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Breakfast Wrap: Wednesday Night’s Top Stories
Scientists Figured Out A Way To Cheat Newton’s Third Law It could give us what we can’t get enough of — faster electronics. WSJ: Apple Is Slashing Orders For The iPhone 5c Nobody wants to pay more for an iPhone 5 in a plastic shell. This Year’s Best Wildlife Photograph Required Serious Balls To Take…
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The Developer Of China’s Tallest Building Invests In Brooklyn
As growth in China proper plods along, Chinese corporations are eager to expand into foreign investments — the latest of which is centrally located in downtown Brooklyn. Greenland Holdings Group, a Shanghai-based developer, will buy the majority share in the long-beleaguered Atlantic Yards Housing Development, a $US4 billion housing scheme tacked onto the deal that…
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Breakfast Wrap: Wednesday Night’s Top Stories
Meet The Suburban Dad Who Built His Own DeLorean Time Machine I wish my suburban dad would build me a DeLorean too. How The NSA Deploys Malware If nothing else, those little browser tricks on how you can protect yourself from malware is useful. This 3D-Printed Web Of Plastic Caps Turns Water Bottles Into A…
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Report: BlackBerry Wants To Sell Parts Of Itself To Anyone Who’ll Buy
According to Reuters, Blackberry is asking Google, Samsung, LG, Cisco, basically anybody with money to buy BlackBerry entirely or at the very least, certain parts of the company. This is seen as an alternative in case the finances don’t work out in going private.