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Makani – Google

Makani is working to accelerate the shift to clean, renewable energy by developing energy kites, a new type of wind turbine that uses lightweight electronics, advanced materials, and smart software to generate more energy with less materials—all at lower cost.

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How the FBI Created a Terrorist - The Intercept

In 2012, Sami Osmakac was 25 years old, broke and struggling with mental illness. His family wanted to get him help. The FBI wanted him to carry out a terrorist attack.

Click to view the original at firstlook.org

Hasnain says:

" In these cases, the FBI says paid informants and undercover agents are foiling attacks before they occur. But the evidence suggests — and a recent Human Rights Watch report on the subject illustrates — that the FBI isn’t always nabbing would-be terrorists so much as setting up mentally ill or economically desperate people to commit crimes they could never have accomplished on their own."

Posted on 2015-03-16T16:17:14+0000

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How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else | WIRED

Google Code was supposed to spread the open source religion. But then GitHub came along. And GitHub, it turns out, was a much better preacher.

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Hasnain says:

Interesting read on torrents versus tube sites and ethics.

SFW link, but none of the other links on the site are really SFW.

Posted on 2015-03-12T16:46:26+0000

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Bidding farewell to Google Code

When we started the Google Code project hosting service in 2006, the world of project hosting was limited. We were worried about reliability and stagnation, so we took action by giving the open source community another option to choose from. Since then, we’ve seen a wide variety of better project ho…

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Drones and the rise of the high-tech assassins

How twenty-three innocent Afghani civilians were wiped out by self-deceiving drone operators seven and a half thousand miles away.

Click to view the original at boingboing.net

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