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Has TED become a place for useless technobabble and ‘meme laundering’?
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5 aspects of the hunt for Kim Dotcom that make no sense
In January 2012 the United States confiscated the domains (and servers) of MegaUpload, a file-sharing and storage site based in Hong-Kong a few days…
Preparing for the worst: can someone please back up the internet?
I have a t-shirt created by Dinosaur Comics. It’s a nerdy shirt with way too much text on it, but its premise is pretty…
Counting the costs: how PCs left on at night are killing your green credentials
More often than not, when companies are asked how they are reducing their electricity bills or even carbon emissions, they’ll mention their lighting retrofits,…
