Author: MrWalker
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121-Megapixel Photo of Earth
A timelapse of Planet Earth from Electro-L, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40000km above the Earth. The satellite creates a 121 megapixel image every 30 minutes with four visible and infrared light wavelengths. The infrared light appears orange in these images, and shows vegetation. The images were obtained beginning on May 14th, 2011 and end on…
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What’s Behind Facebook’s ‘Sponsored Stories’
This was in the NYTimes One Day, Nick Bergus came across a link to an odd product on Amazon.com. He found it irresistibly funny and, as one does in this age of instant sharing, he posted the link on Facebook. Within days, friends of Mr. Bergus’s started seeing his post among the ads on Facebook…
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Free Wi-fi, Friend or Foe?
As mobile devices become more and more popular the demand for easy access to wi-fi increases as well. It is already pretty easy to access wi-fi in most places including coffee shops, restaurants, the mechanics, etc. Access to wifi will only become wider spread and easier to access especially when it is predicted 1 in…
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China Secretly Clones US High School
Hugh Pickens did not write about this when he wrote “A scenic mountain village in Austria called Hallstatt has been copied, down to the statues”, and this has also been missed in all of the major news papers, almost as if it never happened. "A scenic high school in Gresham, Oregon, USA called Gresham High…