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First Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Planet Confirmed by Keck and Gemini Observatories | W. M. Keck Observatorykeckobservatory.org
<p>The first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini</p> -
Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87nytimes.com
Mr. García Márquez, a Colombian who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation. - michaelrbernste.in
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lazerwalker/literallygithub.com
Replaces occurrences of the word 'literally' with 'figuratively'. That's literally all it does. -
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U.S. Agent Lures Romanian Hackers in Subway Data Heistbloomberg.com
U.S. Secret Service Agent Matt O’Neill was growing nervous. For three months, he’d been surreptitiously monitoring hackers’ communications and watching as they siphoned thousands of credit card numbers from scores of U.S. retailers. -
Introducing Steam Gauge: Ars reveals Steam’s most popular gamesarstechnica.com
We sampled public data to estimate sales and gameplay info for every Steam game. - destroyallsoftware.com
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Innovation: The Government Was Crucial After All by Jeff Madricknybooks.com
We hear time and again from those who should know better that government is a hindrance to the innovation that produces economic growth. Above all, the government should not try to pick “winners” by investing in what may be the next great companies. Ma... - isc.sans.edu
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Another Big Milestone for Servo—Acid2blog.mozilla.org
Servo, the next-generation browser engine being developed by Mozilla Research, has reached an important milestone by passing the Acid2 test. While Servo is not yet ... - freebsd.org
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OpenSSL Valhalla Rampageopensslrampage.org
Tearing apart OpenSSL, one arcane VMS hack at a time. Like what OpenBSD is doing to OpenSSL? Donate... -
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Letters - a game about spelling wordsitunes.apple.com
Get Letters - a game about spelling words on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews. - blog.heroku.com
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Getting started with QueueClassicblog.rainforestqa.com
Any serious project nowadays needs background processing, right? Most of the Ruby community uses Sidekiq or Resque but there are other options. One is QueueClassic. QueueClassic uses PostgreSQL instead of Redis for Sidekiq. Why should you use it? -
Search Marketers Need to Evolve: Google is Rewarding Marketing Strategistsmoz.com
Google is increasingly rewarding broader marketing strategy, which means your job is evolving. It isn't enough to focus on search marketing; we all need to become marketing strategists. Here's how. -
Scientists make first embryo clones from adultsonline.wsj.com
Scientists for the first time have cloned cells from two adults to create early-stage embryos, and then derived tissue from those embryos that perfectly matched the DNA of the donors.
