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Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
A troubled U.S. Army vet clandestinely joined the fight against Assad in Syria. - bitbucket.org
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Netflix Comes To Cubatechcrunch.com
Streaming video service Netflix will be available to Cuban customers starting today, at the $7.99 U.S. per month rate that it offers in the U.S., the company.. - joshdoody.com
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The Evolution of Altruismchronicle.com
Biology and culture meet morality and wistful inference as we strive to define and refine our better angels. - pipeline.corante.com
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Beauty Spots and French Poxearlymodernmedicine.com
Katie Aske returns this week in her second guest blog post - the first one is here . This week Katie is discussing beauty spots! The beauty spot is the trademark of the eighteenth-century's... -
Developing a Software Library for Graph Analytics » SEI Blogblog.sei.cmu.edu
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$500k of Azure credit for YC startupsblog.ycombinator.com
Over the last month, we’ve announced special deals to help YC biotech and hardware companies. But we don’t want to leave YC software companies out. We are happy to announce the Microsoft... -
snowblowing is NP-completepunkrockor.wordpress.com
The recent winter storm left a lot of snow on my driveway. A lot. My driveway is the perfectly place for huge snowdrifts to form. A tweet of my shoveling resulted in the discovery of The Snowblower... -
Toys (and Patient Parents) Made Me an Engineerrachelberry.me
"How'd you get into that?" "What made you decide to pick that major?" "Really? You're an engineer? You don't look like an engineer." Just a few of the various responses I get when I respond to the question, "So what... - w00tsec.blogspot.com
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Improving UIBezierPath Performance and APIblog.getlooseleaf.com
I shared two weeks ago how I built the scissors feature in Loose Leaf; short story, lots and lots of UIBezierPath. As I worked through the algorithm for slicing paths together, it didn’t take me long... -
This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognitionzachholman.com
Writings, screencasts, and talks by Zach Holman. Zach works at GitHub and enjoys consuming cherry pies. - arxiv.org
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IBM Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to developers - Watson Devdeveloper.ibm.com
We are pleased to take our first steps in bringing the ability to recognize speech ("Speech to Text") and produce speech ("Text to Speech") to IBM Watson developers. These services allow you to build applications that can take speech as input and retur... -
Which Companies Wasted the Most Money on Super Bowl Commercialsblog.embed.ly
Super Bowl ad spots are expensive — ranging from $20M to $135M. If an ad does well, people will talk about it, share it, and watch it online. One way to measure success is how many views videos got on...