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• Safecast, crowdsourced radiation monitoring project, logs 10 million data points

  
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  The crowdsourced radiation monitoring project Safecast, which was launched in the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan , has reached a big milestone: they have collected and published over 10,000,000 individual data points .         More: Safecast, crowdsourced radiation monitoring project, logs ...
  23 hours ago

• Bill Nye, "Firebrand for Science," profiled in NYT

  
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  John Schwartz has a colorful profile of Bill Nye the Science Guy in the New York Times, exploring his evolution from science-lesson-explainer for kids, to a defender of fact-based reality against pundits on TV who say climate change, evolution, and, you know, evidence-based reasoning and science in general is a bunch ...
  23 hours ago

• Carry On X-Men

  
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  Chris Weston’s poster for a notional “Carry On X-Men” has me wanting very badly to inhabit his alternate universe. He says of the film, “Despite the bawdy humour, ‘Carry on X-Men’ is in many ways more faithful to the source material than Bryan Singer’s films.         More: Carry On X-Men
  1 day ago

• Software-authored book of conversation-starters

  
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  JanusNode sez, “Janusnode is ‘a user-configurable dynamic textual projective surface,’ AKA a programmable text generating application. It has released a book entitled ‘You can bring an elephant to a Broadway show, but you cannot make it drink Chablis: 365 computer-generated excuses to converse’, ...
  2 days ago

• Cross stitch recreation of a page from the Walking Dead comic book

  
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  Walking Dead artist Tony Moore says : “Knowing how long it took me to draw this damn thing in pen and ink, I’m particularly honored and impressed by this painstaking Walking Dead cross-stitch!” ion: A page from The Walking Dead incredibly recreated in cross-stitch         Continue Reading: Cross stitch ...
  2 days ago

• Mysterious death of Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, possibly solved after 45 years

  
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  The mysteries surrounding the death of Yuri Gagarin — the first human to ever travel into outer space — may finally have been solved thanks to fellow Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. Gagarin’s death in 1968 was the result of a plane crash, but just how he came to crash has been subject to conspiracies and ...
  2 days ago

• Metal from 12 year olds

  
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  Unlocking the Truth is an an awesome heavy metal band made up of 12-year-old schoolkids who’ve been playing together since they were five.         View the original here: Metal from 12 year olds
  3 days ago

• Report: NSA briefing reveals agency can listen in on your phone calls without court approval

  
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  Since the story broke last week of the NSA’s secret compilation of Americans’ phone call metadata , the overwhelming response from government has been ” nobody is listening to your telephone calls ” — that the data being collected is limited to things like phone numbers and call durations. Well, perhaps ...
  3 days ago

• Ahead of tour, Atoms for Peace play surprise intimate show in Los Angeles

  
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  “This is the rehearsal, right?” Thom Yorke teased the audience last night inside Club Fais Do Do, renamed for the evening “Club Amok” for a surprise/secret Atoms For Peace performance. “You were the lucky ones who got tickets.”         View original post here: Ahead of tour, Atoms for Peace play ...
  3 days ago

• Xbox One will divide EU into different markets

  
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  Microsoft’s new XBox One will ship with region-locks that divide the world; yours will only work if it connects to the DRM server from one of 21 selected countries.         More: Xbox One will divide EU into different markets
  3 days ago

• Facebook releases new post-NSA-Prism-leak privacy settings

  
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  Parody, obviously. ‘shoop: XJ         Read More: Facebook releases new post-NSA-Prism-leak privacy settings
  3 days ago

• Internet companies begin releasing some data on government spying

  
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  Facebook and Microsoft have reached a agreements with the U.S. government “to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive,” which Reuters’ Joe Menn and Gerry Shih report is a partial victory for the companies struggling with “fallout from recent disclosures about the ...
  3 days ago

• Wired News publishes encrypted message to Edward Snowden

  
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  In the one unencrypted line of this publication, Kevin Poulsen of Wired News writes, ” Don’t read this if you aren’t him.         Follow this link: Wired News publishes encrypted message to Edward Snowden
  3 days ago

• Obama administration may declassify key court order on NSA surveillance, says NPR

  
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  Following continued demands for more transparency, the Obama administration is said to be considering declassifying a secret court order that would shed light upon recent leaks. According to NPR , the administration may release an order that permits the NSA to gather phone call records on millions of American ...
  3 days ago

• AT&T to update iPhone 5, iPhone 4S with wireless emergency alert support

  
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  AT&T has announced that it will be pushing a small, over the air update out to the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S which will add support for the Wireless Emergency Alert System. The system, which went live about a year ago , is designed to send out three types of alerts: presidential alerts for national emergencies, AMBER ...
  3 days ago

• Google opts out of FISA disclosure deal made by Facebook and Microsoft, calls it ‘a step back for users;’ Twitter agrees

  
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  Google is unsatisfied with the deal that Microsoft and Facebook have made with the US government with regard to publishing how many requests for user information they both receive. Facebook and Microsoft released reports tonight detailing how many requests got from US government agencies in the second half of 2012 — ...
  3 days ago

• Xbox One ‘may not work’ in unsupported countries

  
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  While Microsoft’s controversial Xbox One policies regarding used games and online authentication are a known quantity at this point, the implications of these restrictions are not yet fully clear. A disclaimer posted on the Xbox.com website for the benefit of pre-order customers, for example, has raised the issue of ...
  4 days ago

• Sen Warren to US Trade Rep: release the Trans-Pacific Partnership docs – if they piss the people off, then we shouldn’t be part of it

  
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  Senator Elizabeth Warren has written an open letter to Michael Froma, the nominee to run the US Trade Representative’s office, calling on him to release the text and negotiating documents for the secretive, controversial Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), whose sweeping and brutal copyright provisions make it clear ...
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• NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden used banned thumb drive to smuggle documents

  
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  US officials have revealed that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was able to smuggle the classified documents out of a Hawaii facility using a thumb drive, which are banned inside of agency locations, reports the Los Angeles Times . Reportedly, investigators were able to discern what documents Snowden took and which ...
  5 days ago

• ‘Fez 2′ announced at E3, see the first teaser trailer

  
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  Fez , the celebrated indie PC, Mac, and Xbox puzzle adventure game that features a 2D character exploring a 3D world, is getting a sequel. Fez developer Polytron just announced at E3 that it is working on Fez 2 , Polygon reports . No release date has been given yet, let alone any other details about the story or game ...
  5 days ago

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