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Long before the Occupy movements, Occupy Wifi has been going on for years. Often you see “Free Wifi” that’s been hacked in some areas for anyone to use. In Japan, this hasn’t happened. If you’re a smart phone user, laptop carrier, iPad using traveller, Wifi  is important, but you won’t find it often in Tokyo. The antidote? Wifi vending machine that dispenses 30 minute passes in a 50 meter radius. How much will it be? Hopefully around $3? Can you share it? Will a community of Wifi junkies hack the system and make it not free but cheap? (zdnet – vending Wifi)  
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Each withdrawal is capped at 5.5 lbs?! or 156,000. China and India buy the most gold and Beijing just got it’s own machine. It’s not that impressive in the end, since machines like this do exist, but 5.5 lbs? Since gold is a standard of valuing currency, this makes easy sense as to why China is buying gold. It’s better than the US dollar, right? (Channel News Asia – Gold Vending)  
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