Europe

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Europe’s First Stealth Drone

8:20AM January 21, 2012 | Sam Biddle

Europe’s collaborative “nEUROn” drone may be late to the invisible death from above party, but it sure is compensating with some scary looks. Check out the Cylon mug on this puppy as it greets the world for the first time. More »


Online

EU Citizens Are So Technophobic A Quarter Have Never Used The Web

10:00PM December 15, 2011 | Jamie Condliffe

God bless those Europeans: Across the EU, more than 120 million people have never been online. How do they cope without Facebook and YouTube? More »


News

Europe’s Mysterious Radiation Cloud May Be Coming From Hungary

12:50AM November 19, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The radioactive element iodine-131 has been spreading around Europe in heightened concentrations and everyone is confused as to why it is happening or who is responsible. Hungary thinks they know who: the Budapest-based Institute of Isotopes. More »


Science

Radioactive Particles Are Spreading Across Europe, Nobody Knows Why

3:48AM November 17, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Iodine-131 is a dangerous radioactive isotope. It can clog up your thyroid gland and contaminate food. It’s been a big problem in Japan (for obvious reasons), but now it’s been scarily detected throughout Europe. And nobody knows the source. More »


Online

Europe And US Carry Out Joint Cyber Attack ‘Stress Test’

10:10PM November 4, 2011 | Gary Cutlack - gizmodo uk

A bunch of cyber security experts from the EU and the US have been messing about with some pretend cyber attack scenarios, making plans for what would happen in the event of a proper, damaging electronic attack. More »


Science

Neanderthals And Modern Humans, Like, Got Busy

7:37AM November 3, 2011 | Kristen Philipkoski

Despite representing different stages of human evolution, it looks like European Homo sapiens might have had a penchant for a little Neanderthal booty. Or vice versa. More »


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Scenes From World War II: Victory In Europe

11:00AM October 10, 2011 | Jack Loftus

In 1945, one of the greatest modern wars the world had ever seen was in its final stages. The Rhine was about to be crossed. The Soviets were nearly through on the Eastern Front. The dying continued. More »


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The Decidedly Deadly Women Of World War 2

2:00AM September 12, 2011 | Jack Loftus

In World War 2′s European theatre, women were often as brutal a soldier as their better-known male counterparts, if not more. This was especially so in the war-torn Soviet Union, Poland and within the notorious German S.S. More »


Mobile

Rant: I Hope Apple Wins The Patent Wars

9:20AM August 25, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Those brilliant Apple idiots just got a new patent victory. And you know what? Good for them! Good for you too, Android users included. I hope they win all of their wars, because that would be good for all of us. More »


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Was Heavy Armor A Hindrance To Medieval European Battlers?

9:50PM July 20, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Watching a movie set in medieval times isn’t enough to realise just how damn heavy those suits of steel actually are. Weighing between 30 – 50kg, you’d think they would impact and impede the wearer’s actions. Or did they? More »