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The Scale of the Universe 2
Sass & Compass: The future of stylesheets now
Everything is a Remix Part 4
Wallabee
Ben Dodson, author of various Gowalla related tools in the past, has released Wallabee, a location based game he’s been working on the past few months: WallaBee is the ultimate collectibles game for your iPhone. The aim of the game is to complete sets by collecting items in a variety of ways. Each item and …
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
Data mining at Target: Lots of people buy lotion, but one of Pole’s colleagues noticed that women on the baby registry were buying larger quantities of unscented lotion around the beginning of their second trimester. Another analyst noted that sometime in the first 20 weeks, pregnant women loaded up on supplements like calcium, magnesium and …
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Intercepting LinkedIn Passwords
At the Microsoft TechDays 2012 in Belgium, white hat Paula Januszkiewicz shows how the tool Fiddler can be used to intercept the password of a LinkedIn user. The reason is because the password is not being encrypted by LinkedIn, although https is being used. Not that wow imho, as it’s basically a man in the …
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DARPA Legged Squad Support System (LS3)
The LS3 platform is designed with the squad in mind and is therefore significantly quieter, faster and has a much higher carrying capacity (+100lbs) for longer mission durations than DARPA’s earlier mobility technology demonstrator BigDog By DARPA/Boston Dynamics, who also brought us BigDog (also see this spoof), LittleDog and AlphaDog (again, via teusje)