The Visual Trickery That Turns Hockey Rinks Into Lakes of Fire
Pre-game presentations have long been excuses to trot out special effects. Indoor pyrotechnics, giant inflatable helmets, live wild animals running the field, and bone-rattling sound systems have been around for years. Turning a hockey rink into a lake of fire? That’s new.
December 11, 2014 at 06:28PM
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White Supremacists on Spotify
As Apple moves to ditch so-called “white power” groups from iTunes, other online retailers are dragging their feet to remove the hate music.
December 11, 2014 at 04:13PM
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Jetman Flies In Formation With A Stunt Plane, Welcomes The Future
God never granted us wings, so we had to build them ourselves. Fly on, Jetman! Soar into the sunset like a beautiful futuristic animal!
December 11, 2014 at 02:54PM
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Watch The U.S. Navy’s Laser Turret Blow Stuff Up
Here’s a demonstration of the Navy’s Laser Weapon System (LaWS). Fittingly, it seems to be controlled by a highly-modified Xbox controller.
December 11, 2014 at 01:30PM
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Facebook offers solution to end drunken posts
Facebook is working on software that could prevent users from posting unflattering photos of themselves while drunk.
December 11, 2014 at 12:53PM
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New “Shingled” Hard Drives Hold Terabytes For Pennies A Gig
Called Shingled Magnetic Recording Drives, Seagate’s new drives can store eight terabytes of data for about 3 cents a gigabyte.
December 11, 2014 at 10:44AM
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US Navy’s first laser weapon cleared for combat, blows up a boat, a small plane (video)
Earlier in the year, the U.S. Navy deployed its first combat-ready laser weapon system in the Persian Gulf — and now, after some field testing, we have a glorious video of the laser being used to blow up (unmanned) boats and drones. I’m happy to report that laser weapons are as awesome as you may have hoped.
December 11, 2014 at 07:33AM
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Your Smartphone Could Replace Your Driver’s License Someday Soon
Is this heaven? No, it’s Iowa.
December 11, 2014 at 06:37AM
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The FAA won’t make up its mind on drone rules until 2017 – at the earliest
In August, the Federal Aviation Administration missed a key deadline for developing rules for small commercial drones. That failure has infuriated businesses that want to test and use drones for delivering goods, monitoring crops and doing other awesome things.
December 11, 2014 at 04:57AM
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Microsoft tells US: The world’s servers are not yours for the taking
Microsoft’s fight against the U.S. position that it may search its overseas servers with a valid U.S. warrant is getting nasty.
December 11, 2014 at 02:39AM
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