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Getty images The "most dangerous path in the world" reopening for its third season after a gruesome accident caused it to close for 15 years. The  Caminito del Rey  is a precarious walkway pinned to the edge of a gorge in southern Spain. After five people plummeted to their deaths in two years, the wooden walkway was closed for renovations in 2001. But it has since been reopened with tighter safety regulations. The three-foot-wide path is now secured to the side of the gorge with steel bolts. It takes visitors between three and four hours to complete the five-mile route. Everybody is now required to wear a helmet as they cross the walkway. The path dangles over a 300-foot drop and provides fantastic views of the El Chorro gorge. It was  built over 100 years ago  to give workers access to two hydroelectric plants in the area. Getty images Since its reopening in 2015, daredevils have flocked to the Caminito in Spain’s Málaga province. In the ...

The Matrix Voice development board is a  Pi add-on you can use to build your own voice assistant. Some people have an affinity for programming and development. I’m not one of them.  On first glance it seemed incredibly complex.  Yet, somehow we can managed to make it through the project thanks in no small part to the excellent tutorials and documentation available at the  Hackster.io   website. The Voice board doesn’t look like much, but it packs all the features you need into a 3.5 inch disc that mounts directly to a Raspberry Pi computer. With it you’re getting eight dedicated microphones and an FPGA to handle all the algorithms and audio processing. We were also able to check out the predecessor to the Voice, the Matrix Creator, a board that’s a little more robust. It’s capable of doing much more than just voice functions thanks to its myriad of additional sensors. It can detect altitude, temperature, humidity, and motion, but It wasn’t ready for buildi...

The spooky tales of the Sydney Cricket Ground ladies pavilion Sydney Cricket Ground heritage staff give ESPN a tour and discuss the sometimes mysterious goings on in the famous ladies pavilion. to watch it click the link below  spooky tales of the Sydney Cricket Ground

A car, a golf ball, a pie... and other items items dispatched on cosmic journeys over the years.  See live Elon Musk's car in the space...

History still has plenty of unsolved mysteries . In  Italy’s Invisible Cities , Alexander Armstrong and Dr Michael Scott explore the layers upon layers of civilisation that exist beneath the feet of the Boot’s current denizens. It’s frankly amazing how many separate incarnations of those cities – Naples, Venice and Florence – have disappeared into the past. Casting our eye further afield, the planet has played host to many more communities that vanished from time. Here are five of them... Great Zimbabwe became a political football Complex on Hill Complex, Great Zimbabwe. Now believed to have been built by the ancestors of the Shona people, Great Zimbabwe was a sprawling granite city, spanning 722 hectares, that was situated along a busy trade route. Theories about why it was abandoned include overgrazing and people taking their trade elsewhere. Of course, European explorers/conquerors were quick to scotch any thought that native Africans could have built such ar...

The names of significant tropical  cyclones  are retired from the lists, with a replacement  name  selected at the next World Meteorological Organization's Hurricane Committee. If all of the names on a list are used, storms are  named  using the letters of the Greek alphabet. This article is about the current and future tropical cyclone lists. For the history of naming, see  History of tropical cyclone naming . For previously named storms, see  Historic tropical cyclone names .  Tropical cyclones   and   subtropical cyclones   are named by various warning centers to provide ease of communication between forecasters and the general public regarding forecasts, watches, and warnings. The names are intended to reduce confusion in the event of concurrent storms in the same   basin . Generally once storms produce sustained wind speeds of more than 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph), names are assigned in order from predete...

Oceans are such vast and often overwhelming subjects. Because of their sheer scope in size, the discussions that are often had regarding seas and different discoveries within it, can be both mind boggling and intriguing. There are enormous mysteries in the depths of the oceans. While some of these phenomena have been explained by analysts and experts, there are still some interesting occurrences underwater that can’t really be rationalized. Sailors from all around the world have witnessed and experienced a variety of incredible ocean phenomena. Below is a list of the top 10. 10. The Mystery of Underwater Crop Circles They’ve been called the crop circles of the ocean floor—seven-foot diameter patterned circles that were first spotted in 1995 off the coast of southern Japan. But their origin was an enigma, and local divers termed them “mystery circles”. The mystery persisted until 2011 when the culprit, a male pufferfish just five inches long, was finally caught in the act. An...