Rio Spends $600M to Make Its Airport More Bearable Before the Olympics

The airport gets a tech makeover, right in time for the Olympics, The post Rio Spends $600M to Make Its Airport More Bearable Before the Olympics appeared first on WIRED.

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First Listen Live: Watch Neko Case, k.d. lang And Laura Veirs Perform Their New Album

The songwriting supergroup performs their new album, case/lang/veirs, in its entirety at OPB in Portland. Watch the concert right here.

Sanjay Puri uses weathering steel to create layered facade for The Crescent office block

Overlapping angled fins clad in pre-rusted steel extend from the front of this crescent-shaped office building in Surat, India, by Mumbai architect Sanjay Puri (+ slideshow). (more…)

Christo's Newest Project: Walking on Water

For 16 days, “The Floating Piers,” a saffron-colored walkway, will connect two small islands in a lake in Northern Italy to the mainland.

Court Fines And Fees Almost Delay Homecoming For Wrongly Convicted Michigan Man

Davontae Sanford spent nearly nine years in prison for crimes he never committed. But his release was almost stopped because of an unpaid bill he owed for his public defender.

Orlando Gunman Had Been Taken Off Watch List, FBI Director Comey Says

The gunman whose attack on a nightclub resulted in the deaths of 49 victims bought his guns legally, James Comey says. The gunman, he adds, also had three different contacts with a 911 dispatcher.