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Guatemalan Police Archive Finds Evidence in Disappearance Case

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Workers at the archive discovered documents that led to the arrest of two active duty police officers suspected in the 1984 disappearance of university professor and labor leader Édgar Fernando Garcia. Montenegro founded the Mutual Support Group (GAM), one of the largest organizations representing the families of the disappeared in Guatemala.

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GeoGuessr made figuring out where on Earth you are the hottest new esport

The Verge

Using only the context clues gleaned from the surrounding fauna, climate, billboards, and language, players are challenged to identify their coordinates on a map as accurately as they can and, in certain competitive settings, as fast as they can. Was fiddling around with backbone and Google maps API v3 and decided to make a small application.