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NewScientist’s Zoologger chronicles weird wildlife; the latest from Nerdcore Learning — a fantasy role-playing card game called The Healing Blade, designed to teach med students about infectious diseases; and more […]
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Did Elevation Partners take a hit on Palm investment?
UPDATE: I just got a call from someone close to Elevation Partners who walked me through the numbers. Bottom line: Elevation expects to receive $485 million from the HP deal […]
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HTC will pay Microsoft so it can keep using Google’s Android
In the world of corporate diplomacy, Taiwan handset maker HTC must feel like an unaligned Cold War pawn, just trying to prosper and stay on the good side of the […]
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S.F.’s rogue network admin convicted
Terry Childs, the IT administrator who for 10 days in July 2008 locked everyone else out of the municipal network he designed and built for the city of San Francisco, […]
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More data from the iProbe
A quick roundup of some of the latest details in the unfolding Case of the Wayward iPhone: * San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe says prosecutors investigating […]
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Quoted: Facebook face-off on Capitol Hill
“We hope that Facebook will stand by its goal of creating open and transparent communities by working to ensure that its policies protect the sensitive personal biographical data of its […]
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Coming May 9 to a stadium in North London, a tribute/replay of Monty Python’s “The Philosophers’ Football Match,” featuring Socrates Wanderers vs. Nietzsche Albion, all in support of the Philosophy […]
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CSI: Silicon Valley — Gizmodo guy’s gear grabbed in iPhone probe
Gawker Media chief Nick Denton says he has no problem paying for a scoop, and that’s a good thing, because the $5,000 that his Gizmodo tech news site shelled out […]
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For a snack, Google dusts off LabPixies
Ever since last fall, Google has been chomping through a big menu of tech acquisitions like Mr. Creosote (see “Google buys Plink to work on Goggle’s specs” from just two […]
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Quoted: U.S. military riddled with bullet points
“It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control. Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.” — Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster on […]
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