User feed (72082)
-
Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA's Monster Data Center | WIREDwired.com
Lawmakers are talking about turning off the water spigot at the massive data center operated by the National Security Agency in Bluffdale, Utah. -
customer.comcast.com
-
smealum.net
-
Finally, a New Clue to Solve the CIA's Mysterious Kryptos Sculpture | WIREDwired.com
In 1989, the year the Berlin Wall began to fall, American artist Jim Sanborn was busy working on his Kryptos sculpture, a cryptographic puzzle wrapped in a riddle that he created for the CIA’s headquarters and that has been driving amateur and professi... -
Li-Fi Gets Ready to Compete With Wi-Fi - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
Visible light communications could outshine Wi-Fi in industrial settings -
PCH International In Talks To Buy Fab For $15 Milliontechcrunch.com
Multiple sources have confirmed that Fab is in talks to sell to PCH International for $15 million in a half cash and half stock deal. Contractual.. -
astralapp.com
-
A classroom experiment in Twitter Bots and creativityblog.mattwaite.com
This semester, I’m teaching a class in Story Bots, which is really a programming class disguised as a journalism class. I’m teaching students enough programming that they can automate journalistically... -
Requiem for Rod Serlinggrantland.com
It’s been 60 years since he changed television with his teleplays and his unforgettable TV show ‘The Twilight Zone.’ Now, friends, family, and world-class showrunners David Chase and Matthew Weiner... -
Death is All Around Us: The Plague Pits of Londonthechirurgeonsapprentice.com
If you walk down Victoria Street in London on a beautiful, sunny afternoon, you’ll find dozens of picnickers sitting in Christchurch Gardens. Some will be suited up in jackets and ties, clutching b... -
Keeping Up with the Carnivores | JSTOR Dailydaily.jstor.org
As predators big and small push quickly into North American cities, biologists are following—and discovering... -
LEAKED: Internal Uber Deck Reveals Staggering Revenue And Growth Metricsbusinessinsider.com
Here's the company's city-by-city revenue projections, active users, drivers, surge pricing average fares, and more. -
systemd-redux - blog dot lusisblog.lusis.org
I figured it was about time for a followup on my systemd post. I’ve been meaning to do it for a while but time hasn’t allowed.The end o... -
"We will need writers who can remember freedom": Ursula K Le Guin at the National Book Awards - parker higgins dot netparkerhiggins.net
Ursula K. Le Guin was honored at the National Book Awards tonight and gave a fantastic speech about the dangers to literature and how they can be stopped. As far as I know it’s not available online yet, so I’ve transcribed it from the livestream below.... -
The Miraculous Benefits of Coconut Oil - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
I had heard that coconut oil was a natural wonder, but I couldn’t have known how big an impact it would have on me. -
gigawhitlocks.com
-
Pink Ribbons in the Red - The Brooklyn Quarterlybrooklynquarterly.org
Cancer genomics and the fight to keep science alive -
How to Learn to Love Your Doppleganger - Issue 13: Symmetry - Nautilusnautil.us
What are you doing running through the streets in your underpants?” asks Tyler Durden in the movie Fight Club. “We both use that… -
Jeff Bezos Makes His Mark on Washington Post With New Kindle Appnytimes.com
It is the first formal collaboration between the newspaper and Amazon since Mr. Bezos, the online giant’s founder, bought The Post for $250 million last year. -
customer.comcast.com
