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    A Cure for AIDS

    By Abby Seiff Posted on 11.14.2008 16 Comments

    Holy crap. These guys in Germany just cured AIDS! Of course, the procedure is so expensive, complicated, and risky that it's not replicable as a large-scale public health strategy, but we'll ignore that for a minute. Here's how they did it.

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    Illuminating the Dark Web

    By Paul Adams Posted on 11.14.2008 2 Comments

    When a government agency, medical office, or another institution scans a document and uploads it to a Web site, the images are not searchable -- they contain pictures of text, not the text itself. This is the so-called "Dark Web" -- its sinister-sounding name is just a reference to how difficult it is to search.



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