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...command system developed in the late 1970s to initialize modems to ask the phone specific questions about the information it may be storing. Those commands, known as AT, were one of the tools 17-year-old hacker George Hotz used to unlock his iPhone from the AT&T network. "Coming into this project I didn't know that cell phones used AT commands," Hotz wrote on his blog last week, as he thanked his fellow hackers for their help...
...while many people can’t afford to see a top troupe, most can afford a cheap television set to access network programming. And among the slough of sitcoms and game shows on television stands “So You Think You Can Dance,” a program that features an interesting cross-section of today’s most skilled choreographers, dancers, and styles. There are little to no performances—even less-so, television shows—that feature hip hop and waltz in the same segment; that hold krumping and the contemporary lyrical dancing...
Less than 4% of Africa's population has Internet access, but that may be about to change. Until now, Africa's only connection to the network that powers the Internet was a submarine cable running from Portugal down the west coast of Africa. Now the International Finance Corp., the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group, is investing up to $32.5 million in an undersea fiber-optic-cable project called the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), reaching approximately 250 million more people. Here are the parts of Africa that will be newly wired...
...least a nod to the fact that MTV is no longer really a music video network, a few new categories have been added to the show. Male and Female artist of the year recognize an artist's complete body of work in 2007, while Monster Single of the Year and Quadruple Threat award (honoring "those boundary-busting artists who have conquered multiple worlds including, but not limited to; music, fashion, philanthropy, business, acting and dance") give the network's bookers latitude to honor celebrities who haven't had much of a video presence, but who might bring in some ratings...
...Most evaluations of public policies that involve cost effectiveness compute the cost at an individual level and then calculate the benefits,” Christakis said. “If our findings are correct, a 20-pound weight loss in you might also induce weight loss...in your social network. There may be an additional 180-pound loss, so our cost effectiveness has gone up by a factor of ten. So this would mean we’d have to rethink how we calculate cost-effectiveness...