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Weekend Diversion: Superman vs. Baseballmedium.com
With superhuman speed, strength and precision, how far could the man of steel hit a baseball? -
Of SNOWTRON and Snowzilla: How Boston Removed Snow From its Streets Throughout Historyboston.com
From horses to highways, how Boston kept its streets clear of the white stuff. -
Almost Human: The Surreal, Cyborg Future of Telemarketingtheatlantic.com
Americans are fielding millions of calls from bright, energetic telemarketers, but what they don't know is that they're talking to machines... Sort of. - austinzheng.com
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U.S. Spies on Millions of Carswsj.com
The Justice Department has been building a database to track in real time the movement of vehicles around the U.S., a secret intelligence-gathering program that scans hundreds of millions of records about motorists. -
Elite's crazy tokenised string routine — Matt Godbolt’s blogxania.org
In which I lift the lid on BBC classic Elite and its text handling - cr.yp.to
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Barbarians at the farm gateeconomist.com
IN THE next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food than they did in the previous 10,000 put together. But with sprawling cities gobbling up arable land,... -
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lwn.net
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bettermovement.org
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github.com
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ikrisoft.blogspot.com
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OpenWormopenworm.org
OpenWorm is an open source project dedicated to creating a virtual C. elegans nematode in a computer. -
An ECB QEsplainermedium.com
This week the ECB finally introduced its long-awaited Quantitative Easing program (pro-tip for journos and talking heads… -
github.com
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hosted.ap.org
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One Codex (YC S14) wins the CDC's "No-Petri Dish" Challengeblog.ycombinator.com
Congratulations to the One Codex team! Read about the "No-Petri Dish" Challenge on their blog: "We're excited to announce that the CDC's Advanced Molecular Detection initiative has named One... - smallhadroncollider-labs.github.io