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Increasingly, business travelers are demanding in-flight connectivity. With current rules for electronic device use on aircraft making the headlines — pros and cons — could connectivity prove to be a safety concern?

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Many commercial grade pickup trucks are billed as super tough and able to handle any heavy hauling projects that come their way on the job site. But is it really possible for a light truck to bear the mammoth load of landing a passenger jet after its front landing gear becomes disabled? That's the theme of this video advertisement, staged to look just like a real live news segment. What do you think? Can a pickup land a 747?

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GE Aviation has put together an advertisement that promotes more than their jet engine business. One might argue the company's story about employees seeing their creation take flight serves the broader good of manufacturing in general, casting engineering in a very positive light. Are ads like this one good for industry or just more hype?

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Falling space junk has made news headlines recently. Reports invariably cite "experts" who reassure the public there is no reason to worry. If that's true, why do they always add the caveat that it's good to be 'aware' of tumbling spacecraft? Tens of thousands of man-made objects are presently orbiting the earth. If "what goes up must come down," shouldn't there be more concern?

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Fodder for movie scripts and taking shape on inventor drawing boards for more than a century, a flying car seems to finally be near reality. A Massachusetts company says it will deliver next year the Transition, a small aircraft-auto. Others makers also claim to be nearing release of fly-and-drive machines. Are flying cars destined to be a novelty at best, or will they eventually see widespread application?

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Forget war driving, a term meaning searching for Wi-Fi networks from a moving vehicle. Aerial drones can eavesdrop on Wi-Fi, phone, and Bluetooth signals from the sky. Outfitted with wireless sniffers and network-cracking tools, they could identify a target by a cell phone and follow the person home. How worrisome is this capability?

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