One of the firms competing to turn Elon Musk's tube-based alternative to high-speed rail has taken a small step towards making it a reality. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has signed deals with vacuum pump business Oerlikon Leybold, engineers Aecom and the architectural business Hodgetts+Fung. … [Read more...]
$4.5M in Gold Coins Recovered off Florida Beach
A team of treasure hunters scouring the waters off Florida last month recovered a $4.5 million bounty of gold coins – including several made for the king of Spain, Philip V, in the early 1700s, Florida Today reported. … [Read more...]
Green Living in Asheville’s Montford
Having spent much of their lives in New York City, Kaola and Larry Smallwood did not envision themselves entering retirement together somewhere else. But not long after Kaola visited the Asheville area, spending time with friends at a golf resort about four years ago, the couple decided to leave the Brooklyn dwelling where they had lived for several decades. … [Read more...]
Celibacy Is ‘Awesome’ Ciara Claims
Celibacy has been “awesome,” but also a “challenge,” for singer Ciara and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson. She said of Wilson’s decision to go public in church about their agreement to abstain from sex: “It was one of those things where it was an organic conversation he was having. I don’t think he expected to talk about it either. But I guess he was just speaking … [Read more...]
15 Years of Dan, Emma and Rupert – the Original ‘Harry Potter’ Cast Announcement
It's hard enough to believe that the Harry Potter movies finished production five whole years ago. But hearing that the casting of Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe was revealed 15 years ago today? It just can't be. … [Read more...]
Do More with your Android Wear with Interactive Watch Faces
Google will soon add interactive watch faces to Android Wear, making them even more customizable, Google said Thursday. The new watch faces offer a new way to interact with information from a service without actually launching its app. A watch face may show a calendar widget, for example, and tapping on the widget could bring up your schedule for the day. … [Read more...]
Hero Surfer Helps Rescue Teens from Lake Michigan Rip Current
A hero surfer helped pluck two teenage girls from what appeared to be a rip current in Lake Michigan, officials said. Zeb Boeskool sprung into action after the girls were spotted approximately 800 feet out from the pier earlier today in Grand Haven, about 15 miles from Muskegon. … [Read more...]
China Steps Up Land Reclamation in South China Sea
China’s land reclamation projects in the South China Sea have grown dramatically over the past few months and Beijing is patrolling the waters around its territorial claims to assert its power, according to a report issued by the Pentagon Thursday. … [Read more...]
National Security Government Employees Members of Online Cheating Site
U.S. government employees with sensitive jobs in national security or law enforcement were among hundreds of federal workers found to be using government networks to access and pay membership fees to the cheating website Ashley Madison, The Associated Press has learned. … [Read more...]
Odell Beckham Jr. Created a Trend Single-Handedly
Scores of fans assembled in the bleachers overlooking the fields while waiting for the Giants’ training camp practice to start Thursday night. The children in the crowd, often accompanied by their parents, gathered behind the grandstands, throwing footballs back and forth. … [Read more...]