The Electric Car Rises From the Dead
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- April 26, 2011 |
- 12:00 pm |
- Wired May 2011
Rapper Lil B's Recipe for Search-Optimized Success
Illustration: Jesse Lenz, Photo: Justin Jay
It takes more than tight beats and dope rhymes to make it in today’s hip hop game. You also need a rock-solid grasp of link analysis algorithms. Lil B, a 21-year-old MC, has skyrocketed to fame using tricks that could have been lifted from a primer on search engine optimization. His songs and videos have scored millions of views online, he’s the subject of several insanely popular memes, and his dance moves have been copped for an NFL end-zone celebration. To help us understand how he does it, Rebecca Gill of Web Savvy Marketing gave us a rundown of S...
Photo Gallery: Crazy Military Tracking, From Super Scents to Quantum Dots
Scents that make you trackable, indoors and out. Nanocrystals that stick to your body, and light up on night-vision goggles. Miniradar that maps your location on Google Earth.
You can run, but you'll learn it's hard to hide from a new range of military tech.
The Defense Department calls it “tagging, tracking and locating,” or TTL, this business of finding and following high-value targets on the battlefield. Ever since SEAL Team 6 took out Osama bin Laden, we’ve learned a lot about the technology used by special operators to find and reach their targets, from stealth helicopters to biometric...