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Bird makes huge dent in the nose of a Boeing airplane The Boeing 737-800 is a 130-foot-long jet aircraft with more than 150 seats and a maximum takeoff weight of more than 70 tons. So what happens when that giant flying machine gets hit right in the nose by a bird? A pretty big dent, apparently. This is exactly what happened to Turkish Airlines flight TK2004, a domestic flight from Istanbul to Nevşehir in Turkey on Tuesday. The plane was hit by a bird during landing, causing quite a bit of damage to its nose cone. The pilot managed to land successfully and none of the 125 passengers on board were injured.  Flight review site Flight-Report first posted images of the damage to the plane, which at first glance looks unusually severe considering the plane struck a feathery creature. But a Turkish Airlines spokesperson explained to Mashable that this sort of damage is not uncommon for an incident like this, since the nose of the plane is quite soft. The nose cone...

Five tips to speed up your Mac   The only place I like seeing a beach ball is at a beach or in a stadium during a baseball game or concert. The one place I least like to see a beach ball is on my aging MacBook Pro, where the spinning beach ball has become an altogether too familiar a sight. If your Mac has become frustratingly slow, there are a number of ways you can speed it up again. Before you engage in any maintenance, I would urge you to take caution and back up your data. For Macs, it's easy: grab an external drive and run Time Machine . With your Mac 's drive freshly backed up, you may proceed. 1. Replace your hard drive with an SSD Moving from a traditional spinning hard drive to a solid-state drive (SSD) is the single best thing you can do to improve the performance of an aging MacBook . Follow Sharon Profis's instructions on how to upgrade your MacBook Pro with an SSD . You'll be shocked at not only how easy it is to do but also at the huge...

I spent 90 minutes with HoloLens and walked away amazed Just a few short months ago, Microsoft took the wraps off their entry into what truly will be a next generation in computing, the HoloLens .  While work on the project started some two years ago , Microsoft only started showing off this interactive wearable device at the January 21st event that was supposed to be all about Windows 10 consumer, but turned out to be much more than that. In my first HoloLens experience, members of the press were given a somewhat similar tour, but with engineering hardware. That is, we were outfitted with a computing device the size of a book to hang around our neck, and tethered to computers in the room by a set of thick suspended cables.  This time, we wore the same hardware you've seen onstage at keynotes in January and again on Wednesday at Build - not exactly a finished product, but sleek compared to what came before it. One thing that was similar to the January event,...