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Drugs, porn, and counterfeits: the market for illegal goods is booming online

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries New stores are launching every month to serve the internet’s illicit underground economy   In the beginning of February a remorseful Paul Leslie Howard, 32, stood in front of a judge in Melbourne and pleaded guilty to charges of selling meth, LSD, amphetamines, and pot, as well as importing distribution-level quantities of MDMA and cocaine. Howard, a heavyset man who worked the door at night clubs, seemed genuinely…

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Microsoft Launches Preview Of Skype For Outlook.com

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Microsoft has announced that it is launching a preview of Skype for Outlook.com starting in the UK. The service will be made available in the U.S. and Germany in the coming weeks before it is rolled out to the rest of the world. With the rollout of Skype for Web, the VoIP service joins Microsoft’s suite of online tools, including SkyDrive. Since its launch six months ago, Outlook.com, meant to replace the Hotmail…

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A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life

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As reported on Businessinsider.com Scott Stossel, The Atlantic   The project, which began in 1938, has followed 268 Harvard undergraduate men for 75 years, measuring an astonishing range of psychological, anthropological, and physical traits—from personality type to IQ to drinking habits to family relationships to “hanging length of his scrotum”—in an effort to determine what factors contribute most strongly to human flourishing. Recently, George Vaillant, who directed the study for more than three decades, published Triumphs…

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Bloodline: Antiviral and How to Die Like a Celebrity

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As reported on Wired. BY WIRED STAFF How much would you pay for your favorite celebrity’s cooties? Would you pay with your life? It’s the icky world of disease horror in the film Antiviral, the first feature-length effort from Brandon — son of David — Cronenberg. And if your dad is responsible for giving the world Scanners, Videodrome, and The Fly, you better get your freak on. Cronenberg the Younger comes out heavy on style and high on art direction, but Jay Dayrit and…

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They’re watching: why city-wide surveillance failed to stop the Boston bombing

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As reported on The Verge. By Matt Stroud “If everyone becomes a suspect, then nobody is a suspect.”   All day Sunday, police directed traffic around a blocked-off section of Boylston Street in downtown Boston where bombs had gone off nearly a week earlier, killing three and wounding hundreds. A makeshift memorial had been set up to honor the dead with personal messages and flowers, and old running shoes hung from metal barricades. Similar makeshift memorials…

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LA is on the Formula E schedule next year, electric racer hits the streets to celebrate

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler The FIA’s upcoming Formula E series has revealed two US dates on its début 2014 calendar (Los Angeles, Miami) and yesterday it took to LA’s streets to promote the partnership. For Earth Day, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa welcomed Formula E Holdings CEO Alejandro Agag downtown along with a Formula E racecar for the exhibition. The race will run on downtown streets next year, although the exact route the 140mph-capable EVs will take has yet…

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My lockdown: here’s what it was like living in Boston this week

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As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Ingraham Two wanted men kept a major American city — and my family — on high alert I’ve lived in Boston (or one of its neighboring towns) for almost 14 years, and I can’t remember a time that the entire MBTA, our public transportation system, shut down. No trains, no buses, no commuter rail. Maybe on 9/11, and parts of the system have been out of service during particularly…

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Spoof Video Symbolizes The Energy And Brashness Of OpenStack, A Rising Cloud Power

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS At the OpenStack Summit last week, Tuesday’s keynote opened with Dope’n’Stack E.N.T.E.R.P.R.I.S.E, a video that symbolizes the arrival of a new force of disruptors who see riches in building software and systems that will displace the legacy systems of old. It’s not a question anymore. OpenStack has the momentum to win, and it can thank this young group of developers and feisty systems gurus for making it happen. Companies that have long…

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My Favorite Entrepreneur Story In A Long Time

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MARK SUSTER If you don’t like it hot, use less,” he said. “We don’t make mayonnaise here.”  This morning I was reading my social media and came across an article that Christine Tsai had posted on Facebook. It was about the founder of Sriracha sauce, David Tran, displaced from Vietnam when the North’s communists took power. As the son of an immigrant myself, I am a sucker for an immigrant story. Moving to…

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I think, therefore I heal: the weird science of neurofeedback

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As reported on The Verge. By Katie Drummond It’s been dismissed as bunk science for decades. But does neurofeedback deserve a second look? Imagine if treating a mental illness was as simple as playing a video game — except your mind is the controller. That idea isn’t only real, it’s a therapy gaining traction in the medical community and among patients, who swear by its healing effects. Called neurofeedback, the procedure purports to treat a variety…

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