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Twitter is Tracking Users’ Installed Apps For Ad Targetingblogs.wsj.com
Twitter is now collecting information about the apps installed on users’ devices in order to better target and tailor advertising and other content to them. - sendto.mozilla.org
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Why the U.S. Military Is Into Bee Brain Surgery - Issue 11: Light - Nautilusnautil.us
A surgeon wielding a micro-scalpel cuts through the head capsule of her subject, the nocturnal sweat bee Megalopta genalis, in a lab… - newrepublic.com
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Wikipedia’s ‘complicated’ relationship with net neutralitywashingtonpost.com
And what it says about attempts by telecom companies to exempt apps and services from your monthly data cap. -
Monty Hall, Erdos, and Our Limited Minds | WIREDwired.com
The Monty Hall problem is a rare mathematical problem that confounds our intuition is a most vexing way, even for probabilistic experts. -
DNA Can Survive Reentry from Spacescientificamerican.com
Genetic blueprints attached to a rocket survived a short spaceflight and later passed on their biological instructions -
Seven Molecules’ Claim to Fame - Issue 5: Fame - Nautilusnautil.us
From drinking water to DNA, from caffeine to carbon dioxide, and from Lipitor to Viagra—that is from atorvastatin to sildenafil… -
Tech Toys That Can Make the Video Screen Passénytimes.com
Toys will soon be able to be controlled and updated through an Internet connection, and that may forever alter how we think about play. -
A eulogy for RadioShack, a strange strip-mall monster from a forgotten age.sbnation.com
This may very well be RadioShack's final holiday season. Jon, a former employee, looks back on a strange, craven, five thousand-fingered strip-mall monster from a forgotten age. -
Practice mental arithmetic online. No ads and no charge.mental-math-trainer.com
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We Don’t Eat It Here - The Morning Newsthemorningnews.org
An editor telephones complete strangers outside the US, asking them to describe a typical Thanksgiving. - webpolicy.org
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Scale Model WWII Craft Takes Flight With Fuel From the Sea Concept - U.S. Naval Research Laboratorynrl.navy.mil
Navy researchers demonstrate proof-of-concept in first flight of an internal combustion powered model aircraft fueled by a novel gas-to-liquid process that uses seawater as carbon feedstock. -
Publishing: The peer-review scamnature.com
When a handful of authors were caught reviewing their own papers, it exposed weaknesses in modern publishing systems. Editors are trying to plug the holes. - blog.onradpad.com