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A Brief History of Failurenytimes.com
From the longbow to the Dvorak keyboard, the road to innovation is paved with failed designs and forgotten artifacts. -
Smartphones versus DSLRs versus film: A look at how far we've comeconnect.dpreview.com
Compare our reviewer's results for yourself. - andrewoswald.com
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Forex Investors May Face $1 Billion Loss as Trade Site Vanishesbloomberg.com
The first time Rajibuddin Mandal, a family doctor in Birmingham, England, tried his hand at trading currencies online, he lost 2,000 British pounds. From that experience, he concluded that the foreign-exchange market was too big, too complex and too ha... -
The Isomap Algorithmblog.shriphani.com
In previous posts, I discussed the MDS algorithm and presented some key ideas. In this post, I will describe how those ideas are leveraged in the Isomap algorithm. A clojure implementation based on core.matrix is also included.... -
Government planes mimic cellphone towers to collect user data – reporttheguardian.com
US Marshals Service reportedly fitting aircraft with ‘dirtboxes’ that interrogate phones on ground for identity and location -
Yishan Wong's answer to Why did Yishan Wong resign as Reddit CEO? - Quoraquora.com
All of the reasons that Sam has outlined in public are true. I know it sounds somewhat unbelieveable because it's so weird, but if it was made up, I think a... -
Embracing HTTPSopen.blogs.nytimes.com
In light of a growing number of cyber security and data privacy concerns, replacing HTTP with its secure alternative, HTTPS, is becoming increasingly important. - twanvl.nl
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Unsealed Filing Shows DOJ Misled Appeals Court About National Security Letter Gag Orderseff.org
A court filing unsealed late Wednesday shows that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) made a highly misleading argument to an appeals court in October during a hearing on the constitutionality of National Security Letters (NSLs). - jsoftware.com
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Unraveling Why Some Mammals Kill Off Infantsnytimes.com
A new study suggests that the behavior of male animals killing unrelated infants evolved independently in a number of separate animal lineages. - arxiv.org
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Life at the Top - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Shortly after dawn one December morning, Bob Menzer rode the freight elevator to the forty-fifth floor of the Hearst Tower, on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, and opened the door to the roof. The weather was clear and cold; five hundred feet above the stre... -
Americans’ Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Programonline.wsj.com
The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of mobile phones through devices deployed on airplanes that mimic cellphone towers, a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects that is snagging a large number of innocent Americans, according to peo... -
Google Discussiegroepengroups.google.com
Met Google Discussiegroepen kun je online forums en e-mailgroepen maken en eraan deelnemen. Bovendien profiteer je van uitgebreide opmaakmogelijkheden voor communitygesprekken. - handmadehero.org