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Alex Hern

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"Circular mills": the perfect metaphor for a crowdsourced witchhunt
By Alex Hern - 25 April 17:55

"The separated workers then run in a densely packed circle until they all die from exhaustion".

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Ukip's Godfrey Bloom can't be misogynist, some of his best friends are women
By Alex Hern - 24 April 12:07

MEP QED.

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SpaceX Grasshopper makes its highest flight yet
By Alex Hern - 24 April 11:19

The Grasshopper made it 250m in the air, hovered, and landed back down.

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Reddit matures, and apologises
By Alex Hern - 23 April 18:04

The site's general manager has apologised for its conduct during the Boston crisis.

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Audrey Niffenegger's illustration for Raven Girl
Audrey Niffenegger's Raven Girl: the return of the illustrated book?
By Alex Hern - 23 April 11:00

Alex Hern finds that sometimes it's better to let someone else illustrate your words.

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Johannes Kepler, the 16th century astronomer for NASA's mission is named.
Kepler mission announces two exoplanets in the habitable "zone"
By Alex Hern - 19 April 16:41

The planets are the right temperature and size to support liquid water.

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The FBI's two suspect photos, now identified as the Tsarnaev brothers.
When crowdsourcing goes wrong: Reddit, Boston and missing student Sunil Tripathi
By Alex Hern - 19 April 11:59

Reddit's initial hunt to find the Boston bombers devolved rapidly into a sort of "racist Where's Wally", profiling – racially and otherwise – scores of innocent people.

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4Chan plays racist Where's Wally to find the Boston bomber
By Alex Hern - 18 April 9:24

There's enough misinformation coming from the traditional media itself over the bombings, but Reddit and 4Chan think they're helping.

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The Supreme Court case which didn't break the internet
By Alex Hern - 17 April 18:02

Do you "copy" a website just by reading it? No, thankfully.

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NZ parliament bursts into song as same-sex marriage bill is passed
By Alex Hern - 17 April 16:11

Pokarekare ana / Nga wai o waiapu / Whiti atu koe hine / Marino ana e.

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The Kobo Aura HD. Photograph: Kobo
Kobo fights Amazon with the one thing it has that the giant doesn't: friends
By Alex Hern - 16 April 9:51

The Aura HD is a great bit of hardware, but that's not where the battle of ereaders is being fought.

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Whatever happened to the Telegraph defending the right to offend?
By Alex Hern - 12 April 9:53

Thatcherites of the world, be reasonable.

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Anarchist group smashed window of Barnardo's for thing it didn't do
By Alex Hern - 11 April 11:25

FAI claim Barnardo's "fund and administrate" a detention centre. Which they don't.

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Apple under fire for "homophobic" comic censorship, but it's Comixology who's to blame
By Alex Hern - 10 April 10:26

SAGA 12 is not for sale due to gay sex. Earlier issues, with explicit hetero sex, are still available.

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How Wikipedia covered Thatcher's death
By Alex Hern - 09 April 17:18

Edit wars and Alex Salmond.

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RSPB: James Delingpole "has not looked into the evidence in a balanced way"
By Alex Hern - 09 April 11:45

RSPB also currently preparing research note into defecatory habits of Ursae in woodland areas.

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Google's strategy for winning the smartphone wars: don't fight the smartphone wars
By Alex Hern - 08 April 17:27

Why beat Apple if you can make money from them?

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Technicolour dimensions: John Smith and Edmund Bagwell's Indigo Prime
By Alex Hern - 07 April 19:42

Anthropocalyptic.

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Facebook Home on an HTC First. Photograph: Facebook
Facebook Home launches to eat Google's lunch
By Alex Hern - 05 April 9:15

The company has rolled out a replacement for the Android home screen.

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Chart of the day (slight return): Deadly earthquakes
By Alex Hern - 02 April 15:05
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Church of England commits sins against statistics
By Alex Hern - 26 March 12:18

"Four out of five British adults believe in the power of prayer." Really? Really?

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The Health and Safety Executive is tired of trying to reason with you people
By Alex Hern - 25 March 17:16

"Flapjacks? Flap this," the HSE didn't say.

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11 Things We Hope We See On Buzzfeed UK
By Alex Hern - 25 March 14:43

Buzzfeed UK launches today. We have high hopes. Here are some pieces we're hoping they'll decide to write.

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A week on from the shuttering of Reader, does anyone trust Google yet?
By Alex Hern - 21 March 19:06

Google lied, Reader died.

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An advert taken out by Adobe in May 2010, aimed at convincing Apple to include F
You can survive without Flash. And now Adobe might have to
By Alex Hern - 20 March 10:23

Apple has hired Adobe's CTO. Is this the death of Flash?

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The depressing suburbanisation of SimCity
By Alex Hern - 14 March 15:54

Once we built arcologies. Now we're one step away from gated communities, writes Alex Hern.

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What should I use instead of Google Reader?
By Alex Hern - 14 March 10:40

The company is retiring its RSS reader. But there are some viable replacements, writes Alex Hern.

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Don't fear Facebook, pity it. It's a datavore with no data
By Alex Hern - 13 March 17:52

Facebook can draw inferences from your likes. But who has any likes anymore?

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Why Crossrail's new roundel matters more than it seems
By Alex Hern - 13 March 13:54

The suburban line will be properly integrated into the London Transport network.

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An image from The Flash.
The new Flash comic: what happens when an artist tries writing too?
By Alex Hern - 10 March 11:24

Alex Hern reviews The Flash: Move Forward by DC.

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