Give a boffin a Xeon and a big GPU, get a new big prime number

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/05/new_colossal_prime_number/

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08/28/17 PHD comic: 'Ritual'

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1969

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Tanker's speedy Arctic crossing is bad news for the planet

https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/28/tanker-crosses-arctic-route-without-icebreaker/

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ASUS smoking hashes with 19-GPU, 24,000-core motherboard

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/24/asus_19_gpu_motherboard/

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Total Eclipse of the Charts

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/home/~3/KBprHgYrtII/total-eclipse-of-the-charts

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True random numbers are here — what that means for data centers

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3211529/security/true-random-numbers-are-here-what-this-can-mean-for-all-of-us.html#tk.rss_security

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Self-driving truck that’s built to crash comes to Colorado

https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/18/self-driving-truck-colorado-crash-safety/


very very cool!
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Alien 'lava lamp' with dying magnetic field orbited Earth a billion years ago – science

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/11/ancient_moon_rocks_magnetic_field_dynamo/

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Researchers pull off DNA-based malicious code injection attack

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/0zo1R3ADDno/

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Your top five dreadful people the Google manifesto has pulled out of the woodwork

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/09/dreadful_people_the_google_manifesto_pulled_out_of_woodwork/

quote from the article:

"What is so infuriating about Damore's mindset – and what Google is trying so hard to unravel – is the immediate assumption that because the person going for the job happens to be a woman that they are somehow immediately less capable of doing it."

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Single Chinese women want to freeze their eggs and enjoy life

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-40183587

08/01/17 PHD comic: 'Nice try'

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1967

Scientists may have found a Neptune-sized alien moon

https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/30/scientists-find-signs-of-exomoon/

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NIST SP 800-171 Deadline at End of 2017 – Is Your Organization Ready?

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tripwire-state-of-security/~3/32nug43x-Ls/

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RFID microchip implants offered to employees at Wisconsin company

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/at41nuKjQ6I/

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Fukushima robot finds lava-like 'melted fuel deposits'

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/home/~3/uHELEAprFBU/fukushima-robot-finds-lava-like-melted-fuel-deposits

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Salvador Dali's body exhumed for DNA tests to settle a paternity claim

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/home/~3/vOUNBqJEVZo/salvador-dalis-body-exhumed-for-dna-tests-to-settle-a-paternity-claim

We could also keep his DNA to experiment on the effects of the social environment to the development of people. This will be accomplished by creating a number of clones, bringing the handful of Dalis up in a different manner and comparing the results to the actual Dali.

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IBM's AI can predict schizophrenia by looking at the brain's blood flow

https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/20/ibms-ai-can-predict-schizophrenia-by-looking-at-the-brains-blo/

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Experimental drug could restore memories after brain injury

https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/10/drug-brain-injury-memory/

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Researchers Have Developed A Battery-Free Mobile Phone

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/FHVR2xH1xOU/researchers-have-developed-a-battery-free-mobile-phone

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Mayor of Mexican fishing town 'marries' crocodile bride

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/home/~3/yvZxAGLvDCs/mayor-of-mexican-fishing-town-marries-crocodile-bride

Who cares about marriages between entities of the same species but different genre? One should be able to marry whatever he wants, as long as the significant other agrees

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The Army is flight testing helicopter-mounted laser weapons

https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/29/the-army-is-flight-testing-helicopter-mounted-laser-weapons/

Cool
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The early days of Ethernet

http://osnews.com/story/29897/The_early_days_of_Ethernet

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PSA: NASA is not running a child slave colony on Mars

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/iGt63m-S-cI/

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UK Parliament hack: Really, a brute-force attack? Really?

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/26/parliament_email_hack/

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The FAA Is Arguing for Security by Obscurity

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/06/the_faa_is_argu.html

security by obscurity ftw! :p
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Police praised for helping speeding student get to his exam

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/home/~3/3vzlEvczqiI/considerate-cops-praised-for-helping-speeding-student-get-to-his-exam

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NTP/SNMP amplification attacks

http://carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com/2017/06/ntpsnmp-amplification-attacks.html

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Learning is a game in Avlona elementary school

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/home/~3/KZmhtSDUj3I/learning-is-a-game-in-avlona-elementary-school

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Tweets will be official presidential records if the Covfefe Act passes

https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/12/tweets-will-be-official-presidential-records-if-the-covfefe-act/

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Oregon winegrowers diversify into marijuana

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/home/~3/skT1PdQeL3w/oregon-winegrowers-diversify-into-marijuana

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Horror in space: Hot alien giant boiled alive by nasty radioactive star

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/06/hottest_giant_exoplanet_kelt_9b/

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Researchers create hydrogen fuel with artificial photosynthesis

https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/06/researchers-create-hydrogen-fuel-artificial-photosynthesis/

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First close-up pictures of Jupiter reveal planet’s dramatic features

http://www.euronews.com/2017/05/26/first-close-up-pictures-of-jupiter-reveal-planet-s-dramatic-features?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+euronews%2Fen%2Fhome+%28euronews+-+home+-+en%29

Singapore's RoboCop car has its own intruder-chasing drone

https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/23/singapore-robocop-car-drone/

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Drones and AI help stop poaching in Africa

https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/21/drones-ai-help-stop-poaching-africa/

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Earth's radio signals may be protecting it from space radiation

https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/19/earths-radio-signals-may-be-protecting-it-from-space-radiation/

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Norway to boost protection of Arctic seed vault from climate change

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39987495

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* Hit by WannaCry? No one to blame but yourself *

http://osnews.com/story/29815/Hit_by_WannaCry_No_one_to_blame_but_yourself

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05/08/17 PHD comic: 'Sisyphus'

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1947

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The Falklands penguins that would not explode

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39821956

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Net-neutrality supporters cripple the FCC website again

https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/08/fcc-website-down-net-neutrality-last-week-tonight-john-oliver/

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Is it time to scrap gender specific awards?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39513543

Why do they even exist, either way?

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Your next Lego masterpiece is a $120 NASA Saturn V rocket

https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/28/lego-nasa-apollo-saturn-v/

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04/24/17 PHD comic: 'Meeting comprehension'

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1944

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Plastic-eating caterpillar could munch waste, scientists say

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39694553

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Canada hid the Konami Code in its commemorative $10 bill launch

https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/11/canada-hid-the-konami-code-in-its-commemorative-10-bill-launch/

Cool

UK: synthetic cannabis turning drug users into zombies

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/home/~3/PieGaX_-0Lw/uk-synthetic-cannabis-turning-drug-users-into-zombies

The spice controls the empire \m/
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Resurrection did not happen, say quarter of Christians

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39153121

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Don't look down! The see-through swimming pool 500ft up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/39554642

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French election: Macron vows to tackle terrorism by taking on tech companies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39555125

And I thought he was kinda cool
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A business model that sucks

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39132802

Because it does not scale

Hard-coded passwords put industrial systems at risk

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~3/qGiz1lAfhzc/

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Norway's Doomsday Vault Will Now Store and Protect the World's Data

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/YaSoopQlsU0/norways-doomsday-vault-will-now-store-and-protect-the-worlds-data

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Android overtakes Windows for first time

http://osnews.com/story/29749/Android_overtakes_Windows_for_first_time

Linux ftw \m/
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Encryp-xit: Europe will go all in for crypto backdoors in June

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/30/ec_push_encryption_backdoors/

The European Commission will push for backdoor access to end-to-end encrypted internet apps in June.

We wouldn't like that. Backdoor access is bad, m'kay?

Astroboffins stunned by biggest brown dwarf ever seen – just a hop and a skip away (750 ly)

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/25/biggest_brown_dwarf_in_galaxy/

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You can share the taste of lemonade through the internet

https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/26/internet-lemonade/

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Lockheed Martin to empower US Army with 60 kW Laser cannon

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/FJGig4UK_mA/

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Possibly the worst mass invasion of internet privacy ever

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3182693/security/possibly-the-worst-mass-invasion-of-internet-privacy-ever.html#tk.rss_security

Cool cop
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Everything you need to know about Nowruz, the New Year for many

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/home/~3/cvT7WEqAGig/everything-you-need-to-know-about-nowruz-the-new-year-for-many

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Nature made this frog fluorescent, and it’s one of a kind

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/44pKIG0NJRg/

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Raspberry Pi Becomes Third Best-Selling General Purpose Computer of All Time, Beating Commodore 64

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/mMIYb8XcelI/raspberry-pi-becomes-third-best-selling-general-purpose-computer-of-all-time-beating-commodore-64

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Chuck Norris finally gets his very own mobile game

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/EBPIKAJgRw4/

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03/10/17 PHD comic: 'Too happy'

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1929

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03/06/17 PHD comic: 'The Thinking Spectrum'

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1928

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MIT robots know what you’re thinking

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/cLh2g9uuhV8/

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Robots in Warehouses To Jump 15X Over Next 4 Years

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/o-JEww9X1KQ/robots-in-warehouses-to-jump-15x-over-next-4-years

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Can trees cut air pollution?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39153113

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Amazon mega-outage caused by single command line error

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~3/gjgiZMbfMDc/

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02/22/17 PHD comic: 'Unread e-mails'

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1925

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Arctic seed vault grows as defense against food crisis

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/24/arctic-seed-vault-grows-as-defense-against-food-crisis/

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Naica's crystal caves hold long-dormant life

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39013829

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Color-changing hair dye responds to your environment

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/19/color-changing-hair-dye-responds-to-your-environment/

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Man marks his ex-girlfriend's apology letter and sends it back to her

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articles/39025091

Revise and resubmit, love :p

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Smartphone problems? Space particles may be to blame

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/20/smartphone-problems-space-particles-may-be-to-blame/

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A new Nokia 3310 release date and price may be indestructible

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/4SZ0w2xfzZ4/

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Dubai sets autonomous flying cars loose this summer

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/bWz5NwT4pgo/

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Astronaut filmed elusive blue lightning aboard the ISS

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/10/blue-lightning-iss-astronaut/

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02/08/17 PHD comic: 'Bad Idea'

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1922

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Amputees Control Virtual Prosthetic Arm Using Nerve Signals

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/Gimur6_QqQw/amputees-control-virtual-prosthetic-arm-using-nerve-signals

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Algae can survive nearly a year and a half in outer space

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/09/algae-survives-a-year-and-a-half-in-space/

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Trump just halted a federal bid to save bumblebees

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/-jd0p_1UUPU/

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Orangutan squeaks reveal language evolution, says study

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38907681

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3D stereoview 'VR' hellscapes from the 1850s

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/08/3d-stereoview-vr-hellscapes-from-the-1850s/

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We Finally Have a Computer That Can Survive the Surface of Venus

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/yphQe6RMK-U/we-finally-have-a-computer-that-can-survive-the-surface-of-venus

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02/06/17 PHD comic: 'Regression'

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1921

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Ancient slug fossil reveals spiky ‘armor,’ hints about evolution

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/jsIL-Bth4Hc/

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Mars’ wet past has researchers baffled

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/_eB0jSIoxAo/

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Can smartphone thieves be identified in seconds?

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/7RkZ4JimKpQ/

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Science confirms misophonia is a real condition

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/xZB-pxyMeWI/

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Is Sweden's deputy PM trolling Donald Trump in Facebook photo?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38853399

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Mexican Surgeon Uses VR Headset To Distract Patients During Surgery

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotHardware/~3/yg8QqBpkn7E/mexican-surgeon-uses-vr-headset-to-distract-patients-during-surgery

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‘I’m not a robot’ verification test beaten by … a robot

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/01/31/im-not-a-robot-verification-test-beaten-by-a-robot/

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01/25/17 PHD comic: 'Rihanna'

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1918

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Shared from BBC News

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38737693

Scientists create human-pig chimera in major breakthrough

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/home/~3/nRnSFzUXbGI/scientists-create-human-pig-chimera-in-major-breakthrough

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Metallic Hydrogen

https://www.slashgear.com/metallic-hydrogen-finally-created-could-change-life-as-we-know-it-27473074/

Curiosity Rover finds evidence of mud cracks in Martian rocks

http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/Qh6MzojwiNc/

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UK will invest in laser weapons

https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/05/UK-laser-weapons/