ve been married ten times?” “Well, Husband #1 was a sales representative: he kept telling me how great it was going to be. Husband #2 was in software services: he was never really sure how it was [...] by Louis Ciola The Chinese are now doing what the Russians used to do all the time, cloning any major weapon or invention that they might need. The Americans, liike the Russians, are both greedy and cash strapped and continue to do business with the Chinese and this is the end result. What’s going to happen to all the greedy American companies when China gives them the boot? They already bought [...] |
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