Agents from the Agencia Tributaria— the Spanish IRS—announced the find of a priceless Van Gogh which disappeared from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Vienna, Austria. Dated in 1889, the painting “Cypr ess, sky and field” was discovered in a safe deposit box that belonged to a Spanish fraudster. Read more…
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Police finds priceless Van Gogh taken by Nazis hidden in bank vault
Undersea energy pipelines constitute a vital physical link between deep water wells and onshore refineries, but it’s not like we can just lay these lines like oversized bendy straws. That task of constructing and sinking these tubes instead falls to vessels like Allseas’ newest addition to its pipelaying fleet, the Audacia. Read more…
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The Audacia Lays 100 Feet of Pipe On the Ocean Floor Every Minute
Netflix has announced that it’ll begin streaming Breaking Bad in 4K and Dolby 5.1 from June. Read more…
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Netflix has announced that it’ll begin streaming Breaking Bad in 4K and Dolby 5.1 from June.
Remember that crazy-looking helicopter-drone-truck we showed you a few months ago? Now it is real and it is here . Advanced Tactics has released the very first video showing the Black Knight Transformer flying through the desert. Read more…
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First video of the US Army flying truck in action
It’s been half a century since Belgium’s famed Sarolea motorcycle brand last put out a bike but they’re clearly making up for lost time with the incomprehensibly gorgeous, all-electric-and-carbon-fiber SP7. And to prove they’re back in the superbike game, Sarolea is entering this black beauty into next month’s electric-only, Isle of Man TT Zero race. Read more…
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The Sarolea Superbike Is a Lightning-Powered Speed Demon
She’s got love in her eyes. Literally. A Redditor says that her mom has a blood vessel that spells love in her eye. Supposedly it’s not some crazy wacky tattoo either, the blood vessel is just more pronounced than usual and shaped in a way that we would recognize. At least it doesn’t say something awful! Read more…
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Woman has ‘love’ written with a blood vessel in her eye
If, for whatever reason, you’ve ever spent much time on Chinese websites, you’ll know that they often use numbers over letters or other characters. So, 4399.com is a gaming site, 92.com deals with car trading, and 12306.cn sells train tickets. Why is that? Read more…
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Why Do Chinese URLs Use Numbers, Not Letters?
Last year at WWDC, we got a huge overhaul of Apple’s mobile operating system . And this year , it looks like OS X could be in for the same treatment. According to 9to5Mac, the upcoming OS X 10.10 is going to be a major overhaul, maybe the biggest in OS X history . Read more…
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The Next Version of OS X Might Be a Radical Change Like iOS 7
We know the ocean is home to some of the weirdest looking monsters on the planet. It’s a big place, after all. But did you know that a single drop of seawater is also home to alien-looking critters too? They’re just invisible to us because they’re microscopic. Once you get closer, all these creepy things start coming out! Read more…
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A single drop of seawater hides all these icky microscopic creatures
The question of just how an ancient civilization—without the help of modern technology—moved the 2.5 ton stones that made up their famed pyramids has long plagued Egyptologists and mechanical engineers alike. But now, a team from the University of Amsterdam believes they’ve figured it out, even though the solution was staring them in the face all along. Read more…
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Scientists Discovered the Egyptian Secret to Moving Huge Pyramid Stones