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  Hollywood Native Jerry Beck Attempts to Fly the World's Largest Paper Airplane

  June 19 at 9 a.m.

  Last Tuesday, Jerry Beck, a South Florida native and the founder and artistic director of the Revolving Museum, attempted to fly what is believed to be the world’s largest paper plane at Fitchburg Municipal Airport in Massachusetts. But years of conceptualizing, community organizing, and crowdsourcing artworks to plaster on the exterior of the 64-foot paper plane weren’t enough to override the relentless physics required for flight.

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  Florida Man Learns Hard Way Not to Joke About Bar Tab Being Payment to ISIS

  Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 10:52 a.m.

  Sometimes, bros will be bros. Pranks will be played, and shenanigans will take place. Sometimes, though, bros being bros can go horribly wrong, especially when alcohol is involved and those bros joke about ISIS on social media.

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  How to Improve Your Uber Passenger Rating, According to Drivers and Five-Star Customers

  Friday, July 21, 2017 at 3:03 p.m.

  We’ve all had that Uber driver. The lady that had you clinging for dear life as she barreled through your neighborhood at 75 mph. Or the dude who refuses to give up his collection of petrified French Fries preserved in the back seat where you're sitting. There are some...

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  Hacker Caught in Sailboat Off Cuba Challenges America's Tough Cybercrime Laws

  Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 9:33 a.m.

  In a broken-down speedboat off the coast of Cuba, Marty and Dana Gottesfeld watched the sun creep closer to the horizon. Salty wind whipped Dana's chestnut-colored hair as her husband buckled himself into an orange life jacket. The facts were stark and unavoidable: Their boat was stuck in the middle...

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  Rony Abovitz's Magic Leap May Reshape Your Reality

  Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 8 a.m.

  In a small, cheery, wood-paneled office in the back of the Design Center of the Americas in Dania Beach, the young, wavy-haired receptionist was polite but firm. "Mr. Abovitz isn't available right now." A green cartoon dragon grinned from the wall to her right, next to a glass-walled conference room...

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  Florida Barely Teaches Computer Science, but Broward Is Best

  Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 8:57 a.m.

  We’ve stepped into a brave new world in which cars drive themselves, Pokemon is real, and you can order everything from a Pub Sub to a helicopter on your phone. As we venture further into the future, human progress – and our kids’ ability to move out of the house...