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The iPad Factory Suicides: A Fact Check

11:07PM April 8, 2010 | John Herrman

To be suspicious of Foxconn, especially when it comes to its treatment of workers, is reasonable: They have serious issues. But today’s Telegraph report about a spate of suicide attempts at Foxconn’s Longhua can be explained away by statistics. More »


Eastern Telegraph’s Vast Network of Undersea Cables, Circa 1901

11:40PM February 10, 2009 | John Herrman

The year Queen Victoria died and Emperor Hirohito was born, there already existed a globe-spanning network of electronic communications cables. Not quite as cool as you thought you were, huh 2009? [Reddit]

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