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It’s Official, Someone Bought NYC’s First $100 Million Apartment

Here are some things that cost $100 million: Making the film Gravity . Recent U.S. airstrikes in Iraq . And now, a two-story penthouse occupying the 89th and 90th floors of the new super-luxury high-rise at 157 West 57th Street. Read more…

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It’s Official, Someone Bought NYC’s First $100 Million Apartment

This Ingestible Nanobot Is Powered By Stomach Acid 

There’s tiny revolution afoot in medicine, where micro- and nano-sized robots will someday cruise around inside our bodies, zeroing in on cancerous cells or repairing damaged but otherwise healthy ones . But before those ideas all become reality, those bots need a power source inside our bodies. That power source could be stomach acid. Read more…

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This Ingestible Nanobot Is Powered By Stomach Acid 

Lizard Squad Kept Its Hacker-for-Hire Customers’ Info in Plain Text

Somebody hacked the Lizard Squad’s super stupid DDoS-for-hire service last week, and guess what? The Lizard Squad sucks at cybersecurity. Not only did the hackers leave their so-called LizardStresser service vulnerable, the money-hungry kids left all their customers’ data in plain text and $11, 000 in bitcoin on the table. Read more…

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Every X-Men member ever in one video timeline

Check out this detailed video timeline showing every single X-Men member that ever joined the team from September 1963, when Stan “The Man” Lee and Jack “The King” Kirby debuted X-Men #1 with Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, Beast, and Marvel Grey, led by Professor X. Read more…

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Every X-Men member ever in one video timeline

Impressive photo of the F-35 Lightning II with all its weaponry lined up

Lockheed Martin sent us this impressive shot by Matt Short of the F-35 Lightning II showing all the weaponry it can carry. Of course, it can’t carry everything you see at the same time. This is the stuff that has been certified so far. Read more…

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Impressive photo of the F-35 Lightning II with all its weaponry lined up

Damn, Another Arm-Sized Bolt Fell Off London’s Cheesegrater Tower 

The Cheesegrater is a beautiful glass wedge of a building that rises over 700 feet into the London skyline. It unfortunately has some safety problems. This week, its owners revealed that a third bolt of high-strength steel snapped because of “hydrogen embrittlement”—an obscure term, but one that ” causes fear among engineers .” Read more…

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Damn, Another Arm-Sized Bolt Fell Off London’s Cheesegrater Tower 

This New Website Lets You Hire a Hacker in Minutes

Need to do some digital breaking-and-entering but don’t really have the skills? Don’t worry: Hacker’s List provides a space for you to find your dream hacker, ready to undertake your computer crimes for you Read more…

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This New Website Lets You Hire a Hacker in Minutes

This is what happens when you launch a rocket under a frozen lake

I love my Swedes, especially when they get crazy. I’m not so sure about launching fireworks rockets under the ice of a frozen lake. That’s just dumb. Fun, but dumb. Go home and leave the fish alone, Swedes. You are drunk. Read more…

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Thousands of Fish To Be Freed From Abandoned Mall Fish-Hell

Last year, we learned about Bangkok’s New World Mall, among the most dystopian places on the planet. It’s a shopping mall in the middle of one of the world’s more tumultuous cities that was abandoned nearly 20 years ago. After a roof collapse, the mall flooded, and a population of fish thrived in newly formed ponds . Now, those fish are finally being set free . Read more…

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