| Robots Mimic Ant Colony Behavior | | Friday, March 29, 2013 9:12 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Robot swarms can mimic how ant colonies navigate complex mazes relatively mindlessly, researchers have found — knowledge that could help to improve designs for manmade transportation networks. Scientists are fascinated by ant colonies because they can form collectives called "superorganisms" that function as single organisms do.
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| Tumblr Back Up After Network-Wide Outage | | Friday, March 29, 2013 8:35 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Update: The issue appears to have been resolved: Network issues that affected certain Tumblr users have been resolved. Thanks for your patience. — Tumblr (@tumblr) March 30, 2013 Tumblr was experiencing "network issues" that prompted a system-wide outage Friday night.
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| Doctors Use Big Data to Improve Cancer Treatments | | Friday, March 29, 2013 7:24 PM | Camille Bautista |
| The American Society of Clinical Oncology is looking to further personalize and improve cancer care by tapping into data from millions of patients around the nation. The organization completed the prototype for CancerLinQ, a "learning health system" that collects and analyzes anonymous patient information to provide immediate feedback and guidance for physicians.
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| Android-Powered PC Lets Parents Monitor Kids' Online Activities | | Friday, March 29, 2013 6:07 PM | Camille Bautista |
| When it comes to digitally-inclined children, a parent's biggest concern is safety. Kids' constant connection makes it difficult to keep track of how much time they're spending online or what content they're coming across — but one Kickstarter project is giving parents back the control. MiiPC, a compact personal computing device, connects with most computer monitors or TV screens and lets parents track use from a mobile app.
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| Marissa Mayer Tells Inside Story of How Yahoo Wooed Her | | Friday, March 29, 2013 5:30 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Marissa Mayer was originally planning a six-month maternity leave, but shortened that to two weeks after she got the CEO job at Yahoo, she revealed in a blog post on Friday. Mayer's contribution, on Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In blog, tells the inside story of her frame of mind when Yahoo came calling: On June 18th, I got the call. “I’m doing a CEO search. It’s a Fortune 500 company.
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| Follow These 10 Twitter Accounts for North Korea News | | Friday, March 29, 2013 5:08 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Tension across the Korean peninsula is rising: bellicose rhetoric coming from the North has gotten increasingly menacing and South Korea, along with the United States, hasn't backed down. The American military conducted Thursday a test along with the South Korean army, flying B-2 stealth bombers and carrying out mock bombing exercises.
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| The First Ever Honest Cable Company Ad | | Friday, March 29, 2013 3:10 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Hey, you. Yes, we're talking to you. The person who is getting scammed by their cable company. You're probably paying $300 a month for "high-speed cyber hyper double turbo speed extra secure Internet and premium cable" — aren't you? That company promised you it was the latest and greatest of packages that would save you billions of dollars over the course of a lifetime, so you opted in.
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| 7 Easy and Slightly Evil Pranks | | Friday, March 29, 2013 1:56 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Plotting April Fool's Day success doesn't require going all out. Sometimes, keeping the plans simple provides the biggest prank punch. YouTube channel HouseholdHacker details seven easy-to-execute pranks that will have your friends and coworkers praying for April 2 to arrive. Fair warning: These tricks will make you the target of revenge, so stay vigilant.
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| The Strategy Behind the Viral Red Marriage Equality Campaign | | Friday, March 29, 2013 12:44 PM | Zoe Fox |
| The Human Rights Campaign's Director of Marketing Anastasia Khoo didn't decide to change the organization's equality sign logo from blue to red on a whim. The team at the HRC, the largest lobby organization dedicated to fighting for LGBT rights, knew that the two cases the Supreme Court heard this week on marriage equality were major, that Monday and Tuesday were moments of historic significance.
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| Girl Apologizes to 'Murdered Wisdom Teeth' in Anesthesia Stupor | | Friday, March 29, 2013 11:37 AM | Annie Colbert |
| Wisdom teeth extraction can be a traumatizing experience for the patient. Now imagine how the teeth feel — ripped from their cushy, gummy home and tossed out with the floss. YouTube user abbiekritz felt the pain of her teeth and expressed her sorrow on the ride home from surgery.
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| IKEA Parts for Stool Hacked to Build Bicycle | | Friday, March 29, 2013 10:42 AM | PSFK |
| Artists Andreas Bhend and Samuel Bernier teamed up to take do-it-yourself to another level. Having some previous success using a 3D printer to create replacement lamp shades for an IKEA lamp, they received a request to do something new, and they were happy to oblige. Andreas traveled to Paris to work alongside Samuel, who was working at a 3D printing shop startup called Le FabShop.
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