A SECOND World War veteran from Orford had paid homage to his fallen fellow servicemen.
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Tuesday, 1 May 2018
Read This if you Can’t Decide What Topic to Write About
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How to Rhyme Like Eminem
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What comedians get that pundits don’t
White House Correspondent’s Dinner: You are a bad room. The problem isn’t Michelle Wolf. The problem is you.
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This Weekend's Formula One Race In Azerbaijan Was Absolutely Insane
This Weekend's Formula One Race In Azerbaijan Was Absolutely Insane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iculr0LElws This race had everything: dramatic crashes, anxiety-inducing collisions, flying sparks, highly competitive teammates, amazing passes, flat tires... We could go on, but this insane highlight reel is calling our name again.
April 30, 2018 at 03:57PM
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Watch This Raccoon Enthusiastically Eat Grapes
Watch This Raccoon Enthusiastically Eat Grapes
http://digg.com/video/raccoon-eating-grapes The Santa suit, Christmas music and Christmas tree only make it better.
April 30, 2018 at 01:54PM
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Monday, 30 April 2018
Update: Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop partners with backer DP World to launch logistics startup
Updat: This post has been updated to indicate that DP World invested in 2016. The firm is based in the UAE.
Virgin Hyperloop One and DP World are launching a new joint venture, DP World Cargospeed, two years after the high-speed transportation technology developer tapped the UAE-based shipping company in a $50 million financing.
The company’s stated goal is to deliver palletized cargo more efficiently by combining super high-speed promise of hyperloop transportation with new logistics technologies to accelerate deliveries along Virgin Hyperloop One’s planned routes between Mumbai and Pune in India; in Saudi Arabia, and in the United Arab Emirates.
Announced with much fanfare and in the presence of Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and Virgin Hyperloop chairman Richard Branson, the new company is basically built on buzzwords like “on-demand” and the promise of future performance.
Right now there’re only 10 kilometers of Virgin Hyperloop track being built (and they’re all in India).
Although there’s not much more than a bunch of pontificating palaver around hyperloop technologies now, the startup companies and their corporate backers do present an compelling vision of the future of transportation.
As China sinks billions into a new silk road to connect the world to its powerful new economic engine, incredibly fast, incredibly efficient logistics will become increasingly important — especially if it can be made more environmentally sustainable by harnessing renewable energy.
“The global growth of e-commerce is driving a dramatic shift in both consumer and business behavior. On-demand deliveries are a novelty today. Tomorrow it will be the expectation,” Branson said in a statement announcing the new company. “DP World Cargospeed systems powered by Virgin Hyperloop One will enable ultra-fast, on-demand deliveries of high-priority goods and can revolutionise logistics, support economic zones, and create thriving economic megaregions.”
Hyperloop transportation is basically shooting a container through a really really big pneumatic tube really really fast. The technology uses magnetic levitation to propel the people-and-product laden pods through the tube with little friction. Hypothetically the hyperloop should be able to achieve speeds of around 300 meters per second — faster than the fastest high speed rail technologies in use today.
Hurdles to getting a system like this up and running are immense. Most of the shipping world still runs on logistics systems designed in the 19th and 20th centuries that remain resistant to 21st century innovations
DP World Cargospeed systems, enabled by Virgin Hyperloop One technology, will transport high-priority, time-sensitive goods including fresh food, medical supplies, electronics, and more. It will expand freight transportation capacity by connecting with existing modes of road, rail and air transport.
“Based on McKinsey’s assessment of our technology, Virgin Hyperloop One-enabled supply chains can dramatically impact business bottom lines by reducing both finished goods inventory and required warehouse space by 25%,” said Rob Lloyd, the chief executive officer of Virgin Hyperloop One.
For Virgin Hyperloop One, the new joint venture with DP World is another sign of the company’s continued renaissance since bringing Virgin aboard. The once scandal-wracked startup now has a partner with seemingly unlimited pockets and a consummate salesman and spokesperson in the chairman’s seat on the company’s board.
Branson, for one, is all in on the technology (at least until Virgin Orbit starts blasting off in earnest).
“The reason I became chairman of this company, I found this ridiculously exciting,” Branson told CNBC. “I think if we can build Virgin Hyperloops in a number of different countries, connecting countries, that will bring the world much closer.”
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Netflix offers a first look at Michelle Wolf's weekly talk show
Netflix sure has a knack for timing -- while Michelle Wolf was busy running the show at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the streaming service posted the first trailer for her weekly talk show The Break. The clip (which has Wolf fighting rele...from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/29/netflix-michelle-wolf-talk-show-teaser/
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A new featurette for Solo: A Star Wars Story shows off a reckless Han Solo
Lucasfilm has released a featurette called “Becoming Solo,” which delves into the world of its upcoming film, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and where its titular hero fits into it.
Solo director Ron Howard opens the video by saying that this film shows off a world that we really haven’t seen much of in the franchise: one in which the Empire holds complete control. He notes that everyone is struggling to survive, and that Han is a rare “free spirit.”
“You end up getting to see how this guy got to be the way he is,” Han Solo actor Alden Ehrenreich says, while his costar Donald Glover (who plays Lando Calrissian), adds that “we’re meeting Han right before he becomes the Han that we know.” Solo writer Lawrence Kasdan notes that he’s the most...
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The skills that every teen should learn before they ever get a cellphone
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Being a teenager is like waking up every morning in a house of mirrors. You're everywhere and nowhere at once, trying to pinpoint which version of yourself is the most authentic.
For the past decade, teens have navigated this tumultuous period of their lives with a smartphone in their hand. We know the power of connectivity can be liberating, especially in adolescence. We also know how our craving for that connection often leaves us longing for more — incomplete without one more scroll or an extra like.
What we don't know yet is how that constant whiplash effect of moving from elation to despair or creative engagement to mindless distraction changes young minds. I've been writing about this subject for a year, studying the research that suggests a link between screen time and poorer mental health, talking to experts worried about the inevitable moral panic that comes with every new technology, exploring the positive aspects of being online, and even urging young people to reclaim their lives from the thrum of social media. Read more...
More about Social Good, Mental Health, Teenagers, Cell Phones, and Social Good
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Siri gives an R-rated definition of the word 'mother'
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Welp, Siri might have some explaining to do.
Apple's notoriously sassy assistant gives a very NSFW answer when you ask it to define the word "mother."
First spotted by users in Reddit's r/Apple subreddit (h/t Ars Technica), the second definition of "mother" provided by Siri is "short for motherfucker."
We put this to the test ourselves several times, and confirmed that Siri does indeed give the R-rated definition when prompted for a second definition.
You can see for yourself in the video below (warning, the language is, obviously, NSFW). Read more...
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Emmanuel Macron turns to Iran to propose widening nuclear deal as Trump wavers
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin starts its year off right with beautiful rocket launch
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Up, up, and away.
Blue Origin — the previously secretive rocket company started by Amazon's Jeff Bezos — just launched another successful flight and landing of its New Shepard rocket and capsule from its facility in Texas.
The test flight, which took place on Sunday at around 1:07 p.m. ET, will pave the way for people to actually fly to suborbital space aboard the Blue Origin rocket sometime in the coming years.
The rocket reached a maximum altitude of 350,000 feet during the test flight, which took roughly 10 minutes from liftoff to the rocket and capsule touchdowns. Read more...
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Daily Reminder: You Don’ t Need to be a Millionaire to Enjoy Life
“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more…
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