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Yelp Is Exploring a Salewsj.com
Business-reviews website Yelp Inc. is exploring a sale, according to people familiar with the matter. - usenix.org
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Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edgeblogs.windows.com
A couple of months back, we announced that we had started development on Asm.js. Support for Asm.js has been one of the top 10 most-requested items at the Microsoft Edge Developer Suggestion Box on UserVoice since we launched it in December 2014. Since... -
Divergence in U.S. Sex Ratios by County, 1820–2010lincolnmullen.com
An interactive map departures from an even sex ratio in the United States. -
New propulsion technology makes satellites more nimble, durable - The Boston Globebostonglobe.com
Earth-orbiting satellites traditionally weighed as much as trucks, but in recent years space has been filling up with satellites smaller than a minifridge for educational, research, and defense uses. Unlike larger satellites, which can carry a heavy ca... -
Email from DJ Patil: "How I Became Chief Data Scientist"whitehouse.gov
U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil explains why he thinks more Americans should have access to community college. -
Join the Engineering Leisure Classmedium.com
Engineers earn more money than we need, and the world is full of interesting problems that don’t promise a financial ret… -
The Price of Nice Nailsnytimes.com
Manicurists are routinely underpaid and exploited, and endure ethnic bias and other abuse, The New York Times has found. -
4 Years of Success and Failure on the App Storemedium.com
I quit my job 4 years ago this week. At the time I was making about $15 a day on apps I had done in my spare time. I’m c… -
Blacklane (Berlin) serves more cities and airports than Ubertech.eu
Started out of a single-room Berlin office in 2011, driver booking platform Blacklane has raised more than €22 million in funding from Daimler and others. -
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Mysterious Planes Over Baltimore Spark Surveillance Suspicionsaclu.org
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The dangers of eco-gentrification: what's the best way to make a city greener?theguardian.com
With upwards of 5 million visitors each year, the popularity of New York’s High Line has created difficulties for local residents and small businesses. So is there a better way of introducing nature into our cities? -
Capitalism and Slaverythenation.com
Each generation seems condemned to have to prove the obvious anew: slavery created the modern world, and the modern world’s divisions are the product of slavery. -
The tensor renaissance in data science - O'Reilly Radarradar.oreilly.com
After sitting in on UC Irvine Professor Anima Anandkumar’s Strata + Hadoop World 2015 in San Jose presentation, I wrote a post urging the data community to build tensor... -
BLDGBLOG: The Town That Creep Builtbldgblog.blogspot.com
architectural conjecture :: urban speculation :: landscape futures -
Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform Service Mappinggregsramblings.com
As a Developer Advocate on the Google Cloud Platform, I am frequently asked what services we provide. If the person I’m talking to is familiar with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the quickest ways to ... -
Shotspotter CEO Answers Questions on Gunshot Detectors in Citiesaclu.org
Gunshot detectors in cities have been in the news in recent weeks as a result of their adoption in the biggest U.S. city, New York City. These systems consist of a network of microphones installed around a city that listen for gunshots, pinpoint their ... -
Don’t Count Touches, Count Stressesmedium.com
Last fall, Luke Wroblewski — a renowned UI guru—posted an article about “Requiring Less Taps in Mobile UI,” detailing a … -
How Satellites Can Monitor California's Underground Water | WIREDwired.com
California needs to preserve its groundwater, and it's turning to satellite monitoring to keep tabs on how it's doing.