(CNN) — Imagine ships that fire missiles at seven times the speed of sound without using explosives, or that use lasers to destroy threats at the cost of about a dollar a shot, and vessels making fuel from the very seawater in which they’re floating.
That’s the glimpse of the high-tech future the U.S. Navy gave this week. And these aren’t just ideas. They’ve all been shown to work to some degree.
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Hurricane season won’t begin in the Atlantic basin until June 1. But the South Pacific storm season is in full swing. At any point in time, in fact, it is the season for hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones somewhere in the world. With winds up to an astounding 190 miles per hour, fierce storms can dump more than 2.4 trillion gallons of rain in a day.
At this point the world really has nothing to defend against nature’s fury. But a Stanford study says there may be something that could stand in a hurricane’s way. Quite literally. It’s not some brand new technology or hypothetical machine we are talking about. It’s wind turbines.
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(CNN) — A 19-year-old woman charged with killing a Pennsylvania man she met through Craigslist has given a second jailhouse interview and provided specific details about other killings she claims to have committed.
Miranda Barbour told the Daily Item newspaper of Sunbury, Pennsylvania, that she killed men in Big Lake, Alaska; Mexico Beach, Florida; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
In her first jailhouse interview in mid-February, she told the Daily Item reporter she had killed at least 22 men over six years across the country but didn’t provide any specific locations.
Sunbury Police Chief Chief Steve Mazzeo told CNN he passed along the information to other jurisdictions.
“I’m not saying I do or don’t believe it,” Mazzeo said Sunday.
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All eyes have been on Russia, Ukraine and the 239 people that boarded Malaysian Flight 370. But in Lebanon, a quarter of the country’s current population is comprised of Syrian refugees. The war in Syria is entering its 4th year, and while for the rest of us the plight of the Syrian people and their neighbors may feel like old news, to those enduring it, the reality is very much present.
Angelina Jolie, a special envoy for the UNHCR, is highlighting the plight of Syrian refugees.
She recently visited with a family living in a Lebanese refugee camp, speaking with a young child, Hala, and her five siblings.
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Social networking giant, Facebook, as acquired the second largest messaging app, WhatsApp. Right behind their own messaging app in popularity, do you think FB did this more out of fear? Even if that’s so all WhatsApp employees are able to keep their jobs! Read more on the story below and head on over TO THE APP to voice your opinion. What messaging app to you use?
That’s a stunning sum for the five-year old company. But WhatsApp has been able to hold its weight against messaging heavyweights like Twitter (TWTR), Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) and Microsoft’s (MSFT, Fortune 500) Skype. WhatsApp has upwards of 450 million users, and it is adding an additional million users every day.
Referring to WhatsApp’s soaring growth, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a conference call, “No one in the history of the world has done anything like that.” WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app for smartphones, according to OnDevice Research.
Buying WhatsApp will only bolster Facebook’s already strong position in the crowded messaging world. Messenger, Facebook’s a standalone messaging app for mobile devices, is second only to WhatsApp in its share of the smartphone market.
Like Instagram, WhatsApp will function as an autonomous unit within Facebook, with all the existing employees coming in as part of the deal.
Facebook (FB, Fortune 500) said it will pay WhatsApp $4 billion in cash and $12 billion in stock. WhatsApp’s founders and staff will be eligible for for another $3 billion in stock grants to be paid out if they remain employed by Facebook for four years. Koum will also join Facebook’s board of directors.
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