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Berends (left) and Kirchhoff pose with some of their many penguin-themed items at the Penguin Museum in northern Germany. Photos: dpa To the naked eye, its nearly impossible to see the details: The glass penguin, only measuring half a centimetre, spreads its wings and is painted in four different colours. According to Guinness World Records, this tiny figurine is part of the worlds "largest collection of penguin-related items", which belongs to German couple Birgit Berends and Stefan Kirchhoff....

Hidden or sacrificed? Archaeologists call this kind of find a hoard, when they uncover objects that have been hidden away or buried in the ground. It is still too early to say why the axes and other objects were buried 3000 years ago. "There may have been religious reasons linked to a sacrifice, or they might have been cached temporarily, with the intention of recasting the metal later. This was a known practice in the Late Iron Age," says Henriksen. The whole hoard of 24 axe heads and 6 oth...

No algorithms, likes or advertising: Is Discord the future of social media? 17 Jan, 2021 04:00 AM 8 minutes to read The Discord app has a massive valuation based on its growing popularity. Photo / Getty Images Other By: James Titcomb for the Telegraph Even before most people had personal computers, when the internet was largely occupied by a ragtag bunch of hobbyists and researchers, they used it to chatter. Internet Relay Chat, or "IRC", invented in 1988, was a primitive tech...

The faa is issuing its most comprehensive drone regulation yet. they mark an ongoing effort to track where these aircraft are flying and try to make the skies a little safer. nbcs gadi schwartz is following the story. >> reporter: in the skies across america, more drone lift-offs than ever before prosecute hobbyists to delivery drones. a sweeping rule proposed by the faa could bring real-time tracking to most drones as soon as they take flight. think virtual drone license plates with beacons tha...

Myself against the do-nothing democrats. >> hans is with us now how are other republicans reacting to senator murkowskis comments tonight >> reporter: we heard from louisiana senator john kennedy, an impeachment skeptic, who said shes entitled to her opinion and mitch mcconnell to his no official word on a trial or start date. kate the faa put out the most comprehensive proposal to regulate drones, new rules are designed to make the skies safer and it wouldnt just affect commercial drones but ...

Us lives here. where we can be surprised by others. and ourselves. for a better us, donate to your local y today. the faa has a new attempted at tracking drones. they plan to monitor consumer and commercial drones alike. gad ee schwartz has details. >> reporter: more liftoffs than before from hobbyists to delivery drones, a sweeping rule proposed by the faa could bring real time tracking to most drones as soon as they take flight. think identity even for small drones, bought by consumers. a tr...

T-mobile, the first and only nationwide 5g network. the faa has released the most comprehensive proposal yet to regulate drone usage in the u.s. designed to make the sky safer by monitoring consumer and commercial drones alike. >> reporter: in the skies across america, more drone liftoffs than ever before from hobbyists to delivery drones. a sweeping regulation could bring realtime tracking to most drones as soon as they take

I think the nra used to brag it was only one or two ever because it was military collectors and gun aficionados and hobbyists. if it was a machine gun in the street, we would send agents out right away, arrest the person and take the machine gun. thats what atf did. and the collectors, we helped them, rerespectwe respected the would pay the transfer tax. so the scheme worked to keep the guns out of the hands of the killers. and now the killers have appropriated the semiautomatic version of the m...

No loopholes anywhere for anyone. >> lets talk about whats reasonable. and hes under oath facing the congress. by the time president obama was pushing what you might call that reasonable plan after sandy hook, lapierre had a new line. >> so let me ask you this. do you still as you did in 1999 still support mandatory background checks at gun shows? >> i do not believe the way the law is working now unfortunately, that it does any good to extend the law to private sales between hobbyists and colle...

Needed then. >> one of the things that was really hard about making a computer was now on a chip. so all of a sudden, people who had a thirst for this stuff could go out and buy a computer, you could make them yourself. >> there was a lot of this revolutionary theme with a lot of the technical people in it, changes in technology and how we were part of it even though in our companies we were generally the fringe element. we are not the managers and leaders but boy, just a clever design on its ow...