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California Seeks Drought Solutions from Innovative Australia
As California endures a fourth year of punishing drought, state officials are looking to arid Australia for innovative ideas to tackle its water problems.
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Beware: Fake 'The Interview' App Affects Android Users
"The Interview", the controversial North Korean-baiting film which appeared to be the root cause of the cyber mishap occurred at Sony Pictures Entertainment that threatened terror attack at theaters showing the movie, now threatens to expose users of Android phones to a malware attack. Since its release, everyone is talking about "The Interview" — the Seth Rogen and James Franco-starring comedy centered around a TV host and his producer assassinating...
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How Hackable Is Your Car? Consult This Handy Chart
Last year, when hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek showed they could hijack the steering and brakes of a Ford Escape and a Toyota Prius with nothing but laptops connected to the cars, they raised two questions: Could hackers perform the same tricks wirelessly, or even over the Internet? And even more pressing: Is your specific car vulnerable, too?
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Types of Hackers | WhiteHat | GreyHat | BlackHat
In all these cases it is illegal. We have made a list of types of hackers. We will not explain each of them here separately to give you a quick idea.
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80+ Best Free Hacking Tutorials
Maybe like me, the word hacker gives you a sour taste... but I thought someone may enjoy these links.
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33 Websites That Will Make You a Genius
The web is increasingly becoming a powerful resource that can easily help you learn something new everyday. These awesome sites are just what you need. There is a good chance you’ll be able to put at least one of these learning tools to good use and come out as a better person than you were last year.
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China will lift its nationwide game console ban
China now lets companies make and sell consoles anywhere in the country.
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How Money Runs Our Politics
With each election come innovations in ways that the very rich donate and the candidates collect and spend increasingly large amounts of money on campaigns. And with each decision on campaign financing the current Supreme Court’s conservative majority, with Chief Justice John Roberts in the lead, removes some restrictions on money in politics. By Elizabeth Drew. (June)
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Map: Where 2016 GOP Candidates Raised Their Money
Fundraising patterns are giving us a sneak peek at the 2016 electoral map.
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Intelligence, Atheism and Culture
When someone tells me that religious people have lower intelligence than atheists, I translate that immediately into “Well-off people with some economic stability and access to higher education are less dependent on the social safety net religion provides.” That’s all it really means.
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Leading tech investors warn of bubble risk 'unprecedented since 1999'
Billy Gurley and Fred Wilson, who backed Uber and Twitter, respectively, say Silicon Valley investing in too many losing ventures
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Summer thunderstorm last night in Zagreb, Croatia
Photo by Lovro Dujnić.
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One Diagram that Will Change the Way You Look at the US Economy
I am really impressed by how effectively the creators of this Voroni diagram visualized the information.
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An Interesting Solution Idea for the Greek Debt Crisis: Join Turkey
As a Turkish guy, I almost found the article funny but then I realized it was written by a professor from University of Chicago. What do you think?
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What amateurs can learn from security pros about staying safe online
Research uncovers stark differences in security practices of experts, non-experts.
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Websites, Please Stop Blocking Password Managers. It’s 2015
Companies are taking away one of the best security measures we have.
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If you have insomnia, pills may not be the answer
Like many insomniacs, Crystal Blount tried sleeping pills. They put her to sleep, she says, but left her feeling groggy the next day. So she went back to tossing and turning, spending eight hours in bed each night, but rarely sleeping more than four.
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Who's Mature Enough to Govern?
If you are not currently convinced that age should be a historical category of analysis alongside gender, race, class, and disability, Corinne Field's new book should go a long way toward persuading you. The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America advances the study of citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States by showing how the political significance of maturity and adulthood were at the center of rights movements.
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Frigid offices, freezing women, oblivious men: An air-conditioning investigation
You can spot them. The frozen ones who come outside at lunch like sun-seeking turtles, cardigans balled up next to them, bare shoulders defrosting in the noon sunlight, no matter how wilting it is outdoors. Every single woman I talked to in downtown Washington on a hot, humid July afternoon was thawing out. “I. Am. Fuh-reezing. Feel my hand — I’m still cold,” said Ruth Marshall, 64, who was seated on a park bench, face to the sky. And, yes, her hand felt like a cold steak.
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Trump still tops Republican polls
Donald Trump tops a new CNN/ORC poll.
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Everything we've learned about Pluto this week
NASA’s New Horizons has sent back a trove of new data about the dwarf planet - from ice plains to atmospheric haze.
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The only remaining barrier to entry for Linux
If asked, what would you think is the biggest challenge facing Linux mass adoption? Jack Wallen takes on this question with an answer you might not expect.
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Global Coal Boom Ends As China And World Wakes Up To Reality Of Carbon Pollution
There was a true global renaissance in coal starting around the year 2000, thanks primarily to China. But it is now stalling, thanks again to China.
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uTorrent Flagged As 'Harmful' by Anti-Virus Companies and Google
Several anti-virus vendors have begun blocking uTorrent after identifying the software as malicious or potentially dangerous. In addition, Google Chrome is currently blocking several pages on uTorrent's official website. According to the reports the popular file-sharing application is linked to riskware and trojans.
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Reddit boosts momentum for Sanders' campaign
WASHINGTON — When Sen. Bernie Sanders wanted to pack a Wisconsin coliseum with supporters this month, his presidential campaign turned to Sanders' friends at Reddit, the online message board.
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The largest thing in the universe
In deep space lies a ‘supervoid’ that could be the biggest structure ever known
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America’s Already-Failed Cyber War
Like the War on Drugs, cyberwarfare turns a very real problem into a money-making bureaucratic machine. By Kelley Vlahos.
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A Search Engine of Things
How an Israeli company adapting molecular spectroscopy to help people count calories, identify pills and find out more about objects than meets the eye.
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Chinese company ‘builds’ 3D-printed villa in less than 3 hours
A pioneering 3D-printed house just popped up in Xian, China - and Chinese company ZhuoDa “built” the two-story villa in less than three hours. Made up of six 3D-printed modules, the house was assembled like LEGO bricks before a live audience who were then invited to explore the interior. The modular fireproof home can withstand a magnitude-9 earthquake and is made from a special construction material the company is keeping secret.
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Twitch is ditching Flash for HTML5, just like YouTube
Twitch’s video player is getting HTML5 controls. The ultimate goal is to ditch Flash entirely.