If you’ve ever had a neighbor who’s flown a drone over your yard, you’ve probably been tempted to shoot it down and teach him a lesson. Because of this, we can’t help but cheer every time we see a video of an animal taking down a drone that’s invading their territory and being a general nuisance. We’ve rounded up some of the best videos of animals attacking drones from around the web for your viewing pleasure — check them out below.
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New York City already has a fantastic park dead in the center of Manhattan. But if for some reason Central Park isn’t enough for you, then you should know there’s a futuristic underground park in the making, and the first photos showing it off are already out.
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The next installment in the Star Wars Saga is easily one of the most anticipated movies of the year. The Force Awakens will hit cinemas in less than two months, and Disney already released the final trailer for the film, including special teasers for it, and the final poster, which is chock full of details. However, Star Wars fans have put their Photoshop skills to good use to create hilarious Star Wars poster memes.
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Say goodbye to wires and enjoy quality sound while saving plenty of money with your purchase of the Wireless Bluetooth Speaker BLKBOX POP360. This speaker is on sale for $24.99 with free shipping from Amazon.
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The best thing about Android is also the worst thing about Android. That is, the power that Android gives users to customize the platform and make it better also gives OEMs and carriers the power to make it worse. However, some new developments with Android 6.0 Marshmallow indicate that Google is taking more control over what manufacturers can and can’t do with Android — and that’s very good news for users.
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Some Edward Snowden leaks have revealed that the NSA and other intelligence agencies can break encryption barriers for mass surveillance purposes. It has been theorized that a flaw in encryption used by many Internet services lets the spy agency decrypt HTTPS, SSH, and VPN traffic, and a new paper seems to prove that.
Indeed, a massive effort comparable to the attempts of breaking the German Enigma coding machine during the World War II seems to have given the NSA the tools required to break trillions of secure connections.
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If you’ve ever read recent dystopian sci-fi books such as Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake or Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl, you’d know that one of their common predictions is that in the future genetically mutated super animals will run amok and make day-to-day life very dangerous for the world’s remaining humans. Now Technology Review brings us word that scientists in China claim to have used DNA manipulation to create a stronger, faster breed of dogs that will ominously be used for various police and military operations.
Gulp.
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Our ideal cloud backup solution is fast, secure, and most importantly, automatic. And if it’s affordable? Even better. We’re offering a one-year subscription to Backblaze cloud backup for $24.99.
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Google has won mobile, some Android fans will tell you, and has been consistently winning for years. The company has a massive market share lead in the smartphone business, and things aren’t going to change anytime soon. But Google might also have a serious problem: it doesn’t really make money from mobile. Well, it does, from mobile search and ads. But mobile users don’t use Google to search nearly as much as Google would like them to.
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Pepsi has a limited run of a special product on the way – Pepsi Perfect, a promotion set to arrive on October 21. Along those same lines, Nike is apparently working to release a new version of its cool self-lacing Air Mag sneakers.
What do these and other related events – like the town of Reston, Virginia, deciding to temporarily change its name to Hill Valley – have in common? Hold on to your flux capacitors: Marty McFly and Doc Brown are due to materialize in their DeLorean on October 21, which is tomorrow. That’s the moment when they arrived in 2015 in the second of the iconic “Back to the Future” movies, a date that will be marked with plenty of real-world fandom, meme-ing, brand tie-ins – and the release of a documentary about the cultural impact of the time-travel flicks 30 years later.
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