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Huh, Another Rogue Algorithm May Have Thrown Off Trading in 148 Stocks
Add another entry to the Encyclopedia of Weird Robot Trading Events. This morning, a poorly programmed algorithm unleashed by Knight Capital Group went haywire, disrupting the normal trading of up to...
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Big Fat Pipes: Google's Underappreciated Tech Edge
It is worth reading this recent posting by Christopher Mitchell, on the Community Broadband Networks site, for an angle of the Google-vs.-all-comers battle not usually featured in the mainstream press....
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Picture of the Day: A Martian Sunset
NASANext week, if all goes according to plan, the Mars Curiosity Rover will land on the surface of the Red Planet. Once there, it will confront a view something like this: a Martian sunset, as captured...
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eTalmud: The iPad Future of the Ancient Text
A new app edition of the Babylonian Talmud promises greater access and interactivity, but falls short on a few counts. Israeli jews gather in Jerusalem for a celebration to mark the completion of a...
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A Database of Every Bomb the U.S. Military Has Dropped Since WWI
The history of war, as told from the perspective of the weapons themselves Shutterstock/Ivan Cholakov For the past six years, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson has been compiling a database...
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Beneath Every City Is A Labyrinth of Last Names
Behind a city of data, clumps of families and origins James Cheshire This is what families look like in the age of big data. The cartographer James Cheshire has looked at over 900 different areas of...
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15 Minutes of Meaning for Jonah Lehrer
What happens when you make humans into vessels for ideas. Forgive me for being late to Jonah Lehrer's transgressions and resignation. It's a sad story. I did not know quite what to say.I don't want to...
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Great Minds Think Alike: A Tale of Twin Kickstarter Projects
Imagine devoting months of your life as well as personal funds to developing a product only to discover on launch-day another team has just released the same thing.Side-by-side comparison of the Astro...
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Today in Astonishment: The Amazon Rainforest Gets Half Its Nutrients From a...
The Amazon basin is one of the world's wondrous ecosystems, supporting massive amounts of life, both in kind and quantity. You might have thought about poison frogs or monkeys, but you've probably...
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A Song for Friday: The Curiosity Rover's 'Life on Mars'
On Monday night, the Mars Curiosity Rover will endure its seven minutes of terror and then (hopefully) commence its scientific mission. But what's involved in that mission? And where do we go...
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Finally, a Way Out of the GIF Pronunciation Quagmire!
Animated GIFs get pronounced "jif" like "jiffy"; still GIFs get pronounced "gif" as in "gift." I love animated GIFs. They're simple, they're old school, they play universally with no plugins. What...
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The BMI of a Black Hole
A black hole with a mass of 10 million suns An artists's rendering of the revealing radiation emitted from a dying star (NASA) Last year, from a relatively safe location here on Earth, scientists...
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How You Turn Music Into Money in 2012 (Spoiler: Mostly iTunes)
Less than $300 from Spotify. More than $45,000 from iTunes.Flickr/Pop Tech Talking about how he makes money, the independent musician Jonathan Coulton has compared his business to a "special engineered...
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The I Files: A New Home for Investigative Reporting
A new partnership among YouTube, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Knight Foundation is carving out a spot on the Internet for video journalism. A crucial part of the Internet's news...
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What Sydney's Doing Right Now (According to Instagram)
"This Is Now" uses the Instagram API to make a story from the service's data. This Is Now At this point, well more than 1 billion photos have been uploaded to Instagram. And even before the...
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How I Discovered Halley's Comet, by Edmond Halley
"Hence, we may justly conclude that the Returns of Comets are much more frequent than is vulgarly reckoned." Wikimedia Commons There is something truly thrilling about the first-hand accounts of...
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Finally, a Way Out of the GIF Pronunciation Quagmire!
Animated GIFs get pronounced "gif" as in "gift"; still GIFs get pronounced "jif" as in "jiffy." I love animated GIFs. They're simple, they're old school, they play universally with no plugins. What...
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By the Next Olympics, Athletes May Be Getting Routine Gene Doping Tests
Overabundant skepticism about genetic manipulation in sports may be as dangerous as the hype that heralded its arrival. Alexis MadrigalAfter Ye Shiwen shocked the Olympics with her performance in the...
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Why Are Google, Tumblr, and Now Facebook All Making Video 'Stories'?
This moving account of one man's quest to regain his memory after a devastating illness also happens to be an ad for Facebook. The entire description of the video above, People You May Know, on Vimeo...
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Curiosity Lands on Mars: Know What You're Watching When You're Watching '7...
A cheat-sheet guide to the dramatic descent of the Little Rover That Could NASA UPDATE August 6, 1:42am EDT: The Mars Curiosity rover has safely landed on the surface of Mars! See the scene at mission...
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