How to Land a Busted Airliner in a Russian Cornfield

A Ural Airlines plane that landed in a field near Moscow's Zhukovsky International Airport Thursday.Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Getty ImagesAn airliner crash-landed in a Russian cornfield after a bird strike took out both engines on Thursday afternoon, leaving some of the 233 people aboard with minor injuries, but killing no one (apart from a number of seagulls). The…

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Disney Is Finally Taking On Account Sharers

Disney and Charter Communications are teaming up to fight account sharing in an attempt to prevent multiple people from using a single account to access streaming video services.The battle against account sharing was announced as Disney and the nation's second-biggest cable company struck a new distribution agreement involving Disney's Hulu, ESPN+, and the forthcoming Disney+.…

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Apple Puts the AR in ‘Art’ (and in ‘Transparent Sky-Being’)

Cao Fei's Trade Eden is one of six AR art pieces attendees can experience on Apple’s walking tour.AppleThanks to a hot desert air mass stalling over San Francisco, the sky was a fogless blue, which made the words stand out even more as they floated upwards past St. Patrick Church in downtown San Francisco. White…

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Even Physics Textbooks Tend to Get Friction Slightly Wrong

Sometimes you think you have a complete understanding of something and then BOOM—a simple problem throws everything out the window. Let's consider a very basic physics problem involving pushing a block with a frictional force. These kinds of problems are common in introductory physics textbooks—but they often miss some subtle details.I'm going to go over…

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Domino’s and the Web are Failing the Disabled

Domino’s v. Robles could decide the future of online accessibility in the U.S.Gene J. Puskar/APPizza always finds itself at the cusp of innovation. It was the first food sold online, the first food purchased with Bitcoin, and the first food delivered to space. Now it’s continuing that groundbreaking tradition, but unfortunately for pizza, this time…

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