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White hat hacker says he can control Boeing planes in-flight: roundup

Enlarge Kathleen Lavine / Denver Business Journal Chris Roberts, founder of Owl (One World Labs). Article source: http://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2015/05/19/white-hat-hacker-says-he-can-control-boeing-planes.html

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What Russia Can Learn From Ukraine’s Failure

It seems that the 70th-anniversary Victory Day celebrations have robbed Russian society and political leaders of all emotional strength — strength they will definitely need. On May 9, even very experienced television commentators were a bit flustered when, following the parade on Red Square, President Vladimir Putin laid … Continue reading

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How Do You Learn the Sex Secrets of Birds? Send in the Fembot

Considering that most of his comrades would die without ever mating, Dick was impressive. He once pulled off 30 copulations in a single morning, 23 of them in as many minutes. Usually coy females were enamored with him. When other … Continue reading

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Hacker Claimed To Have Taken Over Flight’s Engine Controls

A cybersecurity consultant told the FBI he hacked into computer systems aboard airliners up to 20 times and managed to control an aircraft engine during a flight, according to federal court documents. Chris Roberts was detained by the FBI in … Continue reading

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GE pushes a 3D printed mini jet engine to 33000RPM

Article source: http://www.geek.com/news/ge-pushes-a-3d-printed-mini-jet-engine-to-33000rpm-1623020/

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Will Volvo become another front in S.C.’s fight against unions?

Of the questions yet unanswered about the Volvo plant that will be built in Berkeley County, one of the most interesting is how Volvo will approach the issue of the plant’s potential unionization. The answer will depend on how Volvo … Continue reading

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David McCullough’s ‘Wright Brothers’: Refreshing, but skirts the dark side

The Wright Brothers By David McCullough Simon Schuster. 262 pp. $30   Reviewed by Bob Hoover   David McCullough’s popular biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John Adams succeed with readers because they aren’t about politics or history from … Continue reading

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