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FireChat - what it is and what it is notopengarden.net
We have received some questions about how FireChat works. We would like to clarify: FireChat is a tool for public communications. FireChat works like Twitter and Instagram from the perspective of... -
Operating systems war story: How feminism helped me solve one of file systems' oldest conundrumsblog.valerieaurora.org
Hi, my name is Valerie Aurora, and I am the inventor of a software feature that has prevented billions of unnecessary writes to hard drives, saving energy and making our computers faster. My invent... - bitcoinwisdom.com
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KeepSafe/ks-email-parsergithub.com
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Square Raises $150 Million at a $6 Billion Valuationbits.blogs.nytimes.com
This latest round, led by a new investor, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, places Square in the company of Internet start-ups like Pinterest and Spotify, which also have valuations around $5 billion to $6 billion. -
Startups Spend With Abandon, Flush With Capitalonline.wsj.com
Free spending by startups on salaries and office space to attract top talent is stirring memories of dot-com era excesses. -
Microsoft’s ‘RoomAlive’ transforms any room into a giant Xbox gametheverge.com
When Microsoft first demonstrated its IllumiRoom research project at CES last year it generated a huge amount of attention ahead of a next-generation Xbox unveiling. A video showed off a projection... -
Stop Australia's Data Retention Billstopthespies.org
Innocent or not, you will be spied on if Australia's bill passes. Under the new data retention proposal, details of everything you do online or on your phone would be collected and stored. But we can stop it. -
Is Google Making Students Stupid?theatlantic.com
Outsourcing menial tasks to machines can seem liberating, but it may be robbing a whole generation of certain basic mental abilities. -
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 64, Kurt Vonneguttheparisreview.org
The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers. -
We can do bettermelodyquintana.tumblr.com
Imagine having to take 5 different medications regularly, keeping track of each one’s proper dosage and frequency. This could get complicated for anyone. But it’s especially complicated if you’re... -
Breaking the Waves - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
The first time Diana Nyad tried to swim around Manhattan, in the fall of 1975, she was pulled out of the East River in the black of night after eight hours of non-stop swimming—“trembling uncontrollably, muttering an incoherent stream of monosyllables,... - lists.thefnf.org
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Dealer's Hand - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Very important people line up differently from you and me. They don’t want to stand behind anyone else, or to acknowledge wanting something that can’t immediately be had. If there’s a door they’re eager to pass through, and hundreds of equally or even ... -
Introducing Graphite-News – Jilles.netjilles.net
Introduction------------Once you get to a decent sized Graphite instance it starts to be harder to keepup with wha... -
Terrestriality—Vol. 2, No. 2theappendix.net
Is the human body innately terrestrial, unsuited to a prolonged time away from its earthly element? -
Massive electrode array system will do first large-scale network recording of brain activity | KurzweilAIkurzweilai.net
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is developing a neural measurement and manipulation system -- an advanced electronics system to monitor and modulate -
Subhasis Das's answer to Computer Science: How does a computer chip work? - Quoraquora.com
A modern microprocessor is a tremendously complicated entity, and it has taken decades of work by thousands of people to get it where it is now. It is near i... -
Qubitekk offers hope for protecting computers in the age of quantum computingventurebeat.com
Once the domain of science fiction, quantum computers are on the verge of reality.