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You’ll Always Miss Being in the Basementzachholman.com
Writings, screencasts, and talks by Zach Holman. Zach works at GitHub and enjoys consuming cherry pies. - github.com
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Securing the Unikernel - Thomas Leonard's blogroscidus.com
Back in July, I used MirageOS to create my first unikernel, a simple REST service for queuing file uploads, deployable as a virtual machine. While a … - howardism.org
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Microsoft Gave Data on Charlie Hebdo Probe to FBI in 45 Minutesbloomberg.com
Microsoft Corp. handed the FBI data linked to the Charlie Hebdo probe within an hour of being asked, showing that the system can work and that extra snooping should only happen if strictly regulated, the company’s top lawyer said. -
Apple Buys UK Startup Behind Musicmetric To Add Analytics To Beatstechcrunch.com
Apple appears ready to add more analytics and analysis to Beats, the streaming service it acquired last year, after news surfaced that the U.S. company bought.. -
How Uber and Lyft have exploited long waits, slow travel and poor service to crack open transportationwashingtonpost.com
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Singapore Launches Program In San Francisco To Attract More U.S. Startupstechcrunch.com
Singapore is already one of the most developed startup hubs in Asia. Now its government wants to bring more U.S. startups to the city-nation. Earlier.. - news.ycombinator.com
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Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature?motherboard.vice.com
A new 600-page, two volume epic about how to get rid of the homeless in SimCity. -
Special report: How the rise of a mega solar panel farm shows us the future of energygigaom.com
After about an hour of weaving up and down the winding, mountainous, two-lane highway that is route 58, eastbound from San Luis Obispo, I honestly started to wonder where 9 million solar panels — one of the world’s largest operating solar panel farms t... - pitt.edu
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Arduino-compatible Quirkbot lets kids build robots out of strawsgigaom.com
One year ago, a simple and very cool construction kit for children came out; called Strawbees, it lets kids develop their inner engineer by making all kinds of structures out of ordinary drinking straws and cardboard. Now, a spinoff project has emerged... -
God is my Co-Pilot……or is it Drone Deploy?theuavguy.wordpress.com
God is my Co-Pilot……or is it Drone Deploy? Introduction Recently I was approached about one of my previous blog posts on Vineyard Surveys by a Drone Startup based in San Francisco, Drone Deploy. In... -
The Most Entrepreneurial Group in America Wasn't Born in Americainc.com
Immigrants now launch more than a quarter of U.S. businesses. All entrepreneurs should welcome reform that would make it easier for this class of strivers to stay--and succeed. -
Unlocking Scrolls Preserved in Eruption of Vesuvius, Using X-Ray Beamsnytimes.com
Researchers say that for the first time, they can read letters inside the scrolls without unrolling them, by using a laserlike beam of X-rays. - kleinbottle.com