Gendered Tech During The Rise Of Radio

Girls in Chicago show off radio sets they’ve built (July 1924 Radio News magazine) Radio is for boys only. No girls allowed. Or at least that was the message from so many young men at the dawn of the medium. There was a sense of betrayal by many young men in the early 1920s that radio was no longer their exclusive domain. Girls...

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Chinese Hackers Infiltrate The New York Times, Steal Every Employee's Password

By NICOLE PERLROTHPublished: January 30, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO â€" For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees. After surreptitiously tracking the intruders to study their movements and help erect better defenses to block them, The Times and computer security experts...

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One Chart That Explains Why Apple Is Now A Broken Stock

It’s not that Apple isn’t making money. It made $13.1 billion last quarter. By some counts, that’s the largest non-oil-company quarterly profit ever. And it’s not that Apple can’t generate huge revenue growth. As its executives told shareholders in the earnings release, it managed to increase its truly staggering...

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Boeing Knew Batteries Were Dangerous Before Fires

By CHRISTOPHER DREW, HIROKO TABUCHI and JAD MOUAWADPublished: January 29, 2013 Even before two battery failures led to the grounding of all Boeing 787 jets this month, the lithium-ion batteries used on the aircraft had experienced multiple problems that raised questions about their reliability. Officials at All Nippon Airways, the jets’ biggest operator, said in an interview on Tuesday that...

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Why It's So Rare For A Wife To Be Taller Than Her Husband

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The Scientists Who Fly Into Hurricanes

Infrared satellite image of Hurricane Karl, showing three NASA aircraft heading into it. Credit: Terry Lathem On August 17, 2010, Terry Lathem flew through a hurricane to pick up some bacteria. He had a huge smile on his face. “It was the longest, most thrilling seven hour flight of my life,” he says. “Each passing hour provided...

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Apple Has A Porn Problem, And It's About To Get Worse

On Sunday, a number of news outlets ran stories covering the rise of easily-accessible pornography on the new video sharing app Vine, causing a firestorm of debate online. The New York Times' Nick Bilton tweeted that pornographic material was discoverable thanks to simple hashtags such as #porn. Vine doesn't have a porn problem â€" Apple has a policy problem But the truth is that Vine doesn't have a problem with...

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The Revolution That Could Change The Way You Park

By Hunter Oatman-Stanford There’s plenty to hate about drivingâ€"traffic jams, car accidents, speeding ticketsâ€"not to mention the endless headache of finding a spot to park. So what if you discovered an invention that could wean us from our vehicles, combating suburban sprawl and making city streets less dangerous, congested,...

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Body Armor Will Mimic Flexible Fish

IN DAYS of old, knights protected themselves in armour made up of tough, interlocking "scales". This idea might one day be revisited, with future soldiers decked out in scales inspired by the almost impenetrable skin of the "dragon fish". ...

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How To Be Schizophrenic -- And Successful

By ELYN R. SAKSPublished: January 25, 2013 LOS ANGELES THIRTY years ago, I was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia. My prognosis was “grave”: I would never live independently, hold a job, find a loving partner, get married. My home would be a board-and-care facility, my days spent watching TV in a day room with other people debilitated by mental illness. I would work at menial jobs when my symptoms...

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The Soviet Fire That Might Have Saved Apollo 1

On Jan. 27, 1967, the crew of Apollo 1 was killed when a fire broke out in their pure oxygen-soaked capsule during a routine pre-launch test. The dangers of an oxygen fire should have been obvious to NASA. It was obvious to the Apollo spacecraft’s builder, North American Aviation, who recommended the space agency not run tests with a highly pressurized spacecraft. It was also a danger the Soviet space...

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