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The Sixth Extinction? - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
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Introducing Hello | Facebook Newsroomnewsroom.fb.stfi.re
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“Hello” Is Facebook’s New Android-Only Social Caller ID Apptechcrunch.com
Say goodbye to calls from unknown numbers. Facebook's newest app Hello instantly matches phone numbers of incoming and outgoing calls to Facebook profiles to.. -
Forgotten Failures of African Explorationpublicdomainreview.org
Dane Kennedy reflects on two disastrous expeditions into Africa organised by the British in the early-19th century, and how their lofty ambitions crumbled before the implacable realities of the continent. - hiddentao.github.io
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Is there something mysterious about mathematics? — Why isn’t it more mysterious? by Scott Aaronson — Aeon Ideasideas.aeon.co
In one sense, of course, there’s less mystery in math than there is in any other human endeavor. In math we can really understand things, in a deeper way than we ever understand anything else. (When I was younger, I used to reassure myself durin... -
Wherein I ridicule Facebook some more, then collaborate with the Panopticon.dnalounge.com
In my last update, I busted on Facebook for their relentless -- yet halfassed and inconsistent -- morality policing. They had blocked a bunch of ads that Hubba Hubba Revue had purchased, claiming that the ads didn't follow the rules, when in fact they ... -
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T.H. Tsien, 105, Dies; Scholar of Chinese Books Rescued 30,000 of Themnytimes.com
Professor Tsien risked his life in 1941 to smuggle tens of thousands of rare volumes to safety at the Library of Congress amid the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. -
Milestone Achieved: Over 1 Million Apps!crashlytics.com
Developer tools have always been about power, focusing less around ease-of-use and the overall user experience. When Jeff and I founded Crashlytics four years ago, we made it our mission to fix this. We didn’t just want to build the most powerful, y... -
Building A Salesforce Powered Call Center with Twilio TaskRoutertwilio.com
ThinkVoice gives businesses the communications tools they need to create exceptional customer experiences. ThinkVoice CEO Brian Coyle knows that something as si -
MongoDB + RocksDB at Parseblog.parse.com
If you've been paying attention to the MongoDB world lately, then you know that exciting things are afoot. The 3.0 release introduces a modular storage engine API, allowing third party engines like RocksDB, TokuDB and WiredTiger to integrate seamlessly... -
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Guy Trading at Home Caused the Flash Crashbloombergview.com
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EFF to Congress: Stop the Cybersurveillance Billseff.org
EFF joined over 50 privacy and civil society organizations that sent two letters to Congress demanding it vote against the Senate Intelligence Committee's cybersecurity "information sharing" bill, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA... -
Adding Compose to the Swarm + Powerstrip + Flocker + Weave demo - ClusterHQclusterhq.com
Huge shout out to Ben Firshman for demoing live on stage our highly experimental demo of Swarm + Powerstrip + Flocker + Weave on-stage at Container Camp… in which he added Compose support to the demo! Here’s the part of Ben’s talk where he performs thi...
