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The Wire June 9, 2015 In an intriguing case of abuse, a Bengaluru-based programmer was on Monday threatened with a criminal lawsuit for attempting to expose an avaricious program that violated net ne…
1. Inside the mind of the man behind Google's most important products "So when Pichai talks about the next billion people about to come online with smartphones, I get the impression that, fo…
The Wire June 7, 2015 In 1968, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter from Robert Ho Man Kwok, a doctor in Maryland. Kwok wrote that he experienced symptoms like an allergic reaction…
The Wire June 4, 2015 From behind the thick curtains of the Indian Meteorological Department’s offices, it was announced on June 2 that the monsoon forecast for 2015 was being revised from 93% to 88%…
1. India's heat wave has been made worse by its humidity "But at least these places had a “dry heat,” and overnight temperatures have been falling into the 80s. Along the coast, temperatures…
The Wire June 2, 2015 DUAL_EC_DRBG is the name of a program that played an important role in the National Security Agency’s infiltration of communication protocols, which was revealed by whistleblowe…
The Wire May 29, 2015 https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/603533857523044352 Alex Parker is a planetary astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute, Texas, and he posted his tweet just as I st…
The Wire May 26, 2015 English is a happy language. At least the 10,000 most used English words are positively biased, according to a 2012 study conducted by mathematicians from the University of Verm…
The Wire May 25, 2015 The economist and Nobel Laureate Robert Solow once said, “It wasn’t until Nash that game theory came alive for economists.” He was speaking of the work of John Forbes Nash, Jr.,…
The Wire May 23, 2015 On May 22, the Indian Space Research Organization released two new pictures snapped by the Mars Orbiter Mission, currently in orbit around the red planet. They were taken by the…
It’s been one year since we launched Curious Bends – a newsletter where we bring you science, technology, data and India stories from around the web, once a week (subscribe). We’ve enjoyed serving yo…
I've missed writing/commenting on so many science papers/articles in the two weeks following the launch of The Wire. The concepts in many of them would've made fun explainers, some required a…