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Apple's $100 Billion Waste: Tim Cook's Single Biggest Mistake As CEOforbes.com
Since April 2012, Apple has spent $100 billion on dividends and stock buybacks. I argue why Apple would be much better off if they'd spent this money on smart M&A and R&D instead. -
Time cloak used to hide messages in laser light - physics-math - 28 November 2014 - New Scientistnewscientist.com
A time cloak conceals events rather than objects. Cloaked messages were so secret no one could read them – now they can sneak along optical fibres before -
Feature: A castaway from ancient Marsnews.sciencemag.org
Black Beauty, a 4.4 billion-year-old martian meteorite, has captivated collectors and scientists -
Crush Point - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
On Thanksgiving Day, 2008, shoppers began lining up outside the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, Long Island, at 5:30 P.M., near a small, handwritten sign that read “Blitz Line Starts Here.” Like many other retailers holding “doorbuster” Black Friday sales, ... - businessinsider.com
- arxiv.org
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Needed: citizen scientists for Higgs huntsymmetrymagazine.org
A new project asks citizen scientists for help finding unknown Higgs boson decays in LHC data from the ATLAS experiment. -
The Book of Life | Developing Emotional Intelligencethebookoflife.org
The Book of Life is the 'brain' of The School of Life, a gathering of the best ideas around wisdom and emotional intelligence. -
Benedict Cumberbatch Can Charm Humans, but Can He Fool a Computer?—Wolfram Blogblog.wolfram.com
Example of Mathematica‘s Machine Learning used to see if Benedict Cumberbatch impressions in The Imitation Game promotional video could fool a computer. - github.com
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Data Structures as Functions (or, Implementing Set#to_proc and Hash#to_proc in Ruby) — Paul Mucurmudge.name
Experimenting with using hashes and sets as functions in Ruby. - sol.gfxile.net
- rojo2.com
- cs.coloradocollege.edu
- businessinsider.com
- ruben-j.github.io
- pastie.org
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Microsoft Makes More Money From Samsung Than From Skype, Windows Phone, and Xbox Combinedgizmocrazed.com
Do you know that Microsoft makes more money from Samsung than from Skype, Windows Phone, and Xbox combined. - news.ycombinator.com
- news.dartlang.org