Post Overview
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Analysis
11 years ago
+28 28 0How a Militia Grew on a Military Base
Around Fort Stewart, Private Isaac Aguigui spoke openly about FEAR, his anti-government militia. According to one soldier, the intelligence group in his squadron “had knowledge of Aguigui’s plans and many were willing to be a part of it.” Though the ...
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Current Event
11 years ago
+7 8 1Report: Google to acquire Twitch.tv for more than $1 billion
YouTube and Twitch.tv merging could create a video juggernaut. With Apple buying Beats and AT&T buying DirecTV, this seems to be the month of the blockbuster acquisition deal. And it looks like Google wants in on the action too—according to a rep ...
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Current Event
11 years ago
+21 21 0Rent-Regulated Tenants Excluded From Amenities
Buildings are creating amenities for market-rate tenants only, leaving regulated renters out in the cold.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+33 33 0Driven: how Zipcar's founders built and lost a car-sharing empire
Today, Zipcar — which is still headquartered in Boston — has offices in more than 26 American cities and 860,000 members across the US, Austria, Canada, Spain, and the UK. And the company’s profile only grew when car-rental giant Avis bought Zipcar f ...
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Current Event
11 years ago
+5 5 0Significant portion of HTTPS Web connections made by forged certificates
Scientists unearth first direct evidence of bogus certs in real-world connections.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+19 19 0 x 1Google toying with desktop Gmail overhaul
Move would be part of an effort to unify features across multiple platforms.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+23 23 0How to trick the guilty and gullible into revealing themselves? Lessons from the 'Freakonomics' authors
How can you trick the guilty and the gullible into revealing themselves? Start with a basic understanding of game theory and incentives, write 'Freakonomics' authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
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Review
11 years ago
0 2 2Scammed
Some of America’s poorest people are being targeted by cyber-scammers. Can an errant hacker find the culprits?
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Analysis
11 years ago
+16 16 0Which States Are Givers and Which Are Takers?
And is that even the correct way to frame the question?
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Current Event
11 years ago
+25 25 0Four weeks on, huge swaths of the Internet remain vulnerable to Heartbleed
Some 300,000 systems remain susceptible to catastrophic exploits, one scan shows.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+3 4 1An Enterprising Band Made $20,000 Scamming Spotify
A Los Angeles band figured out a way to make $20,000 from Spotify by doing absolutely nothing.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+15 15 0Japanese man arrested for producing 3D-printed guns
Suspect tweets that gun restrictions are "a violation of human rights."
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Current Event
11 years ago
+24 24 0Vibram can no longer claim its goofy FiveFinger shoes offer health benefits
A settled class action suit requires company to pay $3.75 million to customers.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+15 15 0Largest vinyl record pressing plant in the US is expanding
It's no secret that LPs are making a comeback, but here's some real-world proof.
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Current Event
11 years ago
+26 26 0Lawyers threaten redditor over negative router review on Amazon
Customer accused of "illegal campaign to damage, discredit, defame, and libel."
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Current Event
11 years ago
+17 17 0Address bar tweak in early Chrome beta puts even savvy users at risk
Bug allows attackers to hide addresses used to phish passwords or push malware.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+17 17 0With the Supreme Court's Help, Religion Creeps Toward the State
The 5-4 decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway shows how far the ground has shifted under the Establishment Clause in the last 30 years.
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Analysis
11 years ago
+20 20 0Batman's Secret Origin Story: How a Traumatic, Real Event Created the Dark Knight
A horror in Bruce Wayne's childhood created the Dark Knight. Did a real-life childhood horror create Bruce Wayne?
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Current Event
11 years ago
+1 2 1Could Soylent Replace Food?
Soylent, a synthetic food product, is made from raw chemical components; its formula accounts for all the major food groups. Rob Rhinehart, Soylent’s creator, says, “It’s kind of an over-all food substitute. In theory, you could live on this entirely ...
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Analysis
11 years ago
+17 17 0Is It Time to Rethink College Sports?
This year’s N.F.L. draft brings into focus a couple of timely, overlapping crises, and all of them point to the same thing: that the ideal of the “student-athlete,” long crumbling, is now pretty much in rubble.




















