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London's Buried Diggers
Far from Chelsea: diggers during the regeneration of Elephant & Castle in London. Photo: GettyI’ve made a discovery about what is buried under the swimming pools and basement conversions of wealthy...
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Das Referenz: Wikipedia Redesigned for iPad
Let’s get this straight: UI-wise, Wikipedia teleports its audience into the year 2004. Not surprisingly, there has been vibrant discussion recently as to how Wikipedia could be updated to feel...
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Gamma wave zaps induce lucid dreaming 77% of time
Body + BrainPosted by Allison Eck on Tue, 13 May 2014Some people have as much fun in their dreams as they do in real life.While sleeping, they might change the direction of their dream’s storyline, fly...
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Japan's A-Bomb project
Japan's Atomic Bomb research project began quite independently of Nazi Germany's Atomic weapons project. Germany was quite unaware of Japan's efforts until an exchange of diplomatic signals from July...
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Patent troll on the verge of winning 1% of iPhone revenue
Further ReadingHuge penalty could shift the balance of power among smartphone makers.Further ReadingiPhones, iPads, and Macs infringe VPN patents held by VirnetX, jury rules. In 2012, Apple won the...
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JavaScript as an alternative to AppleScript on OS X Yosemite
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iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks
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Mathbreakers: Explore mathematics in a 3D game world
Founded by Morgan, Charlie, & Vivian. Scroll down to the team section for our story ;-)"This game is epic!" -Eric, age 8Mathbreakers is a 3-D math exploration video game. You play a mathbreaking...
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Monarch butterfly decline linked to spread of GM crops
The main cause of the monarch butterfly's decline is the loss of milkweed — its food — in its U.S. breeding grounds, a new study has found. That all but confirms that the spread of genetically modified...
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Fake Friends with Real Benefits
Buying your way to status on social networks has become standard practice. From Instagram likes to Twitter followers, there’s a growing number of services that promise to bump up your numbers. And...
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Nobody. Understands. Punctuation.
On the first day of what would be a depressing and alienating two-year trudge under the fluorescent lights of a rural high school, a soft-spoken bald man stood in front of my English class and looked...
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Show HN: Accounts, a simple futuristic address book for iOS
Accounts Active development | Current release: 1.0.21Accounts is a connector that is focused on sharing account usernames and identities for the other web services that you use.— Craft your own...
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For $10,000, your car can drive itself – Cruise (YC W14)
I've seen the abandoned airport runway in front of me a dozen times, but this is my first time actually being here. I'm in Alameda, a city right across the bay from San Francisco, at the same disused...
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The Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
Illustration: Chad Hagen In September 1976, in the midst of the Cold War, Victor Ivanovich Belenko, a disgruntled Soviet pilot, veered off course from a training flight over Siberia in his MiG-25...
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How Soviet Kitchens Became Hotbeds Of Dissent And Culture
iihide captionA typical Russian kitchen inside an apartment built during the early 1960s, when Nikita Khrushchev led the Soviet Union — what later became known as Khrushchev apartments.Courtesy of The...
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WebIDE lands in Firefox Nightly
If you’ve been following our Developer Tools series on the Mozilla Hacks blog, you’ve seen the developer tools evolve from pure inspection to a debugging environment both for web sites and apps on...
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My startup failed, and this is what it feels like
ForewordOver 90% of tech startups fail, but I never thought my baby, 99dresses, would be one of them.If there is one thing that doing a startup has taught me, its that I am much more resilient than I...
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History theft with CSS Boolean algebra
History theft with CSS Boolean algebraUp until mid-2010, any rogue website could get a good sense of your browsing habits by specifying a distinctive :visited pseudo-class, rendering thousands of...
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The YouTube Contract for Indies
Anonymous Monday, June 23, 2014You’re the man! Anonymous Monday, June 23, 2014WTF so majors who get hundreds of millions in advance can lower indies rates just on whim?Page 25 of 323. Rate Change. To...
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The 'Fly' Has Been Swatted
A Ukrainian man who claimed responsibility for organizing a campaign to send heroin to my home last summer has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of trafficking in stolen credit card accounts, among...
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