technology

“recommended products and services, individual and anonymized aggregate analytics and personalized goal setting and alert services, all based on their banking activities.”

Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Or Pain In The Ass.

A young YouTuber, Ryan Fitzgerald of Southbridge, Mass., has posted on the popular video sharing website a clip Friday, on April 20, asking everybody who need somebody to talk to just call him up on his cell phone for whatever more...

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Pakistan Telecom has decided to (accidentally probably) hijack their IP address space which means that nobody in the world can reach Youtube." The Pakistani government blocked the access to YouTube "because of content deemed offensive to Islam".

a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail.

annotated plan of a google datacenter

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including "obscene" cartoons and drawings--or face fines of up to $300,000.

A travel to Cameroon to get rid of asthma. A detailed how-to for real sufferers :). Some comments are worth reading too