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	Up Style Travel: Man Wants To Cross the Atlantic Using Only Balloons (Video)
	Is it possible to create the UP! effect and travel around the world via balloons? Jonathan Trappe is going to try it. The 39 year old IT manager is trusting them with his life as he attempts to become the first person to cross the Atlantic using on...
	Passage: Ray Dolby
	Dolby Laboratories founder Ray Dolby has passed at the age of 80. He's the man responsible for awesome sound in movies. His technology is used in basically every cinema you go to . Born in Portland, Oregon, 1944, he earned a BA in engineering in Sta...
	From MIT: Robots Learn To Realize Their Errors, And Then Ask For Help (Video)
	The researchers at MIT have now taught robots how to ask for human help. Soon they'll be asking other robots for help. And soon we'll be fighting the robots.But before that, the team at MIT taught a pack of KUKA's youBots to realize when they've fa...
	Apple Wants To Make An iPhone That Is Virtually Unbreakable
	Apple's latest phone may have some really tough to crack security. Now they want to make the phone itself tough to crack.According to a patent published a couple days after Tuesday's iPhone event, they might be thinking on how to make indestructible...
	Microsoft's Siri Competitor Is Based on Cortana, The AI Character From Halo (Video)
	Microsoft now owns Nokia. So they'll need to hop on the bandwagon and get themselves a mobile personal assistant. Like a Siri. The feature will tie together all of Microsoft's products and it will be named Cortana after the artificially intelligen...
	Google+ Has a Photo Editor Now (But You've Got To Use Chrome)
	Here's a pretty cool feature: Google+ has a photo editor, but only if you use Chrome in its Auto Awesome feature. There are now sliders for brightness, contrast, and saturation as well as highlight and midtone contrast controls. There are also a ra...
	Once Again, No NFC. So What Is Apple's iBeacon?
	NFC was a miss in the new iPhones, but Apple has bigger plans for low power radio wave based mobile payment technology. But while NFC is clearly not present, there's iBeacon. It was a tiny detail on a slide Apple showed about iOS 7 during its WW...
	Samsung's Next Gen Smartphones Will Have 64 Bit Processors Too
	Samsung doesn't like to lose out to Apple, so they swiftly reacted with an announcement that their next slew of phones will pack some similar 64 bit A7 processor action. Speaking to the Korea Times, Samsung's mobile business head JK Shin has explain...
	The World's Thinnest Glass Was Created By Accident
	The thinnest sheet of glass in the world measures at two atoms in thickness. Talk about scary thin! The sheet of glass was created by scientists from Cornell University and it is the result of an accident. They were attempting to produce pure graphe...
	Bill Gates Was Mark Zuckerberg's Hero Growing Up
	People tend to idolize Steve Jobs more than they do Bill Gates. Mark Zuckerberg is not one of them. "When I was growing up, Bill Gates was my hero," Zuckerberg said on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Wednesday.Michael Arrington, on sta...

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