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Virtual Hikes Promote Nature Valley Granola Bars – NYTimes.com

April 13, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/business/media/virtual-hikes-promote-nature-valley-granola-bars.html

In Mayor Bloomberg’s Jet-Setting Heart, a Love for Helicopters – NYTimes.com

April 13, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/nyregion/in-mayor-bloombergs-jet-setting-heart-a-love-for-helicopters.html

reusable.py is a less than 200 lines of Python code to demonstrate the danger of password reuse

April 13, 2012

http://dazzlepod.com/reusable/

How to build your own 135TB RAID6 storage pod for $7,384 | ExtremeTech

April 12, 2012

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/90634-how-to-build-your-own-135tb-raid6-storage-pod-for-7384
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Beyond detailing the creation of Storage Pod 2.0, Backblaze also provides some interesting insights into the world of cloud storage. In terms of raw hardware, 1 petabyte now only costs about $57,000. Using Storage Pods, Backblaze can provide 1PB with power, rack space, and bandwidth for three years, for just $95,000. By comparison, 1PB of storage using Dell’s PowerVault arrays costs no less than $502,000 over three years. If you want to store 1PB in Amazon’s S3 cloud, it will cost you just under $2.5 million.

Google testing its ‘reality glasses’

April 8, 2012

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/google-begins-testing-its-augmented-reality-glasses/# http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9c6W4CCU9M4

Article: Retrosift Scans Your Emails for Every (Cringeworthy) Photo You’ve Ever Sent

March 30, 2012

Retrosift Scans Your Emails for Every (Cringeworthy) Photo You’ve Ever Sent
http://allthingsd.com/20120330/retrosift-scans-your-emails-for-every-cringeworthy-photo-youve-ever-sent/

Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class – NYTimes.com

March 30, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html

flexible factories in east Asia, SF dinners with a networth of $69B around the table

Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class – NYTimes.com

March 29, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html
flexible factories in east Asia

Article: Disconnect: Ex-Googlers Raise Funding To Stop Google, Twitter & More From Tracking Your Data

March 24, 2012

Disconnect: Ex-Googlers Raise Funding To Stop Google, Twitter & More From Tracking Your Data
http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/disconnect-me-raise/

UCR Today: Using Twitter to Predict Financial Markets

March 24, 2012

http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/4158