Sunday, January 31, 2016

Cycling Has Moved From Actual Doping to 'Mechanical Doping'

After a century of pumping themselves full of all sorts of performance-enhancing (and other!) drugs, it appears that at least one pro cyclist has found an easier way to cheat: hiding a motor inside the bicycle frame.

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FCC Allows Limited Testing of Controversial Unlicensed LTE Technology

Depending on who you talk to, LTE-U —the term given to using cellular LTE technology to transmit in unlicensed airwaves—is either the future of communications, or a terrible idea that will wreck Wi-Fi. The FCC is studiously not taking sides in the argument, but is allowing further testing.

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Either Some Idiot Made a Mistake or the Future Is Finally Here

Well, it definitely beats the hell out of a standing desk.

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It's A Quick (And Illegal) Climb To Get To The Top Of Giza's Great Pyramid

It's A Quick (And Illegal) Climb To Get To The Top Of Giza'sĀ Great Pyramid

18 year old German tourist Andrej Ciesielski got a view that few people get to see - Egypt from the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It’s an illegal climb, and he was caught by police when he reached the bottom.

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Watch The Navy's 11th Littoral Combat Ship Plunge Sideways Into The Frigid Menominee River 

Ships launches are sometimes wild affairs, and depending on the method used, making a big splash can be part of the drill. The Freedom Class of Littoral Combat Ships do just that, being slid off the pier where they were built sideways. On Jan. 30, the soon-to-be USS Sioux City was the sixth LCS to take this grand plunge.

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