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Should watch this video of landing a plane at Warsaw airport without the landing gear and the pilot of this plane captain, Tadeusz Wrona, has been hailed a hero by Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowsk, as well as by the airport staff and the Polish media. This has happened couple of years back but thought of sharing this amazing feat.
Kim Dotcom's cloud storage service Mega is available to the public, it's finally found time to launch the iOS app it's been promising.
The new app includes many of the same features as its Android counterpart, which has been available on Android for more than four months, including file previews and easy sharing.
Snapchat turned down the offer, because apparently their valuation was already at $3.5 billion from before. A new rumor says they may have turned it down because they also got another offer from Google – of $4 billion.
With just a stainless steel coffee mug, a Li-ion AA battery, some Axe Body Spray, a condom and a bottle of water, Terminal Cornucopia was able to construct and successfully detonate an improvised frag grenade. He made this home-made “FRAGGuccino” from stuff you can buy from airport terminal kiosks — you know the ones you can enter after passing through security.Essentially the water filled condom breaks upon being thrown which shorts the battery, generating enough heat to ignite the can of Axe which transforms the mug into a flurry of shrapnel.
Obviously, this was simply a test demonstrating a proof of concept but the fact that it can be done — apparently very easily, very quickly, and so cheap. Get ready for your airport security screening to get a lot less pleasant.
Click on the link below to watch the demonstration:
Coin is so interesting. It’s a
credit-card-sized device that holds other credit cards, debit cards and gift cards, allowing you to swap
from card to card and even store gift cards inside its ultra-thin innards.
The company planned a pre-order
campaign that would top out at $50,000. They blew past that goal in 40 minutes
today, a testament to the desire for folks to leave their plastic at home.
The card itself is as thin as a
regular credit card. To use the card you select a payment type with the button
and just swipe. The Coin card “mimics” your read credit or gift card. The
technology is tightly packed inside the card’s plastic case. It uses low-power
Bluetooth to connect to your iOS device that is coupled with a standard
credit-card reader. You swipe your cards into the system and you’re done. The
device holds up to eight cards.
Engineer Kanishk Parashar is
leading the Y-Combinator-backed company alongside investor and board member
Manu Kumar. Parashar cut his teeth in payments with a startup called
SmartMarket, but this product seems to be his winner.
The company isn’t new – a company
called Flint is already in this space and I suspect a bigger player will
probably beat Coin to the mass market. It’s a cool idea in a cool
package and, clearly, the idea has caught fire.
Watch the video below to know and understand how it works:
Google released a heartwarming ad
on the 13th November which has already crossed half a million views within 24
hours of being uploaded on Youtube. The three and a half minute emotional ad is
hugely refreshing from the usual adverts that come from the immensely
competitive tech world featuring playful banter or even resorting to murky
mud-slinging between rivals. The video advert named ‘Reunion’ is a part of a
series has gone viral on Youtube and other social networking sites.
It shows
how Google helps two childhood friends separated by the 1947 India-Pakistan
partition are reunited. Those who are unaware of the demographics and the
politics of the subcontinent: The two countries, post-partition, share a
love-hate relationship, clipping only the extremities of the spectrum, and
Google India has tried to hit a soft spot by picking up this topic.
With 28 speakers blasting around 125 watts, the original Wall of Sound made for an obnoxious home stereo system — let alone an iPod dock. But its creators have returned with a bigger and better solution: the Wall of Sound 2.0 that adds an extra 16 speakers, bringing the total to 44 (in addition to a pair of subs) for more decibels and bass than an iPhone dock ever needs .
Apple have recently released iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c and there are already news and rumours about apple working on a curved iPhone 6 screen which is something that Samsung and LG are already trying.
Please click on the link below to read this interesting article by Techday:
People watch out for debris from this satellite falling from the skies when you are outside home. A European satellite that mapped Earth'sgravitational field inexquisite detail will be pulled down by gravity to its fiery destruction sometime in the next few days. Where and when it will crash no one knows. It could be almost anywhere on the globe. About 25 to 45 fragments of the one-ton spacecraft are expected to survive all the way to the surface, with the largest perhaps weighing 200 pounds.
Few of the luckiest people on earth are in the below video. They were lucky enough to escape a plane collision in midair. The three skydivers who were on the step of the second plane got knocked off on impact, Robinson said, and the two inside were able to jump. The pilot of Robinson's plane ejected himself, and the pilot of the second plane landed the aircraft safely at Richard I Bong Airport, where it took off.
None of the nine skydivers or two pilots sustained serious injury when the two planes collided in midair Saturday evening in far northwest Wisconsin near Lake Superior. Authorities still didn't know what caused the accident.
It’s not Twitter, Google+ or LinkedIn. It’s a company that most people in the
West don’t know. That, however, is set to change, with the explosive growth of
China’s Tencent and its mobile messaging app WeChat.
Last week, Facebook, the current king of social networks, admitted
that it’s losing teen users, and that the overall growth in its monthly
active users has slowed to 18% year-on-year. This isn't helped
by the fact that it and other Western social networks are banned in China. By
contrast, Tencent recently announced that WeChat’s users have almost
tripled from the 85 million of the year before.
This 10-month-old's impassioned response to her mother's private performance of "My Heart Can't Tell You No" gives a whole new (beautiful) meaning to the word "cry-baby."
The little one was identified by Canada's TVA as Mary Lynne Leroux. Mom, Amanda, told TVA that she's too shy to sing in public -- but clearly, she's found an appreciative audience at home.
