Berkshire Hathaway A Warren Buffett protege is leaving to start her own BerkshireCNBC - Yun Li Berkshire Hathaway's executive Tracy Britt Cool is leaving the firm after a decade to start a company that replicates Warren Buffett's business model. …
Dolphins Rescuers used a human chain to save a group of dolphins stranded in a Florida canalCNN - By Allen Kim, CNN(CNN) — A group of four dolphins that was stranded for days in a canal in St. Petersburg, Florida was rescued Tuesday after volunteers formed a human chain to help free them. The dolphins, including two
News Two Amish men escape police after being pulled over for drinking and driving their horse and buggyCNN - By Leah Asmelash, CNN(CNN) — Picture this: Two Amish men drinking alcoholic beverages while operating a horse and buggy carrying a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra and outfitted with a giant stereo system. It's not something you
Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg masterfully pulls apart congressman's argument on climate changeMashable - Siobhan Neela-StockGreta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist, isn't afraid to contradict adults on their perceptions about climate change. On Wednesday, Thunberg provided testimony for a U.S. House
Scuba Diving Outrageous Kansas City Aqua Mansion Has Waterfalls, Grottos and Scuba Diving TunnelsForbes - Keith FlamerThe Spirit of Avalon is awash in waterfalls, grottos and underground scuba tunnels. Metro Kansas City’s most expensive listing is so ambitious, it could be designated as an amusement water park. This your
Mosquitoes Adding Graphene to Fabrics Turns It Into a Perfect Force Field Against MosquitoesGizmodo - Andrew Liszewski Saying goodbye to the warm summer months is a little easier when it also means the war against mosquito bites is coming to an end. They’re not just …
Military The U.S. Air Force's Secretive X-37B Spaceplane Breaks Another RecordPopular Mechanics - By Kyle MizokamiThe U.S. Air Force’s secretive space plane has once again broken its own record, spending a 716 days in orbit and counting. The fifth mission of the X-37B space plane is the longest yet, overtaking the
Paddleboarding A solo adventurer rode a stand-up paddleboard from California to Hawaii. He saw plastic the whole way there. - CNNCNN
3D Bioprinting New bioprinting tech creates body parts within secondsnewatlas.com - Ben Coxworth We've recently been hearing a lot about 3D-bioprinting, a technique in which small body parts can be 3D-printed out of biological tissue. Now, new …
News Thai palace releases rare images of king’s royal consortThe Guardian - Agence France-Presse in BangkokThailand’s palace has released rare images and a biography of the king’s newly anointed royal consort, including candid and action-packed photos of her aiming a weapon on a firing range, piloting a plane
Startups This Thiel Fellow thinks he help scooters, drones, and delivery robots charge themselves with sunlightTechCrunch - Connie LoizosFrom the time he was a high school student, Rohit Kalyanpur thought it was peculiar that although it’s possible to create energy from a solar panel, the panels have long been used almost exclusively on
Tesla Forget range anxiety, this couple drove across the country in a TeslaMashable - Sasha LekachVivianna and Peter Van Deerlin became something of Tesla evangelists after buying a Model S in 2012. They loved the car, its message, and the community around it so much they started volunteering at a
Whales Blue WhaleNational GeographicBlue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth. These magnificent marine mammals rule the oceans at up to 100 feet long and upwards of 200 tons. Their tongues alone can weigh as
Opinion Hong Kong protests send a message Americans can hear loud and clearCNN - Opinion by Frida Ghitis(CNN) — The images made you catch your breath. Under torrential rains and a canopy of umbrellas, thousands upon thousands of pro-democracy protesters defiantly -- but peacefully -- marched along the of
Facebook This 31-year-old sold $700,000 of stuff online without buying any inventoryMarketWatch - By James Wellemeyer Two years ago, Chris Wane, a now 31-year-old living in Manchester, England, was struggling to pay his bills and often couldn’t afford enough food for …
Technology This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himselfCNN - By Ryan Prior, CNN(CNN) — Doug Lindsay was 21 and starting his senior year at Rockhurst University, a Jesuit college in Kansas City, Missouri, when his world imploded. After his first day of classes, the biology major at
SpaceX Just Unleashed Its Starship Rocket for the First TimeWIRED - Daniel Oberhaus Late on Thursday night, at a launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX performed the first flight test of its next-generation Starship rocket, …
Pilot crashes into sea trying to hoverboard from France to EnglandEngadget - Georgina TorbetThere are some things man was not meant to do. Flying across the English Channel on a hoverboard may be one of them. The inventor of the jet-powered Flyboard Air, Franky Zapata, attempted the feat today.
As The US Debates “Concentration Camps,” These Jews Are Trying To Actually Shut Them Downbuzzfeednews.com - Julia Reinstein “My whole life I’ve been told these stories by my community,” said one young Jewish activist. “Those alarms are going off in my head.” In a messy …
Jailed for recording her boss's alleged harassment, this mother wants to inspire women to say no to abuseCNNReporting sexual harassment in Indonesia can get a woman jailed. CNN's Anna Coren follows a story of Baiq Nuril, a mother of three, who had originally been given a six-month prison sentence after she to
Elon Musk claims robot surgeon will sew electrodes into human brains in 2020Mashable - Caitlin WelshElon Musk’s super-secretive startup Neuralink has finally revealed where it’s at on the whole human-machine mind-meld project, and if the phrase "Elon Musk says a monkey has been able to control a computer
The flamethrower drone will soon be a thing you can buyThe Verge - Sean HollisterIn 2015, a Connecticut teenager raised the question of whether our robots have the right to bear arms when he jury-rigged a working flamethrower — and separately, a semiautomatic pistol — to his drone.
Man soars over Bastille Day celebrations on flying boardCNN A man shows off cutting-edge tech as he hovers over the crowd on a jet-powered flying board during the Bastille Day celebrations.
Terminator: Dark Fate Director Doesn’t “Give a F***” About Early Online Response from “Misogynists” and “Trolls”comicbook.com - Cameron Bonomolo Terminator: Dark Fate director Tim Miller says he doesn’t “give a f—” about misogynistic backlash inspired by “machine fighter” Grace (franchise …
Tesla Roadster’s SpaceX thruster will be hidden behind the license plate, says Elon MuskElectrek - Fred LambertTesla’s new Roadster is going to come with an optional ‘SpaceX package’ that will include cold air thrusters to improve performance. Now CEO Elon Musk says that the thruster will be hidden behind the plate.
Japan Just Landed a Spacecraft on an Asteroid, And The Photos Are NutsScienceAlert - MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN The life of an asteroid is lonely. The rocks spend eons drifting through the cold vacuum of space. But on Wednesday, the asteroid Ryugu welcomed a …
A Blackbird Blowing 'Smoke' Rings Wins Top Prize at the 2019 Audubon Photography AwardsGizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum Like humans, birds breathe. And on a cold day, the moisture from their breath condenses into steam that emanates from their beaks. Photographer …
A Drone, a $12,000 Lens, and the Magic of a Total Solar EclipseWIRED - Eric Adams Total solar eclipses are the Super Bowls of astronomy. Teams of scientists develop game plans for capturing data months or years in advance of each …
This iPhone game could help heart surgeons save livesMashable - Rachel KrausSam Glassenberg is no doctor, but he was happy to perform a colonoscopy before a crowd of hundreds in Los Angeles this June. "This polyp is attached to a blood vessel, so if you try to remove it, it bleeds,"
