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Monster Machines: The World’s First Supersonic UAV Is Ready For Takeoff In Australia

The ability to drop bombs on targets a continent away can be a huge tactical advantage (even if it is just sabre-rattling). Doing so at supersonic speeds, nearly automatically, is even better. That’s why the UK has spent the better part of a decade developing the Taranis, one of the biggest and fastest UAV in existence. Now it just needs to prove it can actually fly.


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Giz Explains: How Prescriptive Analytics Could Harness Big Data To See The Future

Big Data — information sets too large to be effectively computed on desktop systems — isn’t just the buzzword du jour. It provides an unprecedented ability for business and industry to precisely model the effects of past managerial decisions on the bottom line. But an emerging analytical process called prescriptive analytics could help companies not only learn from previous decisions, but predict and plan for upcoming issues as well. It’s Big Data evolved, and it could change how the world does business.


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Monster Machines: Teched-Out Catamarans Will Guard The Great Barrier Reef

Simply naming an area like our Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage Site isn’t going to protect its delicate ecosystem. To prevent poachers, fisheries, and inconsiderate tourists from damaging the reefs and disturbing its residents, Australia is building a fleet of solar-powered shepherd ships.


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Monster Machines: The New Fastest Helicopter On Earth Can Fly At An Insane 480km/h

Most helicopters are built for hovering, not for speed. But the Eurocopter X3 is built for both. The demonstrator tilt-rotor aircraft proved as much when it set a pair of air speed records earlier this month.


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The Weirdest Thing On The Internet Tonight: LSD ABC

This awesome educational short from animators Laura Sicouri and Kadavre Exquis is equal parts School House Rock and Magical Mystery Tour.


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The Weirdest Thing On The Internet Tonight: TORMENTO BABASONICOS

Wow. That got out of hand really fast. I mean that spiralled from Chilean butt band weird to modern-day Heavy Metal in a blink.


Monster Machines: China Has The World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Watson may have been able to trounce a pair of Jeopardy champs, but it can’t hold a candle to the new king of number crunching, the 3.12 million-core Tianhe-2. Built by China’s National University of Defense Technology at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzho, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer runs on a proprietary Linux build.


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These Stash Coins Are A Fantastic Way To Lose Your SD Card

The Man has his hand in your inbox and cops are intimidating citizens who film them beating other citizens. So it’s only logical to want to keep the private contents of your SD card, well, private. The Covert Coin from CCS Spy Gear is a precision-machined piece of retired US currency that are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing when closed.


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Get The Most Out Of Your Home Appliances (Without Taking Them Apart)

When was the last time you had to salt your perishables, got dishpan hands or beat your laundry against a washboard? Chances are not recently. Your home appliances do so much for you, shouldn’t you return the love? Here’s how to keep your domestic machine in peak condition without putting on a tool belt.


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Mob Stoolie: Il Cosa Nostra Wanted UAVs For Hits

The US military may hold the crown for most people whacked from an autonomous weapons platform but it is far from the first to try remotely-piloted death machines. According to one former mafioso, the Graviano family was testing radio-controlled, explosives-laden kamikaze craft for the handling of its staffing issues two decades ago.


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