Your Website Will Work Better When You Realize It's Not Your Website
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As an American spending a year in South Africa, I’m horrified by South African drivers. Every single one of them drives on the wrong side of the road. No matter how much I honk, yell, and gesture, they just keep doing it. And the police are no help either. They...
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Alt-week 4.20.13: NASA's Space Shop, nature's needles and 30 years of cellphone bills
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Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. The natural world offers up some ingenious biology that is only possible through many, many years of evolution. Other ideas, well, they come about through good old-fashioned brain power. We've got examples...
Cox TV Connect for Android launches, brings live TV streaming to 'select' tablets
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We're still waiting to see Cox's next generation cable TV-to-mobile streaming app, but right now it's released a version of its existing Cox TV Connect app for Android. Available on iPads since the end of 2011 and on iPhone / iPod touch since the end of last year, it's...
Why big IT projects always go wrong
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Fred Brooks's 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month is essential reading for any company boss about to embark upon a costly software projectIin 1975, a computer scientist named Fred Brooks published one of the seminal texts in the literature of computing. It had the intriguing title of The Mythical Man-Month and...
Terraria - review
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Xbox 360, 505 Games, cert: 12Perhaps Terraria might simplistically be painted as "Minecraft in 2D, with cutesy pixel art". It's not necessarily the fairest description though, as each game's approach to world-building is very different. Terraria is a touch more focused. There are objectives - mainly bosses to find and...
Defiance - review
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Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Namco, cert: 18As a third-person "massively multiplayer online" (MMO) shooter from developer Trion Worlds, Defiance transcends both genre and narrative boundaries; the plot runs concurrently with a TV series of the same name broadcast on the Syfy channel. It's a broadly interesting story concerning the struggle...
Online brain-training: does it really work?
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Websites that claim to increase concentration, verbal reasoning and memory have become big business, despite research that challenges their effectivenessMy week has been pretty hectic so far. On Monday, I manned a busy beach bar and had to remember a range of ice-cream and pizza orders for a constant stream...
Drones should be banned from private use, says Google's Eric Schmidt
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Google executive chairman says in Guardian interview that technology has potential to 'democratise the ability to fight war'The use of cheap, miniature "everyman" drones needs to be banned by international treaties before such devices fall into the hands of private users including terrorists, the head of Google has said.In an...
BadNews Shows A New Direction For Mobile Malware
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And while we’re on the subject of hacking and malware, if you’re the user of Android phone, and if you happen to speak or send messages in Russian you might want to have a close look at some of the applications you’ve been running. Lookout Mobile Security said yesterday that...
fuckyeahmovieposters: Pulp Fiction by Ivan Efimov
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AT&T bumps Galaxy S4 up to April 23 ship date for some
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Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone is one of the most anticipated handsets of the year, and some AT&T customers may be able to get their hands on the device a week earlier than expected. Reports have emerged of some customers ordering the Galaxy S4 on AT&T only to see that the...
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