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Read moreAlamagordo, New Mexico, 2013 – Raul warms himself and boils a pot of water on a fire in front of his roadside home. He crossed the border into California 35 years ago, but has lived in NM for ten years from odd jobs and stucco construction. The home he shares with his brother has no heating, so he brings buckets of steaming hot water indoors each night to heat the room. ”Life is hard, you know, but I’m never going back to Mexico.”
Read moreOne of the biggest supermarkets in Edinburgh was left with empty shelves on Tuesday after it was accidentally wiped off a computer system at the companyâs head office in Leeds.
Deliveries to the Asda store in Chesser, Edinburgh, dried up after an IT worker deleted the shop from a delivery computer, according to a report in The Scotsman newspaper. As a result, essential re-orders were not processed and the shelves were rapidly cleared of fresh fruit and vegetables, bread, eggs and other high-turnover items.
âI asked one of the assistants what was going on and was told that someone in America pressed a button and deleted the whole store from their systems, which I think is hilarious.â
Read more‘This Robot Is the Latest Weapon in the War on Birds’
[…] A bird strike — sometimes also called a Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard, or BASH — remains a rare but destructive phenomenon. Which makes it one of those ironies that speak to the frailty of human technology: All the knowledge embedded in an aircraft — all the physical prowess, all the digital nuance — can still be thwarted by a coincidental collusion with birds. To the extent, per one estimate, that our feathered friends can cause more than a billion — billion, with a b — dollars’ worth of damage to aircraft in a single year.
But that could be changing: Bird strikes could soon become a thing of the past. Researchers in South Korea have developed a mobile device that uses a combination of tracking software, microphones, and lasers — yes, lasers — to detect birds and then scare them away from airport runways.
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 