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Business, Finance, Occupation & Industry

It's a Brave New World for the Drone-Makers

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By Rich Smith, The Motley Fool

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On March 26, the U.S. Navy announced plans to award four firm-fixed-price contracts to develop prototype Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) drones. This is on top of a similar project, already in the works, to develop a fleet of Unmanned Combat Air Systems (UCAS).

Billions of dollars are at stake as each of Boeing , Northrop Grumman , Lockheed Martin , and General Atomics lock their targeting radars on these contracts. Who will emerge victorious? With the Pentagon set to spend $5.6 billion on drone purchases this year alone, and more in years to come, it’s a question worth asking, and a trend in weapons purchases worth watching.

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Styles & Fashion

Brave New World: Victoria Beckham Launches Ecommerce

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By Justin Fenner

Shopping for Victoria Beckham‘s clothing and accessories just got easier. The designer today unveiled a redesigned website that allows customers from all over the world to shop online.

While the previous incarnation of VictoriaBeckham.com was the digital home for Beckham’s lookbooks, the new one offers the option to either “Look” at her body of work, or to “Shop” some of her pieces. The first offering on the website includes pieces Beckham hand-selected from her Spring 2013 collection, as well as a few pieces from past collections, touted as “Icons,” reissued in limited editions and new colorways.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at fashionologie

Video Gaming

Introducing Civilization V: Brave New World

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This Summer Aspyr Media plans to release the second expansion for Sid Meier’s Civilization V, titled Brave New World. The expansion makes many expected additions such as nine new civilizations, including the Polish, as well as revamps key systems. For more on the expansion, IGN spoke with senior producer Dennis Shirk and lead designer Ed Beach about what to expect.

“Gods and Kings did a great job of expanding the game through the early and middle part of the game…we really wanted to focus on the back half of the game,” said Beach. Thus Brave New World takes a cue from what happened in our own 20th century history, namely the spread of ideologies and the way they polarized nations. The Autocracy, Freedom and Order social policy trees are now the three main ideologies, and once a country reaches the modern era or achieves a certain level of industrialization, it picks one of three. You then build your ideology over time through ideological tenets, which amount to a series of new policies that bolster your society in specific ways.

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2K Announces Sid Meier's Civilization® V: Brave New World Expansion Pack

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2K Announces Sid Meier’s Civilization® V: Brave New World Expansion Pack

Second massive expansion for critically acclaimed Civilization V features new gameplay systems, strategies, scenarios and more

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– 2K and Firaxis Games announced today that Sid Meier’s Civilization® V: Brave New World, the second expansion pack for the award-winning CivilizationV, is currently in development and will be released this summer for Windows-based PC and brought to the Mac® by Aspyr Media. Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Brave New World brings a massive amount of new gameplay to the Civilization V experience, providing gamers with even more rewarding ways to achieve world domination.

“Civilization V: Brave New World continues the strong tradition of ambitious expansion packs that fans have come to expect from the Civilization franchise,” said Sarah Anderson, senior vice president of marketing for 2K. “Brave New World is destined to continue the strong Civilization lineage that already includes massive expansions such as Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword and Civilization V: Gods & Kings.”


Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Brave New World
 provides new depth and replayability through the introduction of international trade and a focus on culture and diplomacy. The player’s influence around the world will be impacted by creating a number of Great Works across a variety of crafts, choosing an ideology for their civilization, and proposing global resolutions in the new World Congress. As players move through the ages of history, they will make critical decisions that influence relationships with all civilizations in the game world.

“After adding a number of great new features to Civilization V with the Gods & Kings expansion, the team continued to search for ways to create even more exciting gameplaythrough new systems and features,” said Sid Meier, director of creative development for Firaxis Games. “We’re happy to bring our fans another ambitious expansion that will provide hours and hours of new Civilization experiences.

Key features include: