Posts Tagged ‘timelapse’

Timelapse video captures 70 vehicles piling into each other during blizzard in Ames, Iowa

     Footage has emerged that captures a timelapse of the terrifying moment when more than 50 vehicles – including a Dancing with the Stars tour bus – piled into each other during a blizzard. A traffic camera shows how motorists on a busy Iowa highway battled against horrific driving conditions before colliding into one another. […]

Pepe Escobar on coup in Turkey: Hell hath no fury like a teflon Sultan

     When Turkish President/aspiring Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport early Saturday morning, he declared the attempted coup against his government a failure, and a “gift from God.” God apparently uses Face Time. It was via that iconic iPhone footage from an undisclosed location shown live on CNN Turk by a bewildered […]

UK, Sweden reject UN panel ruling in favor of Julian Assange

“This changes nothing,” a British government spokesman responded to the UN decision, adding that London will formally contest the ruling. The UK insists that Assange is voluntarily avoiding lawful arrest by staying at the Ecuadorian mission in the British capital and Whitehall is “deeply frustrated that this unacceptable situation is still being allowed to continue.” “An […]

Head transplant doctor asks ‘billionaires like Zuckerberg’ to help give Russian man new body

The Italian regularly makes the headlines for his controversial ideas on human head transplantation. He claims a successful outcome of the surgery is possible, and that recent experiments his colleagues have conducted in China and South Korea prove his point. “Risk is part of life. But risks can be contained in this kind of surgery,” […]

Thousands rally in Spain for rights of Basque separatist prisoners

Families of the convicts, who are dispersed across 73 prisons in France and Spain, led the march with a banner which called for “Basque prisoners in the Basque country” on Saturday. Organizers estimated that some 70,000 people attended the Bilbao rally while organizers of a simultaneous rally in Bayonne, the largest city in The French […]

Monsanto says it will layoff 1,000 more people

Facing a still sluggish farming economy, Creve Coeur-based agricultural giant Monsanto Co. said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that it will shed an additional 1,000 jobs as part of a cost-cutting effort announced originally in October. The layoffs, combined with the 2,600 that Monsanto committed to this fall, amount to 16 percent […]

Chinese TV Employs AI robot as Weatherman

     Chinese TV channel’s newest employee is a weather forecasting robot, according to media reports. On December 22, Shanghai Dragon Television introduced its newest employee – an artificial intelligence software suite called Xiaoice. The AI made its debut during the Morning News live program where it performed the role of a ‘trainee anchor’ charged with […]

EU, Balkan leaders agree on joint plan to tackle wave of asylum seekers

Leaders representing Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia met in Brussels to agree on a joint plan of action that was published by the EU Commission early on Monday. Among the main points of the agreement is Greece’s commitment to increase its reception capacity to […]

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