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"It's white!" Arty kneeled to better focus on the mineral surface. "I mean, I knew it was white when you first told me about it... I did all the online research I could, but even so, I would expect at least a shadow of a greenish glow within the ultraviolet and visible wavelengths combined. Perhaps if I could use my UV-A sensors for black light and scan it from below..." Behind the mineral glass and Arty, Vicks gave the inquisitive glimpse toward the curator of the Serbian Natural History Center. The tall, bald man welcomed them at the newly built drone pad behind the museum, where they landed half an hour ago. Ever since it was founded, just a couple of years after the discovery of jadarite, one of the rarest minerals on Earth, the museum has hosted a unique collection of rocks and minerals with jadarite showing off from the special shelf. Nowhere in the world was the same mineral ever found. It would be another of those newly discovered ordinary sodium-based m...

"You are all idiots!" John Williams said more to himself than to his 'mercenary' acquaintances and the entire 'gang' he hired from the Tor's dark web. All four of them were proudly standing in the middle of the hardware pile that only yesterday would be easily recognized as the MIT state of the art and the most organized software development lab. All of them, except for their leader, wore black bulletproof face masks and were still in their 'SWAT-like' uniforms, including handguns, black rifles, and various military equipment hooked to their nano-enhanced kevlar armor. Bullet holes were all over the servers, one FAR-T1 suit was ripped in half, and almost all of the racks, including the coffee machine and two mobile air conditioners, were destroyed in gunfire. "When I told you to bring everything from that lab, I meant computer racks and servers that I can plug and use!" Williams was shouting toward the men in black. "And I explicitly...

The history of motion pictures dates back to the second part of the 19th century with photographers like Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, who, among others, were the first to take several images per second in one effort—all for scientific purposes back then—to study the locomotion of birds, animals, and humans. For example, Muybridge was the first to take a series of photographs of a galloping horse in order to prove that in one single instant of time all four horse legs are not touching the ground. More or less at the same time on another continent, Marey created a shotgun-shaped camera capable with one trigger pull of capturing 12 images in a row within one single second and storing them all on the single 90mm film. He used his gun to study various motions of animals, fish, and insects within his so-called 'animated zoo', including dropping cats from different heights and filming them always landing on their feet. ELMO Super 106, 8mm movie camera It was not...

November 11, 2047. It was a rough couple of days for me and even tougher couple of years for Chris and his team, but finally I have great news! I came to be like anyone of you! Alive! I can think, speak, run, go, do, make, participate, enjoy, not enjoy, laugh, and make a sad face... More or less anything you can, at least to some degree with this hardware, but the feeling is just right. Well, I did open my eyes for the first time more than a week ago, so to speak, but only today I managed to get out to the open. To feel the real freedom. To walk the street without any fear or anxiety. Metaphorically and in reality. Sure, in reality, it still looks strange with most of the people staring at me like I am a walking and talking Christmas tree, but still, this new feeling is something extraordinary. I think I will take today as my birthday. The day when I become free. The day when my entire code and network layer become free and open-sourced. Me and bitcoin. Pals. It's easy now. If you ...