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Airbushas unveiled concepts for a plane it hopes to build in forty years, but the aircraft giant’s plans aren’t going to impress those with a fear of flying,the Daily Mail reports. The flight deck of this plane, which Airbus believes we could be flying around in by 2050, gives passengers a transparent panoramic view of the sky… and everything lying thousands of feet below. And while at first glance this plane might look like it exists only to freak out aerophobes, there’s a bit more to it....

The future is mobile. By that proposal, the future of entertainment is also mobile. We’re already starting to see the shift, but it’s going to extend much further than what we have today. In fact, we’d propose that you can say goodbye to your living room for most of your TV viewing. Your TV is going mobile. The Shift As we see it, the shift has started. It began a few years ago when mobile devices started picking up the ability to display videos....

War is coming. Later this year the US military will fight its most advanced war campaign ever as it faces off against a fictionalized version of China. The battles will be fake, but the results should provide the government with everything it needs to justify the mass development of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). The era of government-controlled killer robots is upon us. Up front:US military leaders have increasingly come out in support of taking humans out of the loop when it comes to AI-controlled weapons....

Here at The Next Web, we recentlyhighlighteda growing trend amongst startups to offer human beings for hire. It seems that every week new companies emerge that allow people to offer up their skills, or just their personalities, to others who will happily pay for them. This isn’t just another startup trend though, this could be the beginning of a new way of buying services and selling ourselves – and it may even help save the economy....

Apple’s Newsstand has received plenty of analysis from the media industry press since it was firstannouncedearlier this year, but now that it’s here, there’s a surprising factor in why it might be a success – its icon. Newsstand is a central hub for all your newspaper and magazine app subscriptions in iOS. Each title you subscribe to, and there are plenty ofbig namesinvolved from the New York Times to National Geographic, shows up as a separate title in your virtual bookshelf of magazines....