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No more deleting. Gonna need a new portable hardrive

It’s a common thing to see on TV: the cops get a dark, blurry image of a perp, and using the magic of computers, are…

Google has launched a new feature in Street View that allows users to navigate through a virtual 3D panorama of a location using photos that have been uploaded through Panoramio and Flickr. The…

jonverve writes “In May of 2009, the White House launched an Ideascale site to gather ideas from citizens to identify ways to ‘strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness by…

From the ball to special uniforms that make you jump higher, this year’s World Cup could very well be the most techie soccer tournament the world’s ever seen.

The ball, for example (called the…

This weekend’s Chilean earthquake was 8.8 magnitude, among the most powerful in recorded history. This is how its 66.6 exajoules of energy spread across the Pacific, as shown by the National…

Thanks to a new policy by the Department of Defense, members of the US Military will now have limited access to social media sites. “According to the memorandum, members of military departments and…

As I’ve been digging deeper into the data I’ve gathered on 210 million public Facebook profiles, I’ve been fascinated by some of the patterns that have emerged. My latest visualization…

A generative data-visualisation of all the scientific evidence for popular health supplements by David McCandless and Andy Perkins.

I’m a bit of a health nut. Keeping fit….

Internet NZ has released a position paper (PDF) that rejects the governments’s planned internet filtering scheme. Jordan Carter, InternetNZ Policy Director:

InternetNZ supports a safe…

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Essential reading

I found this article fascinating throughout, here is one excerpt:

Granted, the odds of surviving a 6-mile plummet are extra­ordinarily slim, but at…