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MIT Uses Social Networking to Win High-Tech Scavenger Hunt

By admin | December 9, 2009

MIT Uses Social Networking to Win High-Tech Scavenger Hunt

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a social-networking scavenger hunt over the weekend, locating 10 red weather balloons tethered across the country in less than nine hours, The New York Times reports. And all it took was a sort of pyramid scheme.

The contest was organized by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research arm of the

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