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Newly discovered ‘missing link’ shows how humans could evolve from single-celled organismswashingtonpost.com
"At first he thought it had to be a mistake, an artifact of some kind of genomic contamination." -
Cody Wilson, Who Posted Gun Instructions Online, Sues State Departmentnytimes.com
Mr. Wilson’s company claims that efforts to stop him from publishing his plans to build a 3-D printable gun amount to a prior restraint on free speech. -
Redacted for Mac Launchblog.soff.es
Yesterday, Redacted for Mac hit the App Store. It's this little app I've been working on here and there to quickly hide parts of an image. Here's a one minute video demo if you want the quick rundown. All I... -
CBC.ca - Canadian News Sports Entertainment Kids Docs Radio TVcbc.ca
CBC.ca is Canada's Online Information Source. Comprehensive web site for news, entertainment, sports, business, and a complete guide to CBC-TV, CBC Radio and CBC Newsworld. -
Aptible - Freelance Designerjobs.lever.co
Aptible is looking for a freelance frontend designer to turn wireframes and sketches into pages for our main website. We are looking for someone with a strong eye for design and a clean aesthetic. Light coding is involved: The deliverables are graphi... -
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Cheap Centimeter-Precision GPS For Cars, Drones, Virtual Reality - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
Software-based receiver corrects the inherent errors GPS measurements, providing position with two centimeters -
Stories We Can't See by Tim Parksnybooks.com
“What do we see when we read (other than the words on the page)?” asks Peter Mendelsund in a welcome and fascinating new book. Or more precisely, “What do we picture in our minds?” -
D-Wave Lab Tour part 1dwave.wordpress.com
Seeing the D-Wave facilities first-hand is a very cool experience. They look a lot like computers did back in the 60s. There are a lot of parallels to back then -- we even built our own version of ... - cs.kent.ac.uk
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Can Algorithms Form Price-Fixing Cartels? - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Can algorithms form price-fixing cartels? - dces.essex.ac.uk
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Super simple and accurate indoor positioning with the updated Estimote Indoor Location SDKblog.estimote.com
Employing beacon technology to deliver indoor location solutions requires a deep understanding of the physics behind Bluetooth and beacons. We firmly believe that’s a challenge with which you... -
How horizontal gene transfer shakes up evolution – Ferris Jabr – Aeonaeon.co
Genes that leap from one species to another are more common than we thought. Does this shake up the tree of life? -
Emojineering Part 2: Implementing Hashtag Emojiinstagram-engineering.tumblr.com
Today’s post is a continuation of Part 1 on emoji semantics. 🙀🔝Last week, Instagram began supporting emoji characters inside of hashtags. On Friday we talked about the rise in emoji usage on Instagram... -
Why Ken Jennings's 'Jeopardy!' Streak Is Nearly Impossible To Breakfivethirtyeight.com
It started innocently enough. Ken Jennings, a baby-faced computer engineer, printed the phrase “Who is Jones?” onto his Final Jeopardy lightbox. Jennings, who had bet $17,201 of the $20,000 he had ... -
Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon | MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com
Spiders sprayed with water containing carbon nanotubes and graphene flakes have produced the toughest fibers ever measured, say materials scientists. -
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keevio eye: the WebRTC Pi in the skytrefor.net
What do you get if you put together WebRTC, a Raspberry Pi and a quadcopter? Here's what ipcortex did at a 48 hour hackathon.