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ptorrone writes
"It's been a rough year for MAKE Magazine, you see, everyone wants to buy things and not make things, so we're switching our format and rebranding the magazine to BUY. The next volume will be filled with wonderful things you can buy and directives on things to do, like buy more. Our new designer, Nada, has some shots of the next volume here."
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Simon Phillips writes
"ZDNet is reporting
that Google has been accused of being the 'biggest
threat to genetic privacy' this year for its plan to create a searchable database of genetic information. From the article: 'Google was presented with an award as part of the Captain
Hook Awards for Biopiracy in Curitiba, Brazil, this week. The organisers allege that Google's collaboration with genomic research institute J. Craig Venter to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet is a clear example of biopiracy.'"
