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Vehicles
USS New York Is Made With Steel From The Twin Towers
10:20AM Jesus Diaz | The 208m long, $US1.2 billion warship USS New York is actually made of New York. At least, 7.5 tonnes of salvaged steel from the Twin Towers. Watch it come back home, under the eyes of the Queen of the Harbour: More »
Vehicles
World’s Largest Cruise Ship Sets Sail, Remains Insane While Doing So
9:45AM Dan Nosowitz | Royal Caribbean’s record-setting $US1.5 billion, 1200-foot-long, 16-deck-high, 220,000-ton, Tower-of-Babel-on-sea luxury cruiser has finally set sail from Finland to Miami. I hate to be the one to ask but, um, there aren’t any icebergs on the way, right guys? More »
Vehicles
1:40AM Jesus Diaz | I want to live here. Spacious, sunny apartment, hard wood floors, glass and steel. Except that this is not an apartment. It’s not even a building. It’s the strangest yacht I’ve seen, as these pretty shots show. More »
This Is My Dream House, Except It’s Not A House
1:40AM Jesus Diaz | I want to live here. Spacious, sunny apartment, hard wood floors, glass and steel. Except that this is not an apartment. It’s not even a building. It’s the strangest yacht I’ve seen, as these pretty shots show. More »
Design
The 125m 7Cs Superyacht Is Another Boat You’ll Never Own
5:00AM Jack Loftus | A couple of uber rich playboys from DriveDesign, not content with their dominance over the land, have taken to the high seas with this slick, modern take on the yacht—complete with pool, double staircase and borderline offensive opulence, standard. More »
Science
Cloud-Generating 1900-Ship Armada To Sink Climate Change
11:20AM Jesus Diaz | The Copenhagen Consensus Centre—a respected European think tank which used to be skeptic on climate change—is now advising that we should spend $US9 billion in building 1900 cloud-generating ships like the one above. Why? To cool down Earth: More »
Science
What Is This?
10:33PM John Herrman | You’d be forgiven for thinking this is digital age command centre, where generals direct scores of experimental drones with waving fingertips, holo-conference with the President and shield the world from terrifying threats unseen. In reality, it’s probably older than you are. More »
Vehicles
Tiny Oil Tanker Makes Pilots Better Trained, Slightly Awkward
1:00AM Dan Nosowitz | The Warsash Maritime Academy in the UK uses these $US245,000 miniature oil tankers to train its pilots—they’re incredibly difficult to drive, and simulate all kinds of different emergency situations, all while looking like a coin-operated children’s ride. More »
Networks
10:00AM Nick Broughall | On Tuesday, our good friend and ex-Giz editor Seamus was down at Collaroy in Sydney to welcome the arrival of a new underwater cable that promises to boost Australia’s internet capacity by 50 per cent and offer competition to the Tier 1 telcos for cheaper broadband. More »
New Undersea Cable Lands In Australia, Cheaper Internet Come September
10:00AM Nick Broughall | On Tuesday, our good friend and ex-Giz editor Seamus was down at Collaroy in Sydney to welcome the arrival of a new underwater cable that promises to boost Australia’s internet capacity by 50 per cent and offer competition to the Tier 1 telcos for cheaper broadband. More »
Toys
Lego Battleship Yamato Is Biggest Lego Ship Ever
11:10PM Jesus Diaz | Like its real counterpart, this Battleship Yamato is the biggest Lego ship ever constructed. At 6.7m long, it took 6 years and 4 months to complete by one of our Lego contest winners. [Updated]
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