Amazon planning package delivery by drone; What could possibly go wrong?

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On “60 Minutes,” Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced a “big surprise”: His company is in the planning stages for residential package deliveries by drone.

Many took to Twitter to speculate on the age-old question, “what could possibly go wrong?”

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Then of course there’s the question of how many shoot-downs will occur:

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Presumably any good delivery drone would be equipped with impressive self-defense capabilities.

Though there are no doubt many wrinkles in the plan that Amazon.com will have to iron out, we do hope Bezos considers this idea:

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Yes!

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/12/01/amazon-planning-package-delivery-by-drone-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

FBI raids office of Sen. Menendez donor tied to prostitution scandal

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Late-breaking news tonight percolating on Twitter: The FBI has raided the Florida home of a donor/doctor tied to to the Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez prostitution scandal. Both local media and conservative media are on it:

A proof of today’s MiamiHerald’s front page: NJ “Senator’s backer target of #FBI raid” in West Palm Beach” Tues. night. twitter.com/MiamiHerald/st…

— The Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) January 30, 2013

From our photo files: Dr. #SalomonMelgen, whose ties to Sen.#BobMenendez prompted #FBI raid, treats singer #JoseJose. twitter.com/MiamiHerald/st…

— The Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) January 30, 2013

FBI Raids Offices of Menendez Donor Linked to Alleged Prostitution Scandal: bit.ly/T8uYER

— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) January 30, 2013

Headline from @dailycaller on Menendez’s donor’s FBI raid: “MIAMI VICE” bit.ly/Yhf8XK

— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) January 30, 2013

Our story in lede of @breitbartnews on Menendez donor Melgen’s FBI raid: bit.ly/T8uYER #SexScandal

— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) January 30, 2013

ABC News gave Menendez a pass on the scandal:

Bozell Rips Raddatz, ABC For Giving Menendez Free Pass Amid Underage Prostitution Probe | Media Research Center ow.ly/1RDVsX #true

— Randy L. Thorsvig (@NDShantyIrish) January 30, 2013

How about the rest of the lapdogs?

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/01/30/fbi-raids-office-of-sen-menendez-donor-tied-to-prostitution-scandal/

Apple Discovered Its Latest Billboards On The Internet

They’re breathtaking. BuzzFeed News chatted for some of casual photographers whom shot all of them.

final December, whenever Bay Area had among its rare rainy days, Cielo de los angeles Paz took her children out to play. She’s a devoted professional photographer, “willing to awaken at five each day and hike 10 kilometers to have that shot for the sunrise,” and when she saw the representation of her purple umbrella on damp concrete, she knew she had a beneficial one.

“It took some shots,” she stated, “it was the very last one I took, I happened to be eventually satisfied with how the wind organized the leaves in my situation.”

She edited the shot with Filterstorm Neue, uploaded the image to Flickr (she had been involved in the photo365 challenge), in which Apple discovered it.

Then, they put it on a billboard.

Apple’s newest advertising campaign, Shot on iPhone 6, is crowdsourced using iPhone photography from around society. It is using photographs found online, typically observed in a browser screen, and plastering all of them up in massive sizes out in actuality.

The message is easy: it’s hard to believe that photographs this good will come from the device within pocket.

Apple discovered them by scouring social networks for photos which were tagged as having already been taken with its latest iPhones.

“perhaps they discovered the picture on Instagram,” stated Frederic Kauffmann, “I was surprised to obtain the call.”

Kauffmann life in Barcelona, as well as the shot above was drawn in Pamplona. “we shot it within the cold temperatures. Typically the thing is plenty of people wearing white and red, songs and crowds of people. I wanted to possess an alternate image.”

Kauffmann is regarded as many intercontinental photographers tapped for the promotion and, just 778 followers on Instagram, an example of exactly how good hobbyists are receiving at photography.

Photographs such as these basically an example of smartphones unifying everything you might make use of into one device. The space between mobile phones and digital cameras is shrinking for years now, and each 12 months it gets nearer to being eradicated entirely. This advertisement may seem like Apple’s means of saying it really is already gone.

“We have the 6 Plus, therefore the pictures rival several of my images from my DSLR,” claims de la Paz.

The ad campaign is showing the functions Apple features loaded into the phone, but it also lends credence into indisputable fact that you might only require one device on you at any moment.

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/brendanklinkenberg/apple-found-its-newest-billboards-on-the-internet