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European parliament may propose search services split in threat to Googlereuters.com
(Reuters) - The European Parliament is preparing to call on regulators to consider splitting Internet search from other commercial services, according to a draft motion seen by Reuters, escalating a longstanding -
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Harvard Researchers Build $10 Robot That Can Teach Kids to Code | WIREDwired.com
Mike Rubenstein has created a low-cost robot called AERobot, specifically designed to teach middle school and high school kids the fundamentals of robotics. - til.io
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Director of Corporate Partnerships - CodeNowcodenow.org
Director of Corporate Partnerships CodeNow is a fast growing non-profit focused on teaching underrepresented high school students foundational skills in computer programming. This is essential because it lowers the barriers normally associated with tec... -
September 2006: Duff McDonald on the designer Paul Frankvanityfair.com
Since its inception in 1995, Paul Frank Industries has sold $100 million worth of its cute but edgy clothes and accessories. Late last year, however, it lost the allegiance of Paul Frank himself. As Frank and his erstwhile partners trade allegations of... -
This Tiny Engine Could Make Leaf Blowers Sound Less Like Jets | WIREDwired.com
Big engines like the 707-horsepower monster Dodge put in the Challenger Hellcat or Volvo’s little four-cylinder that makes 425 ponies get all the attention these days. But there are millions of tiny engines doing tiny things (think garden trimmers, lea... -
A Quick Spin Around the Big Dipper - Issue 19: Illusions - Nautilusnautil.us
From our perspective here on Earth, constellations appear to be fixed groups of stars, immobile on the sky. But what if we could change… -
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Doves Hitch Ride with SpaceXplanet.com
On October 28, Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket failed on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). This was a difficult event and our condolences went out to all those affected. That said, since the failure, the response by those affected has ... -
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A Conversation with David Foster Wallace By Larry McCaffery | Dalkey Archive Pressdalkeyarchive.com
From 'The Review of Contemporary Fiction,' Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2 LARRY McCAFFERY: Your essay following this interview is going to be seen by some people as... -
With Assembly, anyone can contribute to open source software and actually get paidtheverge.com
The open-source movement has produced some of the most widely utilized software in the world, a huge economic value driven by a widely dispersed community who believe contributing good work is often its own reward. -
What Was Said at the Uber Dinnerhuffingtonpost.com
I had the pleasure of sitting one seat over from Emil Michael at the now-infamous Uber dinner in New York last week. Emil was originally seated next to me and moved over to greet Ben Smith as a guest.... -
How It Worksletsencrypt.org
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). -
IBM shares plans for supercomputing futurecomputerworld.com
IBM plans to load future supercomputers with more co-processors and accelerators to increase computing speed and power efficiency. -
Orwell and China, Nineteen Eighty-four in Chineseibisbill.wordpress.com
By Michael Rank UPDATE – Some sad news: Sun Zhongxu, a prolific translator of Orwell and other 20th century authors, has committed suicide at the age of 41. For further information, see below. UPDA... -
One Man's Quest to Build a Mind-Warping 4-D Videogame | WIREDwired.com
There's a row</span> of books on a shelf in Marc ten Bosch's living room that contains a crash course in higher dimensions. Titles like <i>Flatland. Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty That Causes Havoc. The Fourth Dimension and N...