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City Of Houston’s Open Innovation Hackathon
Posted On May 21, 2013 Techli TeamTechli Team 0

HOUSTON, TEXAS — Something revolutionary happened this weekend: the City of Houston stopped complaining about their problems. From traffic, parking and …
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Control A Cockroach’s Brain With A Tweet Thanks To Chicago Artist
Posted On December 31, 2012 Techli TeamTechli Team 4

Chicago artist Brittany Ransom has hacked the control circuit on a bionic cockroach to crowdsource the insect's movement via Twitter.
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Aetna Taps FoodEssentials To Unlock Food Label Data For Developers
Posted On December 3, 2012 Techli TeamTechli Team 0

St. Louis-based FoodEssentials is the latest in the series of Health 2.0 companies to partner with Aetna's CarePass Developer Portal. …
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Etsy For Electronics: Marketplace For Gadget Tinkerers Tindie Moves From Side Project To Company
Posted On September 4, 2012 Techli TeamTechli Team 0

While Kickstarter may be the place to raise money for a massive hardware project, Tindie is the marketplace for homemade …
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Former FBI Most Wanted Hacker Teams Up With Top IT Security Expert To Fight Cyber Theft
Posted On August 27, 2012 Techli TeamTechli Team 0

Eastern European cyber crime is so pervasive that even luxury car dealers have sprung up in the impoverished country of …
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Anonymous Targets Child Porn In #OpPedoChat
Posted On July 11, 2012 AvatarJon Christian 0

Anonymous says it's mounting a coordinated attack on sites that deal in or facilitate exchanges of child pornography.
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TipTheWeb Is An Internet Tip Jar
Posted On June 29, 2012 AvatarJon Christian 0

A Flattr-like service based in Newton, Massachusetts is looking to shake up online revenue by giving readers a new option …
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Etsy Scholarship Boosts Female Hacker School Attendance 23-Fold
Posted On June 16, 2012 AvatarJon Christian 2

An Etsy scholarship likely played a role in jolting the number of women who are attending this session of Hacker …
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Can Google Show Racism In Elections?
Posted On June 12, 2012 AvatarJon Christian 0

A provocative paper makes the case that racism cost now-incumbent presidential candidate Barack Obama between three and five points during …
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Is That Google Earth, Or The New Sim City?
Posted On June 7, 2012 AvatarJon Christian 1

Google unveiled a graphically intense vision for Google Earth, including footage that shows comprehensively-rendered city skylines complete with buildings and …
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Here’s How To Check Whether Your LinkedIn Password Has Been Released
Posted On June 6, 2012 AvatarJon Christian 3

Developers have thrown up a site that checks whether your password was among those released, more quickly than LinkedIn did.
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Adventures in Airtime: What Seven Strangers Think of the Service
Posted On June 6, 2012 Techli TeamTechli Team 0

Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Sean Fanning are working together again to push the boundaries of video on the Internet. …
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Surly Web App Fictify Badgers, Threatens Lazy Writers
Posted On June 4, 2012 AvatarJon Christian 1

Fictify prods and cajoles would-be writers, rewarding them for setting and completing word count goals, and lecturing them when they …
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Google To Notify Users Censored By “Great Firewall of China”
Posted On June 3, 2012 AvatarJon Christian 0

New code on the Chinese version of Google will alert users who are about to search for a query that …
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Google-Backed Incubator To Build First Kenyan Supercomputing Cluster
Posted On June 1, 2012 AvatarJon Christian 1

A Google-backed innovation community in Nairobi, Kenya, plans to build the first African supercomputer outside of South Africa, which backers …