Anyone who works as a freelancer these days has to be at least a bit familiar with techie things. But it isn’t just that. When I was a kid and those vaguely SF puppet shows were on the television and all the other kids wanted to be Greg Gogetem or Steve Savetheuniverse, I wanted to be the guy in a white coat and glasses called Doc or Brains. Here are some technology-related feeds I find useful and/or entertaining.
Slashdot » A Hybrid Car With Detachable Engine Proposed
thecarchik writes "The SCI hyMod five-door minicar concept is the brainchild of a Romanian team made up of an engineer, a designer, and an automotive journalist. It uses what its designers call a 'dedicated logistics center' for the transformation from electric to gas-powered, in which the back end of the car containing a battery pack is removed, and replaced … [Link]
New Scientist – News » Dolphin social networks are unusually open
Male dolphins don't live in tribes, but they form complex alliances with each other 
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Geeks are Sexy Technology News » A Geek Motto [Pic]
This is surely a geek motto if I ever saw one! 
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Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Racist Twitter troll jailed
A British student has been jailed as a result of offensive Twitter comments made during an argument about a black football player. Unlike some previous incidents, the case involved longstanding laws that weren’t specifically introduced to cover online activity.Liam Stacey, a 21 year old student, made the comments about Fabrice Muamba, a Bolton Wanderers player who collapsed during a game with … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Amazon Deal of the Day: 57% Off Garmin nüvi 1390LMT 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Bluetooth, Lifetime Maps & Traffic – $129.99 + Free Shipping
For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has the Garmin nüvi 1390LMT 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Bluetooth, Lifetime Maps & Traffic for just $129.99. That’s 57% off the GPS’s usual retail price of $299.99.The nüvi 1390LMT packs big features–including free Lifetime Maps and Traffic–into a slim design. This thin navigator also comes with lane assist with junction view, … [Link]
WIRED » How Forensics Claims Facebook Ownership Contract Is 'Forged'
Backed by forensics, Facebook is asking a federal judge Monday to dismiss a long-running lawsuit brought by entrepreneur Paul Ceglia, who claims he owns half of the social-networking site. Here is Wired's examination of the forensics report submitted to a federal judge presiding over the legal flap.
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Slashdot » Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police
Ian Lamont writes "The City of Boston has reached a $170,000 settlement with Simon Glik, who was arrested by Boston Police in 2007 after using his mobile phone to record police arresting another man on Boston Common. Police claimed that Glik had violated state wiretapping laws, but later dropped the charges and admitted the officers were wrong to arrest … [Link]
WIRED » DEA: Wannabe Cartel Hit Squad Included Former U.S. Soldiers
A DEA sting operation targeting a cell of would-be cartel assassins ended in a violent warehouse showdown over the weekend. Among their ranks: one active-duty Army soldier, and one former G.I.
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WIRED » Turn Your Mobile Device Into a Tax-Crunching Accountant
Tax season doesn't have to be a last-minute cage match between IRS forms and your fuzzy math. Here's how to your offload your tax (preparation) burden on your apps.
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Geeks are Sexy Technology News » The Owls Are Coming [Pic]
You have been warned. 
[Via Fake Science]No related posts. [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Ties for the Classy Geek
Really show off your music geekery with these hand-inked neckties adorned with some of the most obscure instruments in existence, from a Claghorn to a Aquaggaswack (I’m not kidding). You can choose deep red ink on taupe tie, blank ink on medium gray or black ink on light gray. Michael Phipps will even create a custom listing for you if … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » For the Mad Men Fans [Video]
Epic alternate versions of the Mad Men opening. Homosexual superman makes an appearance.“What the hell is a Rubicon!?”[Via College Humor]No related posts. [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Awkwardly Awesome Merchandise
Down at the Wong Fu Store they have some pretty geektastic stuff… 
Nice Guy Hoodie…in 3D! I’m not exactly sure how this works…but it’s Unisex! Hurrah! $45. 
Awksome T-Shirt. Sooooooo awkward but sooooooo sexy. $24.But the best one of all… 
AWKWARD TURTLE PLUSHIE. I wanna get it and carry it around, just to bring it out at awkward moments and make it ever … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Can We Get Some Hot Men in Cosplay?
So…we’ve got loads of guys reading this blog right?At least some of them have got to be hot right?And at least some of those hot guys have got to enjoy cosplay, RIGHT!?So why aren’t we getting loads of pictures of hot guys in cosplay being sent to us? (Hit the contact section on top of the blog!) We get all … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Mallrats Magic Eye Poster Was Not a Sailboat
I am a shameless fan of Kevin Smith and while some of his more recent efforts have been less than spectacular, his Askewniverse Jersey films just speak to me. I just love them.Of course next to the original Clerks, Mallrats was an amazing film. There is a repeated scene that we keep coming back to in the film which shows Ethan … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » 80′s Movie Alphabet Poster [Pic]
Graphic Designer Stephen Wildish created this truly outrageous alphabet poster. Not gonna lie, I had to ask my uber hipster roomie (b. 1987) for a help on a few of these (I was born in 1981.). We got all but 4.No related posts. [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Humanise Your Data [Video]
This video is a bit long but his Jer Thorp, a creative computer geek, keeps you pretty entertained the whole time and he has some really funky graphs making data quite aesthetic. I think it’s worth watching to the end to hear him make his point about how we need to put data in a human context, to tether it … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » BioShock’s Rapture in LEGO
Lego Rapture from BioShock, from Brickworld 2011. You can see more over here. [Via Moc Pages]No related posts. [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » 100T Non-Destructive Magnetic Field Achieved
Human achievement point!Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory campus of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have successfully produced the world’s first 100 Tesla non-destructive magnetic field. The achievement was decades in the making, involving a diverse team of scientists and engineers. The 100 Tesla mark was reached at approximately 3:30 p.m. on March 22, 2012.[Via]No related posts. [Link]
Slashdot » FTC Privacy Framework Pushes For Regulation of Data Brokers
Trailrunner7 writes "The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new report (PDF) on consumer privacy and online tracking. Among the recommendations the commission makes is that data brokers make themselves known to consumers and be open and transparent about the data they collect. The FTC also says companies should be building privacy protections into their products by design, including … [Link]
WIRED » Help Find Hubble's Next Iconic Image
NASA is asking members of the public to help search for spectacular but overlooked images from the Hubble space telescope.
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Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Space Stallions
You know, in the 80′s, I would have thought this was the coolest cartoon. Actually, I still think it’s pretty cool, but for completely different reasons.This is actually some guy’s Bachelor project for an animation workshop.[Via his Facebook]No related posts. [Link]
WIRED » Apple Responds to iPad Battery Concerns
When the new iPad says it's 100 percent fully charged, it may actually not be — at least that's been the word on the web the past few days. This has caused concern among iPad users hoping to get the most out of their device's battery life, and the normally tight-lipped Apple has responded in order to clarify the issue. … [Link]
Slashdot » Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes
Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Micro Systemation, a Stockholm-based company, has released a video showing that its software can easily bypass the iPhone's four-digit passcode in a matter of seconds. It can also crack Android phones, and is designed to dump the devices' data to a PC for easy browsing, including messages, GPS locations, web history, calls, contacts and keystroke logs. The … [Link]
WIRED » Computers in the Living Room: Xbox Has Never Been A Game System
The living room is not a game center, but an experiment in a redefinition of personal computing.
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WIRED » Music Video: 8-Bit Rockers Jam Through Side-Scrolling Adventures in 'Dreamorama'
Pixelated band members fight evil and rock out in French filmmaker Pierre Manry's cool video for the Sna-fu Grand D?sordre Orchestre song "Dreamorama."
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Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Lamborghini Batman is Pulled Over in Maryland
There really should be more Superheroes in the real world, and it seems like this unnamed wealthy philanthropist agrees. He has taken it upon himself to give some sick kids in the hospital a very special visit.The man was first seen a few days ago, in full Batman regalia, pulled over by Montgomery County Maryland Police. He was standing next to … [Link]
WIRED » Audi Showcases 3 Next-Gen Technologies Coming to a Car Near You
Audi is hard at work on the next round of in-car innovations due to hit production before the end of the decade. Most are early in the development cycle, but that's not stopping the crew from Ingolstadt from giving us a brief glimpse into the future of exterior design, lighting technology and automation, all of which could find their way … [Link]
WIRED » A Quarter-Century Later, Stealth Fighter Finally Ready for Combat
After more than 25 years and $73 billion, the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter finally has its suite of ground-mapping radars and flexible bomb payloads — standard equipment on most Air Force strike jets. Which means the most expensive jet of all time is finally fully combat-ready.
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Slashdot » Slashdot Asks: How To Best Record Remote Video Interviews?
You've probably noticed that Slashdot's been running some video lately. There are a lot of interesting people and projects in the world we'd like to present in video form, but some of them are too far away for the corporate overlords to sponsor travel to shoot footage in person. (Another reason my dream of parachuting to McMurdo Station will … [Link]
WIRED » Oracle and HP Trade Punches on Eve of Itanium Trial
On Tuesday HP filed two pretrial motions motions — a summary adjudication and a summary judgment — for the judge to evaluate the merits of Oracle's countersuit against HP. Oracle's countersuit was in response to HP's initial suit that Oracle had breached contract by discontinuing support of Intel's Itanium chip. Though a common pretrial tactic, the (ostensibly) hope on HP's … [Link]
WIRED » U.S. Offered to Scale Back Drone War
The CIA offered to scale back its unofficial drone war in Pakistan's remote tribal areas. But Pakistani authorities would rather have the drones leave altogether.
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WIRED » Gun Camera Lets You Bag Your Prey the Harmless Way
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WIRED » 8 Truly Metal Apps With Which to Melt Off Your Face
Can an app for iOS or Android ever be truly "metal?" We say yes, and this roundup of devil-horn-worthy apps proves it.
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WIRED » Condor Cam Update: Chick Is Cute
Vote on your favorite name for the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's new baby condor.
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Slashdot » Political Party's Leadership Election Hit By DDoS Attack
New submitter lyran74 writes "Saturday's electronic leadership vote for Canada's New Democratic Party was plagued by delays caused by a botnet DDoS attack, coming from over 10,000 machines. Details are still scarce, but Scytl, who provided electronic voting services, will have to build more robust systems in the future in anticipation of such attacks. Party and company officials say … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » The Owls Are Coming [Pic]
You have been warned. [Via Fake Science]No related posts.
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Slashdot » Mozilla Releases HTML5 MMO BrowserQuest
New submitter rasmuswikman sends this quote from an announcement at hacks.mozilla.org: "BrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No princess to save here, just a dangerous world filled with treasures to discover. And it's all done in glorious HTML5 and JavaScript. Even better, … [Link]
Slashdot » Ask Slashdot: What Defines Success In an Open Source Project?
rbowen writes "Nine years ago, Slashdot readers discussed what makes an Open Source project successful. The answers were varied, of course. An academic paper summarized the results, agreeing (albeit with more precision) that motivations for Open Source projects are varied. Has anything changed since then? In the era of mobile apps, social media, and Google Ad revenue, have the … [Link]
WIRED » NSA Chief: Agency Wants to Provide Malware Signatures, Not Enter Private Networks
The NSA continued to downplay its role in the cyber defense of private networks when Gen. Keith Alexander told a Senate committee that his agency absolutely did not want to be in private networks monitoring data for threats. Instead, he said the NSA should only play a role in providing malware signatures to private industry to help them monitor their … [Link]
WIRED » Creativity Lessons From Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs
Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world ? or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. And yet federally funded research and development ? creativity, institutionalized ? is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. But I think the declinism is overwrought. And that's … [Link]
WIRED » Webcast: Obama Goes Big on Big Data
The Obama administration is going big on big data, with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy hosting a webcast today at 3 p.m. Eastern, where science heads from a number of federal government agencies will outline their big data research.
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WIRED » ThinkUp Wants to Liberate Your Online Social Life
The corporate social web still sucks. All your social connections live on some company's server and none of your stuff is actually yours in any real way. Like others before it, ThinkUp believes there's a better way. But unlike many others before it ThinkUp is actually shipping code you can use today.
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WIRED » India Looks Toward Mars
On March 16, India took a big step toward a Mars orbiter mission with the release of its budget. The proposal itself might not be particularly revolutionary ? such missions have been flown before, if not by India ? but the planning strategies and subtext are a fascinating case study of business-as-unusual.
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WIRED » Video: Rapper El-P Makes Records by Disappearing 'Into a Hole'
With his upcoming album Cancer for Cure, Brooklyn rapper El-P returns to making his own cerebral, dense hip-hop after a few years spent working on the record, as well as producing instrumental tracks and beats for other MCs.
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WIRED » FBI Says Citibank Gave Paul Allen's Debit Card to Thief
An alleged Army deserter is being charged with bank fraud in connection to the socially engineered hijacking of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's debit card. In a complaint unsealed Monday, federal authorities allege Brandon Price, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, obtained the billionaire's debit card from CitiBank via a telephone call to the bank's customer service bureau in January. At Price's request, the … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Ties for the Classy Geek
Really show off your music geekery with these hand-inked neckties adorned with some of the most obscure instruments in existence, from a Claghorn to a Aquaggaswack (I’m not kidding). You can choose deep red ink on taupe tie, blank ink on medium gray or black ink on light gray. Michael Phipps will even create a custom listing for you if … [Link]
Slashdot » Inside the Mummification of Space Shuttle Discovery
longacre writes "When Space Shuttle Discovery goes on display at the Smithsonian next month, it will be a shell of its former self, with most of its critical systems removed. This article has a behind-the-scenes look at the removal of the engines and their replica replacements, as well as photos of the orbiter in various states of deconstruction. 'From … [Link]
WIRED » Google's Massive Developer Event Sells Out in 20 Minutes
Google I/O sells out in 20 minutes, according to Google's Vic Gundotra.
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WIRED » 'Pottermore' Breaks All Retailers and Rules (Except Apple's and Region Restrictions)
Even the most radical, tectonic-plate-shifting experiments in digital publishing are still part and parcel of the world of books we've inherited: its assumptions, its economics, and its encumberances.
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Slashdot » Richard Clarke: All Major U.S. Firms Hacked By China
bdking writes "Former White House cybersecurity advisor Richard Clarke says state-sanctioned Chinese hackers are stealing R&D from U.S. companies, threatening the long-term competitiveness of the nation. He said, 'The U.S. government is involved in espionage against other governments. There’s a big difference, however, between the kind of cyberespionage the United States government does and China. The U.S. government doesn’t … [Link]
WIRED » Cracking the Cloud: An Amazon Web Services Primer
It's safe to say that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become synonymous with cloud computing; it's the platform on which some of the Internet's most popular sites and services are built. But just as cloud computing is used as a simplistic catchall term for a variety of online services, the same can be said for AWS — there's a lot … [Link]
WIRED » Cloud and Education: Wired Embed Digs In
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New Scientist – News » North Sea gas leak venting from newly disturbed source
The gas pouring out of the Elgin wellhead off Aberdeen isn't coming from the gas reservoir itself, but from a previously unknown source in the rock above 
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Geeks are Sexy Technology News » For the Mad Men Fans [Video]
Epic alternate versions of the Mad Men opening. Homosexual superman makes an appearance.“What the hell is a Rubicon!?”[Via College Humor]No related posts.
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Slashdot » Google I/O Sells Out In 20 Minutes
netbuzz writes "Last year it took almost an hour, but this morning Google's enormously popular conference for developers sold out in about 20 minutes, Vic Gundotra, Google's senior vice president of engineering, told his followers on Google+. 'While we're overwhelmed with the interest and enthusiasm around Google I/O, we know it can be very disappointing and frustrating when an … [Link]
WIRED » The Startup Ethic and the Charitable Impulse
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WIRED » Glow-in-the-Dark Animals Star in Bioluminescence Show
From eerie mushrooms glowing green on fallen logs to microscopic plankton shining near the ocean surface, bioluminescence is found everywhere in nature.
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New Scientist – News » Forget tracer bullets – NASA now has tracer rockets
Pulling off five launches in as many minutes is something to crow about, which is what NASA has been doing after the successful launch of its ATREX mission 
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New Scientist – News » Today on New Scientist: 27 March 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Black Queen tells microbes to be lazy and searching for the Venice of the Nile 
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Slashdot » Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS?
Lexta writes "So I'm contemplating my next smartphone purchase, and I've been a little put off by all of the security exploits posted on Slashdot over the last few months, particularly for Android. So, what's the most secure stock standard (not jailbroken) mobile OS?"
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Slashdot » Dysfunction In Modern Science?
eldavojohn writes "The editors of Infection and Immunity are sending a warning signal about modern science. Two editorials (1 and 2) published in the journal have given other biomedical researchers pause to ask if modern science is dysfunctional. Readers familiar with the state of academia may not be surprised but the claims have been presented today to the National … [Link]
New Scientist – News » Creating collapsible structures with no moving parts
A new 3D shape dubbed the buckliball could be used to make collapsible buildings or new kinds of drug containers 
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WIRED » Your $50 iPhone Navigation App Is Almost Obsolete
Scout.me lets you navigate through your iPhone's browser, complete with turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions, and devs can get in on the action by adding a single line of code to their existing site.
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Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Awkwardly Awesome Merchandise
Down at the Wong Fu Store they have some pretty geektastic stuff… Nice Guy Hoodie…in 3D! I’m not exactly sure how this works…but it’s Unisex! Hurrah! $45. Awksome T-Shirt. Sooooooo awkward but sooooooo sexy. $24.But the best one of all… AWKWARD TURTLE PLUSHIE. I wanna get it and carry it around, just to bring it out at awkward moments and make it ever … [Link]
New Scientist – News » Out of Peru, the plant that tackles toothache
After having her painful molars treated by Amazonian villagers, anthropologist Françoise Barbira Freedman is bringing their painkilling plant to the masses 
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Slashdot » German Pirate Party Enters 2nd State Parliament
An anonymous reader writes "After its recent success in the Berlin elections, the German Pirate Party scores 7.4% of votes for the state parliament of Saarland, earning them 4 seats out of 51. While the campaign didn't center around copyright issues and/or ACTA (the party's stance is well-known), it centered around open government, access to education, and participative governing … [Link]
Slashdot » MIT Solar Towers Beat Solar Panels By Up To 20x
An anonymous reader writes "A team of MIT researchers has come up with a very different approach to solar collectors: building cubes and towers that extend solar cells upward in three-dimensional configurations. The results from the structures they've tested show power output ranging from double to more than 20 times that of fixed flat panels with the same base … [Link]
Slashdot » UK Man Jailed For 'Offensive Tweets'
Motor writes "A UK judge has jailed a man for 56 days after he posted offensive comments on twitter about a footballer who had a heart attack during a game. He's also been thrown out of his university degree course weeks from graduating. His comments may have been offensive… but do they really justify a prison sentence and ruining … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Can We Get Some Hot Men in Cosplay?
So…we’ve got loads of guys reading this blog right?At least some of them have got to be hot right?And at least some of those hot guys have got to enjoy cosplay, RIGHT!?So why aren’t we getting loads of pictures of hot guys in cosplay being sent to us? (Hit the contact section on top of the blog!) We get all … [Link]
WIRED » Microsoft Unveils New Plan to Speed Up the Web
First Google proposed the SPDY protocol for a "speedier" web. Now Microsoft wants in on the fun. The company has proposed an alternative to the SPDY protocol which it calls HTTP Speed+Mobility. The details of Microsoft's plan are still unclear, but with two brain trusts now contributing maybe we'll get a faster internet sooner rather than later.
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New Scientist – News » Black Queen tells microbes to be lazy
Microorganisms are in a constant, never-ending struggle: to make someone else do the hard work 
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New Scientist – News » Pressure to tighten up antibiotics on US farms
Farmers in the US may soon be banned from giving antibiotics to healthy animals to prevent spread of drug resistance 
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Slashdot » Hoover Dams For Lilliput: Does Small Hydroelectric Power Have a Future?
New submitter MatthewVD writes "Boing Boing's Maggie Koerth-Baker, author of Before The Lights Go Out, writes that the era of giant hydroelectric projects like the Hoover Dam has passed. But the Department of Energy has identified 5,400 potential sites for small hydro projects of 30 MWs or less. The sites, in states as dry as Kansas, represent a total … [Link]
New Scientist – News » Pressure to increase control of antibiotic use on US farms
Farmers in the US may soon be banned from giving antibiotics to healthy animals to prevent spread of drug resistance
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New Scientist – News » Arctic sea ice may have passed crucial tipping point
The ice has not recovered from a record low in 2007 – ice-free summers could soon become a regular feature across most of the Arctic Ocean 
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Slashdot » 'Frothy Gunk' From Deepwater Horizon Spill Harming Coral
sciencehabit writes "The massive oil spill that inundated the Gulf of Mexico in the spring and summer of 2010 severely damaged deep-sea corals more than 11 kilometers from the well site, a sea-floor survey conducted within weeks of the spill reveals. At one site, which hadn't been visited before but had been right in the path of a submerged … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Mallrats Magic Eye Poster Was Not a Sailboat
I am a shameless fan of Kevin Smith and while some of his more recent efforts have been less than spectacular, his Askewniverse Jersey films just speak to me. I just love them.Of course next to the original Clerks, Mallrats was an amazing film. There is a repeated scene that we keep coming back to in the film which shows Ethan … [Link]
WIRED » Origin of Modern Cows Traced to Single Herd
A genetic study of cattle has claimed that all modern domesticated bovines are descended from a single herd of wild ox that lived 10,500 years ago.
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Slashdot » Blackboard Buys Moodlerooms and Netspot
crumley writes "Blackboard, the proprietary giant in the learning management software market, has purchased two companies, Moodlerooms and Netspot, that sell support for their open source competitor Moodle. Blackboard said that they plan to allow Moodlerooms and Netspot to continue operating with their current leadership. It will be interesting to see if this move leads to an exodus from … [Link]
New Scientist – News » Neutrino funding crunch could be good news for protons
Hard times for the US's largest neutrino experiment could have an unexpected upside, speeding up the search for the elusive decay of a proton 
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New Scientist – News » The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
A marvellous new feat of claymation brings together Darwin and a band of hapless buccaneers 
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Slashdot » What Does Google Get Out of Voice?
itwbennett writes "Assuming Google isn't offering Voice out of the goodness of their hearts, what's the payoff? One likely, if cynical, possibility is that Google Voice is 'just another feeder for their vast database on you,' writes Kevin Purdy in a recent blog post. Or maybe Google just wants to get better at speech-to-text, and collecting your voice messages … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » 80′s Movie Alphabet Poster [Pic]
Graphic Designer Stephen Wildish created this truly outrageous alphabet poster. Not gonna lie, I had to ask my uber hipster roomie (b. 1987) for a help on a few of these (I was born in 1981.). We got all but 4.No related posts.
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Slashdot » Why Gay Men Are Worth So Much To Facebook
Barence writes "PC Pro has a feature on how social networks sold your privacy, which includes some interesting comparisons on the value of different demographics to Facebook. For example, an advert that targets everyone within a 10-mile radius of a medium-sized British town (Dorking) is valued at 28p per click by Facebook's advertising tool. However, targeting single gay men … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » Humanise Your Data [Video]
This video is a bit long but his Jer Thorp, a creative computer geek, keeps you pretty entertained the whole time and he has some really funky graphs making data quite aesthetic. I think it’s worth watching to the end to hear him make his point about how we need to put data in a human context, to tether it … [Link]
New Scientist – News » Mapping the human cost of Syria's uprising
The Syria Tracker website uses automated data mining and crowdsourced human intelligence to estimate the death toll in Syria's bloody conflict 
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New Scientist – News » Searching for the Venice of the Nile
A project seeks to reveal how Egypt's pharaohs engineered the Nile landscape to turn their capital, Thebes, into an ancient Venice 
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Slashdot » UK MPs Threaten New Laws If Google Won't Censor Search
It's not just Japan that wants to regulate how Google displays search results: judgecorp writes "A committee of British MPs and peers has asked Google to censor search results to protect privacy and threatened to put forward new laws that would force it to do so, if Google fails to comply. The case relates to events such as former … [Link]
O'Reilly News and Commentary » #Ebook Deal/Day: Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning – $15.99 (Save 50%)
Get "Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning" today and save 50%!This sale ends at 2:00 AM 2012-03-28 (PDT, GMT-8:00). [Link]
Slashdot » Kim Dotcom Alleges Studios Wanted to Work With Megaupload
Fluffeh writes "In a recent story that is beating around the nets, Kim Dotcom has fired back at studios with emails that make for some interesting reading: 'A Disney executive e-mailed Megaupload in 2008. He said he was interested in having Megaupload host Disney content, but said he would need Megaupload to tweak its terms of service to make … [Link]
WIRED » How Linus Torvalds Helped Bust a Microsoft Patent
Linus Torvalds just can?t help but be a thorn in Microsoft?s side.
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WIRED » Rachel Maddow: It Shouldn't Be So Easy to Start Wars
"I'm no military expert and I'm no war expert," MSNBC host Rachel Maddow confesses. Then she dives into a plan to radically reshape the U.S. security apparatus.
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WIRED » Sci-Fi Book Excerpt: Armored Takes You Inside the Powered Exoskeleton
A new fiction anthology explores near-future possibilities as well as far-future fantasies of mechanized power suits. Read Christie Yant's "Transfer of Ownership" in this exclusive Armored excerpt.
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WIRED » How Grand Theft Auto Jacked the House of Lords
The Grand Theft Auto series redefined gaming, pioneering the go-anywhere, do-anything "sandbox" genre and touching off worldwide debates about sex and violence in videogames. Wired contributor David Kushner tells the riveting history of the series in a new book, available this week from Wiley, titled Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto.
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WIRED » Confessions of a Veteran Spring Training Photographer
Guest blogger Brad Mangin details his 20 years covering spring training.
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WIRED » The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever
Wired correspondent Steven Leckart and 160,000 others around the globe sign on when two professors let the public take their AI course online for free.
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WIRED » Inside Hezbollah's Terror Tech Museum
It's odd to think of Hezbollah, a group labeled by the U.S. as a terrorist organization, creating a tourist attraction. But that's exactly what it's done. The Mleeta museum displays Hezbollah's weaponry, showcases captured Israeli war trophies … and is available for wedding receptions, too. Sharon Weinberger reports from Lebanon.
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WIRED » March 27, 1933: Just One Word … Plastics
An oxygen leak helps Britain stave off the Nazis and puts plastic on our tables. It's the story of polyethylene.
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WIRED » Streaming Star
The 2012 version of Apple TV has the big feature we've all been waiting for: Full 1080p HD output from iTunes and Netflix.
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New Scientist – News » Top three mysteries of human evolution
Watch an animation that follows the leading explanations for some of the most puzzling human attributes 
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New Scientist – News » Outback to outer space: The world's largest telescope
The Square Kilometre Array will probe the cosmic dark ages – and the Australians say they have just the spot for it. Anil Ananthaswamy goes to see for himself (full text available to subscribers) 
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Slashdot » Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger
RemyBR writes with an excerpt from an article at El Reg: "Microsoft has confirmed that users of its instant messaging app will not be able to send each other links to popular torrent site The Pirate Bay, citing malware fears. 'We block instant messages if they contain malicious or spam URLs based on intelligence algorithms, third-party sources, and/or user … [Link]
Slashdot » Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types
sciencehabit writes, quoting an article in Science: "A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found. The treatment, an antibody that blocks a 'do not eat' signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells." The … [Link]
WIRED » A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Mar. 27
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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WIRED » When Catastrophe Strikes, Emulate the Octopus
If we want to effectively deal with unknown threats, we need to study the natural world, which has been adapting in the face of adversity for 3.5 billion years.
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Slashdot » Murdoch Faces Allegations of Sabotage
Presto Vivace writes "Neil Chenoweth, of the Australian Financial Review, reports that the BBC program Panorama is making new allegations against News Corp of serious misconduct. This time it involves the NDS division of News Corp, which makes conditional access cards for pay TV. It seems that NDS also ran a sabotage operation, hiring pirates to crack the cards … [Link]
Slashdot » German Pirate Party Enters 2nd State Parliament
An anonymous reader writes "After its recent success in the Berlin elections, the German Pirate Party scores 7.4% of votes for the state pariament of Saarland, earning them 4 seats out of 51. While the campaign didn't center around copyright issues and/or ACTA (the party's stance is well-known), it centered around open government, access to education, and participative governing … [Link]
Geeks are Sexy Technology News » BioShock’s Rapture in LEGO
Lego Rapture from BioShock, from Brickworld 2011. You can see more over here. [Via Moc Pages]No related posts.
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Slashdot » Censorship of Chinese Social Media Is Real, Comprehensive
chicksdaddy writes "Threatpost has a write-up of a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University that provides the first conclusive evidence that Chinese government censorship extends to social media sites like Sina Weibo, the popular micro blogging Web site that many have likened to a Chinese Twitter. 'The study … found that censors in China delete around 16 percent … [Link]
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