How a Statistician Beat Scratch Lottery Tickets [Stats]

In North America, the lottery is a $70 billion-a-year industry, bigger than movies, music, and porn combined. But it's not infallible. That's what Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician, found out when he took a closer look at scratch lottery cards. More »

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Google Art Project offers gigapixel images of art classics, 'indoor' Street View of museums

Google's been hard at work over the past 18 months on something not many of us have been paying attention to lately: art. Specifically, the search giant has hooked up with 17 art museums around the world to offer tours of their internal galleries, using its familiar Street View tricycles, while also doing high-res images of 1,061 artworks that may be viewed on the newly launched Art Project web portal. Also there, you will find 17 special gigapixel images -- 7,000-megapixel versions of each participating venue's proudest possession. The resulting level of detail is nothing short of astounding and we've got videos of how it's all done after the break.

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IP addresses are about to run out. Will the world end?

According to one IPv6 provider, we are now just days away from the IPv4 ARPAgeddon, or IPocalypse [not to be confused with the iPocalypse].

With IPv4 providing only 4.3 billion addresses, we all knew that the end of the reckless and fancy-free Internet era was coming -- we just didn't know when. The death knell has started to ring. Asia is on its knees plaintively pleading for its fix of IP addresses. Smartphones, the fastest growing market, will soon be unable to connect to the Internet. You might turn on your desktop PC, only to be told that you need to wait for an IP address to become available.

In short, it's now high time to consider our options.

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IP addresses are about to run out. Will the world end? originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Newer Technology eSATA to USB 3.0 Adapter

If you have an eSATA drive and a computer with a USB 3.0 port, you can use this eSATA to USB 3.0 adapter from Newer Technology to take advantage of the faster data transfers.� This adapter is compatible with Mac (OS X 10.2.8 or later) and Windows computers (2000, XP, Vista, or 7) and requires [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/02/01/newer-technology-esata-to-usb-3-0-adapter/

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Use a virtual private server to BitTorrent faster and more efficiently

This week's series of tips is all about downloading files via BitTorrent. We'll highlight ways in which to torrent more efficiently, obtain higher download speeds, and generally make the whole process easier. For more tech tips, check our Tips index.

In almost every case, your download speed on a torrent is dictated by your upload speed. If you manage to download a few chunks, and then upload those at high speed, you will very soon find your pipe very full indeed.

Now, if you're lucky enough to have a juicy upload connection at home (a few megabits), you probably have no problem filling your entire downstream bandwidth. If you're stuck with a weak DSL connection, however, a virtual private server (VPS), or 'seedbox', is what you need.

A VPS [Google search link] can cost as little as a few dollars a month, and for that you get access to 100Mbps both upstream and down. 350 megabyte torrents will complete in just a few seconds, and in general you'll get more bandwidth than you'll ever need (100GB or more). Once your torrents are complete on your VPS, you can download to your home computer at full speed. This also leaves your home's upstream bandwidth free for other uses, like surfing the Web!

Most VPSes run Linux, though, so you will need to learn how to use a console torrent client like rTorrent -- but that's tomorrow's tip!

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Everyone's Robbing Vending Machines [Trendwatch]

In these troubling times, have you found yourself breaking into and robbing vending machines with a greater frequency? Join the club. Countless Americans are going to absurd lengths to obtain a handful of change and some deliciously criminal Snickers bars. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/3vTUXfPuStY/everyones-robbing-vending-machines

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It's Official: Smartphones Are Winning [Smartphones]

In the last three months of 2010, smartphone shipments doubled all the way up to 101.2 million handsets. Android shipped the most, sure. But the real winners are folks leaving their dumb old feature phones behind. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/b8CBO1Cc82s/its-official-smartphones-are-winning

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