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Chemists one step closer to new generation of electric car batteryphys.org
An ultra-thin nanomaterial is at the heart of a major breakthrough by Waterloo scientists who are in a global race to invent a cheaper, lighter and more powerful rechargeable battery for electric vehicles. -
Reimplementing TeX's Algorithms: Looking Back at Thirty Years of Programminginfoq.com
Glenn Vanderburg, director of engineering at LivingSocial, gave an interesting recount of his effort to implement TeX’s algorithms in Clojure at the last ClojureConj conference. In the process, he discovered how much programming has changed in the last... - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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CENTCOM social media accounts apparently hacked by Islamic State sympathizerswashingtonpost.com
Social media accounts for the military organization U.S. Central Command appeared to have been hacked on Monday, with the military command posting threatening messages on Twitter and YouTube to American troops. - telekomlabs.github.io
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Diederik Stapel’s Audacious Academic Fraudnytimes.com
Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature. -
ISIS “Cyber Caliphate” Claims To Have Hacked ‘Pentagon Networks’techcrunch.com
The Cyber Caliphate, a hacker group claiming association with ISIS, today seized control of the @CentCom Twitter account that supposedly represents U.S... - citusdata.com
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The 8080 chip at 40: What's next for the mighty microprocessor?computerworld.com
Forty years after Intel's iconic 8080 chip launched the personal computing revolution, we spoke to early processor designers and other industry experts to find out what the next 40 years of computing will bring. - news.ycombinator.com
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Art Collectors Gain Tax Benefits From Private Museumsnytimes.com
Wealthy art collectors are benefiting from tax breaks when they build museums with limited public access, often near their homes. -
How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you?gravityandlevity.wordpress.com
There's a great joke in Futurama, the cartoon comedy show, about a horror movie for robots. In the movie, a planet of robots is terrorized by a giant "non-metallic being" (a monsterified human). ... -
The Secret to Work Life Balance • ikiriginblog.kirigin.com
I don’t like most discussions around “Work Life Balance” because so much advice is just personal experience. The problem with giving advice via personal experience is that it doesn’t necessarily apply to everyone. This post is going to try to... | Ivan... - news.ycombinator.com
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