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How extreme isolation warps the mindbbc.com
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Snapchat Could Be Stripped Of Valuable “Tap-And-Hold For Video” Patent | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
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Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internettheatlantic.com
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Dust — and the microbes hitching rides on it — influences rain, climateacs.org
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BitTorrent Sync Apps Offer Escape From Big Brother | Business | WIREDwired.com
Maybe people are tired of having their personal information brokered and stored and sifted by large companies and government agencies, and ready for the fresh start developers are trying to give them. -
Early Traction: How to go from zero to 150,000 email subscribers (Guest Post)andrewchen.co
[Andrew: Starting up from zero is one of the hardest things you can do with a new product. Especially in the age of SaaS and content marketing, building up to the first 150k users is a key mileston... -
Code And Graphics: Design Smellsbfilipek.com
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try - Try/catch/finally in Go. This is an experiment that tries to bring the exception behaviour of java/python/c++ to Golang using the same syntax. -
One of Carl Sagan's most pertinent messages for humanity : quicksilverscreen.com : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org
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Take Two Sugar Pills and Call Me in the Morning - Issue 16: Nothingness - Nautilusnautil.us
Walter A. Brown envisions it clearly. The day will come when a woman can walk into his office complaining of debilitating panic attacks… - engineering.heroku.com
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Thousand-robot swarm self-assembles into arbitrary shapes | Robohubrobohub.org
There is something magical about seeing 1,000 robots move, when humans are not operating any of them. In a new study published in Science, researchers have achieved just that. This swarm of 1,000 robots can assemble themselves into [...] -
Amazon Helps Mom-and-Pop Store in Barcelona Reach Global Villagebloomberg.com
As a child in the 1980s, Ramon Fabregas helped with the flood of Christmas shoppers at the family toy store set up by his great grandfather. Now that he runs the shop, he barely sees any clients. -
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Sun and Shadows: How an Island Paradise Became a Haven for Dirty Moneyicij.org
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It's time to consider restricting human breeding (Wired UK)wired.co.uk
Given the number of children that starve each day, dwindling planetary resources and the coming transhumanist era, it might be time to consider restricting human breeding, argues futurist Zoltan Istvan
