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Crooks who compromised Fidelity National Information Services’s prepaid debit card database were able to draw out $13 million … Read More >>
Price of a hospital circumcision in the US: $23,000
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Chris of Cynical-C writes: My son was born 14 mo ago and because he was born in a birth center, he could not get circumcised at … Read More >>
Google shutters Slide, founder Max Levchin moves to greener pastures
via Engadget
It’s been barely a year since Google acquired Slide for a cool $200 million, but today comes news that the Mountain View crew … Read More >>
Fujitsu LOOX F-07C review
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For those who’ve been dwelling on this planet long enough, you might just remember a category of mobile computers by the … Read More >>
MIT research team improves wireless security, is starting with the man in the middle
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Now that they’ve finished building a robot capable of making cakes, MIT’s researchers can get on with the serious business … Read More >>
Leadership Lessons From Burning Man
via Fast Company
Think the annual arts fest in the Nevada desert is nothing more than a week-long bacchanal? Think again. It’s a a master class … Read More >>
How to make a spike-knuckled butyl rubber glove wired to discharge a disposable camera flash cap across the spikes
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[Video Link] Sean Michael Ragan says: Responding to criticisms that their new no-trolling-allowed policy lacks teeth, Hack a … Read More >>
RIM is in trouble: who will buy the BlackBerry pie?
via Ars Technica
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is in deep, deep trouble. Shareholders are … Read More >>
Sleeping around gave early humans immune boost from Neanderthals, Denisovans
via Ars Technica
The ancestry of modern humans has gotten much more interesting in recent years. … Read More >>
Google Working On Bringing Chromium To Android, Chrome For Android May Be Next
via Redmond Pie
It is quite a popular question: “Why is the stock browser on Android called “Internet” instead of Chrome?”. While there is a … Read More >>