BrandonMarc

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• Ongoing edit war over the Wikipedia article for Benford's Law

  by BrandonMarc on 11/9/2020, 3:38 AM with 1 comments

• Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)

  by BrandonMarc on 2/2/2020, 11:40 PM with 9 comments

• (2015 article in Nature) Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research

  by BrandonMarc on 2/2/2020, 6:22 PM with comments

• Hong Kongers avoid China's internet censorship with peer-to-peer mesh network

  by BrandonMarc on 9/5/2019, 3:38 PM with 1 comments

• 2020 Democrat field wants to expand union power in Silicon Valley (except Biden)

  by BrandonMarc on 9/3/2019, 5:51 PM with 0 comments

• Ghislaine Maxwell found living with tech CEO at secluded $3M mansion near Boston

  by BrandonMarc on 8/15/2019, 4:22 AM with 0 comments

• If only Turing was alive to see this

  by BrandonMarc on 6/25/2019, 11:02 PM with 1 comments

• Poop in hand, Bill Gates backs China's “toilet revolution”

  by BrandonMarc on 11/6/2018, 4:48 PM with 0 comments

• Google 'design lead' wishes for Republicans to burn in hell in Twitter outburst

  by BrandonMarc on 10/9/2018, 7:44 PM with comments

• Texas Supreme Court decision another small victory for Airbnb

  by BrandonMarc on 6/3/2018, 2:24 AM with 0 comments

• As hurricane Harvey slams gulf coast, Facebook and Instagram go offline

  by BrandonMarc on 8/26/2017, 8:12 PM with 1 comments

• U.S. senators to introduce bill to secure 'internet of things'

  by BrandonMarc on 8/4/2017, 11:55 PM with 4 comments

• Swimming in a chlorinated pool may turn sunscreen into carcinogen

  by BrandonMarc on 6/30/2017, 4:44 AM with 0 comments

• Discounted Amazon Prime is now available for EBT recipients at just $6

  by BrandonMarc on 6/8/2017, 3:02 AM with comments

• Texas governor signs bill bringing Uber, Lyft back to Austin

  by BrandonMarc on 6/4/2017, 4:36 PM with 3 comments

• Cringely – how Amazon’s Echo Dot could make a good SIDS alarm

  by BrandonMarc on 5/15/2017, 5:32 PM with 1 comments

• Google's Home TV ad makes Google Home systems go crazy

  by BrandonMarc on 2/6/2017, 9:09 PM with 0 comments

• Man meets woman on Tinder, butchers her, tries to dissolve in acid

  by BrandonMarc on 12/26/2016, 7:52 PM with comments

• ISIS app for children simulates 9/11-style attacks on Western landmarks

  by BrandonMarc on 12/19/2016, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• 15% of accounts discussing US election on Twitter are bots

  by BrandonMarc on 11/8/2016, 3:22 PM with 1 comments

• Truck driver shortage prompts calls for driverless big rigs

  by BrandonMarc on 9/30/2016, 4:06 PM with 1 comments

• Chinese government flexes muscles with Uber, DreamWorks probes

  by BrandonMarc on 9/5/2016, 4:01 AM with 0 comments

• More People Are Using Drones to Catch Their Cheating Partners

  by BrandonMarc on 9/1/2016, 3:38 AM with 1 comments

• DNC Creates 'Cybersecurity Board' Without Any Cybersecurity Experts

  by BrandonMarc on 8/28/2016, 4:43 AM with 0 comments

• DCLeaks Website Down, Twitter Account Suspended After Releasing Soros Docs

  by BrandonMarc on 8/28/2016, 4:39 AM with comments

• GitHub: the logical next purchase for Microsoft after LinkedIn

  by BrandonMarc on 6/17/2016, 4:04 PM with 1 comments

• Microsoft alienating women? Scantily clad 'schoolgirl' dancers at official party

  by BrandonMarc on 3/21/2016, 12:15 AM with comments

• Revelations over IRS use of secret cellphone tracking systems

  by BrandonMarc on 10/30/2015, 5:03 AM with comments

• The arms race for anti-drone weaponry

  by BrandonMarc on 10/30/2015, 5:01 AM with 0 comments

• China abandons one-child policy

  by BrandonMarc on 10/30/2015, 4:59 AM with comments

• SpaceX's anti-hacker tech powers UK launch of security startup

  by BrandonMarc on 6/2/2015, 9:38 PM with 0 comments

• Fukushima robot 'dies' three hours after entering radioactive reactor zone

  by BrandonMarc on 4/13/2015, 4:05 PM with 1 comments

• Meet the robot insects that fly, work together and catch objects like chameleons

  by BrandonMarc on 4/3/2015, 9:58 PM with 0 comments

• Irish farmer turns drone into flying sheepdog

  by BrandonMarc on 3/31/2015, 6:08 PM with 1 comments

• Drone the size of a Micro SD card

  by BrandonMarc on 3/7/2015, 9:04 PM with comments

• Humans need not apply

  by BrandonMarc on 3/7/2015, 6:05 AM with 0 comments

• 100th Merlin 1D engine flies on Falcon 9 rocket

  by BrandonMarc on 2/23/2015, 6:29 PM with 1 comments

• by BrandonMarc on 1/10/2015, 2:01 AM with comments

• Fukushima radiation: US West Coast will likely see peak by end of 2015

  by BrandonMarc on 12/30/2014, 6:04 PM with 0 comments

• At Russia's request, Facebook blocks page of Putin's top critic

  by BrandonMarc on 12/21/2014, 7:06 PM with 0 comments

• Silicon Valley homeless no longer welcome in 'the Jungle'

  by BrandonMarc on 12/4/2014, 9:55 PM with 0 comments

• How Feminists Ruined Women's Careers in Programming

  by BrandonMarc on 12/1/2014, 7:39 PM with 3 comments

• Facebook Can't Cite Evidence to Support Claims of U.S. Tech Worker Shortage

  by BrandonMarc on 11/26/2014, 12:01 AM with 0 comments

• 'Bazillion Dollar Club', tv reality series about Silicon Valley

  by BrandonMarc on 11/26/2014, 12:00 AM with 0 comments

• China Shows Off Holographic Ground Control System for Drones

  by BrandonMarc on 11/25/2014, 6:36 PM with 0 comments

• Object 2014-28E – Space junk or Russian satellite killer?

  by BrandonMarc on 11/18/2014, 5:29 PM with 0 comments

• Seeking Mount Doom: Tor, the NSA, and does using encryption make you look guilty

  by BrandonMarc on 11/8/2014, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• Website Streams Camera Footage from Users Who Didn't Change Their Password

  by BrandonMarc on 11/7/2014, 6:38 PM with 9 comments

• Hacking Team Documentation

  by BrandonMarc on 10/31/2014, 5:44 PM with 0 comments

• December launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 to try 1st-stage landing on floating platform

  by BrandonMarc on 10/24/2014, 10:33 PM with 1 comments

• NYC Ebola Patient Took an Uber Before Going to the Hospital

  by BrandonMarc on 10/24/2014, 5:42 PM with 0 comments

• Analysis of Printer Watermarking Techniques

  by BrandonMarc on 10/24/2014, 5:39 PM with 3 comments

• Texas Health Workers Use Tabasco to Help Train for Ebola

  by BrandonMarc on 10/24/2014, 5:35 PM with 0 comments

• SpaceX Completes 100th Merlin 1D Engine

  by BrandonMarc on 10/23/2014, 5:40 AM with 0 comments

• Google StreetView using camels to travel Arabian desert

  by BrandonMarc on 10/20/2014, 6:45 PM with 1 comments

• Airbus starts development of reusable rockets (article translated from German)

  by BrandonMarc on 10/17/2014, 7:36 PM with 0 comments

• Sierra Nevada lays off some staff; future of Dream Chaser uncertain

  by BrandonMarc on 9/25/2014, 7:56 PM with 0 comments

• Google employees secretly living in the Googleplex

  by BrandonMarc on 9/10/2014, 10:52 PM with 2 comments

• Roombot robots assemble themselves into furniture [video]

  by BrandonMarc on 9/9/2014, 4:57 PM with 0 comments

• Déjà Vu: Tesla Fight Erupts in Georgia as Dealers Seek Sales Ban

  by BrandonMarc on 9/2/2014, 4:30 PM with 0 comments

• 3D Printed Concrete Castle

  by BrandonMarc on 8/30/2014, 5:13 AM with 0 comments

• A wind farm has been paid £11M not to produce electricity

  by BrandonMarc on 8/29/2014, 4:19 PM with 0 comments

• Lockheed Martin seeks to clean up space junk

  by BrandonMarc on 8/27/2014, 4:40 PM with 0 comments

• Former HHS Cyber Security Director Convicted for Child Porn

  by BrandonMarc on 8/27/2014, 4:53 AM with 0 comments

• CA city hopes to avoid bankruptcy with new tax revenue, from marijuana

  by BrandonMarc on 8/26/2014, 6:12 PM with 0 comments

• Los Angeles official who opposes Uber and Lyft received $11K from taxi industry

  by BrandonMarc on 8/26/2014, 6:09 PM with 0 comments

• Falcon 9 test vehicle destroyed in accident

  by BrandonMarc on 8/23/2014, 5:57 PM with 1 comments

• Drone drops mobile phones over prison walls

  by BrandonMarc on 8/20/2014, 7:15 AM with 0 comments

• You are not too late to the game

  by BrandonMarc on 8/15/2014, 9:57 PM with 0 comments

• Bio-hacking: how ZMapp, a potential Ebola treatment, is produced

  by BrandonMarc on 8/14/2014, 4:33 AM with 0 comments

• Anonymous Release Name, Address of St. Louis County Police Chief's Wife and Kids

  by BrandonMarc on 8/13/2014, 3:54 PM with comments

• Security researcher uses cat to locate weak Wi-Fi hotspots

  by BrandonMarc on 8/13/2014, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• China's 9-story mountain of trash

  by BrandonMarc on 8/12/2014, 4:08 AM with 0 comments

• by BrandonMarc on 8/12/2014, 4:08 AM with comments

• Spy satellites fighting crime from space

  by BrandonMarc on 8/12/2014, 3:43 AM with 0 comments

• App That Crowdsources 'Sketchy' Areas Fights Charges of Racism

  by BrandonMarc on 8/12/2014, 3:42 AM with 0 comments

• Massive Bitcoin Mines Spring Up in Warehouses

  by BrandonMarc on 8/8/2014, 5:22 AM with 0 comments

• Chase-plane view of SpaceX Falcon 9R soft landing in the Atlantic

  by BrandonMarc on 8/6/2014, 4:30 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Israel has been rocket-free for ...

  by BrandonMarc on 8/4/2014, 4:40 PM with 1 comments

• Ebola virus advisory from CDC to airlines

  by BrandonMarc on 8/1/2014, 4:28 AM with 0 comments

• Smartphone Apps Claim To Repel Mosquitoes

  by BrandonMarc on 7/24/2014, 4:44 PM with 0 comments

• Old and boring: “selfie” New hotnes: “dronie”

  by BrandonMarc on 7/24/2014, 4:39 PM with 0 comments

• “Magic number” for space pioneers calculated (2002)

  by BrandonMarc on 7/19/2014, 1:17 AM with 0 comments

• FAA environmental decision clears the way for SpaceX Texas spaceport

  by BrandonMarc on 7/11/2014, 9:20 PM with 0 comments

• Man claims he was kidnapped by Uber driver in DC

  by BrandonMarc on 7/10/2014, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

• Stem cell patient grows nose on her back, years after treatment

  by BrandonMarc on 7/10/2014, 5:08 PM with 0 comments

• How Heartbleed (Remediation) Opened Doors to Open Source Cybersecurity

  by BrandonMarc on 7/10/2014, 4:16 PM with 0 comments

• Solar system's solid planets and moons rendered as a single continent

  by BrandonMarc on 7/2/2014, 5:54 AM with 1 comments

• Boeing unveils "space taxi"

  by BrandonMarc on 6/28/2014, 4:29 AM with 0 comments

• Falcon launch delayed by one storm, as SpaceX gets caught up in another

  by BrandonMarc on 6/25/2014, 4:32 AM with 0 comments

• Internet blamed as wicked influence in Wisconsin stabbing

  by BrandonMarc on 6/6/2014, 3:26 PM with 0 comments

• App using Google Glass lets you shoot accurately around corners or behind cover

  by BrandonMarc on 6/5/2014, 3:21 PM with 0 comments

• In wake of stabbing, shaken parents stress need to monitor Internet

  by BrandonMarc on 6/3/2014, 9:13 PM with 0 comments

• Elon Musk announces mysterious announcement, mysteriously

  by BrandonMarc on 4/25/2014, 2:42 PM with comments

• Is Google too big to trust? (Schneier)

  by BrandonMarc on 4/24/2014, 10:44 PM with 1 comments

• Russia's surveillance state

  by BrandonMarc on 4/24/2014, 10:32 PM with 1 comments

• Asteroids cause dozens of nuclear-scale blasts in Earth's atmosphere

  by BrandonMarc on 4/22/2014, 8:10 PM with 0 comments

• China's air pollution may lead to stronger storms in US, say scientists

  by BrandonMarc on 4/16/2014, 6:54 PM with 0 comments

• Heartbleed explained in layman's terms (xkcd)

  by BrandonMarc on 4/11/2014, 3:51 PM with 3 comments

• NYC restaurant Googles every guest before they arrive to dine

  by BrandonMarc on 4/10/2014, 5:45 PM with 0 comments

• The War Nerd: This Is How the Carriers Will Die (Updated Version)

  by BrandonMarc on 4/10/2014, 3:52 PM with comments

• Anti-radiation 'body belt' developed by Israeli firm for nuclear emergencies

  by BrandonMarc on 4/9/2014, 10:32 PM with 0 comments

• Shipping firm first to use drones to navigate Arctic ice

  by BrandonMarc on 4/3/2014, 11:17 PM with 1 comments

• Beware the Ides of March: Subsea Cable Cut Trend Continues

  by BrandonMarc on 4/3/2014, 11:08 PM with 0 comments

• A deeper look at Turkey Twitter and YouTube, and Google DNS IPs sprayed as graffiti

  by BrandonMarc on 4/3/2014, 11:03 PM with 0 comments

• Ukraine spy dolphins defect to Russia. In other news, Ukraine had spy dolphins

  by BrandonMarc on 3/26/2014, 5:16 PM with 0 comments

• Spyware app turns the privacy tables on Google Glass wearers

  by BrandonMarc on 3/25/2014, 8:09 PM with 48 comments

• NASA: society may collapse due to inequality and environmental issues

  by BrandonMarc on 3/19/2014, 9:11 PM with 0 comments

• MH370 engines sent real-time data suggesting it flew 4 hrs after disappearance

  by BrandonMarc on 3/13/2014, 7:44 PM with 0 comments

• Missing Malaysian Jetliner Confuses World That's Online 24/7

  by BrandonMarc on 3/12/2014, 9:34 PM with 0 comments

• Reports that smartphones of missing Malaysian airliners' passengers are still on

  by BrandonMarc on 3/11/2014, 5:16 PM with 0 comments

• Radiation leak at New Mexico nuclear waste site raising concerns

  by BrandonMarc on 2/28/2014, 10:51 PM with 0 comments

• Thieves Break Into Cars Using Mysterious 'Black Box'

  by BrandonMarc on 2/28/2014, 10:49 PM with 49 comments

• World's largest aircraft unveiled – hybrid airship / plane / helo

  by BrandonMarc on 2/28/2014, 10:47 PM with 0 comments

• FAA Grounds Valentine's Flower Delivery Drone

  by BrandonMarc on 2/14/2014, 6:47 PM with comments

• Simulation of cat vision

  by BrandonMarc on 1/15/2014, 11:15 PM with 0 comments

• How an Xbox One owner trolls using his clever nickname

  by BrandonMarc on 1/11/2014, 6:33 AM with 0 comments

• Federal mission creep: FBI quietly drops law enforcement from mission statement

  by BrandonMarc on 1/7/2014, 4:56 PM with 0 comments

• Meet Roscoe Bartlett: The Congressman Who Went Off the Grid

  by BrandonMarc on 1/7/2014, 5:45 AM with 0 comments

• The NSA intercepts its targets' electronics purchases shipped by FedEx / UPS

  by BrandonMarc on 1/7/2014, 4:50 AM with 1 comments

• Dave Barry’s 2013 Year in Review: the Year of the Zombies

  by BrandonMarc on 1/3/2014, 6:06 AM with 0 comments

• Half the U.S. is already covered with snow: earliest in past decade

  by BrandonMarc on 12/24/2013, 6:07 AM with 0 comments

• Smartphone can use its microphone to extract RSA decryption key from laptop

  by BrandonMarc on 12/21/2013, 11:22 PM with 40 comments

• For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From Civilization, Unaware of WWII

  by BrandonMarc on 12/19/2013, 5:15 AM with 0 comments

• Man claims Wal-Mart banned him for life due to aggressive ad-matching

  by BrandonMarc on 12/11/2013, 5:29 PM with 0 comments

• There’s Now Video of Aaron Swartz Downloading Articles from MIT

  by BrandonMarc on 12/11/2013, 6:30 AM with 0 comments

• How the bottom 40% of US earners paid -9% in income taxes (yes, negative nine)

  by BrandonMarc on 12/11/2013, 6:29 AM with comments

• Electric Car Owner Arrested For Stealing 5 Cents' Worth Of Power

  by BrandonMarc on 12/5/2013, 7:51 AM with 0 comments

• A Look Inside The Hellscape Of One Of The World's Largest Electronic Waste Dumps

  by BrandonMarc on 12/5/2013, 7:36 AM with 0 comments

• Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute to kill snakes

  by BrandonMarc on 12/3/2013, 5:24 PM with 82 comments

• Being A Victim Of Revenge Porn Forced Me To Change My Name

  by BrandonMarc on 11/30/2013, 4:03 AM with 30 comments

• Virtual-Currency Craze Spawns Bitcoin Wannabes

  by BrandonMarc on 11/22/2013, 11:31 PM with 19 comments

• China is spying on Russia using imported household appliances

  by BrandonMarc on 10/31/2013, 8:37 PM with 0 comments

• Flowchart illustrates how to be online and avoid the NSA (maybe)

  by BrandonMarc on 10/4/2013, 1:41 AM with 0 comments

• FEMA Stops UAVs Mapping Disaster Area After Colorado Flood

  by BrandonMarc on 9/21/2013, 5:01 AM with 0 comments

• China's Empty Cities

  by BrandonMarc on 9/21/2013, 4:57 AM with 52 comments

• Handing out constitutions on campus? Police would like a word with you (video)

  by BrandonMarc on 9/20/2013, 6:31 PM with 0 comments

• China to launch unmanned lunar lander before January

  by BrandonMarc on 8/28/2013, 4:07 PM with 0 comments

• Apple patents tech to let cops switch off iPhone video, camera and wi-fi

  by BrandonMarc on 8/22/2013, 4:40 AM with -1 comments

• Does Skype-bombing a witness count as Contempt of Court?

  by BrandonMarc on 7/4/2013, 4:17 AM with 0 comments