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Completing the One World Trade Center will cost $3.8 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports, making it “by far” the most expensive building in the world.
The new estimate, which includes construction-cost overruns and a decision by the Port Authority to now include leasing expenses in its public numbers, is up from a previous estimate of $700 million.

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Watch “A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked,” to see how Corning’s highly engineered glass, with companion technologies, will help shape our world.

Looks like a good time to invest in Windex.

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Treasure hunters claim to have found the remains of a British ship torpedoed during WWII filled with platinum, now worth a massive $3 billion (usd).
Maine-based Sub Sea Research found the SS Port Nicholson on the ocean bottom around 30 miles off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Spokesman Greg Brooks claims a US Treasury Department ledger indicates platinum bars were on board, as part of a payment from the Soviet Union to the US for war supplies.
The company claims to have video footage showing the platinum bars, although none of the bounty has yet been brought to the surface.
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The “Digital Death” video explains possible outcomes, and interestingly predicts that, using personality predictors linking to all your online information, a digital self may be created that can interact with your future family.


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#9. Drake – Take Care – 26,000 (1,376,000)

#17. Young Jeezy – TM 103: Hustler’s Ambition – 18,000 (398,000)

#29. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne – 12,000 (1,285,000)

#37. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV – 10,000 (1,976,000)

#88. The Roots – undun – 4,800 (112,000)

#100. Yelawolf – Radioactive – 4,200 (103,000)

#105. Mac Miller – Blue Slide Park – 4,000 (277,000)

#106. Yo Gotti – Live From The Kitchen – 3,900 (25,000)

#109. Common – The Dreamer / The Believer – 3,800 (115,000)

#172. K’Naan – More Beautiful Than Silence – 2,500 (2,500)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.

Title/ Weekend Gross (in millions of dollars usd $$$)

  1. The Grey  $19.6 m
  2. The Underworld Awakening  $12.3 m
  3. One for The Money  $11.5 m
  4. Red Tails  $10.3 m
  5. Man on a Ledge  $8 m
  6. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close  $6.9m
  7. Contraband  $6.7 m
  8. The Descendants  $6.4 m
  9. Beauty and the Beast  $5.3 m
  10. Haywire  $4 m

Checkout this acapella video of Unsigned Artist @RealDondada from Greenville, SC.  Dude got mad talent. Makes beats on the porch backed up with a dope flow.

more videos after the jump…

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A new documentary film about the cassette tape and cassette culture by Zack Taylor and Seth Smoot.  They are seeking funding through popular site: Kickstarter.  So far they’ve raised just under $8k and are hoping to hit $25K.

 

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For the last 3 Months, Apple Net’d $46.33 billion in total with $13.06 billion earnings! That is damn Near Double from the Same time last year, and they’ve grown by 26%. Here are the products they sold to make that kinda money GWOP:
37 million iPhones, 15.4 million iPads, 15.4 million iPods and 5.2 million Macs, 1.4 million. That’s Just in the last 3 months. Imagine What Apple’s gonna Do Next Year this time!!! Full press release after the jump.
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