Beyond Google Earth
Satellite imagery might seem neutral, but it is constructed by systems which not only present but also transform the visual data.

May 27, 2015 at 02:56PM
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Hybrid Organism Powered By Sewage Is Something Out Of A Sci-Fi Movie
This symbiotic system created by artist Gilberto Esparza re-imagines the management of sewage in order to salvage its potential as a source of energy.

May 27, 2015 at 01:36PM
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A Certain Text Can Crash Your Messages And Reboot Your iPhone
Since the character strand is so specific, most people should never accidentally experience the crashing. Anyone who does experience the crashing was likely singled out on purpose as a target.

May 27, 2015 at 11:54AM
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Big Brother Narco: Cartels Are Building Their Own CCTV Networks
Authorities in northeastern Mexico’s Tamaulipas state recently dismantled an internet-operated video surveillance network used by a criminal group to monitor both government security forces and civilian life.

May 27, 2015 at 11:37AM
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Meet Chimp, A Disaster Response Robot With Four-Limb Drive
A team at Carnegie Mellon University engineered its Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, or Chimp, to excel in unpredictable terrain.

May 27, 2015 at 11:37AM
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Canary box aims to lure hackers into honeypots before they make headlines
Thinkst’s Canary is a simple network appliance and corresponding online monitoring service that makes it easy to set up juicy-looking targets on the corporate LAN that will sound the alarm if any attempt is made to access them.

May 27, 2015 at 10:39AM
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Building A Gaming Tablet From Scratch
Building a regular desktop from scratch isn’t impossible, more often than not it’s a just a puzzle, you have to know which pieces go where. Theo Long’s build however, includes a custom battery, specially designed case and other enhancements that allow a relatively small computer to outperform even the best commercial tablets.

May 27, 2015 at 10:33AM
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Inside the Automated UPS Complex That Sorts 7,000 Packages a Minute
Just before midnight, UPS’s Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky begins to come alive. Boeing 757s start roaring overhead. Packages whoosh by on miles of conveyer belts. Before the sun is up, 1.6 million packages will be unloaded and loaded again, sent along toward their final destinations.

May 27, 2015 at 08:31AM
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One of the Biggest Tech IPOs of All Time Is Getting Bought by a Teen Clothing Store
Hot Topic, the fashion staple of suburban malls everywhere, announced today that it is buying Geeknet, the parent company of ThinkGeek, an online retailer catering to video game and sci-fi fans. While it may not rise to the M&A heights of Charter and Time Warner’s $55 billion deal, it did ignite a bit of nostalgia for the tech boom of the late 1990s.

May 27, 2015 at 07:32AM
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Suited and Booted
Paralyzed but walking — thanks to an exoskeleton.

May 26, 2015 at 07:58PM
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