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The Future of Technology Is In Your Ear The hassle. The annoyance. Our headphones tangled with lint from our linty pockets. Yet as a product, the headphone could be the sleeper technology of the future.

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A Gorgeous, Unusual View Of New York City From Above "Balance" is drone videography like you've never seen it, and it's absolutely breathtaking. April 23, 2016 at 04:05PM

Picture of the day on April 24, 2016: Aaspere manor windmill, northern Estonia, built in the nineteenth century.

The Article of the day for April 24, 2016 is Nelson's Pillar . Nelson's Pillar was a large granite column capped by a statue of Horatio Nelson, erected in the centre of O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland in 1809. It was severely damaged by explosives in March 1966 and demolished a week later. The monument was erected after the euphoria following Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It proved a popular tourist attraction but provoked aesthetic and political controversy, and there were frequent calls for it to be removed, or replaced with a memorial to an Irish hero. Nevertheless it remained, even after Ireland became a republic in 1948. Although influential literary figures defended the Pillar on historical and cultural grounds, its destruction just before the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising was, on the whole, well received by the Irish public. The police could not identify those responsible; when in 2010 a former republican activist admitted planti