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10 years agoExpression Nolan
Gamergate Goons Can Scream All They Want, But They Can't Stop Progress
Games aren’t very fun these days. As anyone paying even tangential attention to videogames likely knows, the medium is in the throes of a misogynist backlash so virulent it often could be described as terrorism. In the past nine weeks, three female games professionals—Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and Zoe Quinn—have been driven from their homes…
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
Oscar Pistorius to Serve 10 Months in Prison
The Olympic sprinter received a five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend, but is expected to serve only a small portion of that in jail.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Why Germany Is So Much Better at Training Its Workers
America rarely uses an apprenticeship model to teach young people a trade. Could such a system help the unemployed?
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
How the 'safest place on the internet' tracks its users
Whisper app that was intended to be a safe haven for anonymity is exploiting a vast library of texts, photographs and, in many cases, the location of their authors – from Guantánamo to the White House
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10 years agoHow-to Nolan
9 Places You Can Learn How to Code (For Free)
Coding isn't just for the super geeks anymore--it's super valuable for any business professional.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Drugs, Cash, Luxury Goods, and Maternity Wear
Drug traffickers used to move money through bank accounts and wire transfers. Now, in part because the U.S. and Mexican governments cracked down on banks that do business with cartels, the criminals have had to get more creative. Their latest cover? The fashion business -- using a complex scheme to transfer profits back to Mexico through the export of maternity clothes.
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10 years agoExpression Nolan
My Terrifying Night With Afghanistan's Only Female Warlord
"She killed for hours and stole weapons from corpses. There were bodies everywhere. No man questioned her."
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Did Republicans Blow the Michigan Senate Race?
The contest was touted as an opportunity to gain a seat, but now the party seems to be giving up on its candidate.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Copenhagen's piles of bicycles
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
Catalan leaders 'cancel referendum'
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
UK poised to pass first national law against “revenge porn”
Posting of involuntary nudes could net perpetrators two years in prison.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Accused College Rapists Have Rights, Too
The victims deserve justice. The men deserve due process.
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
Famous Greek riot dog dies
A ginger mongrel which became a Greek folk hero during anti-austerity riots in 2011 has died aged 10.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Why Does Spain Have the World's Highest Concentration of Elevators?
Compared with other Europeans, Spaniards are way more likely to live in apartment buildings, thanks in part to the autocratic regime of Francisco Franco.
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10 years agoReview Nolan
Sex, Drugs, and Kate Moss: Secrets of a Wild Supermodel
She embodied heroin chic, and her vodka-chugging prowess earned her the nickname ‘The Tank.’ A new book reveals the supermodel’s ravenous excesses.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Former Y Combinator Stars Secretly Slink Off to Dropbox
The idea of an economic safety net for the general populace makes Silicon Valley squirm, but they'll rush to strap a parachute on one of their own.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Ebola Security Theater
Airport scrutiny is fine, but to contain the disease we'll have to do it overseas.
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10 years agoExpression Nolan
What kids all around the world eat for breakfast.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Language and the Interconnectedness of Things
The Internet of Things has spawned more than just an increased infiltration of web technology into our day-to-day lives. It has introduced a much more connected experience among users of web technology every day — let’s call it the “Interconnectedness of Things.” That, in turn, has made it more important than ever that we appreciate…
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
Guantánamo use of olive oil in force feedings 'astonishing', doctor tells court
Testimony on second day of court challenge to force feedings focuses on long-term health effects on detainees after procedure
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
The Classic Scary Movies You Need to Watch (Even If They're Not Scary Anymore)
Works like Nosferatu may have lost some of their fright factor over the years, but they still fascinatingly show the birth of a genre.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
The foreign exchange scandal that could finally send Wall Street bankers to jail
Traders from different banks were teaming up illegally to rip off institutional customers.
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
US says it can hack into foreign-based servers without warrants
Feds say it would have been "reasonable" for FBI to hack into Silk Road servers.
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10 years agoCurrent Event Nolan
Huge Data Leak at Largest U.S. Bond Insurer
On Monday, KrebsOnSecurity notified MBIA Inc. — the nation’s largest bond insurer — that a misconfiguration in a company Web server had exposed countless customer account numbers, balances and other sensitive data. Much of the information had been indexed by search engines, including a page listing administrative credentials that attackers could use to access data that wasn’t already accessible via a simple Web search.
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10 years agoAnalysis Nolan
Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay
Michael Friberg John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light on the top of the machine flashed,…
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