Halliburton Agrees To Pay $1.1 Billion For Its Part In Deepwater Horizon Drilling Rig Explosion

Halliburton will pay $1.1 billion for the company’s role in the explosion of drilling rig Deepwater Horizon which played a large part in 2010’s Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster. The faulty cement mixture used…

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China’s 22,000-Megawatt, $25 Billion Three Gorges Dam Drawing Comparisons to the Great Wall

China’s 22,000-megawatt, $25 billion Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest hydroelectric plant as far as generating capacity. It is now drawing comparisons to the Great Wall of China because of how incredible of an…

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Serious USB Security Flaw Can Take Over Your Computer

Did you know USB drives suffer from a serious security flaw? Named BadUSB, this flaw is so serious that it can evade all known effective defenses. The Security Research Labs in Berlin reported that an…

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Barobot: Your Very Own Touchscreen, Custom Cocktail Machine

A robot that makes custom cocktails at a the push of a button might become a reality thanks to a Kickstarter campaign for Barobot. Barobot utilizes touchscreen controls to allow you to place your order and…

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Ever Heard Of 4-D Printing? You’ve Got To See This…

Skylar Tibbits, a researcher in MIT’s architecture department, in collaboration with Stratasys Ltd. and Autodesk Inc. has created the concept of 4-D printing using “smart” materials. These materials come from a 3-D printer, yet are capable…

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Samsung Investing $14.7 Billion in Semiconductor South Korean Production Facility

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. is investing $14.7 billion to build a semiconductor production facility in South Korea. Construction is expected to begin in 2015 and be completed by the second half of 2017. Rumors surrounding…

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Siemens AG To Buy US Oil Services Company Dresser-Rand For $7.6 Billion

Siemens AG confirmed recently it will purchase United States oil services company Dresser-Rand for $7.6 billion. The acquisition by the German engineering giant provides the company with a fast track into the US fracking craze, which expects…

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Huge Asteroid Set to End the World and Scientists Don’t Know How to Stop It

Over the long timescales of Earth’s history, asteroids have hammered our planet from time to time . For example, K/T impact, an asteroid about 65 million years ago made a huge explosion that supposedly resulted…

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Robots Use Wi-Fi and Teamwork to See Through Walls

Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, have discovered out a way to use Wi-Fi in conjunction with robots to see through walls. Essentially, X-ray vision! How it works? Seeing through walls takes two autonomous…

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Tucked Backed In The Hills of Wales, Royal and U.S. Air Force Jets Fly Low and Fast!

The Machynlleth Loop, commonly referred to as the Mach Loop, is a series of valleys in Western Wales used by the Royal Airforce and the United States Air Force to train pilots on the proper…

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