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UFO activity in May, 2013

UFO activity in May, 2013

Sometimes the best footage of unidentified flying objects isn’t with cameras pointed in the sky but at the ground. In a couple of cases during the May, 2013 UFO report, the evidence being presented is down low rather than up high. From “alien” text to still images of a UFO being loaded into a larger UFO, May’s report is a little different. There have been some amazing videos over the last few months. While this one isn’t as spectacular as some of those, it’s still worth a watch. Here are some of the past videos we’ve posted as well from our friends at TheAFOFiles. UFO activity in April, 2013 UFO activity…

Call of Duty: Ghosts will depict America as a broken nation

Call of Duty: Ghosts will depict America as a broken nation

Fans of the extremely popular Call of Duty video game series have experienced many emotional premises that dominate the game play and drive the story lines. Pride. Revenge. Hope. With the upcoming release from Infinity Ward, there is an overwhelming sense of a different kind of emotion, one that CoD fans haven’t seen in previous titles. Call of Duty: Ghosts is already being depicted as bringing despair to gamers, at least those who are used to America being a superpower. In this game, America will be broken. The government will have failed. The economy will have collapsed. Cities will be overrun…

If Nikola Tesla had to Pitch Products to Modern VCs

If Nikola Tesla had to Pitch Products to Modern VCs

Nikola Tesla was ahead of his time. In many ways, he is still ahead of our time. Some of his inventions and discoveries are still baffling scientists today (notwithstanding the conspiracy theory that his technology has always been understood but was suppressed, but that’s a different story). If he were around today trying to raise funds for his wireless energy concept, there’s a good chance that he would be met with insurmountable obstacles. The money is controlled by people who are not adequate in their understanding of how such amazing inventions can operate in this world and are driven by the…

UFO activity in April, 2013

UFO activity in April, 2013

Things are really starting to get ridiculous in the skies. It seems like these are popping up everywhere, not just the hot spots like Mexico City and Colorado. As we often ask, is it just the increase in the number of available video cameras through our smartphones that accounts for the rise or is there really an increase in UFO activity in general? We’re coming up on a year of covering this. Every month, we highlight the best of the best of UFO videos, marked for the most part by the great work that they do at AnonymousFO. Here’s what we’ve covered in the past. Interesting viewing if you have a couple of…

Microsoft positions itself away from the fray with new Lumia ad

Microsoft positions itself away from the fray with new Lumia ad

Microsoft has had its shares of difficulties in two big arenas of late – selling phones powered by their operating system and posting advertising videos that aren’t hated by the masses. They may have come up with a decent video that helps on both fronts by separating themselves from the fighting of the competition. The ad, slated to hit national television soon, pits the two sides of a wedding party against each other. On the bride’s side are people carrying the various Samsung mobile devices, while the groom’s family favors iPhone. Insults bounce back and forth and eventually lead to a melee. In…

Is Greer

Is Greer's Sirius alien real?

Either there’s a reasonable explanation for it all or “Ata” is the greatest biological find in human history. Steven Greer’s “alien”, a 6-inch tall corpse found in the Atacama Desert of Chili a decade ago, Was revealed Monday in a documentary called Sirius that left many extraterrestrial-life enthusiasts disappointed. Spoiler ahead. The results of the DNA testing as well as other tests and the expert opinions of the results show that the little body was that of a human, specifically a 7-year old child born from a Chilean mother. As tiny as the corpse is, it’s clear to see that this was no ordinary…

UFO activity in March, 2013

UFO activity in March, 2013

It was only yesterday that we covered February’s list. Now, we’re jumping right into March so we don’t continue to fall behind. The UFO phenomenon has been accelerating over the last few years. Some of it is due to the increase in the number of devices that are ever-ready for taking images and videos. Some would say that it’s deeper than that. They would say that there’s an increase in the number of sightings because there are more UFOs out there to be seen. Are they becoming more visible? Are they trying to be seen? We don’t know yet. We might not know any time in the near future. Then again, we might find…

UFO activity in February, 2013

UFO activity in February, 2013

Every month, we highlight the best UFO footage on YouTube. We skipped February, not because we didn’t want to but for some reason our source over at AnonymousFO fell behind. As it turned out, they were switching up their channel. Now that we’ve found it, here’s amazing video for February. Thankfully, it was worth the wait. Check out the previous 7 months as well as this month’s installment. UFO activity in January, 2013 UFO activity in December, 2012 UFO activity in November, 2012 UFO activity in October, 2012 UFO activity in September, 2012 UFO activity in August, 2012 UFO activity in July, 2012…

If the Petman robot doesn

If the Petman robot doesn't scare you, you're not paying attention

Boston Dynamics has made us cringe more than once in the past with their BigDog and LS3 robotic abominations in the past. This time, they’ve gone too far and we’re all officially creeped out. If you’ve seen any of the Terminator movies, you should be afraid. This is it without Arnold’s skin covering it. The funny part is that PETMAN is being billed as “an anthropomorphic robot designed for testing chemical protection clothing.” Before you start thinking that it sounds reasonable, keep in mind that this is a project that is funded by a “Robotics Challenge” put out by DARPA. For those not familiar with…

Dreambox turns 3D printing into a vending machine

Dreambox turns 3D printing into a vending machine

3D printing holds the promise of allowing people to take something they envision and turn it into a tangible object, whether as a prototype for a design or as something that can be useful in and of itself. The biggest problem today is logistics. Despite a low demand for 3D printing, availability is even lower, making the queues for 3D printers at schools and companies long. As the demand goes up, there will need to be a better solution than having a university 3D printing lab trying to keep up. The guys at Dreambox think they have a solution. What if all you had to do was build a design or pick one out of a library,…

Did the SimCity debacle take out the EA CEO?

Did the SimCity debacle take out the EA CEO?

The short answer is, “yes”. The long answer is that Electronic Arts (EA) has been struggling to keep their empire in the world of gaming for some time. Their peak was arguably during the 6-year reign John Riccitiello as CEO, but that means that the decline started during his time at the top as well. Last week, the company experienced a meltdown of epic proportions when their “always on” DRM made the launch of their new SimCity game a public relations and sales nightmare. The wildly popular game became the physical embodiment of everything that games hate when after its launch it basically didn’t work….

White nose syndrome: the mysterious bat fungus that threatens entire species, everyone else

White nose syndrome: the mysterious bat fungus that threatens entire species, everyone else

We know what it is. We know what it does. We have an idea of how it’s being spread. Despite a large number of concerned scientists focused on white nose syndrome (WNS), the bat fungus that is spreading rapidly and that has a 95% mortality rate, we still don’t know how it started, how to slow its spread, and how to cure it. Bats are not normally considered essential parts of the ecosystem, but they are an integral part in balancing the natural infrastructure of the world, particularly in insect population control. Areas where the bats have been hit by WNS have noted a measurable increase in insects, including…

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