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Which Unicode character should represent the English apostrophe? (And why the Unicode committee is very wrong.)tedclancy.wordpress.com
The Unicode committee is very clear that U+2019 (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) should represent the English apostrophe. Section 6.2 of the Unicode Standard 7.0.0 states: U+2019 [...] is preferred wh... -
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Berlin becomes first German city to make rent cap a realitytheguardian.com
Capital pioneers law prohibiting landlords from charging new tenants more than 10% above local average -
Sunday Times Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worstfirstlook.org
The British Murdoch-owned paper publishes a report trying to exploit this mindset: "If some anonymous government officials said it, and journalists repeat it while hiding who they are, I guess it must be true." -
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In the Future, Employees Won’t Existtechcrunch.com
Contract work is becoming the new normal. Consider Uber: The ride-sharing startup has 160,000 contractors, but just 2,000 employees. That’s an astonishing.. -
Rosetta's lander Philae wakes up from hibernationesa.int
Rosetta's lander Philae has woken up after seven months in hibernation on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. -
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Rosetta’s lander Philae wakes up from hibernationblogs.esa.int
Tweet Rosetta's lander Philae is out of hibernation! The signals were received at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt at 22:28 CEST on 13 June. More than 300 data packets have been analysed by the teams at the Lander Control Center at t... -
Philae comet lander wakes up - BBC Newsbbc.co.uk
The European Space Agency says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth. -
Is Spotify doomed because of Apple Music? No -- Spotify's been doomed from the startpando.com
On Monday, Apple finally unveiled its long-anticipated subscription music service, Apple Music. And all week many commentators have been saying the same thing we've been writing for months: That th... -
Google’s Monastic Vision for the Future of Work - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
The design of the future Googleplex looks a lot like the vacuum-packed present, an effort to make a whole world out of office life. -
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Goldman’s Blankfein on Skipping School Work, Wishing to be Chineseblogs.wsj.com
Goldman Sachs Group Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein Wednesday gave business students at Tsinghua University a piece of advice that would make most teachers cringe: "Skip the content in school. We'll teach it to you at Goldman Sachs." -
Vietnam’s Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Agewsj.com
To get an idea of how the mobile Web is catapulting millions of people into the digital age by skipping landline connections, have a look at Vietnam.