July 23, 2013

Cooking Outdoors

Cassandra Daily: Campers whose fancy tastes demand a certain measure of open- air refinement will appreciate this portable propane oven-and-stove by camping brand Coleman. The miniature oven not only evokes fond memories of a certain beloved toy, it also permits grander culinary variety in the great outdoors—encouraging intrepid outdoorsmen and women to venture beyond standard

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Hackers Sell Flaws in Computer Code

NY Times: On the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta, two Italian hackers have been searching for bugs — not the island’s many beetle varieties, but secret flaws in computer code that governments pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn about and exploit. The hackers, Luigi Auriemma, 32, and Donato Ferrante, 28, sell technical details

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The Rise of Robot Fruit Pickers

Associated Press: The engineers were testing the Lettuce Bot, a machine that can “thin” a field of lettuce in the time it takes about 20 workers to do the job by hand. The thinner is part of a new generation of machines that target the last frontier of agricultural mechanization — fruits and vegetables destined

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