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If spiders arent your cup of tea, this is one of those articles that could either help you overcome your fear or send you running for the hills. The metal spider pictured above was created by mechanical artist Christopher Locke who formed them out of scissors that were confiscated at airports by the TSA.

I dont know about you, but when I see a pair of barber shears, I am not thinking about creating a creepy-yet-awesome sculpture out of them. Locke on the other hand transforms the discarded metal into some startling mechanical imagery. You can almost see the spider pictured above getting ready to dine on the bug its holding captive.

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Knowing exactly how much and what type of cloud service a company needs is one of the more challenging aspects of deploying a cloud strategy, and most enterprises are getting it wrong, according to experts.

“The whole premise of the cloud should be to drive the IT director to think small, but people aren’t doing that,” says Sharon Wagner, president of Cloudyn, an Israeli company whose SaaS application helps businesses monitor their cloud usage and provides recommendations on how to right-size it. “Many customers are over provisioning, which leads directly to over paying.”

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It’s April 1, and that means pranks abound from around the Web. Here are some of our favorites.

It’s April Fools Day, and tech companies this year are out in full force to put a smile on your face. If you’re wondering where to go and get fooled online this year, look no further than some of the April Fools Day jokes that we’ve discovered.

Google Maps, a NES tribute

If you’ve needed directions recently and resorted to Google Maps, you might have noticed that the map was in 8-bit. Nice touch Google. For the

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By Scott Austin and Andrew Dowell

The developer of a controversial mobile app that used data from Facebook and Foursquare to reveal the location of nearby women defended its intentions Saturday after drawing a firestorm of criticism over privacy concerns.

On Saturday, Foursquare cut off access to the Girls Around Me app that made it possible to view the location of women on a map and their publicly available data and photographs from Facebook. Foursquare said the app violated a policy against aggregating information across venues.

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