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What an API Is and Why It’s Worth Fighting For
It's a key question on the eve of Google vs. Oracle, round three.
Hack This: What To Do When Shit Just Won't Work
It's not the end of the world when your script won't run.
How Tracking Cell Phones Is Aiding the Fight Against Malaria
By tracking the movements of cell phone users in Kenya for nearly one year, between 2008 and 2009, scientists fleshed out travel patterns of a disease that killed about 665,000 people the following year – "mostly in Africa":http://www.who.int...
It's Official, Hacker Gary McKinnon Isn't Coming to America
After a decade of hearings and British court appeals per Gary Mckinnon's extradition to the United States to be tried for the biggest military hacking incident the U.S. Justice Department had ever seen.
The Navy's MacGyver Bot Makes Its Own Tools, Doesn't Have a Mullet
Having whole-heartedly employed "drones":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/6/20/who-the-hell-knows-how-many-civilians-drones-have-killed for air strikes, the U.S. military is now embarking on a project to put autonomous robots on the ground to serve as...
Hey Hackers, Today's the Deadline: Where Are Romney's Tax Returns?
Looks like that news spike about those hackers taking Romney's tax records for ransom has dampened. Waiting on hands and knees for a comment from a Romney campaign spokesperson, I've come across Death and Taxes speculation as well as The Tennessean...
Navigate the Country's Most Famous Cemetery With a New App
Some of the most powerful images in the United States come from the clean white rows of headstones in Arlington National Cemetery. But as haunting and pride-inducing those "'gardens of stone'":http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Image.aspx?ID=2814e6f8-48b...
Why Counterfeiters Love Election Years
Everybody loves an election year. The campaign volunteers are out and about, wearing matching T-shirts, holding clipboards and sticking lawn signs into the dirt. The TV is buzzing with the latest scooplet about this candidate's silly gaffe or that...
See How Spaceships Fly With This Clear Acrylic Rocket
YouTube user/rocket scientist Ben Krasnow put up an amazing demonstration of how a hybrid rocket works, complete with a clear acrylic motor that lets you see the action. It's an example of a "hybrid rocket":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_rocket...
All Your Data Are Belong to Extremely Inefficient Server Farms
I have at least eight different emails, most of which I never use, but they've all got gigabytes of storage that's slowly filling up all the time. For $25 a year, Flickr stores as many gigabytes of photographs I can produce. Meanwhile, for the small...