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| Posted: 08 Nov 2010 06:48 AM PST  Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful: 1. The Man Who Called the Financial Crisis—70 Years Early Decades before anybody had ever heard of a mortgage derivative, an economist named Melchior Palyi predicted key causes of the 2008-2009 financial crisis with precision that makes a modern reader's hair stand on end. More @ WSJ.com 2. Weird science finds math absolutely shocking Last week, we had electric currents to the brain inducing flashbacks. This week, the same sort of jolt to a different area of the brain gives us... better math skills? So it seems, at least provided the wires are hooked up properly. More @ ArsTechnica 3. Web Browsing Takes a Social Turn Silicon Valley is awash in tales of the "PayPal Mafia," the tight-knit group of PayPal alumni who have helped one another start and finance a crop of new companies. More @ NYTimes 5. Why Apple can't beat Android For the better part of 20 years, Mac lovers fumed in frustration as Apple languished in sub-5% PC market share territory. Wintel dominated. Big, ugly, buggy, clunky, and everywhere. More @ VentureBeat 6. Building the Simple Enterprise In the enterprise, simplicity simply doesn't sell. Complexity, on the other hand, justifies costly software licenses and a swat team of consultants and systems integrators. More @ TechCrunch 7. The power of Google Instant, now in your pocket Google Instant makes search faster by displaying not just predictions but actual search results as you type. This saves valuable time on a desktop browser, but wouldn't it be great to have Google Instant on mobile devices, where each keystroke and page load is much slower and you frequently have just a moment to find the information you need? More @ Googleblog 8. Ben Heck modifies Toshiba Satellite for cramped flights, throws TSA the peace sign  More @ Engadget9. 5 Torrent Files That Broke Mind Boggling Records BitTorrent was first released by Bram Cohen back in 2001, but it took two years before the new file-sharing protocol gained a notable audience. In the years that followed millions of torrent files were downloaded and shared billions of times. More @ TorrentFreak 10. Top 10 Cases of Extreme Game Addiction Video games can be very addicting; in fact, some people accuse developers of making the games addictive on purpose. The following are 10 cases of video game addiction that get more and more extreme. More @ Listverse  |
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