C’est Magnifique! C’est le Tour de France!

This year's Tour de France was the hundredth edition of the world's biggest and best bicycle race - and it proved to be a race to remember. Jack Thurston talks with 'Buffalo' Bill Chidley about three weeks of outstanding bike racing. Next year the Tour will begin in Yorkshire and cycling journalist Peter Cossins is already excited about the race passing right by his house in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.



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World’s Biggest Data Breaches

This weekend, Apple’s developer site was hacked. 275,000 logins, passwords and other records potentially compromised. Two days before that, popular open-source operating system Ubuntu had its forums hacked. 1.82 million records stolen.

Are those big data breaches? Or just pin-points in the big data universe?

Explore our interactive dataviz of the World’s Biggest Data Breaches and find out.

We’ve pulled out the interesting and funny stories out of the data. Click on the bubbles to read.

quick analysis

Using the filter on the dataviz reveals a few interesting patterns.

• Academic & financial institutions seems to have tightened their security since the mid 2000 – or become less attractive targets


• Gaming sites, cumulatively, account for the biggest data breaches


• Healthcare is truly truly leaky – a very worrying trend – with over 50% of the breaches coming from stolen or lost computers


• Accidental publishing seems to be a growing trend – recently with Facebook granting inadvertant access to 6 million records

If we’ve missed any big breaches, please let us know or comment underneath the viz.

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Unfold Radio - Sun 21st July 2013

Unfold with Robert Luis

Sunday 21st July 10pm-12am

Juice 107.2 fm

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Boardman versus Obree

The sporting rivalry between Chris Boardman and Graeme Obree is among the greatest in history, on a par with Ovett and Coe, Borg and McEnroe or Ali and Frazier. Twenty years on from their record-breaking exploits, Jack Thurston and Edward Pickering consider how their era marked a turning point in British cycle sport and how [...]



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How to Spot a Fake Arduino

Arduino's Massimo Banzi wrote a lengthy piece on the Arduino blog describing the organization's challenges with fakes, clones, derivatives, and Kickstarter name-droppers.

Read more on MAKE

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OpenReflex: another exciting step in 3D printing

So we were pretty excited to come across this fantastic project - and if you haven't yet, get ready for a whoa moment...

Recent design graduate Leo Marius has created the very first 3D-printed SLR camera! That's right, he only went and printed an entire camera (minus the lens and the film). But what got us even more excited, was when we realised that he has used sugru to ensure the entire housing is lightproof.

Wooo, sugru!

Leo has put the entire process on his Instructables guide, so those lucky enough to have access to a 3D printer can make it for themselves.The parts take around 15 hours to print, and about an hour to assemble.

This is pretty close to how we felt when we discovered that HYREL had managed to 3D print with sugru back in June.

Could this help get people using SLR cameras again? With Leo's invitation to "copy, understand, improve then share again" we reckon it's a design that will only get better and better.

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