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Fifty Years of Databaseswp.sigmod.org
Fifty years ago a small team working to automate the business processes of the General Electric Low Voltage Switch Gear Department in Philadelphia built the first functioning prototype of a database management system. The Integrated Data Store was desi... - karpathy.github.io
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Apple Says It Will Add New Security Measures After Celebrity Hackbits.blogs.nytimes.com
The company said it would add alerts to tell people about activities that could be signs of a break-in. - formdevices.com
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Big Internetroughtype.com
We talk about Big Oil and Big Pharma and Big Ag. Maybe it's time we started talking about Big Internet. That thought crossed my mind after reading a couple of recent posts. One was Scott Rosenberg'... - news.ycombinator.com
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Yao Ming aims to save Africa's elephants by persuading China to give up ivorywashingtonpost.com
Former NBA center aims to persuade China to ban ivory sales to curb mass slaughter of elephants in Africa. -
Nevada strikes $1.25 billion tax break deal with Teslargj.com
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How a Dentist Popularized Cotton Candypriceonomics.com
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How Samsung's VR headset convinced John Carmack to join Oculus VRengadget.com
John Carmack's name isn't synonymous with virtual reality just yet. He's still "the guy who led programming on Doom and Wolfenstein" to most folks; the - blog.codinghorror.com
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Silicon Valley Builds Up in Microsoft's Backyardnytimes.com
In the last week of August, Twitter entertained dozens of potential young recruits at a chic studio, while Facebook served drinks and snacks to job-seekers at its own office. More than 175 showed up to a similar event at Google in June. -
When Feces Is the Best Medicinetheatlantic.com
Fecal transplants have been proven to successfully treat certain types of infection, but proponents of the treatment are still fighting what they say are unnecessarily strict regulations. - multithreadingandvfx.org