Geek Life 4.27.11

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You don’t need expensive software for basic PDF tasks. In fact, all you need is a handful of free web-based apps.

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

The plaintiffs and defense have rested their cases, as well as their rear ends.

Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited capacity to produce them.

Find out whether a single Wi-Fi router or a mesh system makes the most sense for your home network.

In this excerpt from WIRED Book Club pick The Yahoo Boys, journalist Carlos Barragán traces one scammer’s journey from flop to fortune.

The many methods we use to gather data ultimately boil down to either counting or comparing.

You don’t need to buy a smart grill to make perfect meat. You can buy a dumb grill and send it to school with smart upgrades.

The USDA this week confirmed the first known infection of the carnivorous fly larva, which feast on the flesh of living mammals, after the United States eradicated the nightmare bugs in the 1960s.

I put my family on a private social network, and all I got was this lousy group chat. At least it’s secure.

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.