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This summer’s mosquito epidemics are brought to you by climate change 27 Aug 2013 | 08:43 pm
This summer, Central America has seen 120,000 cases of dengue fever, and so far, 60 deaths. A heavy rainy season, combined with excessive heat, are making conditions particularly favorable for the mos...
A wearable computer more powerful than Glass 27 Aug 2013 | 08:36 pm
Steve Mann, a pioneer in the field of wearable computing, has been touting the benefits of head-mounted computers for decades. Now, the University of Toronto professor is also lending his weight and e...
Your Facebook friends can affect your credit score 27 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
We already know that nothing we do online is sacred or secret, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that people with hard-to-access credit histories may now have to start monitoring their socia...
Kevin Spacey’s anti-piracy business model: Give the audience control 27 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
Where was Kevin Spacey when the music industry really needed him? Over the weekend, Spacey gave a lecture on the lessons of "House of Cards" at the Edinburgh Television Festival in Scotland. The bott...
Hey, tech journalists: Stop referring to everyone as “the next Steve Jobs” 27 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
Even before his death nearly two years ago, writers of all stripes began to wonder, "Who is the next Steve Jobs?" It was fitting, in a ghoulish sort of way: People were lusting for the next model befo...
Hans Blix: U.S. has “poor excuse” for Syria incursion now 27 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
Following Secretary of State John Kerry's Monday announcement that it was "undeniable" that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons in a rebel-held suburb, calls among western leaders for military...
After The Onion goes after CNN’s Miley Cyrus coverage, Anderson Cooper spotlights twerking 27 Aug 2013 | 07:52 pm
Yesterday, The Onion went hard on cable news's coverage of Miley Cyrus's twerk-filled performance at the VMAs, using the managing editor of CNN Digital's real name and head shot to mock CNN.com's outr...
The “dematerialization” of society in the digital age 27 Aug 2013 | 07:52 pm
A quarter century ago, Russell Belk introduced the concept of the extended self in a paper published in the Journal of Consumer Research and cited thousands of times since. The term was an attempt at...
The despicable Laura Ingraham outdoes herself 27 Aug 2013 | 07:43 pm
We can’t be surprised by the right-wing ignorance about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the politics of the 1963 March on Washington. Today’s conservative leaders are the political descendants of the f...
Expert: U.S. Syria strike plans unlikely to work 27 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
As it seems that U.S. military intervention is on the horizon, experts are reviewing the putative plans to fire cruise missiles at Syrian military installations (plans that were leaked to a number of ...
