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Facebook Friends Could Change Your Credit Score 26 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
Via: CNN: Choose your Facebook friends wisely; they could help you get approved — or rejected — for a loan. A handful of tech startups are using social data to determine the risk of lending to people ...
Bayou Corne: The Biggest Ongoing Disaster In The U.S. You Haven’t Heard Of 26 Aug 2013 | 08:07 pm
Via: Mother Jones: What could possibly go wrong when miners, frackers, and drillers reshape the geology beneath our feet? Talk to the evacuees of Bayou Corne, Louisiana.
Obama Appoints Cass Sunstein to Review NSA Programs 26 Aug 2013 | 07:04 pm
Via: Guardian: The review of US surveillance programs which Barack Obama promised would be conducted by an “independent” and “outside” panel of experts looks set to consist of four Washington insiders...
A Lexicon for Understanding the Words U.S. Intelligence Officials Use to Mislead the Public 26 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm
Via: Slate: When it comes to discussing government surveillance, U.S. intelligence officials have been using a vocabulary of misdirection—a language that allows them to say one thing while meaning qui...
Hank Bought A Bus 25 Aug 2013 | 10:13 am
Some inspiration for the growing ranks of Cryptogon readers who are full-time vehicle dwellers/campers. Via: Hank Bought a Bus: The bus was purchased on Craigslist for $3000, and has had about $6000 i...
Australia: Giant Robotic Mining Trucks Haul Iron Ore 25 Aug 2013 | 10:09 am
Via: Medium: In the dusty red earth of Western Australia, robot trucks haul iron ore. The trucks themselves weigh about 500 tons when loaded?—?they are truly massive. They operate more or less on thei...
Computer Can Read Letters Directly from the Brain 25 Aug 2013 | 09:59 am
Via: Radboud University: By analysing MRI images of the brain with an elegant mathematical model, it is possible to reconstruct thoughts more accurately than ever before. In this way, researchers from...
‘Either Write the Software that Eats the World, or Be Eaten’ 25 Aug 2013 | 09:31 am
Via: TechCrunch: Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe the “widening gap between rich and poor” is temporary. Maybe the steady growth in the proportion of jobs that are part-time and/o...
Documentary: Terms and Conditions May Apply 24 Aug 2013 | 07:23 am
Via: Terms and Conditions May Apply: Terms and Conditions May Apply (trailer) from ro*co films on Vimeo.
Costa Rica’s President Flew Narco-Jet to Hugo Chavez Funeral 23 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
Via: Mad Cow Morning News: An American-registered drug plane has been plying the airspace over Central and South America carrying cargoes of cocaine for a good long while (authorities admit they’ve be...
