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New York Looks To Make Elon Musk’s Flamethrowers Illegal
Boring Company Flamethrower You may recall, in one of the many adventures of Elon Musk, that last year he began taking pre-orders for a flamethrower created by his ‘Boring Company’. The product (following the release of a few videos) proved to be hugely popular with all 20,000 units being purchased.…
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Microsoft to Take On Chromebook with New Low-Cost Surface Device
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to announce the company’s new push into the education market at their New York City hardware event on May 2. There will also be talk of Windows 10 and the cloud used for the same market focus. Since the Surface Pro 5 and Surface…
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Richard Branson’s Boom Jet Could do London to New York in 3 Hours
The flight time between London and New York is currently around 7 hours, with prices running from around £600-1000 return in economy and thousands for a first class flight, especially when the service is busy or on short notice. However, the new ‘Boom’ jet which is being backed by Richard Branson…
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Rumours Suggest PlayStation 4 NEO Reveal Next Month in New York
News of the PlayStation 4 NEO has been pretty thin recently, with Sony teasing that they have the new console, likely to steal thunder from the recently launched Xbox One S and the upcoming Nintendo NX, but where is the hardware? The rumour mill is grinding hard today, as GameBlog…
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Do Not Pay Bot Cancels Parking Tickets For Thousands
Remember all those sites you browse and get greeted by a chat bot asking if you want help or support while browsing the site. The chatbots more often than not don’t help out other than redirecting you to forums or sending back automated responses to your keywords. The Do Not…
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Solar Impulse 2 Flies For 62 Hours To California
The Solar Impulse 2 looks to set the record for solar-powered planes, first off completing a five-day flight to Hawaii and now landing in California after 62 hours in the air. The most recent leg is only the ninth in thirteen stages that will take the Solar Impulse 2 around…
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New York To Welcome World’s First Underground Park
Countries are defined by land, the same goes for cities and towns. So what do you do when you want to add a new park but are running out of space? James Ramsey and Dan Barasch has the answer, you make it the world’s first underground park. The High Line…
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New York To Get WiFi From Their Buses This Year
We all love the internet, from the ability to check up on your friends the other side of the world to the ability to read your favourite news sites while on the go. The problem though is that you often find yourself looking for a connection, be it from your…
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Ready To Enjoy The Division? Collisions Mean You May Have To Wait In Line
When a game releases, it has teething problems. These can be anything from the servers not having enough space to accommodate as many players that want to play the game at the same time, it can even be as simple as a bug that wasn’t found during production leading to the…
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Places You Don’t Crash Into With Your Drone – The Empire State Building
It’s no secret that many officials are strongly against the use of drones. While many police forces fear they can be used to cause harm, terror attacks, invade people’s privacy and more, and now pushing to have all drones registered so that their owners can be tracked and monitored. Of…
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Samsung to Open VR Film Studio
Samsung has revealed that it is opening its own virtual reality movie studio in New York. The company made the announcement at the Sundance Film Festival last week. The news follows the recent unveiling of the new Samsung Gear VR headset, which we got a glimpse at during CES…
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California Moves to Ban Encrypted Phones
The state of California is looking to introduce new legislation that would see encrypted smartphones banned from sale and ownership. The bill, ZDNet reports, was introduced by Democratic California assembly member Jim Cooper and would require any smartphone manufactured “on or after January 1, 2017, and sold in California after…
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NY Teacher Arrested After Crashing Drone At The US Open
Have you heard the phrase “idiots with tech”, well here is an idiot with tech who thought flying a drone near the US open Tennis tournament was a great idea, it looked promising until he crashed it into the stands. 26-year old Daniel Verley was not surprisingly arrested before being later…
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Free Wi-Fi Hits the Streets of New York… In Bins?
A lot of companies were looking into providing free Wi-Fi, a project that seems to have been of big interest as of late. However, nobody would have predicted where free Wi-Fi would come from on the streets of New York. Would you have thought that your regular street bin would…
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Google Wants to Turn Old Payphones Into Smart Pylons
Google has big plans, we all know that and maybe one day they’ll take over the world as some fear, but up until then they are doing a lot of cool things for all of us. One of the things they are working on is to bring free WiFi for…
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