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Google's new bus is for the peoplemercurynews.com
Meet a kinder, gentler Google bus -- not the sleek and occasionally despised charter service that transports thousands of Googlers to the company's suburban headquarters each morning, but a free public shuttle that launched here this week. -
Dyson's Latest Feat of Over-Engineering: A Filterless Vacuum | WIREDwired.com
Dyson's never-ending quest to build the perfect the vacuum. - web.archive.org
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How stories change hearts and brains – Elizabeth Svoboda – Aeonaeon.co
Across time and culture, stories have been agents of personal transformation – in part because they change our brains -
Quantum storage breakthrough key to 'unbreakable' encryption | ZDNetzdnet.com
A new quantum hard drive jointly developed by researchers in Australia and New Zealand could lead the way to an 'unbreakable' worldwide data encryption network. - longnow.org
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14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonizationsiliconafrica.com
Did you know many African countries continue to pay colonial tax to France since their independence till today! When Sékou Touré of Guinea decided in 1958 to get out of french colonial empire, and opted for the country independence, the french colonial... -
Do viruses make us smarter? | Lund Universitylunduniversity.lu.se
A new study from Lund University in Sweden indicates that inherited viruses that are millions of years old play an important role in building up the complex networks that characterise the human brain. - blog.pmarca.com
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Keeping Perl Classyrose.github.io
Perl 1 was released in 1987, before object oriented programming was a popular paradigm; while Perl 5 did add an object system, it is very minimal. Moose is an extremely popular module which adds more -
The protesters who are trying to upend the ‘fantasy world’ of economicswashingtonpost.com
At a gathering of America's top economists, a small group of students is battling for the soul of economics. -
New York City to Formally Start Its Municipal ID Card Programnytimes.com
On Monday, the city will begin an initiative designed primarily to help undocumented immigrants, the homeless and others navigate government bureaucracy and secure services. - news.ycombinator.com
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British Prime Minister Suggests Banning Some Online Messaging Appsbits.blogs.nytimes.com
Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said he would pursue banning encrypted messaging services like Snapchat and WhatsApp if the country’s intelligence services were not given greater access to people’s online communication. -
CVE-2014-9390 aka "Git on case-insensitive filesystems" I did not give the…plus.google.com
CVE-2014-9390 aka "Git on case-insensitive filesystems" I did not give the exact assessment on the risk in either my blog post on this topic… - Junio C Hamano – Google+ -
The Stunning Scale of AWS and What it Means for the Future of the Cloud - High Scalability -highscalability.com
James Hamilton , VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, and long time blogger of interesting ... -
The myth of 'us' in a digital agemarkcarrigan.net
In his A necessary disenchantment: myth, agency and injustice in a digital world, Nick Couldry argues that transitions in media infrastructure are facilitating the emergence of a new myth of collec...