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How Uber and Lyft have exploited long waits, slow travel and poor service to crack open transportationwashingtonpost.com
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Singapore Launches Program In San Francisco To Attract More U.S. Startupstechcrunch.com
Singapore is already one of the most developed startup hubs in Asia. Now its government wants to bring more U.S. startups to the city-nation. Earlier.. -
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Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature?motherboard.vice.com
A new 600-page, two volume epic about how to get rid of the homeless in SimCity. -
Special report: How the rise of a mega solar panel farm shows us the future of energygigaom.com
After about an hour of weaving up and down the winding, mountainous, two-lane highway that is route 58, eastbound from San Luis Obispo, I honestly started to wonder where 9 million solar panels — one of the world’s largest operating solar panel farms t... - pitt.edu
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Arduino-compatible Quirkbot lets kids build robots out of strawsgigaom.com
One year ago, a simple and very cool construction kit for children came out; called Strawbees, it lets kids develop their inner engineer by making all kinds of structures out of ordinary drinking straws and cardboard. Now, a spinoff project has emerged... -
God is my Co-Pilot……or is it Drone Deploy?theuavguy.wordpress.com
God is my Co-Pilot……or is it Drone Deploy? Introduction Recently I was approached about one of my previous blog posts on Vineyard Surveys by a Drone Startup based in San Francisco, Drone Deploy. In... -
The Most Entrepreneurial Group in America Wasn't Born in Americainc.com
Immigrants now launch more than a quarter of U.S. businesses. All entrepreneurs should welcome reform that would make it easier for this class of strivers to stay--and succeed. -
Unlocking Scrolls Preserved in Eruption of Vesuvius, Using X-Ray Beamsnytimes.com
Researchers say that for the first time, they can read letters inside the scrolls without unrolling them, by using a laserlike beam of X-rays. -
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Supreme Leader's Not-That-Supreme Malwares | Coding and Securitycodeandsec.com
Recently while surfing Reddit, I came across this beautiful subreddit which is dedicated to NK. While reading "mind blowing" miracles of Supreme Leader, I clicked on several links, one link led to another and during my visits to several NK web sites, I... - vision.stanford.edu
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Atoms can be in two places at the same timephys.org
Can a penalty kick simultaneously score a goal and miss? For very small objects, at least, this is possible: according to the predictions of quantum mechanics, microscopic objects can take different paths at the same time. The world of macroscopic obj... -
Chasing Wild Geese Over Mount Everestforbes.com
Ornithologists used to think they knew how birds flew over the highest mountain on the planet. Bar-headed geese, for example, were thought to achieve this remarkable feat by flapping up to their maximum altitude of 8,800 metres (29,000 ft) and then coa... -
The Oddly Reassuring Quality of Surrealistic Artpsmag.com
When people are reminded of their own mortality, surrealist paintings they might otherwise find baffling can become sources of comfort. -
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CloudOncloudon.com
CloudOn makes working on docs from your iPad easy. Gesture-first design helps you express what you want to say—in words, pictures, and more—fast. - securecoding.cert.org