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Nuclear propulsion offers speeds of 10% the speed of light and can make our solar system explorable as well as enhancing the unmanned satellite missions and furthering our knowledge. It is now clear to everyone that the USA only engaged in space exploration out of a despicable egocentric power struggle with the Soviet Union that only exists in the minds of the elites on all sides but not to every normal person on the earth.

Design Polish tank direct support created by OBRUM in partnership with the British BAE Systems [2] . A model of the vehicle was unveiled at International Defence Industry Exhibition September 2 2013 years [3] . According to the assumptions of designers full prototype to be completed in 2016 , and mass production is scheduled to begin in 2018 year [2], [4] .
Layout PL-01 is very similar to the standard of the main tanks . Driver takes place on the front of the vehicle and an unmanned turret is mounted on the back. The interior fit the commander and gunner, in addition to the rear of the fuselage can carry four soldiers [5] .

The Leopard 2 is a main battle tank developed by Krauss-Maffei in the early 1970s for the West German Army. The tank first entered service in 1979 and succeeded the earlier Leopard 1 as the main battle tank of the German Army. Various versions have served in the armed forces of Germany and twelve other European countries, as well as several non-European nations. More than 3,480 Leopard 2s have been manufactured. The Leopard 2 first saw combat in Kosovo with the German Army and has also seen action in Afghanistan with the Danish and Canadian contributions to the International Security Assistance Force.

Relatives gather around the coffin of a victim of an explosion at a funeral in Volgograd December 31, 2013. Police detained dozens of people on Tuesday in sweeps through the Russian city of Volgograd after two deadly attacks in less than 24 hours that raised security fears ahead of the Winter Olympics. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (RUSSIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW TRANSPORT)

VOLGOGRAD, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday vowed to annihilate "terrorists" following two deadly bomb attacks in less than 24 hours in the southern Russian city of Volgograd that raised security fears ahead of the Winter Olympics.

The uncompromising remarks in a New Year's Eve address were Putin's first public comments since suicide bombers killed at least 34 people in attacks on a railway station and a trolleybus on Sunday and Monday.

The bombings raised fears of further attacks before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics in less than six weeks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, a major prestige project for Putin.

From DNA medical treatments to digital guardians, IBM's annual "5 in 5" list looks at the things that will change our lives in the next five years.

Imagine doctors using your own DNA in diagnosing and treating you for everything from cancer to heart disease to stroke. According to researchers at IBM, that technology, now in use in just a handful of cases, will become common practice in the next five years.

The US government picked several projects designed to get a grip on unmanned aerial vehicle safety, communication, navigation, air traffic control, and more.
Microdrones unveiled its md4-3000 quadcopter in 2013, a $52,000 model that can carry a 3kg payload.

Microdrones unveiled its md4-3000 quadcopter in 2013, a $52,000 model that can carry a 3kg payload.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday designated six projects across the US for research into drones, the unmanned aircraft that have the potential to alter everything from package delivery to surveillance.

The government agency conducted a 10-month review before naming the sites -- the University of Alaska, the state of Nevada, Griffiss International Airport in New York, the North Dakota Department of Commerce, Texas A&M University's Corpus Christi campus, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Each will be open to various parties who want to test the aircraft, subject to constraints involving safety, privacy, and civil rights.

A fiery meteor catches the attention of more than 1,200 US residents -- some say it was as bright as the sun and others note it gave off sonic effects and delayed booms.

There's nothing quite like seeing a massive fireball burn through the night's sky. Much bigger and brighter than a shooting star, these dramatic meteors tend to catch onlookers' attention.

One recent fireball that blazed over Iowa and surrounding states, caused hundreds of wowed residents to call in the sighting to the American Meteor Society. The meteor appeared on December 26 around 5:45 p.m. local time. More than 1,200 people reported the sighting, making it the third most reported fireball in the history of the society's online reporting system. VIDEO

UC Berkeley researchers develop a micro-size robotic muscle that's 1,000 times stronger than the paltry muscles we humans depend on.

We've seen robots destroy and conquer in movies, but we never thought that would come close to happening in the real world. After all, we've mostly seen them being built for such humanly tasks as painting and, well, vomiting.

But researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a micro-size robotic muscle that is 1,000 times stronger than a human muscle.

They used a material called vanadium dioxide to produce the robot muscle. When heated to 152.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the compound changes from an insulator to a conductive metal, giving it a huge amount of strength during the transition.

Do romance books with sexy dinosaurs, centaurs, Cthulhu, and aliens send your heart racing? After some such e-books get yanked by online booksellers, Crave's Bonnie Burton explains their appeal.
Tall, dark, and furry? Bigfoot is the hunk in this monster erotica book by Virginia Wade.

Tall, dark, and furry? Bigfoot is the hunk in this monster erotica book by Virginia Wade.

It's easy to mock book titles like "Boffing Bigfoot," "Taken by the Tentacle Monsters," and "Sex With My Husband's Anatomically Correct Robot," but there's a growing market for erotic fiction by amateur writers that involves something a bit more unusual than an oversexed pirate or kilted warrior.

Remember that cult hit Dead Snow about Nazi zombies from a few years ago? Well, those undead psychos are back with a vengeance.

It took almost four years to make it happen, but director Tommy Wirkola has returned to helm the sequel about frozen zombie Nazis wreaking a boatload of havoc. Much like the first installment, this one looks to go overboard on the gore and insanity.

This is it! This is the one Outlander fans everywhere have been waiting for: Jamie and Claire together in their very first official pic. Let the kilts and petticoatssparks fly!

The upcoming Starz fantasy historical drama series (there is time travel involved, after all)—which is executive-produced by Battlestar Galactica’s Ronald D. Moore—is set to debut sometime in 2014.

This is a prime example of why it is a bad idea to ask a comedian to "tweet about popular brands." Some language is NSFW.

Friday afternoon, a company called Brander solicited comedian Patton Oswalt via Twitter to ask him to tweet about products they represent, and Oswalt ended up having a lot of fun with it. He went on a tear making fun of the company and their strategy with a series of tweets that amassed hundreds of retweets and attention from the press.

A representative of Respawn Entertainment, answering questions in the company's forums, confirmed that there will be snipers in the game but added "quick scoping and no scoping are ineffective."

"Sniping is in the game, but due to how the game plays it's a pretty different animal than you'll find in your run of the mill modern military shooter," claimed "scriptacus," a representative of developer Respawn Entertainment in the game's forums. "Quick scoping and no scoping are ineffective."

So apparently Facebook isn't merely slipping a little in the eyes of youth. It's a corpse. It's "embarrassing." At least that's what a new study says.

We come here not to praise it, but to bury it.

This seemed to be the attitude of teen respondents in a study that probed their deeper feelings about society's most important subject: Facebook.

This study was part of a larger piece of research funded by the European Union. It revealed that there was an increasing disunion between teens and the now slightly wrinkly social network.

The folks at Disney are looking to ramp up production on a boatload of new Star Wars content, but a group of intrepid fans hope to beat them to the punch.

The team behind Star Wars: Dark Resurrection, a two-part Italian fan film series that has been kicking around since 2007, are coming back together for a final entry in their saga. They’re gearing up for a crowdfunding campaign next month, but have posted an initial trailer to pitch the concept. Check it out above.

It can be a stressful time for any new parents: the moment their first child-the pet-meets their newborn baby. Turns out Jeff and Danielle Livak of Nashville, Tenn., had nothing to worry about, though. In the adorable video above, the Livak's 6-year-old boxer Bella and 3-day-old daughter Melina formed an instant bond.

Filming the first time when the two met, Jeff caught a priceless moment. "I went upstairs and couldn't find Bella, so I looked underneath the sheets," Jeff said. "We knew that Bella was a really loving dog, but we had no idea she was going to be that protective. She was a lot more curious and had that maternal instinct kick in right away."

The incredible photo above is of the fireball produced by an atomic bomb. Those specs on the ground beneath it are tanks, jeeps and other test vehicles that will be destroyed in a matter of milliseconds. Right below the fireball, a shockwave bouncing off the desert floor and about to merge with the fire is visible.

This stunning shot is just one of many like it in today's New York Times slideshow on photographs of nuclear bomb tests. While these tests were being conducted, it was extremely important for the military scientists involved to see just what was happening, which led to a number of very precisely-timed photos being taken. And man, are they something.

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One positive side effect of the Cold War was the discovery of plutonium-238, a non-weapons-grade isotope of the element that has served as the power source for a handful of space probes over the last 50 years. This year, after a quarter-century hiatus, the United States resumed producing the element for the express purpose of powering future deep space missions, as NASA’s supply has been dwindling to the point that the plutonium on board the rover Curiosity had to be purchased from Russia. But not all plutonium launched into space stayed there. Most famously, the 8.5 pounds of plutonium that launched to the Moon on board Apollo 13 returned to Earth with the crew, which is potentially a big problem, if it were to somehow land in your backyard.

The new Mac Pro is finally here. Redesigned from the ground up, Apple's top of the line desktop Mac is intended for professionals, with a starting price of $2,999. It's available online today, and begins shipping by the end of December. PHOTOS

There’s nothing like a seemingly illogical school rule to drive parents nuts — regardless of whether it affects their own kids or not. Between bizarre clothing bans, unbendable safety policies, or kid-shaming edicts about hairstyles, Yahoo Shine readers were given reason to launch into antiauthority rants again and again in 2013, thanks to school-board head-scratchers of the most frustrating kind. PHOTOS

You guys need to check out your fellow [H] reader's set-ups in our Post Your Workstations 2013 thread. Also, just a little reminder that you need to tidy up your area and snap some pics so you can show off your rig in the upcoming Post Your Workstations 2014 thread.

This guy is an idiot. Why in the hell would anyone buy "access" to the BBC's website?

A hacker secretly took over a computer server at the BBC, Britain's public broadcaster, and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the system.

MOSCOW (AP) — At least 14 people were killed and scores were wounded Sunday as a female suicide bomber struck at a railway station in southern Russia, officials said, heightening concern about terrorism ahead of February's Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack in Volgograd, but it came several months after Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov called for new attacks against civilian targets in Russia, including the Sochi Games.

Volgograd, 900 kilometers (550 miles) south of Moscow, lies about 650 kilometers (400 miles) northeast of Sochi, a Black Sea resort flanked by the North Caucasus Mountains.

A big part of a science fiction writer's job is thinking about the future. Arthur C. Clarke was very good at his job.

One of the great grandmasters of the genre, Clarke remains a sci-fi titan in the eyes of many readers. He won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, among many other honors, for works like Rendezvous With Rama and The Fountains of Paradise. Alongside Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, he was considered one of the "Big Three" of 20th-century science fiction literature, and together with Stanley Kubrick he created one of the greatest science fiction films ever made: 2001: A Space Odyssey.

But Clarke did more than just make up stories based on futuristic ideas. He was also an acclaimed science writer and futurist who wrote nearly three dozen nonfiction books and countless articles about the future of space travel, undersea exploration and daily life in the 21st century. So in many ways it's not surprising to hear him talk in 1974 about the future of computers and deliver some uncannily accurate predictions.

Star Trek fans, or Trekkies (or is it Trekkers?), tend to be some of the most devoted in all of fandom, so it comes as no surprise that some of them want tolive their obsession. Few, however, have taken it quite as far as this Canadian fan of the original 1960s series, who has turned several rooms of her home into a set right out of the original show.

The NYPD doesn't exactly have the easiest job in the world. In fact, successfully policing a city of over eight million people can seem practically impossible, and frequently is. But in the very near future, the cops that patrol New York City's streets will have a smart new computerized partner to rely on.

We're not talking about Robocop — at least not yet. The brainy computer about to join New York's finest is a new police cruiser, a prototype of which is already prowling the streets of Brooklyn Heights. Equipped with infrared sensors, a live video feed, a radiation sensor, and a special summons printer, the prototype is already the smartest car on the road that doesn't belong to Google.

It's been 10 years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer left our TV screens, and one of the show's more high-profile fans believes some people still don't get one of its central points.

For seven seasons, we watched Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy Summers and her friends stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness, and for many of us the world was never the same after that first glimpse of the Slayer. Buffy made stars of its cast, launched a successful spinoff series in Angel, made creator Joss Whedon a nerd icon who's now one of the most powerful people in genre cinema, and built a fan following that remains so rabid for the story that it still continues in comic books to this day.

The great-granddaughter of General Mills heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post was found stabbed to death in her luxury Honduras spa, law enforcement officials told the Associated Press.

Nedenia Post Dye, 46, was found stabbed in her spa on the resort island of Roatan, Honduras on Dec. 22.

Lenin Roberto Arana, 25, was arrested and charged with Dye's murder, police officials told The Associated Press.

Arana allegedly said he and Dye were romantically involved, but police said Dye was trying to help Arana quit drugs, according to the AP.

Among a cohort of talented thinkers assembled at Bletchley Park was the mathematician Alan Turing. Based on his experience working during there, Turing later came up with an idea for a stored-program, electronic computer. Turing also was an early thinker in the field of artificial intelligence.

However, his life took a tragic turn. A homosexual in an era when homosexuality was against the law, Turing was prosecuted in 1952 and accepted chemical castration as an alternative to a jail sentence. He committed suicide just prior to his 42nd birthday. Years later, Britain Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized for the "appalling" way Turing had been treated for being gay. Time Magazine in 1999 named Turing as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century. PHOTOS

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Following news of the royal pardon for WWII code breaker and computer scientist Alan Turing for his "crime" in the '50s of being a homosexual, "The Imitation Game" reveals its first official image from the film.
First official movie still of Benedict Cumberbatch as British computer pioneer and cryptographer Alan Turing in "The Imitation Game."

First official movie still of Benedict Cumberbatch as British computer pioneer and cryptographer Alan Turing in "The Imitation Game."

The very computer you use to read this story may not have been possible without the extraordinary work by computer pioneer, mathematician, and Bletchley Park cryptographer Alan Turing.

What would happen if Superman fought the Hulk? One extremely talented comic-book fan has been working for three years to answer that question, and the latest ass-kicking installment in the saga has arrived.

Animator Mike Habjan has used the jumping-off point as the inspiration for his CGI magnum opus, and Supes has been slugging it out with Bruce Banner’s alter ego for three shorts already. But the newest clip is easily the best.

The Tor missile system (Russian: "Тор"; English: torus[1]) is an all-weather low to medium altitude, short-range surface-to-air missile system designed for engaging airplanes, helicopters, cruise missiles, precision guided munitions, unmanned aerial vehicles and short-range ballistic threats (Anti-Munitions). Originally developed by the Soviet Union under the GRAU designation 9K330, the system is commonly known by its NATO reporting name, SA-15 "Gauntlet". A navalized variant was developed under the name 3K95 "Kinzhal", also known as the SA-N-9 "Gauntlet". Tor was also the first air defence system in the world designed from the start to shoot down precision guided weapons like the AGM-86 ALCM.[2]

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on 18 September 1947 under the National Security Act of 1947.[5] It is the most recent branch of the U.S. military to be formed, and is the largest and one of the world's most technologically advanced air forces. The USAF articulates its core functions as Nuclear Deterrence Operations, Special Operations, Air Superiority, Global Integrated ISR, Space Superiority, Command and Control, Cyberspace Superiority, Personnel Recovery, Global Precision Attack, Building Partnerships, Rapid Global Mobility and Agile Combat Support.[6]

No match for China's this secret technology... I'm not so sure.

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In Washington you have the power when you pay to play. And it's hard not to notice the power of lobbyists in this town. When money isn't there, the projects funded by that money go away as well. So, why in fact are some of the projects going forward and others being derailed? Michael O'Brien, a former contractor for the Department of Defence in Iraq, brings his take on the matter.

http://newsproject.org The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems, but our troops still aren't getting what they need. It's a scandal that involves deceptive corporations and complacent government officials.

February 09, 2010 the U.S fifth-generation died - CNN, NBC, FOX News. F-117 Nighthawk lost in combat on 27 March 1999 by Russian weapons and canceled on 22 April 2008.
F-22 and F-35 on Sept 25 2008 in RAND corp Pacific Vision was demonstrated both fighter aircraft are useless on combat and expensive. On 9 July 2009 the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services signed termination of the F-22 production line and canceled the F-35 project. Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for termination of the F-22 production line and canceled the F-35 project.

Then Truth Revealed by the United States Department of Defense, the United States Air Force (USAF), the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the US RAND Corporation Research ANd Development, US and Australia Pacific Vision data.

The exercise PACAFs Pacific Vision on sept 25/08 revealed the United States air superiority is just a fantasy. The exercise was consisted of face the Red Team one hundred Su-27SM, four Su-30 and two Su-35 against Blue Team one hundred F-35, one hundred eighty seven F-22 and four hundred F/A-18E/F. The exercise showed the blue team higher in number of aircraft is double inferior when hundreds of Blue Forces aircraft were lost in the first 20 minutes downed by the Red Forces., on the other hand only 12 aircraft was downed in the Red Team.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi news website says a judge in the city of Mecca ordered a man to be lashed 20 times for accusing his spouse of not being a virgin when they married.

Al-Sharq Online reported Monday that the Yemeni man was sentenced to be flogged in one session for not providing evidence to back up the accusation.

The website says the Yemeni man allegedly accused his wife in front of her father and other neighborhood elders of lying about her virginity. He says she had been married and divorced before him. As is common in conservative parts of the Arab world, he says the marriage contract stipulated she was a virgin at the time of their wedding.

The website says the wife went to court to prove her honor and reputation. LINK

Shizuya Nishiyama (C), a 57-year-old homeless man from Hokkaido, poses for a photo in front of an automatic ticket barrier at Sendai Station in Sendai, northern Japan December 18, 2013. Picture taken December 18, 2013. To match Special Report FUKUSHIMA-WORKERS/ REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN - Tags: CRIME LAW DISASTER BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT CONSTRUCTION POLITICS)

SENDAI, Japan (Reuters) - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men.

He isn't a social worker. He's a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head.

"This is how labor recruiters like me come in every day," Sasa says, as he strides past men sleeping on cardboard and clutching at their coats against the early winter cold.

It's also how Japan finds people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong.

Ani DiFranco's fans have spoken ... and she's heard them loud and clear. The feminist folk singer has nixed her "Righteous Retreat" after receiving complaints about the gig being held at Nottoway Plantation in Louisiana, where hundreds of slaves once toiled and which is now owned by the conservative Paul Ramsey Group.

"I have heard you: all who have voiced opposition to my conducting a writing and performing seminar at the Nottoway Plantation," DiFranco wrote Sunday in a post on her blog. "I have decided to cancel the retreat."

That retreat had offered fans a chance to "develop one's singular creativi

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This video to demo some new features to Intel. It's a pretty boring video.

This shows some long overdue updates of the hexapod. Pretty much everything is the same visually, just some upgrades like motors and software features.

Autonomous Self-Reconfigurable Locomotive Robot: designed and built by Muhammad Hasan Shariq for BEng Mechanical Engineering Honours Project (2009-2010) at Heriot-Watt University.

Kondo Robot announced a new, low cost, hexapod robot design with surprising flexibility, performance, and customizability. The robots unique leg design incorporates springs and linkages only requiring two servos per leg while improving the hexapod's ability to deal with uneven terrain and obstacles. The robots base frames can be easily fabricated or modified by builders to realize custom configurations. For more information visit Robots Dreams athttp://www.robots-dreams.com.

Private Chris MacGregor, 24: "My legs just gave up. I think it was the weight – 135 pounds or something. I just had to accept, my body was telling me to give up as I had pushed it. I was telling it to go, it was telling me to stop. When squaddies come back they still have a lot of adrenaline and anger in them. I had to have anger management after Iraq...The first thing I did when I came back, apart from kissing and cuddling the misses and my bairn, was go for a massive walk with the dogs. I walked for miles and miles not caring where I stepped."

Photographer Lalage Snow's powerful series of triptychs titled We Are The Not Dead depict the faces of British servicemen before, during and after (left to right) their deployment to Afghanistan, spanning a period of seven months. The images are as striking as they are revealing, highlighting not only the physical transformations but the emotional ones, as well.

Lalage Snow is a photographer, journalist and filmmaker currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Beyoncé Slammed for Sampling Shuttle Tragedy on New Album (ABC News)

Beyoncé has been labeled "insensitive" by some current and former NASA astronauts and their families for sampling audio from the space shuttle Challenger disaster for a love song off her newly released album.

Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center Jan. 28, 1986. All seven crewmembers aboard were killed.

"Flight controllers here looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction," now-retired NASA public affairs officer Steve Nesbitt said as the nation watched wreckage fall toward the ocean on live television.

The hated cockroach has been the scourge of restaurants and big cities throughout history. But now a clever roboticist may have finally found a use for the pests by developing a way to mimic their legendary crawling speed.

Berkeley Ph.D. student Duncan Haldane wanted to explore the benefits of creating bio-inspired mechanisms to increase the terrestrial locomotion of robots. His research resulted in the creation of the VELOCIRoACH, a tiny robot that, according to Haldane, is the fastest running robot to date, relative to size. Weighing just 30 grams, the 10-centimeter-long hexapedal millirobot can travel as fast as 26 body lengths per second.

The key to the robot's speed is the way its legs are designed like a real cockroach's, allowing the VELOCIRoACH's legs to make contact with the ground at a rate of roughly 15 times per second. And get ready for the real creep out factor, the VELOCIRoACH even mimics the way a real cockroach stops and starts in rapid bursts to move around or over obstacles, always keeping at least three legs on the ground.

You can see the VELOCIRoACH in action in the video below.

Via NewScientist

You think the U.S. has problems with trapped miners, collapsing bridges andextreme weather? Well, check out this round-up of headlines from China this weekend:

"Typhoon Sepat hits China after mass evacuation"
"Hopes dim for over 180 trapped miners in China"
"Death toll in China bridge collapse climbs to 64"

Wait a minute! you’re thinking. This is a military blog! Why do we even care about China’s safety and quality-control crisis? Because Pentagon brass tout China as the next Soviet Union in a future Cold War. But China’s fast-expanding military has many of the same problems as its quality-impaired civil sector. Take submarines, for example. Four years ago, mechanical failures aboard an outdated Chinese submarine resulted in the deaths of 70 sailors. This was no isolated incident, as U.S. Navy Captain Brad Kaplan, the U.S. Naval Attaché to China, explained in a recent issue of Sea Power:

Wouldn't it be neat to have one of these for your desk?

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Connecticut state police plan to release a trove of documents on Friday tied to their investigation of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year that killed 20 children and six adults, the agency said on its website.

The release comes about a month after the state Division of Criminal Justice released a report on the Newtown, Connecticut, massacre concluding that the gunman, Adam Lanza, 20, had acted alone, and that his motive may never be known.

The material to be released online at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) on Friday "runs several thousand pages and has been redacted according to law," the state police announcement said.

"The release of this document is indicative that this state police criminal investigation is concluded," it said, adding that the material would include text, photos and emergency 911 calls received by state police on the day of the massacre.

Stories like this certainly makes you wonder how the NSA got this level of access to Apple devices.

"Either [the NSA] have a huge collection of exploits that work against Apple products, meaning they are hoarding information about critical systems that American companies produce, and sabotaging them, or Apple sabotaged it themselves," Appelbaum said at the Chaos Communication Conference in Hamburg, Germany.

Watch NASA control this robotic arm with an Occulus Rift and the Kinect 2. It might look goofy but the tech behind it is pretty damn cool.

Edward Snowden says his 'mission's already accomplished' after leaking NSA secrets.

NSA leaker: 'Mission's already accomplished'

WASHINGTON (AP) -- National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said his "mission's already accomplished" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S. surveillance policies

Snowden told The Washington Post in an interview published online Monday night that he was satisfied because journalists have been able to tell the story of the government's collection of bulk Internet and phone records, an activity that has grown dramatically in the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished," he said. "I already won."

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) walks away after paying homage at the altar of the controversial Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo on December 26, 2013

Beijing (AFP) - China's state media on Friday urged "excessive" counter-measures after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's inflammatory war shrine visit, as analysts warned against the dangers of provoking smouldering regional resentments.

The comment came after China summoned Tokyo's ambassador on Thursday to deliver a "strong reprimand" after Abe paid respects at the Yasukuni shrine earlier in the day.

The site honours several high-level officials executed for war crimes after World War II, a reminder of Japan's 20th century aggression and a source of bitterness for China and other Asian countries.

South Korea, which also has a litany of historical resentments against Japan, slammed Abe's visit as "anachronistic behaviour." And the United States -- Tokyo's key security ally -- issued a rare criticism, saying it was "disappointed" over an act "that will exacerbate tensions with Japan's neighbours".

The Global Times, a paper that is close to China's ruling Communist Party and often strikes a nationalist tone, said that people were "getting tired of... futile 'strong condemnations'".

The Reichstag, seat of the Bundestag on December 16, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

BERLIN (Reuters) - An art historian has found two art works stolen by the Nazis inside Germany's parliament, a newspaper reported on Monday, in a new embarrassment for authorities after a huge stash of looted art came to light last month.

The Bundestag, in a statement issued after the report in Bild newspaper, said an art historian was reviewing two "suspicious cases", but a spokesman would not confirm the find.

The art historian's investigations into the German parliament's art collection, which began in 2012, were continuing, the Bundestag spokesman said.

"It is unclear when there will be a result to the investigations," he said.

Reported sexual assaults in the US military increased by over 50 percent in 2013, new data reveals. The boost punctuates a year filled with damning disclosures of a culture that has failed to protect the enlisted from systemic levels of sexual violence.

Data obtained by AP shows there were more than 5,000 sexual assault reports during the 2013 fiscal year, which ended on Sept. 30. By contrast, there were 3,374 incidents reported in 2012.

Of the total reports in 2013, around 10 percent involved incidents that happened before the victim was officially in the military - up from 4 percent in 2012. The increase in cases has led military officials to suggest there is more confidence among service members in reporting incidents of sexual assault than in the past.

A photographer who captured a couple during what appears to be a marriage proposal on the skating rink at New York City's Rockefeller Center is asking on the Internet for help in identifying them.

The photo, taken Monday night, shows a skater dropping to one knee on an empty rink underneath the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.

A Reddit user named "Johnny Thunders" posted the image on Tuesday with a message: "Anyone know a couple who got engaged at the Rockefeller tree last night? I'd love for them to have this!"

The Rink at Rockefeller Center offers special engagement packages — ranging from $350 to $1,000 — that allow for intimate ice time to pop the question.

According to a Reddit user who works at the center, ice engagements are very common, "at least 5 times a day. Maybe 10 on Saturdays."

"Wow," another user responded. "Unless it's her lifelong dream to be proposed to like that, that is the lamest engagement I can imagine. It's like the Disney World of engagements."

"I know these engagements happen all the time," the photographer wrote, "but I was surprised to be at such a nice viewpoint. I’d really love for them to have this."

"Quick," another user wrote. "Everyone browse Instagram for diamond rings #engaged #nyc #rockefeller."

The post has generated more than 500 responses and at least one lead, but so far, the identity of the couple remains a mystery. LINK

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