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1994 Social Media Site Restoration
On March 30th, 2014 with 12 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:Amsterdam had social media in 1994, back before...
Darth Vader for President
On March 31st, 2014 with 13 comments
cbiltcliffe writes: Darth Vader is running for President of Ukraine, as the...
Summary of April 1st Jokes
On April 2nd, 2014 with 18 comments
A ton of stories came in about various April 1st jokes across the internet, so...
Patterns in Global Migrant Flows
On April 3rd, 2014 with 2 comments
jmoschner writes: Scientific American is running a piece on how a new paper...
Lenticular Game Design
On April 3rd, 2014 with 18 comments
lhsi writes:Mark Rosewater, the head designer for Magic: The Gathering, has...
Possible Depth of Malaysian Airlines Wreck
On April 9th, 2014 with 29 comments
It is tempting to think that once we locate the missing Malaysian Airlines...
What is the X-37B Doing Up There?
On April 11th, 2014 with 32 comments
Boxzy writes:The Air Force has had a robotic spacecraft in orbit for a year and...
OpenSSL: Heartbleed - the Fallout.
On April 10th, 2014 with 43 comments
After reporting the problems with OpenSSL, which has been nicknamed...
The Effect Of A Name
On April 12th, 2014 with 38 comments
lhsi writes:The BBC has an article about how a name can affect someone...
Weev's Conviction Vacated by 3rd Circuit
On April 12th, 2014 with 12 comments
c0lo writes: Andrew Auernheimer, aka Weev the grayhat security researcher and...
Buying Leniency for Speeding & Fare Evasion
On April 14th, 2014 with 52 comments
Papas Fritas writes:Alex Mayyasi writes that a close look at the cars outside...
Statistical Analysis of Bob Ross's Paintings by 538
On April 15th, 2014 with 17 comments
Blackmoore writes:
FiveThirtyEight provides us with A Statistical Analysis of...
I Hate My Job, I Hate My Job, I Hate My Job
On April 17th, 2014 with 39 comments
gewg_ writes: from AlterNet If you want a vision of the future, imagine a wage...
Old Tech: Record Store Day!
On April 18th, 2014 with 9 comments
Appalbarry writes:While Neil Young makes headlines for creating a new high...
Social Media Causing Distancing Phenomena?
On April 19th, 2014 with 6 comments
Ethanol-fueled writes:Social media enables us to be increasingly connected and...
Effects of Bullying Linger Long
On April 19th, 2014 with 23 comments
Bytram writes:According to Medical Xpress:The negative social, physical and...
Orphan Black Comes Back, Tomorrow
On April 20th, 2014 with 17 comments
Angry Jesus writes:One of last year's best television science fiction shows,...
First Observed Pitch Drop in 84-Year Experiment
On April 23rd, 2014 with 27 comments
Two contributors, Adrian Harvey and wirelessduck report, on a long-running...
The Wacky Story of George Psalmanazar
On April 24th, 2014 with 10 comments
An anonymous coward writes:Kembrew McLeod, writing for The Atlantic, relates a...
Warhol Works Recovered from Old Amiga Disks
On April 25th, 2014 with 14 comments
stroucki and stephenw32768 wrote:The BBC reports that previously unknown...
Data Crunching the Pokémon Starters
On April 25th, 2014 with 9 comments
lhsi writes:Data crunching the stats of the three starting Pokémon of...
Leamington Spa Ring Mystery Solved
On April 25th, 2014 with 5 comments
An anonymous coward writes:Recently a mysterious ring in the sky appeared over...
1:1 Model of Denmark in Minecraft
On April 26th, 2014 with 9 comments
Boxzy and stderr wrote: The Danish Geodata Agency (Geodatastyrelsen), a part of...
Nissan Testing 'Super-Hydrophobic' and 'Oleophobic' Paint
On April 28th, 2014 with 24 comments
kaszz and AnonTechie wrote:Not only can car washes be time-consuming and/or...
Should a Chimp Be Able to Sue Its Owner?
On April 28th, 2014 with 52 comments
Ethanol-fueled writes:From the article, paraphrased: When Steven Wise, a...
Mathematician Spies
On April 28th, 2014 with 9 comments
AnonTechie writes:If you thought you were protecting your country, you may...
Average U.S. Employee Takes Half Earned Vacation
On April 29th, 2014 with 32 comments
AnonTechie writes:According to Glassdoor's Q1 2014 Employment Confidence...
Hardware Hacker Contest Has Space Trip as Prize
On April 29th, 2014 with 9 comments
A reader named Repli C8tor writes: One hardware hacker who documents their...
If You Throw a Gecko at Teflon, Will He Stick?
On April 29th, 2014 with 10 comments
AnonTechie writes:If you throw a gecko at Teflon, will he stick? University...
Genemodded Mosquito to be Tested in Brazil
On April 30th, 2014 with 25 comments
AnonTechie and kaszz write:The Brazilian government have decided in a 2-year...
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