Emmys Aftermath: Will HBO Be TV’s Last Brand Standing?

It was an old fashioned “whuppin’” by Time Warner’s HBO at the 67th annual Emmy Awards Sunday Night. Yes, NBC did garner a win for Best Reality Series and Viola Davis’s win for Best Actress (on behalf of the Shonda Rimes channel, aka Disney’s ABC network) was touching. But in most of the prestigious comedy and drama categories, HBO was dominant.

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Flying to the edge of space without an engine is an idea so crazy it might just work


Flying to the edge of space without an engine is an idea so crazy it might just work
If you thought that flying in the earth’s stratosphere requires super-powerful engines, think again. The new Perlan 2 Glider, which completed its first-ever test flight on Sept. 23 in Redmond, Oregon, is a tiny engineless aircraft that’s designed to reach the edge of space by “surfing” the strong air currents of the Polar Vortex.

September 24, 2015 at 09:38AM
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