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Tonight a Virgin Atlantic 747 will fly on fuel made from industrial waste gas

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A little after 7pm ET tonight, a Virgin Atlantic 747 will take off from Orlando, Florida, bound for London’s Gatwick airport. This flight will be the first to use a blend of jet fuel and fuel made from industrial waste gas from a steel mill in China. This waste-gas fuel will displace some of the petroleum-based jet fuel that usually fills up a commercial jet’s tanks.

The company that makes the alternative fuel blend, LanzaTech, says third-party estimates show its fuels reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 70 percent compared to burning the same amount of jet fuel.

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John Oliver takes a hack at the Apple encryption debate in latest ‘Last Week Tonight’ segment

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Encryption, according to comedian John Oliver, is “the best way to keep people from reading your email short of making the subject line ‘Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Hilarious Joke From Uncle Walter.’” With the ongoing debate about the government’s efforts to …
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7 Reasons Security Wonks Should Watch the State of the Union Tonight – Wired

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7 Reasons Security Wonks Should Watch the State of the Union Tonight
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StealthGenie is a spy app for iPhones, Android phones and Blackberry devices that was marketed primarily to people who suspected their spouse or lover of cheating on them, but products like it are also used by stalkers and perpetrators of domestic …

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