-
HP buys Eucalyptus as cloud consolidation commences for realgigaom.com
Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos, once known for his anti-OpenStack rhetoric, now leads the HP OpenStack private-hybrid-public cloud effort -
Cryptomarkets Are Gentrifying the Drug Trade, and That’s Probably a Good Thing | VICE Newsnews.vice.com
The internet is becoming a safer and more ethical marketplace for illicit substances. How will it affect the war on drugs? -
redblobgames.com
-
6Sensor Labs Gets $4M To Help People With Food Allergies Test Their Meals | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
6Sensor Labs is building an affordable device that will allow them to quickly and easily check foods for allergens. The company is also hoping to build a.. -
A Nomad’s Find Helps Solve the Mystery of the Spinosaurusnytimes.com
A model of the largest known predatory dinosaur, and the only dinosaur known to spend much of its life in water, will be displayed in Washington. - cr.yp.to
- indiana.edu
-
Sagging Pants And The Long History Of 'Dangerous' Street Fashionnpr.org
For adults, "sagging" has long been a marker of slovenliness or something more sinister. But the style might just be the latest iteration of fashion freighted with some old anxieties. -
Drop-in Acceleration of GNU Octavedevblogs.nvidia.com
cuBLAS is an implementation of the BLAS library that leverages the teraflops of performance provided by NVIDIA GPUs. However, cuBLAS can not be used as a direct BLAS replacement for applications o... -
github.com
-
thestandardsmanual.com
-
Amazon Cuts Struggling Phone’s Price to 99 Centsnytimes.com
Analysts said the drastic cut was inevitable, but wondered if it would help spur sales that have been disappointing so far. -
news.ycombinator.com
-
A Deadly Virus Is Arrested in the Middle East - Issue 17: Big Bangs - Nautilusnautil.us
Next month, during the Islamic pilgrimage known as the Hajj, 3 million people will pour into the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.… -
At Death’s Door, He Was Put on Ice - Issue 17: Big Bangs - Nautilusnautil.us
In 2007, Patrick Savage, then a 52-year-old deputy chief of the New York City Fire Department, suffered cardiac arrest after a morning… -
The Challenges and Threats of Automated Lip Reading | MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com
As speech recognition technology improves, it’s natural to wonder whether computers will ever be able to lip read as well. Here’s a rundown of challenges involved. -
The problem with too much information – Dougald Hine – Aeonaeon.co
The internet promised to feed our minds with information. What have we learned? That our minds need more than that -
The Death of Adulthood in American Culturenytimes.com
Charting the final, exhausted collapse of the adult white male, from Huck Finn to “Mad Men.” -
Evolution’s Random Paths Lead to One Place | Quanta Magazinesimonsfoundation.org
A massive statistical study suggests that even though genetic changes happen at random, the final evolutionary outcome — fitness — is predictable. - bitsavers.trailing-edge.com