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How bad is the California drought? - Telegraphtelegraph.co.uk
A three-year drought has left the Golden State parched and brown, and scientists say it's only going to get worse - catern.com
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Newest Workers for Lowe’s: Robotsonline.wsj.com
Lowe’s is introducing robotic shopping assistants at an Orchard Supply Hardware store in San Jose, Calif., in late November. Lowe’s, which acquired Orchard Supply last year, says this is the first retail robot of its kind in the U.S. -
YouTube Ready to Eliminate Adswsj.com
YouTube is seeking to generate more revenue, so it's working on a big change: a paid-subscription business model. WSJ's Brian Fitzgerald and Simon Constable discuss. Photo: Getty - 0a.io
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color-blindness.com
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facebook.github.io
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Uber Says Its Drivers Make Great Money. But the Math Just Doesn’t Add Up.slate.com
In just four years, Uber has constructed an intimidating profile. It operates in 45 countries around the world and well over 100 cities. It services millions of customers and employs hundreds of thousands of drivers. In June, Uber snagged $1.2 billion ... -
Why would someone steal the world’s rarest water lily? | Sam Knighttheguardian.com
The long read: In January, an endangered plant was taken from Kew Gardens – only a few years after scientists saved it from extinction. Sam Knight investigates what happens when plant obsession turns criminal. -
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One week later, Google algorithm change hits streaming, torrent sites hardarstechnica.com
After early efforts in 2012, it appears Google's gotten the results it wanted. -
news.ycombinator.com
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Suddenly, the Opposite Happenedsuperginbaby.wordpress.com
There has been a lot of noise on Twitter, and I suppose in other places, about Haskell users (and functional programmers more generally) being "condescending" and "smug" and thus unwelcoming to new... -
New data shows more signs that patent troll suits are in declinearstechnica.com
It's still no cause for premature celebration according to patent reform groups. -
HTML5 is done, but two groups still wrestle over Web's future - CNETcnet.com
The World Wide Web Consortium finishes an update to this seminal Internet technology, but with two organizations in charge of the same Web standard, charting the Web's future is a mess. -
Hugging a Medieval Bookmedievalbooks.nl
Book historians tend to compare features of the medieval book to body parts. Thus the manuscript’s “head” (top edge) is connected to its “spine” (the back) via the “shoulder” (the area where board ... -
OSX Yosemite: I went back to Mavericks.medium.com
Today I went back from apples latest OS X Yosemite to the former one Mavericks. Here’s why. -
Happy Anniversary to the Early Internet's First Network-Wide Crashmotherboard.vice.com
That time ARPANET managed to DDoS itself. -
jshanley.github.io
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An Interview With Earnestcodeinsider.us
I'm an engineer who helps engineers and other techies find great gigs. My interviews and essays are here.