Verizon is close to buying Yahoo for $5 billion as a ‘safe bet’
The plan is to combine it with AOL.

July 22, 2016 at 12:05PM
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Next Time You Hit The Green, Carry Your Clubs In A Flying Jetpack Machine
Golfers are always trying to out do one another, usually with high-tech clubs or a nice polo shirt. This, however, is a next level way to show off.

July 22, 2016 at 11:31AM
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Neural Style Coding Turns NYC Into A Moving Painting
Not only did this team of coders create a Really Beautiful Thing™ but they also made it open source so that anyone can create something similar.

July 22, 2016 at 09:31AM
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The Badass Gun The Military Uses To Shoot Rockets And Mortars Out Of The Sky
This big bad piece of machinery is part of a counter rocket, artillery and mortar system, affectionately known as C-RAM. Notice the hailstorm of bullets the gatling gun sprays out when it detects an incoming threat.

July 22, 2016 at 09:31AM
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Is Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley investor, shorting democracy at Trump’s convention?
In a way, Peter Thiel has been waiting for Donald Trump his entire life. At his side, he might disrupt the greatest legacy operating system of all — liberal democracy.

July 22, 2016 at 09:21AM
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VHS is dead, but at least it outlived Betamax by nine months
Last remaining VHS tape producer will cease manufacturing cassettes at the end of this month, bringing the 40-year-long analogue videotape era to an end.

July 22, 2016 at 09:21AM
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How to Keep 500 Miles of Underwater Pipeline Secret
The little-known, highly complex fuel route that helped the Allies defeat the Nazis.

July 22, 2016 at 07:32AM
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Watch And Listen To NASA Crack Giant Barrels In The Name Of Space Science
An essential part of making new materials for space is pushing them to their limits. Watch as NASA tests a potential new material by cracking a huge barrel of it. The noise is pretty satisfying and the barrel is sparkly.

July 21, 2016 at 04:45PM
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Facebook takes flight
Inside the test flight of Facebook’s first internet drone.

July 21, 2016 at 03:30PM
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Game Graphics Made With ‘Unreal Tech’ Are Too Real To Be Unreal
What’s more impressive is that most of the vegetation was actually created from scratch.

July 21, 2016 at 02:21PM
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