World’s largest portable 3D printer can print furniture

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Last week the Dutch gave us the world’s largest Facebook party and this week they give us the world’s largest, portable pavilion 3D printer. Those Dutch do indeed go big. The Dutch architecture firm DUS unveiled the KamerMaker, a printer they say is “the world’s first movable 3-D print pavilion”, in an open source project…

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What causes that unique rainy smell after it rains?

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It’s that distinctive earthy, musky scent that occurs after a good rain, and it has a name unbefitting its pleasant smell – “petrichor”. The petrichor odor is distinctive (and difficult to duplicate) because there are several sources/causes for the smell, including the force of the rain striking the soil and storm winds stirring everything up.…

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Car covered in speakers makes music out of noise

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The Sound Taxi toured London last week collecting music samples from random street noise in a project named Make the City Sound Better. The samples are then mixed into a groove – real time. Production software on board the taxi gathers street noise via microphones mounted on top of the car, mixes it real time,…

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If you are running Tor, you might be running a botnet too

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Security researchers have identified a new botnet that is controlled by attackers from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server running as a hidden service inside the Tor anonymity network. Unable to determine its real location or sniff its encrypted traffic, law enforcement are going to have a tough time shutting it down.

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Computer programmer humor

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Here’s a collection of funny computer programmer jokes. Warning: they are fairly technical so don’t expect to understand the punch line unless you are a computer programmer.

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Iran launches organized cyberattack against U.S. banks

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The banks of JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America are being increasingly targeted this week, in a systematic denial-of-service (DoS) attack against their websites. National security officials told NBC News that the cyber attacks are originating from the government of Iran and as a result, the cyber threat level was raised from “elevated” to…

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Still more Geek Jokes

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Keep ‘em coming.  More geek jokes. Bad or corrupt header, go get a haircut Unrecognized input, get out of the class Warning! Buffer overflow, close the tumbler ! WinErr 547: LPT1 not found… Use backup… PENCIL & PAPER Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes Best…

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