An Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people on board fended off a pirate attack far off the coast of Somalia when its Israeli private security forces exchanged fire with the bandits and drove them away, the commander said Sunday.
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A scientist says the world’s first cloned camel has been produced in the desert emirate of Dubai.
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A Florida developer announced an ambitious plan Thursday for a 19,500-home city with energy-efficient buildings that will be ” The first city on earth powered by zero-emission solar energy.'”
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The four Spanish teenagers, working with their teacher Jordi Fanals Oriol as the Meteotek team at the IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia, started with a fairly lofty goal: They wanted to launch a balloon with a digital camera and some custom-built electronic sensors to 30,000 feet.
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The Tai Chi Scooter ditches the Segway’s handlebars in favor of an optical encoder that monitors the angular displacement of the electric motor.
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Jerry Jalava, 29, a self-described software developer from Finland who lost part of his left ring finger in May in a motorcycle accident.
Now, he says, he wears a prosthetic finger made of silicone, which looks fairly natural — except that he can peel back the tip to uncover a USB drive tucked inside.
You can check out his Flickr Page here
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But new forms of biodiesel are now starting to change the picture again. One of them is derived from the remains of a drink enjoyed the world over: coffee.
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Often called the Model T of the 21st century, the Tata Nano is expected to go into production for the growing Indian automotive market on March 23, with orders being accepted in April.
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