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On November 14th, 2014 with 33 comments
HughPickens.com writes "Patrick McGeehan writes in the NYT that the image of a pair of window washers clinging to a scaffold dangling outside the 68th floor of...
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On November 14th, 2014 with 56 comments
theodp writes Writing in Vanity Fair, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan marvels that his kids can learn to code online at their own pace thanks to "free"...
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On November 14th, 2014 with 100 comments
An anonymous reader writes With less than a day of battery life left, The European Space Agency's Philae probe will begin to drill for samples even though the...
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On November 14th, 2014 with 77 comments
stephendavion writes "Sony is planning to launch PlayStation Vue, a TV service for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 consoles providing on demand programs and...
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On November 14th, 2014 with 111 comments
Tyketto writes The US Department of Justice has been using fake communications towers installed in airplanes to acquire cellular phone data for tracking down...
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On November 14th, 2014 with 53 comments
An anonymous reader writes Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory have used Wikipedia logs as a data source for forecasting disease spread. The team...
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On November 14th, 2014 with 150 comments
MojoKid (1002251) writes "Life is hard when you're a AAA publisher. Last month, Ubisoft blamed weak console hardware for the troubles it had bringing...
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On November 14th, 2014 with 38 comments
gallifreyan99 writes When the shuttle program was ended, and manned space exploration was put on hold, the people of Titusville, Florida were left in big...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 39 comments
alphadogg writes The Association for Computing Machinery has announced that its annual A.M. Turing Award, sometimes called the Nobel Prize in Computing, will...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 182 comments
An anonymous reader writes Lyft and Uber have already undercut the price of a taxi in most markets, but with this new service, both are now taking aim at...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 17 comments
sciencehabit writes If cells could talk, they'd have quite a story to tell: Their life history would include what molecules they'd seen passing by, which...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 17 comments
szczys writes SatNOGS has won the 2014 Hackaday Prize. The team of developers designed a satellite ground station which can be built with available tools,...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 86 comments
alphadogg writes Three days after security company FireEye warned of an iPhone/iPad threat dubbed "Masque Attack", the U.S. government has issued a warning of...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 96 comments
First time accepted submitter AvitarX writes W3C has the IP address where I work as showing up in Ireland (we are in the USA). This is a nuisance for a lot of...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 350 comments
RogueyWon (735973) writes "The latest entry in the long-running Assassin's Creed game series, Assassin's Creed: Unity released this week. Those looking for...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 49 comments
HYREL 3-D had a display Timothy spotted at last month's Maker Faire Atlanta. They're not trying to hustle Kickstarter donors; they exceeded their $50,000 goal...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 131 comments
msm1267 (2804139) writes Threats to the integrity of Internet voting have been a major factor in keeping the practice to a bare minimum in the United States....
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On November 13th, 2014 with 48 comments
MojoKid writes Nvidia's Shield Tablet is only a few months old, but Nvidia is already updating the device with a freshly minted OS, a refreshed Shield Hub and...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 110 comments
itwbennett writes A U.S. court has quashed an attempt to seize Iran's, Syria's and North Korea's domains as part of a lawsuit against those countries'...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 389 comments
New submitter hawkbug writes For the past 15 years, I have hosted my own email server at home and it's been pretty painless. I had always used a local Denver...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 316 comments
Bennett Haselton writes: A editorial with 24,000 Facebook shares highlights the differences
in public reaction to two nearly identical breastfeeding photos,
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On November 13th, 2014 with 50 comments
wiredmikey writes Researchers have hacked several popular smartphones during the Mobile Pwn2Own 2014 competition that took place alongside the PacSec Applied...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 188 comments
HnT writes A new working paper shows strong support for what many have always suspected: your boss's technical competence is the single strongest predictor of...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 158 comments
Nerval's Lobster writes With the debut of Android 5.0 (also known as Lollipop, in keeping with Google's habit of naming each major OS upgrade after a...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 72 comments
omar.sahal writes Go celebrates five years of its existence with this blog post recapping a little history, future and some philosophy. "Five years ago we...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 96 comments
schwit1 provides this excerpt from an Associated Press report: "Nineteen automakers accounting for most of the passenger cars and trucks sold in the U.S. have...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 128 comments
An anonymous reader writes with an update to the successful landing of the ESA's comet probe Philae, which (as mentioned yesterday) had problems attaching to...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 216 comments
An anonymous reader writes According to a lawsuit filed Friday in a New York court, when Jeremy Zielinski signed up for Time Warner Internet service after...
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On November 13th, 2014 with 112 comments
apexcp writes Senate Majority Leader (for now) Harry Reid announced he will be taking the USA FREEDOM Act to a floor vote in the Senate as early as next week....
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On November 13th, 2014 with 103 comments
First time accepted submitter Biswa writes YouTube launched its ad-free subscription music service called MusicKey. today. From the TechCrunch article:...
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