Dell today upgraded its flagship desktop PC with the latest and
greatest hardware to offer what the company calls one of the most
advanced gaming platforms on the planet. In fact, the new XPS feels
much more “premium” than the preceding 720-series, cost at least $5000
in the water-cooled edition and we have wonder: Why exactly would you
choose an […]
Banish unsightly neck bands. Clear away crow’s-feet. Botox injections are being used to erase the effects of time. Some call them poison — others claim they’re a wrinkle remedy.
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Alaskan fishermen literally risk life and limb to haul in millions of tons of seafood. Why would anyone risk death for snow crab?
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Are airport screeners whittling figurines with your contraband Swiss Army knife? Follow the trail of your knife as it leaves your pockets at airport security and goes on to achieve eBay glory.
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The civilization of the ancient Greeks grew up around the Aegean Sea and spread through the Greek mainland.
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In almost any city on any given day, the skyline will feature one prominent outsider: the tower crane. Tower cranes rise 150 feet in the air and lift up to 19 tons. Plus, they actually build themselves.
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The Wii has changed the way video games are played.
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It flows south to north through nine African countries, and it helped build Ancient Egypt. But how does the mighty Nile affect the people and animals that live near the river?
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Flying down the highway, a hydraulic hybrid isn’t much different from a regular car. But in traffic, the vehicles can increase fuel economy 40 to 70 percent. UPS has its own hydraulic hybrids, so when can you get one?
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sgunhouse writes to mention Wired’s Threat Level has a piece on a recently-declassified document detailing the history of TEMPEST. “It was 1943, and an engineer with Bell Telephone was working on one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive and important pieces of wartime machinery, a Bell Telephone model 131-B2. It was a top secret encrypted […]
