There are two major camps in the web design business when it comes to mockups — one camp designs pixel-perfect comps in Photoshop that are intended to represent the final design as accurately as possible, and the other believes that doing a quick, simple wireframe on paper or in a tool likeOmniGraffleand moving straight from there to the text editor is the way to go. Then there’s a third camp that’s more recent with fewer adherents — using HTML and CSS to wireframe and iterating on that in the browser to create the design....

Remember when Creative made interesting products that actually looked decent? Yeah, it’s been a while. This new Zen Style M300 music player looks like a step in the right direction though. The M300 is a music player with touch-sensitive buttons that has a built-in FM radio and a microSD card slot. The entire screen isn’t touch-sensitive so it’s not quite Nano-like in that respect. The addition of Bluetooth functionality and the ability to add more memory are both certainly welcome....

This article wasoriginally published on The Markupby Aaron Sankin, Dhruv Mehrotra for Gizmodo, Surya Mattu, and Annie Gilbertson and was republished under theCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativeslicense. Between 2018 and 2021, more than one in 33 U.S. residents were potentially subject to police patrol decisions directed by crime prediction software called PredPol. The company that makes it sent more than 5.9 million of these crime predictions to law enforcement agencies across the country—from California to Florida, Texas to New Jersey—and we found those reports on an unsecured server....

“The revolution will not be televised”, goes the old saying – well, it’s certainly being tweeted today. Tunisia is in crisis right now and the raw, hard facts are being spread live as they happen via Twitter – but the fast-moving, confusing series of events shows just how difficult it can be to follow breaking news via Twitter. It appears that right now in Tunisia the president has left the country, the military are in charge, rioting is taking place – in short, it sounds like chaos....

CRISPR’s Nobel Prize sent gene-editing stocks into overdrive It’s been a great month for CRISPR stocks Wall Street rates CRISPR-powered stocks CRISPR offers a relatively cheap and relatively method of editing practically any kind of DNA (animal or otherwise). As one might expect, it’s already triggered a myriad of moral, ethical, and legal troubles for scientists, but researchers say the tool could lead to cures for a wide array of genetic diseases....