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AP Exclusive: Before Snowden, a debate inside NSAbigstory.ap.org
WASHINGTON (AP) — Years before Edward Snowden sparked a public outcry with the disclosure that the National Security Agency had been secretly collecting American telephone records, some NSA executives voiced strong objections… -
The Improbable dream to radically transform online gaming (Wired UK)wired.co.uk
You probably haven't heard of Improbable. Despite its low profile, the London-based game studio has been attracting an extraordinary array of talent -
An Oral History of the Epic Space Film The Right Stuff | WIREDwired.com
Before writer-director Philip Kaufman brought Tom Wolfe's book <i>The Right Stuff</i> to the big screen in 1983, onscreen astronauts were little more than alien quarry or asteroid bait. In Kaufman's hands, however, spaceflight became a far ... - dreamsongs.net
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Twitter Now Lets You Search for Any Tweet Ever Sent | WIREDwired.com
Paul Burstein was trying to fix a software bug, and Twitter was helping him out. The year was 2011. Burstein worked as an engineer at the massive internet company Salesforce.com, and the bug—a rather annoying flaw in the popular Java programming tools—... -
Why Can't I Take an Orange Through Customs?priceonomics.com
Fruit flies, agroterrorism, and how a healthy snack became a threat to national security. -
Participate in the building of GuĂŠdelon castle- Participate in the building of GuĂŠdelon castleguedelon.fr
A team of 50 builders is constructing a castle using the same techniques and materials used in the Middle Ages. -
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Brands Are Wasting Money on Facebook and Twitter, Forrester Saysblogs.wsj.com
Marketers are increasingly turning to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter in an attempt to start "conversations" and "relationships" with consumers. According to research firm Forrester, they might be wasting their time and money doing so. -
Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years - VLT reveals alignments between supermassive black hole axes and large-scale structureeso.org
New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have revealed alignments over the largest structures ever discovered in the Universe. A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a... - franken.senate.gov
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We’re All Pirates Nowonline.wsj.com
Edward Kosner reviews “Information Doesn’t Want to be Free: Laws for the Internet Age” by Cory Doctorow. -
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Primary Data emerges from stealth at Demo with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on board - Silicon Valley Business Journalbizjournals.com
The founding team at Fusion-io detailed on Wednesday their "virtualized data" plans for their latest company, Los Altos-based Primary Data. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is filling the same chief scientist role he had at Fusion-io. -
Surviving the Series A Crunch - 42Floorsblog.42floors.com
I just had a crappy conversation with a good friend of mine. It’s the third crappy conversation I’ve had in the past week, so it’s probably time to write a post about this. My friend did Y Combinator with me, raising a-million-and-a-half with a good va... -
10 Questions with Vim's creator, Bram Moolenaarbinpress.com
Vim has existed for 23 years, and it’s been used to write millions upon millions of lines of code. We caught up with Bram Moolenaar, creator of the venerable text editor, to ask him about what he’s learned building it over the past two decades, his... ... -
Yahoo Will Soon Become The Default Search Engine In Firefoxtechcrunch.com
Starting in December, Firefox will use Yahoo as its default search engine in the United States on mobile and desktop. As a part of this five-year deal, Yahoo.. -
Inside Apple’s Broken Sapphire Factoryonline.wsj.com
The $1 billion plan by Apple and unproven contractor GT Advanced Technologies to make superhard iPhone screens was troubled from the start, a rare misstep for the world’s most valuable company.
