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NSA spyware gives agency full access to the iPhone -- reportnews.cnet.com
Leaked documents shared by Der Spiegel show that a piece of NSA spyware called DROPOUTJEEP can access pretty much everything on the iPhone. Read this article by Lance Whitney on CNET News. -
Frontiers in Zoology | Abstract | Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic fieldfrontiersinzoology.com
Several mammalian species spontaneously align their body axis with respect to the Earth's magnetic field (MF) lines in diverse behavioral contexts. Magnetic alignment is a suitable paradigm to scan for the occurrence of magnetosensitivity across animal... -
K-means Clustering 86 Single Malt Scotch Whiskiesblog.revolutionanalytics.com
by Luba Gloukhov The first time I had an Islay single malt, my mind was blown. In my first foray into the world of whiskies, I took the plunge into the smokiest, peatiest beast of them all — Laphroig. That same night, dreams of owning a smoker were rep... -
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 pass 10% market share, Windows XP falls below 30% (Updated)thenextweb.com
With the release of Windows 8.1 to the world in October, Microsoft ended 2013 with two full months of availability for its latest operating system version. While Windows 8.1 is certainly ... -
More Than 300 Sharks In Australia Are Now On Twitternpr.org
Transmitters on the sharks trigger an automatic tweet when they swim close to a beach. -
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Navy's $670 Million Fighting Ship Is 'Not Expected to Be Survivable,' Pentagon Says | Danger Room | Wired.comwired.com
The Navy's newest fighter can't survive a major blow in combat, according to the Pentagon's weapons tester. And that's just one problem with the Littoral Combat Ship. -
How Home Depot Copied Apple to Build an Ingenious New Bucket | Wired Design | Wired.comwired.com
Brick-and-mortar retailers are developing high-quality, and exclusive, products to remain competitive in the age of Amazon. - binchewer.org
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Builder Blames Navy as Brand-New Warship Disintegrates | Danger Room | Wired.comwired.com
The Navy's newest warship is slowly disappearing, one molecule at a time. This isn't a sequel to the 1984 sci-fi flick The Philadelphia Experiment, in whic - retro-b5500.blogspot.com
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Public Domain Day 2014: The fight for the public domain is on noweverybodyslibraries.com
New Years' Day is upon us again, and with it, the return of Public Domain Day, which I'm happy to see has become a regular celebration in many places over the last few years. (I've observed it her... - chriskranky.com
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SnapCheckgithub.com
Yet another project named SnapCheck, this one compares all of your google contacts to the mysql dump of the leaked snapchatdb and returns a list of your potentially affected contacts -
7 Ways to be a Better Programmer in 2014 - Programming - O'Reilly Mediaprogramming.oreilly.com
Coders make resolutions, no? If your to-do-better list is still empty, consider these ideas from other programmers to put to use in the New Year. Even the smartest folks... -
California legislator launches country's first crowdsourced bill | Al Jazeera Americaamerica.aljazeera.com
Assemblyman Mike Gatto asks online public to draft, edit and finalize text of proposed probate legislation. -
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Ruby's GIL and transactional memorymikeperham.com
I saw a link to a really interesting paper this morning: Eliminating Global Interpreter Locks in Ruby through Hardware Transactional Memory. This blew my mind when I read it as it's a really intere...