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Eve Online: how a virtual world went to the edge of apocalypse and back | Simon Parkintheguardian.com
The long read: The video game Eve Online is one of Iceland’s biggest exports and has become the world’s largest living work of science fiction. While rival games have come and gone, it has survived – thanks to a unique experiment in democracy -
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End of General Trade Publishing Houses: Death or Rebirth in a Niche-by-Niche World - Speechesidealog.com
What I hope to make clear is that the world of information and entertainment which constitute the ecosystem in which trade books live is changing in already defined ways. Even though we can only see a hundred feet in front of us an the journey is bound... -
So it looks like Intel is developing Bitcoin mining chips! Presumably an…plus.google.com
So it looks like Intel is developing Bitcoin mining chips! Presumably an exploratory R&D effort, but still, wow. "Intel factories, the documents… - Marc Bevand – Google+ -
Update on Digital Rights Management and Firefoxblog.mozilla.org
A year ago, we announced the start of efforts to implement support for a component in Firefox that would allow content wrapped in Digital Rights ... -
360CarMuseums - Virtual tours on car museums360carmuseum.com
Visit best automotive and technical museums of the world using your device. More than 30 museums, 1500 exhibits, 10 countries. -
Deep Learning for Image Understanding in Planetary Sciencedevblogs.nvidia.com
Went from training 700 img/s in MNIST to 1500 img/s (using CUDA) to 4000 img/s (using cuDNN) that is just freaking amazing! @GPUComputing — Leon Palafox (@leonpalafox) March 27, 2015 I stumbled upo... -
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Rare Spanish Shipwreck From 17th Century Uncovered Off Panamanews.nationalgeographic.com
The cargo ship went down in 1681 with crates of swords, nails, and bolts of cloth. -
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Lottery Ticket Approach Leads to Drastic Reduction in HIV Prevalenceforeignpolicy.com
A lottery program in Lesotho led to a 21.4 percent reduction in HIV incidence among participants over a two-year period. - apply.e-estonia.com
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Could a UK politician ever vow to bring down house prices? - BBC Newsbbc.co.uk
Once politicians promised to keep property prices low. Now homeowners expect the value of their houses to head ever upwards. -
Insights Panel - Insights Panel - the missing analytics tool for product managersinsightspanel.com
Product Managers analytics tool that comes with out-of-the-box reports on users and revenue, unlike Google Analytics-type products that are designed for marketers. -
Is memory needed in a digital age? - BBC Newsbbc.co.uk
We all rely on electronic devices to remember factual information for us, so should students be allowed to use search engines in exams? -
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Online shaming: the return of mob moralitycbc.ca
An ancient, almost barbaric punishment has returned, out there in the virtual world. That punishment is shame, Neil Macdonald reports, and this documentary sets out some of the personal stories and their consequences. -
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