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A towering, twisting skyscraper with vertical green space and a public rooftop garden is set to become Australia’s tallest building.
Dubbed the “Green Spine,” and set to stand 356.20 metres (1,168 feet) high, the design for the striking cantilevered structure was unveiled for the city of Melbourne on Wednesday.
Designed by Dutch architecture firm UNStudio and Melbourne-based Cox Architecture, the structure will sit on Melbourne’s Southbank Boulevard and is made up of two buildings clad with vertical gardens and geometric glass facades. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Towering, twisted skyscraper proposed to be Australia's tallest building
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A pirate radio station which served as Alex Jones’ flagship outlet has been shut down by the Federal Communications Commission.
Liberty Radio was broadcasting on 90.1 FM without federal consent, according to The Austin American-Statesman reported that with the FCC accusing the station had done so since 2013.
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FCC agents managed to trace the station’s signal to an apartment block in East Austin, following a complaint, according to the agency’s lawsuit filed against Liberty Radio. The FCC has also handed a $15,000 penalty to the station’s owners, who reportedly are refusing to pay. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Alex Jones' flagship pirate radio station shut down by FCC
It’s 11:15 p.m. on a Friday night and a man in a white button-down shirt named Joey just ordered me a shot of Fireball. It’s a little hard to hear him over the music blasting from the other side of the velvet ropes, but the club’s director of services leans in close to make sure I can hear him.
“Excellence and hospitality in the crypto world,” Joey says in response to my request that he describe just what, exactly, is going on here.
I’m sitting on a spacious couch in a private club, inside of another nightclub, inside of a casino, and we’re discussing Las Vegas’s first cryptocurrency nightclub: MORE Las Vegas. Launched in April by Peter Klamka — a man known for, among other things, his involvement with The Legends Room gentlemen’s club which allowed patrons to tip performers in bitcoin — the nightclub comes with all the trappings of a typical VIP Vegas destination. There’s the $250,000 bottles of champagne, high-heeled cocktail waitresses, and view of the Bellagio fountains that’s to die for. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Inside the Vegas nightclub that launched its own cryptocurrency