For more than 18 months, US diplomats have come down with similar illnesses that include mild brain damage and hearing loss after they claim to have heard unusual sounds. The incidents began in Cuba but reports have now spread to other countries. As authorities have ramped up efforts to treat…
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been living in Ecuador’s London embassy since the winter of 2012. But it doesn’t look like the country has a plan for getting rid of Assange any time soon. And the president of Ecuador is voicing his increased frustration with the entire saga.
It’s a necessary evil of designing in cities: Only the tallest or most perfectly situated buildings get much sunlight. A company called Sun Central thinks it has a solution — in the form of an autonomous sun-tracking mechanism that sucks up sunlight and pipes it into dark buildings.