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| Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:28 AM PST  10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. Why it's so hard for Toyota to find out what's wrong I won't lie to you: I was not a good engineering student. That's one of the reasons I went into journalism. But I managed to acquire a bachelor of sciences in mechanical engineering, and the recent Toyota hearings on Capitol Hill brought back a lot of memories. Specifically, memories about how engineers figure out why mechanical things fail. More @ WashingtonPost 2. You Have Got Mail -- From Nigeria An updated version of the Nigerian letter scam is making the rounds, and has already tricked 13,500 U.S. victims out of as much as $40.5 million. More @ Baron's 3. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg 'hacked into emails of rivals and journalists' The CEO of the world's most successful social networking website was accused of at least two breaches of privacy in a series of articles run by BusinessInsider.com.More @ DailyMail 4. RC truck source for robotics platform 5. Searching for gold during the Games During the past two weeks, athletes from around the world competed at the Games in Vancouver. While these thousands strove for gold, millions around the world searched for 2010 Winter Olympics, 밴 쿠버 동계올림픽 (Korean for "Vancouver Winter Olympics"), and Juegos Olimpicos de Invierno 2010 (Spanish for "2010 Olympic Winter Games") using Google search. More @ Googleblog 6. Keep Your Cloud, I'm a Customer Not a Consumer The cloud hype is getting thicker and smellier every day. All the cloud excitement is coming from those who hope to profit from it, the vendors and breathless tech journalists who can't think of anything worthwhile to write about. They're working very hard to make it sound like a wonderful thing, a miracle of rare device that will transform life as we know it. More @ LinuxToday 7. Android Phone Grows Up, Becomes Brain for Real Robot Playing with apps on an Android phone is fun. Building your own apps, even more so. But what about using the phone to operate a moving, talking bot? Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman have done exactly that. More @ Wired 8. Flatpacked AT-AT Model Doesn't Come From IKEA Or The Dark Side 9. 'Alice in Wonderland' shatters 3-D, IMAX records Audiences followed Tim Burton and Johnny Depp down the rabbit hole this weekend as Alice in Wonderland scored the sixth largest debut of all time, shattering box office records for 3-D and IMAX along the way. More @ USAToday 10. Top 10 Theoretical Megastructures A megastructure would be the most expensive and greatest achievement in mankind. If you are a science fiction fan, you will probably know most of the items on this list, but if you are not, they are fascinating ideas that could, potentially, one day become reality. Be sure to add your own favorites to the comments. More @ Listverse  |
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