What could go wrong? All we need is SKYNET and an ancient Egyptian time-traveling portal.
Citizens of Nevada, you can now relax. The Nevada National Security Site, home to tens of millions of cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste — and location of over a thousand Cold War nuclear weapons tests — is now being guarded by robots. The first of a planned trio of Mobile Detection Assessment Response Systems, or MDARS, is currently patrolling some of the more remote sections of the 1,360 square mile facility.
Either our nation’s obesity problem is just as bad as they say, or Costco knows something we don’t, because the aircraft carrier-scaled big box store is now offering enough (horrifying) food to last you a year for a cool $800.
We think the Yellow Pages are useless and should go die already. But maybe not! A resourceful architect managed to build a shed using just yellow pages. Perhaps those tree killing monstrosities can be reborn as paper bricks.
There’s about 7,000 phone books lining the walls of the shed and those pages of numbers actually make for a decent building block.
Apple bought a home worth $6,000 for a whopping $1.7 million. I guess now we know why these data centers cost $1B. The North Carolina couple have bucked the housing trend rather spectacularly – by selling their $6,000 home to computer giant Apple for $1.7million.
Internet security company AVG surveyed mothers in North America (USA and Canada), the EU5 (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), Australia/New Zealand and Japan, and found that 81 percent of children under the age of two currently have some kind of digital profile or footprint, with images of them posted online. In the US, 92 percent of children have an online presence by the time they are two compared to 73 percent of children in the EU5.
