Sky High and Going Up Fast: Luxury Towers Take New York – NYTimes.com
Only 10 floors have been completed in what is intended to be the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere — a slender, 84-story tower on Park Avenue at 56th Street in Manhattan. But the top penthouse is already under contract for $95 million. Other buyers have snapped up apartments …

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Technology patent trolls getting cold shoulder in Congress
Technology companies and legislators are doubling down on the fight against patent trolls. Microsoft, the Consumer Electronics Association and the Software Alliance are backing proposed new legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would do away with anonymous patents, a shell game played by patent trolls to try to hide their identity. Patent trolls are entities that patent a product with no plans to produce it but instead sue when …

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102-Year-Old Abandoned Ship is a Floating Forest – My Modern Metropolis
The SS Ayrfield is one of many decommissioned ships in the Homebush Bay, just west of Sydney, but what separates it from the other stranded vessels is the inc…

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