In Papua New Guinea, one well-financed, first-mover company is about to pioneer deep sea mining.
And that will mean dispatching a fleet of giant remote-operated robotic miners 5,000 feet below the surface to harvest the riches scattered across ocean floor.
These mammoth underwater vehicles look like they've been hauled off the set of a sci-fi film—think Avatar meets The Abyss.
And they'll be dredging up copper, gold, and other valuable minerals, far beneath the gaze of human eyes.
The first large machine builder.
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Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day
Softpedia is reporting that Anonymous, along with social media users, have identified several thousand Twitter accounts allegedly linked to ISIS members.
"Besides scanning for ISIS Twitter accounts themselves, the hacking group has also opened access to the [takedown operation] site to those interested.
Anyone who comes across ISIS social media accounts can easily search the database and report any new terrorists and supporters.
The website is called #opIceISIS [slow right now, but it does load] and will index ISIS members based on their real name, location, picture, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts."
Anonymous crowdsourcing their operations... welcome to the brave new world, ISIS.
An article at The Independent reminds everyone that this information has not been independently confirmed, and that Anonymous is certainly capable of misidentifying people.
It's also worth exploring the question of why Twitter hasn't already disabled these accounts, and why intelligence agencies haven't done anything about them, if they're so easy to find.
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TIL all steel produced after 1945 is contaminated with background radiation because of the use of nuclear weapons. Such steel is unusable for many scientific and medical applications and steel made before 1945, often taken from sunken battleships, must be used instead.
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