It seems like everyone in the twitterverse, the blogosphere, and tumblrdom is getting fed up with so-called content farms--those mostly-useless text generators that turn out articles based on the terms people most commonly search for. Now the Googleplex is getting
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Mapmakers have more power than ever. But who are the mapmakers?
Buried beneath November's headlines depicting rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, European economic woes, and the brazen disclosure of confidential State Department cables, a meaningful geopolitical
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Ten reasons apps are better than bookmarks
Everyone loves apps, right? Google is the first to launch a desktop app store (though Apple and Microsoft aren't far behind), the Chrome Web Store, expressly designed for their Chrome browser. It looks pretty much like any
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"Anonymous," a group of hackers perhaps best known for their attacks on the Church of Scientology, have appointed themselves the protectors of Wikileaks. To that end, they've begun a full-scale attack on those who have harmed Wikileaks in the past. This is no cute
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Could Wikileaks's most damaging files be hacked too early?
Once your leader has been compared to a Bond villain, you might as well go all the way, right? A few months back, Wikileaks released a giant file that's been referred to as the "thermonuclear" option,
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It's no secret that China is beating up on America and the West in everything from infrastructure to technology investment, but news of exactly what the People's Republic is up to is often scarce. So while the diplomatic establishment continues to reel from the stink
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"Google's cool," privacy not so much
Opting out of Google Maps' Street View in Germany will blur the image of your building on the photographic map, and make you hideously uncool. So says a group of vandals who egged homes in Essen that appear pixelated on the search
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The Stuxnet worm has generated plenty of commentary from computer industry experts and security pundits, but yesterday the U.S. government's senior cybersecurity expert at the Department of Homeland Security weighed
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Taxonomists plan to catalogue all of the world's species in the next 50 years. This NASA-style initiative, set at the Sustain What? Conference held in New York City this week, will require the identification and classification of approximately 10 million new species.
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A new database developed by Spanish biologists is giving pharmaceutical quick access to protein structure data that could lead to more rapid development of important biologic drugs. The database, known as MoDEL, contains protein motion data for more than 1,700 different
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Meet Tesla Patent Pending.
PopSci.com.au has unleashed a new opinion writer over at our blog. He's outspoken, he's informed, and he can usually be found hiding in dark rooms with a pile of new gadgets around him. Boys and girls, please
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Cab drivers know their cities intimately, using shortcuts and side streets to bypass traffic jams and (hopefully) get you to your destination more quickly. Now Microsoft is hoping to tap into this talent and design
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The Stuxnet worm has generated plenty of commentary from computer industry experts and security pundits, but yesterday the U.S. government's senior cybersecurity expert at the Department of Homeland Security weighed
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Asteroids and comets come in all shapes and sizes-from small pebbles, to larger SUV-sized fragments, to massive asteroids like Ceres, which has a diameter of about 621 miles. Much of the asteroid material that crosses paths with the Earth burns up when it enters the atmosphere.
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Mapmakers have more power than ever. But who are the mapmakers?
Buried beneath November's headlines depicting rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, European economic woes, and the brazen disclosure of confidential State Department cables, a meaningful geopolitical
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There's something exhilarating about meeting someone new, whether it's in a coffee shop or online. That is, until your new pal pulls a Lyndon Johnson and
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What do you get when you cross a 1990s AIM-bot with the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks?
Today, a company called Intellitar is set to release Virtual Eternity, a bit
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A former NSA computer espionage specialist has created a blueprint for destroying the United States's cyber defences and bringing about "Internet Armageddon," and it doesn't take the kind of unmanageable resources one might think. Charlie Miller says that a devastating cyber attack would only
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For those in the technological know (and many other Australians for that matter) there has been a particular bee in their collective bonnet for some time: the worrying belief that Australia’s proposed internet content filter (championed by Senator Stephen Conroy, pictured) is a massive waste
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Ten reasons apps are better than bookmarks
Everyone loves apps, right? Google is the first to launch a desktop app store (though Apple and Microsoft aren't far behind), the Chrome Web Store, expressly designed for their Chrome browser. It looks pretty much like any
Read more...
What do you get when you cross a 1990s AIM-bot with the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks?
Today, a company called Intellitar is set to release Virtual Eternity, a bit
Read more...
There's something exhilarating about meeting someone new, whether it's in a coffee shop or online. That is, until your new pal pulls a Lyndon Johnson and
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It's been five years since Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim made video sharing mainstream via the portal YouTube, and these days it's hard to imagine life without it.
The YouTube team announced this week via a special
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You might recall the annual Web Trends info-map that imposes the most notable names on the Web onto the Tokyo Metro map. Information Architects, the data visualizers responsible have a new offering
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Meet Tesla Patent Pending.
PopSci.com.au has unleashed a new opinion writer over at our blog. He's outspoken, he's informed, and he can usually be found hiding in dark rooms with a pile of new gadgets around him. Boys and girls, please
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You may have heard the rumour that swirled briefly last month about an Internet 'kill switch' that could power down the internet in the case of a critical cyber attack. Those rumours turned out to be largely overblown, but it turns out there are now seven individuals
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As you may well be aware, there has been a running battle between two super powers of late: one a real-world, tangible super power, China, and the other is an online force to be reckoned with, Google. Amid their respective and opposing stances on internet censorship, it was hoped that some
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In the war over Internet privacy, money has apparently won a major battle.
Microsoft engineers initially wanted a feature in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to limit the powers of third-party tracking cookies by default, the
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A former NSA computer espionage specialist has created a blueprint for destroying the United States's cyber defences and bringing about "Internet Armageddon," and it doesn't take the kind of unmanageable resources one might think. Charlie Miller says that a devastating cyber attack would only
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Despite the seemingly illogical and contrary nature of the on-again off-again proposed internet content filter in Australia, our nation is edging ever closer to the speedy reality of the National Broadband Network (NBN). While the NBN has not been without its initial hurdles (most notably,
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