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UK trader in fraud arrest over US 'flash crash'bbc.com
A financial trader is arrested in the UK after US authorities allege he contributed to the 2010 Wall Street "flash crash" that wiped billons of dollars off the value of shares. -
Chimpanzees granted 'legal persons' status to defend their rights in courttheguardian.com
New York judge grants writ of habeas corpus to Hercules and Leo, chimpanzees used for medical experiments, to defend rights against imprisonment -
Why do measurements of the gravitational constant vary so much?phys.org
(Phys.org)—Newton's gravitational constant, G, has been measured about a dozen times over the last 40 years, but the results have varied by much more than would be expected due to random and systematic errors. Now scientists have found that the measure... -
Scientists think they've found the cause of the Earth's maddening humming noiseindependent.co.uk
Scientists have confirmed the cause of a strange humming noise that emanates from the Earth and has baffled people for more than forty years – and was even a factor in one reported suicide. -
The Origins of the Early Medieval State | History Todayhistorytoday.com
Historians, it seems, like to complicate things. This is certainly the case with the early history of the states that formed in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Ian Wood’s recent book, The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages (2013), shows... -
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Beyond papers - GitWikXivblog.jessriedel.com
I had the chance to have dinner tonight with Paul Ginsparg of arXiv fame, and he graciously gave me some feedback on a very speculative idea that I’ve been kicking around: augmenting — or even repl... -
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Stop Calling. Schedule Local Biz Appointments With MyTime, Which Just Scored $9.3Mtechcrunch.com
"I don't know anyone who likes calling businesses. It's not fast or convenient, and it definitely doesn't feel like the future." Mark Zuckerberg may as well.. - online.wsj.com
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.NET Foundation - Announcing LLILC - A new LLVM-based Compiler for .NETdotnetfoundation.org
The .NET Foundation was set up to foster open source innovation and collaboration around .NET and so I'm very pleased to announce that we have released an initial version of a new … -
A Technical Founder’s Notes on Sales Team Managementmedium.com
If you’re a startup company founder with a technical background (or a design or product management background), building… -
Will I become a billionaire if I am determined to be one and put in all the necessary work required? - Quoraquora.com
(Just to say: thank you, everybody, for the upvotes + the comments. I'm blown away -- and appreciative.) No. One of the many qualities that separate self-mad... -
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Google’s “Mobile-Friendly” Update Could Impact Over 40% Of Fortune 500 Websitestechcrunch.com
Google announced earlier this year that it was making a change to its search algorithms which would begin to factor in a website's "mobile-friendliness" as a.. -
A World Where Nothing Gets Lost - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Future generations, like sheltered children, may be less used to losing things, or to getting lost, and they may suffer even more from it than we do now.