A New York apple orchard was the first to have it’s trees pollinated by unmanned drones.
A shopping mall in China set aside walking lanes for people glued to their phones to keep them from bumping into other shoppers.
Bloomberg writes about a new breed of real estate agents selling virtual plots in Genesis City, a blockchain-based virtual world. Lots go for as much as $200,000, giving birth to a mortgage industry to finance these purchases.
A town in South Wales celebrated going “plastic-free” with a huge banner, made out of plastic.
The group Menage Life failed to break the world record for “the largest orgy in human history” when they couldn’t get enough people to show up.
A raccoon climbing up the outside walls of the UBS Plaza tower in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota was the lead story for most of Tuesday.
While designs for the US/Mexico border wall are still being decided, Australia has just completed installation of the world’s longest cat-proof fence.
Palmer Luckey, the founder of VR firm Oculus and pro-Trump supporter, is working on a virtual border-wall company.
Jamie Dupree, a radio newsman, went back on the air after losing his voice to illness two years ago. He now types into a text-to-speech application that uses years of his archived audio to create his new voice.
A Japanese woman was shocked when her husband, who the family cremated and buried, showed up on her doorstep almost a year later. “The incident is extremely regrettable. We’re determined to prevent a recurrence,” said the Tokyo Metropolitan Police in a statement.
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