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The best of the American Museum of Natural History’s rare book collection

These coy hippos come from a 19th century illustration in The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. They’re now part of a new book, published by New York’s American Museum of Natural History, that combines some of the best illustrations and artworks from the museum’s rare book collection .        

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Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August

hypnosec writes that the Tor network has witnessed a massive rise in the number of users connecting to it for the month of August. “The privacy-enhancing network is known for providing an anonymous browsing experience through the use of a series of encrypted relays, and has had as many as 500k users throughout this year so far. But if we check the latest statistics available through Tor Metrics Portal there has been a whopping 100 percent increase in the number of Tor clients and as many as 1, 200, 000 users are connecting to the network. The previous peak for the network was in January 2012, when it saw as many as 950, 000 users.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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NIN’s Hesitation Marks Will Come In an Audio-Nerds-Only Version

Trent Reznor has a treat for audio nerds. When Nine Inch Nails’ new record Hesitation Marks drops next week, it’ll be available in regular and audiophile versions. The two sonic flavors will be mixed differently—One mix for the headphone clutching masses who demand “loundness, ” and one mix for the nerds who want to hear every frequency the way it sounded in the studio. Read more…        

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Syrian Electronic Army Claims to Have Taken Over Twitter’s Domain (Updating)

Take this with a grain of salt for now, but the Syrian Electronic Army claims it’s taken over Twitter’s domain registration. Indeed, several public Whois listings show sea@sea.sy as the contact information for Twitter.com. We’ve reached out to Twitter, and the company responded that they’re “looking into it” Read more…        

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Nissan Wants Self-Driving to Be a $1000 Car Upgrade by 2020

Nissan got bold on Tuesday afternoon by announcing plans to build and, more notably, sell an affordable self-driving car by 2020. And when Nissan say affordable, it means it. The company estimates the cost of upgrading a luxury sedan to a luxury autonomous sedan will be just $1, 000. Read more…        

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Wall Street Traders Charged With Copying Code To Start Their Own Company

coondoggie writes “Talk about starting a business on shaky ground. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office says former Wall Street traders stole electronic trading source code and data from their then trading firm in an effort to start up their own financial business.” Sending yourself pilfered code through your company email account is probably not the wisest plan. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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This Database Lets You 3D Print and Explore Thousands of Fossils

Fossils are three-dimensional objects, but you aren’t really supposed to touch them, and you can’t see their depth and detail very easily over the internet. But a new database of fossils from the British Geological Survey actually has the necessary files for you to 3D print fossils yourself. Read more…        

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You No Longer Need To Be an Artist To Appear In Your Own Comic Book

If you haven’t been able to convince publishers your life would make for an awesome comic book, and can’t draw more than a crude stick figure facsimile of yourself, you can thank the imaging researchers at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan. They’ve created a fun system that can automatically generate manga-style comics starring anyone striking a pose in front of its camera. Read more…        

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Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down

An outage of one company’s servers might only affect that company’s customers — but when a major data center for Amazon hits kinks, sites that rely on the AWS cloud services all suffer from the downtime. That’s what happened today, when several major sites or online services (like Instagram and AirBnB) were knocked temporarily offline, evidently because of problems at an Amazon data center in Northern Virginia. From TechCrunch’s coverage of the outage: “The deluge of tweets that accompanied the services’ initial hiccups first started at around 4 p.m. Eastern time, and only increased in intensity as users found they couldn’t share pictures of their food or their meticulously crafted video snippets. Some further poking around on Twitter and beyond revealed that some other services known to rely on AWS — Netflix, IFTTT, Heroku and Airbnb to name a few — have been experiencing similar issues today.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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