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Paris Airport Gets Holographic Boarding Agents

“Bonjour! I invite you to go to your boarding gate. Paris Airports wishes you a bon voyage,” the attendant in front of you smiles. Except he isn’t really in front of you–he’s not real. He’s a hologram at Paris’ Orly Airport Hall 40.

April 3, 2011
Geek Out

"Divorce"

Seems Boing Boing reader “Pete” played a little prank on his wife for April Fool’s Day using a changed Contacts file, knowledge of her love for the AP Mobile app and pure, pure malice.

March 19, 2011
News

E-mail Dies, As Email Rises Triumphant From Its Ashes

The hyphen just got slightly more obsolete, and you just saved yourself a lot of right ring-finger reaching. In a move that feels so right it surely should’ve been made years ago, “e-mail” has been deemed incorrect. From now on, we send emails.

August 29, 2009
Cameras

AP Photographer Loses Foot In Bomb Blast, Keeps Taking Pictures

AP photographer Emilio Morenatti’s left foot had to be amputated after he was injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan. That didn’t mean he stopped shooting, however.

April 10, 2009
Online

AP Threatens to Sue AP Affiliate for Embedding Official AP YouTube Vids

I think the AP needs to hire an internet consultant. Because it’s clearly run by people who have absolutely no idea how the internet works. How else can one explain their behavior?

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