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Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking Youmotherboard.vice.com
The vast majority of the internet's health sites are sending troves of data about your medical searches to corporations. -
medium.com
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How to Make it On Social Media Without Really Tryingnewrepublic.com
Click farms are changing what it means to have social media influence. -
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Analyzing the Magento Vulnerability (Updated) | Check Point Blogblog.checkpoint.com
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Americans Are Working Much Longer Hours Than The French And Germansdadaviz.com
Data Visualisation by @Jishai. Data Source: FED. Visualization Tool: Illustrator. -
Three Things About Data Science You Won't Find In the Booksblog.mikiobraun.de
In case you haven't heard yet, Data Science is all the craze. Courses, posts, and schools are springing up everywhere. However, every time I take a look at one of those offerings, I see that a lot of emphasis is put on specific learning algorithms. Of ... -
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book 4’nytimes.com
Jeffrey Eugenides reviews Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle: Book 4,” which centers on the author’s yearlong stint as a sexually frustrated young teacher in northern Norway. -
Scientists are skeptical about the secret blood test that has made Elizabeth Holmes a billionairebusinessinsider.com
One big question: Does it work? - jacobmorse.com
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I am a climate skeptic who believes in global warmingwattsupwiththat.com
Guest essay by Richard J. Petschauer A skeptic that believes in global warming? How can that be? We have been told that climate skeptics, sometime incorrectly called “deniers”, still believe the ea... -
A Bot Made Millions on Wall Street by Reading the Web. It Also Ate This Guy’s Lunch.slate.com
On the afternoon of Friday, March 27, as several news outlets reported at the time, somebody apparently made $2.4 million from a tweet. That tweet was a bit of breaking news from Wall Street Journal writer Dana Mattioli: Quicker than any human seemingl... -
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley Can’t Stop Believingmedium.com
While you were earning badges, Foursquare was building a location layer to the Web. No wonder it’s a takeover target. -
news.ycombinator.com
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PepsiCo to Drop Aspartame From Diet Pepsiwsj.com
PepsiCo said it will remove aspartame from Diet Pepsi in the U.S. and replace it with sucralose, another artificial sweetener, in a bid to reverse plunging sales. -
bits.debian.org
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Toyota's killer firmware: Bad design and its consequencesedn.com
Unintended acceleration: A textbook study of how not to develop software and hardware, especially in safety-critical designs. -
Rare Medieval Name Tagsmedievalbooks.nl
A word of warning: this post may make you want to weep. Last week I blogged about tiny pieces of parchment, paper birch bark, and wood that were filled with short messages from individuals in Antiq...