With wars and battle zones popping up across the world, the security and defense industries have been booming over the last two decades. Building stronger, lighter protective shielding is big business and the winners can make huge money. That is the hope of Texas Armoring Corporation and the reason they made this viral video of the CEO literally standing (well, sitting) behind his product. Trent Kimball, President and CEO of Texas Armoring Corporation, enters the screen and declares, “Today, I will redefine what it means to stand behind my product.” Shortly after, one of his employees comes…

Google’s currently working on an underground path for the previously-aerial fiber connected to its data center in the Dalles, Oregon. But why? What could possibly necessitate an expensive move underground? Birds? Weather? According to Google, it’s hunters. In a conference in Australia last week, Google’s network engineering manager Vijay Gill let fly with the reasonably bizarre tidbit. “Every November when hunting season starts,” explained Gill, “invariably we know that the fiber will be shot down, so much so that we are now building an underground path.” So dudes with guns are actually…