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Town Built for Driverless Cars(technologyreview.com)
1 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Breaking 43 Years of Silence, the Last FBI Burglar Tells the Story of Her Years(thenation.com)
2 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
This eminently reasonable - Basically all Twitter wants to say is we have received X requests of Y type. Right now they are restricted to broad categories 0-999, between 6 & 8 thousand etc. I thought they were going farther - that they
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by suprgeek 12y ago
This article has a few details on why this week was important for e-commerce sites in India: http://qz.com/274278/the-real-reason-why-indias-shopping-web... The incumbents from Silicon Valley may not have the Cultural
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Testing a $35 Firefox OS phone–how bad could it be?(arstechnica.com)
19 points by suprgeek 12y ago|2 comments
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Why India’s shopping websites are at each other’s throats this week(qz.com)
2 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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NASA spacecraft reaches Mars just in time to see an unexpected guest(pri.org)
1 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
This story probably only hints at the truly terrifying power that the NSA can bring to bear. I do not think anyone is disputing the need to collect intelligence but the scale and scope of the NSA's no-holds-barred all the information a
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Police want back doors in smartphones, but who else will open them?(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by suprgeek 12y ago|1 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Exciting news but is it an unqualified positive for both? Sometimes Constraints are what drives breakthrough innovations. India's ability to Manage Significant space exploration programmes on a Shoe string budget is driven in part by t
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Unfortunately the mere mention of "Nuclear" is a trigger word for most people, which is a tragedy considering that due to all the mistakes that were made in the past we have started to (finally) move to safer ways of using Nuclear
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Sense of smell 'may predict lifespan'(bbc.com)
46 points by suprgeek 12y ago|22 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Classic Fear mongering at its finest. Blatantly violate the public trust repeatedly by Blanket illegal surveillance, discredit anyone who reveals it, call them a traitor. Then when people & companies get pissed at this over-reach and th
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Butterfly Labs mined Bitcoins on customers’ boxes before shipping(arstechnica.com)
59 points by suprgeek 12y ago|41 comments
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Who's afraid of bromine?(bbc.com)
50 points by suprgeek 12y ago|38 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Almost all the bending reports are for the iPhone 6+ bending & twisting at/close to the volume-down button when placed in pockets etc. Placing the phone between two flat blocks and applying pressure at the exact center (three-point
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by suprgeek 12y ago
India has very cheap labor so you might save some costs on that front. However there are many deep-rooted infrastructure issues that need to be overcome: Industries need un-innterupted power. There are massive power shortages already. Mass
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by suprgeek 12y ago
What is even more commendable is that it was done pretty cheaply [1]. Granted the capabilities of some of the other craft are different - but not THAT different. Add to this the fact that this was a success in the first shot - getting a cra
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by suprgeek 12y ago
The victims Violent Crime may have decreased but the victims of non-violent (white-collar) crimes may have actually increased. How many people were "victimized" in the recent Financial crisis? How about the spate of people in asse
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Assault rifles, trucks, night-vision equipment supplied to schools by Pentagon(thewire.com)
1 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Here Is What Tech Conferences in 2014 Are Like, in One Photo(nymag.com)
1 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Should I break up code commits?(arstechnica.com)
1 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Don't Take Your Vitamins(53eig.ht)
1 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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The elephant that flew(bbc.com)
38 points by suprgeek 12y ago|12 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
It is laudable that while just complying and letting the U.S. Govt. get at any data would be the cheaper move business-wise, Yahoo seems to made somewhat of an effort to fight back. It is sad that that they are still unable to reveal what d
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Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM(wired.com)
784 points by suprgeek 12y ago|237 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
"Had a look at him. Thought, 'Yep.' Gave him a few strokes, and thought he was a friendly lookin' cat. Held him for a wee while. Decided, 'Right. He's the one.' " That line stayed with me long after I
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by suprgeek 12y ago
The Oatmeal provides a very nice illustrated pics about the Mantis Shrimp and its killer claws http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
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Merck Wins Approval of Novel Immune-System Drug for Cancer(nytimes.com)
4 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Sony's SmartBand Talk combines fitness tracker with e-ink screen(theguardian.com)
1 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments

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