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National Geographic reveals the first images of the complete Titanic wreckage site

By Bryan Bishop on March 23, 2012 04:37 am + 5 comments

The RMS Titanic has been a point of cultural fascination since the ship first sank 100 years ago. Continue reading…
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Would a Higgs boson by any other name be as elementary?

By Dieter Bohn on March 22, 2012 11:43 pm + 3 comments

As is often the case with scientific discoveries, the Higgs boson particle was actually the subject Continue reading…
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A look inside the world of government spying and high-paid hacker mercenaries

By T.C. Sottek on March 22, 2012 01:58 pm + 6 comments

Google's $60,000 bounty for Chrome vulnerabilities isn't enough coin for hacker group Vupen, which Continue reading…
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Ray Kurzweil's predictions for 2009 were 'unarguably accurate,' he says

By Adi Robertson on March 22, 2012 09:25 am + 24 comments

After Forbes author Alex Knapp criticized futurist and transhumanist Ray Kurzweil's decade-old Continue reading…
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'Scrabble Typography Limited Edition': the fonts of all knowledge

By Sam Byford on March 22, 2012 06:31 am + 14 comments

Who doesn't have a board game and typography enthusiast in their life? For them, here's the Scrabble Continue reading…
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Stamen Design tiles put a beautiful skin over OpenStreetMap data

By Sam Byford on March 22, 2012 03:19 am + 8 comments

There's been talk of Apple ditching Google Maps in favor of some rather unattractive proprietary Continue reading…
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Programmer harnesses the power of modern computers to find Waldo with Mathematica

By Jeff Blagdon on March 22, 2012 03:06 am + 3 comments

Stack Overflow, the popular collaborative programming question-and-answer site, is widely recognized Continue reading…
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NASCAR driver embraces 'Epic Swag' nickname after his Twitter account was hacked

By Ryan Heise on March 22, 2012 01:14 am + 9 comments

After clicking on an errant link this past weekend, NASCAR driver Mark Martin's Twitter account Continue reading…
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Solar farms for data centers: better for PR than the environment?

By Dieter Bohn on March 21, 2012 07:48 pm + 4 comments

Giant solar farms used to power equally giant server farms may be popular, but an Amazon engineer J Continue reading…
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Apple forces AT&T to unlock customer's iPhone after impassioned letter

By Aaron Souppouris on March 21, 2012 08:42 am + 116 comments

When an Apple-loving 9to5Mac reader moved to Canada, he wanted to take his AT&T iPhone with him. He Continue reading…