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Noah Shachtman at Wired News: “Bruce Schneier is a telepath of unimaginable power. That’s the only possible explanation for the … Read More >>
Portal 2 Achieves What Games Aspire To Be — A Funny, Enthralling, Thought-Provoking Story That Makes Money
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Portal 2, Valve’s follow-up to the groundbreaking, first-person puzzle game Portal, has been out since April 19 and has … Read More >>
Whole Foods’ Ramadan Marketing Headaches
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Whole Foods is encountering a not entirely unforeseen headache during their first Ramadan marketing campaign: Pressure from … Read More >>
A Portable Urban Farm, Made Entirely Of Milk Crates
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Using one of the city’s many stalled construction sites as a home, the farm of New York’s Riverpark restaurant supplies the … Read More >>
Can Analytics Help Fix Your Love Life?
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TheIcebreak is a newly launched online service that is supposed to help couples improve their relationships the … Read More >>
Bored by math class, student turns to squiggling
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[Video Link] To alleviate the boredom of math class, Vi Hart has taken to experimenting with squiggling. Be sure to check out … Read More >>
XKCD on the password paradox: human factors versus computers’ brute force
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Today’s XKCD, “Password Strength,” neatly illustrates the research from this paper (PDF) by Philip Inglesant and M. Angela … Read More >>
Secret anti-racist shirts covertly distributed to neo-Nazis
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Anti-racist activists snuck trick t-shirts into a music festival with a large neo-Nazi turnout; the shirts bore a crypto-racist … Read More >>
The brilliantly-programmed graphic demos of Assembly Summer
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Digital Tools offers a selection of the demos on show at Assembly 2011 Summer. For the uninitiated, demos are short multimedia … Read More >>
Now Robots Drink Wine Too – Scientists Create ‘Robot Sommelier’
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Robots get to have all the fun. In this case what I’m calling a robot is the electronic tongue created […] Read More >>