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Smallest Engine Ever Runs on One Atompopularmechanics.com
Physicists are building a nano engine that runs on a single atom and will arguably be the most efficient ever made. -
elementary set theory - It is faster to count to the infinite going one by one or two by two? - Mathematics Stack Exchangemath.stackexchange.com
A young child asked me this question yesterday: Would it be faster to count to the infinite going one by one or two by two? And I was split with these two answers: In both case it'll take an -
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Wisembly Raises $2 Million To Make Meetings Suck Less | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
French startup Wisembly just raised $2 million (€1.5 million) from Alven Capital. It's the company's first round of funding after three years of existence... -
Mark Zuckerberg - Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary.... | Facebookfacebook.com
Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary. It's been an amazing journey so far, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it. It's rare to be able to touch so many... -
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Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, as long as they benefittheguardian.com
Dean Baker: Google, Apple and other tech firms likely colluded to keep their workers' wages down. So much for that libertarian worldview -
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Rachel Aviv: The Scientist Who Took on a Leading Herbicide Manufacturernewyorker.com
Tyrone Hayes, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, has devoted the past fifteen years to studying the herbicide atrazine, which is applied to more than half the corn in the country. During that time scientists around the world have ex... -
Internet firms release new data on U.S. spy agency requestslatimes.com
Freed by a recent legal deal with government lawyers, major technology firms released new data Monday on how often they are ordered to turn over customer information for secret national security investigations — figures that show that the gov... -
StumbleUpon and Uber Founder Garrett Camp Is Raising $75 Million For Company-Building Venture Expa | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Garrett Camp, co-founder of both StumbleUpon and Uber, is looking for help in funding his new company-building venture Expa. According to an SEC filing, Camp.. -
Indian School Girl Creates Washing Machine That Runs Without Electricity!trak.in
We love these kind of inventions – Those that solve real world grass roots problem. Remya Jose, a 14 year school girl from Kerala, has created a simple pedal-powered washing machine which came about due to her dislike to wash clothes by hand. Her... -
Getting Girls Into Programming, One Children’s Book At A Time | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
I normally dislike writing about the issue of women in the technology industry. The media either ends up treating female entrepreneurs with kid gloves or the.. -
Oops, Windows XP gains in January but so does Windows 8.1 - CNET Mobilem.cnet.com
The staying power of the aging-out Windows XP was evident in January, according to Net Applications. The much maligned Windows 8.1 gained some ground too, though. -
Cryptography Breakthrough Could Make Software Unhackable - Wired Sciencewired.com
In a watershed moment for cryptography, computer scientists have proposed a solution to a fundamental problem called “program obfuscation.” - put.io
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