Predator drones are very, very good at what they do, but $8 million will only get you about half of one. Doesn’t matter which half, that guy ain’t gonna to fly. Instead, the US Navy is investing in a smaller, lighter, more versatile recon drone. Read more…
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This New Naval UAV Is a "Blackjack"-of-All-Trades
You don’t think it’s only laptop, tablet, and smartphone designers that go the extra mile to make their devices thinner and thinner do you? Watch makers are constantly battling each other for the same notoriety, and now Piaget has reclaimed the title of ‘world’s thinnest mechanical watch’ with its new Altiplano 38mm 900P that measures in at 3.65mm—making it thinner than many digital alternatives. Read more…
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World’s Thinnest Mechanical Watch Is as Thick as Two Stacked Quarters
Scary. Insane. Ridiculous. Invasive. Wrong. The Washington Post reports that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer’s camera “without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording” for years now. What in the hell is going on? What kind of world do we live in? Read more…
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FBI can secretly turn on laptop cameras without the indicator light
SkyGuide’s creator Nick Risinger had to travel more than 60, 000 miles by airplane and car to collect 37, 000 individual photos to create this single image, the largest true-color image of the entire sky ever made: 100, 000 by 50, 000 pixels. Read more…
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Largest true-color photo of the sky ever took 60,000 miles of travel
Last year, Verizon bought $3.6 billion worth of spectrum, and now it’s finally making use of it: its LTE coverage just got three times faster in some big cities . Read more…
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Verizon’s LTE Just Got Three Times Faster in a Bunch of Big Cities
Those Mexican thieves that stole a truckload of coblat-60 ? They’re virtually sure to die, according to experts. Read more…
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Those Mexican Cobalt-60 Thieves Will Die of Radiation Exposure
Card skimmers are getting way more common , to the point that they’ve even started appearing on point-of-sale card machines . And, boy, if this thing is anything to go by, they’re getting better and better. Read more…
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Beware This Simple But Incredibly Effective Point-of-Sale Skimmer
Usually, you knock back pills packed with drugs; cocktails of chemicals which have been painstakingly proven to help make you better. Soon, though, you might be swallowing tablets filled with something you might not expect: bacteria. Read more…
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How a Pill Filled With Bacteria Could Actually Make You Better
The most thrilling [marketing] advancement in recent years was unveiled last night on 60 Minutes . If you missed it— how could you have missed it? —Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos detailed the [marketing] future of his company for millions [of potential customers]: Amazon PrimeAir . The [marketing] future is here, and it is [vague promises of] 30-minute delivery by drones. Read more…
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you never had to worry about germs crawling around on your kitchen countertop? Well, thanks to a new discovery by Australian scientists , that could soon be a reality. And it doesn’t require a drop of disinfectant. Read more…
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Scientists Accidentally Discover Incredible Bacteria-Killing Surface