Jan 09
I’ve always been interested in the distribution of the human population across the globe. It’s far from an even spread—this map shows where people are most squished in (dark colors) and where they’re spread out (light colors):
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Jan 08
How Credit Card Numbers Work
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Most of us carry credit cards and ATM cards. These, typically, have sixteen digits on the front. These digits are the unique account number for the card. For obvious reasons, just any sixteen digits will not work, they follow pattern.
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Jan 06
Zippy 4G data speeds have made gobbling down data a cinch, but they’ve made bumping up against your mobile plan’s data caps even easier. AT&T might have found a way to provide some relief—by letting the companies whose sites you’re visiting foot the bill.
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Jan 03
Martin Krzywinski is an artist. No, wait, he’s a mathematician. Actually, scratch that: he’s both, and he can make the number Pi look insanely beautiful.
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Dec 26
Piracy’s bad, right? Doesn’t it rob bands of their hard-earned royalties and make record labels go broke? Not so fast. Turns out there’s something to the old line about piracy boosting concert ticket sales—at least, according to Iron Maiden there is.
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Dec 23
Two major sources for technology that organizes and mades sense of your media have, this week, combined into a single entity. What’s happening here is a transaction between Tribune Company … Continue reading
Dec 23
T-Mobile’s GoSmart brand of plans is about to get a new trick: looking at Facebook without chewing u
Posted in: Today's ChiliT-Mobile’s GoSmart brand of plans
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Dec 23
Reddit’s come a long way since it first appeared online in 2006—but how has it changed over time? This visualization shows how the relative sizes of its subreddits have changed.
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Dec 22
When a study gets published and its results enter our collective body of scientific knowledge it feels like it’s there to stay. But without the raw data behind the study, it’s hard to revisit the research and use it to take new ideas to the next level. Which is why it’s such a problem that old data is disappearing.
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Dec 19
After yesterday’s rumors that hackers had swiped Target customer credit card information on Black Friday, the retail giant has officially confirmed that there was indeed a security breach—one that potentially affects up to 40 million of its customers.
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