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How Beats Tricks You Into Thinking It Makes a Premium Productgizmodo.com
The sneaky designers at Beats by Dre employ a clever trick to make you think that the company’s plastic headphones are durable products worth the premium price. - blog.eatonphil.com
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Albert Woodfox’s Forty Years in Solitary Confinement - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Albert Woodfox has been imprisoned for forty years without a valid conviction. Last Monday, U.S. District Judge James Brady ordered his immediate release. - lolware.net
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Brawls, booze and slurs: 300 years of Oxford University’s professor of poetrytheguardian.com
The next occupant of the hallowed chair will be announced this week. And not for the first time in its long history, the contest has been steeped in controversy -
Just-Metadata - Intel Gathering and Analysis of IP Metadatachristophertruncer.com
This post shows how Just-Metadata can be used to gather information from a variety of different sources, and identify data patters amongst IP addresses. -
Using N-of-1 Trials to Improve Patient Management and Save Costsncbi.nlm.nih.gov
N-of-1 trials test treatment effectiveness within an individual patient.To assess (i) the impact of three different N-of-1 trials on both clinical and economic outcomes over 12 months and (ii) whether the use of N-of-1 trials to target patients’ ... -
Boosting NGINX Performance 9x with Thread Poolsnginx.com
Learn how the thread pools feature in NGINX 1.7.11 and later boosts performance up to 9 times by offloading blocking operations from the worker process - pushpin.org
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Microsoft Announces Its Own Linux OSitsfoss.com
Microsoft has shocked the entire tech world by announcing a new Linux OS ahead of Windows 10 release. Few months back when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said tha(...) -
EFF, CloudFlare Ask Federal Court Not To Force Internet Companies To Enforce Music Labels’ Trademarkseff.org
This month, CloudFlare and EFF pushed back against major music labels’ latest strategy to force Internet infrastructure companies like CloudFlare to become trademark and copyright enforcers, by challenging a broad court order that the labels obtained i... - labs.domipheus.com
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Product Manager job at SmartAsset in New York, NYjobscore.com
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Ad Blockers - Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Through All of Thembgr.com
The ad-blocking cat and mouse game Internet users and content publishers are playing online is about to get more interesting, as a former Googler apparently says his new company has a high-tech mea... - news.ycombinator.com
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This Mystery Photo Haunting Reddit Appears to Be Image Recognition Gone Very Weirdatlasobscura.com
Look at this thing. What is it? Just some kind of poorly drawn squirrel, right? Maybe a spread from an old suburbia-themed National Geographic that went... -
Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google's 'Knowledge Graph' | WIREDwired.com
Giving apps the power to comprehend the web the same way a human would.