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Corporate Change: Contributing to Open Sourcecode.dblock.org
This is a story of corporate change. It’s a tale about how an unlikely organization embraced open-source. It starts with pain and suffering and may even read like an “I hate my boss” diatribe. I don’t. On the contrary, this story ends better than I wou... -
Surrey rolls out ‘Siri for cities’ app powered by IBM’s Watsonca.news.yahoo.com
The City of Surrey in British Columbia is testing a new app feature that allows residents to find city information using IBM’s Watson, the supercomputer that outperformed its rival contestant on Jeopardy in 2011 to take the $1-million prize. - patft.uspto.gov
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cymen/show-me-the-reactgithub.com
show-me-the-react - A Google Chrome extension that highlights React components on the page. - bosun.org
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How Boar's Head Became a Deli Meat Beastadage.com
The oddly named brand got to the top of the deli case with aggressive sales and distribution tactics. - nasa.gov
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Steve Jobs Made Warner Music Sue My Startupmedium.com
We had 50M monthly active users and 250M searches every month. Steve Jobs told the labels, including Warner Music, to su… -
An App That Helps Drivers Earn the Most From Their Tripsnytimes.com
A free analytics site allows drivers to use their daily income, number of fares, working hours, expenses and mileage to calculate pay and determine profitable driving patterns. -
LRB · Julian Barnes · Selfie with ‘Sunflowers’lrb.co.uk
Just as there are writers’ writers, so there are painters’ painters: necessary exemplars, moral guides, embodiers of the art. Often they are quiet artists, who lack a shouty biography, who go about their work with modest pertinacity, believing the art ... -
Dr. Seuss Book: Yes, They Found It in a Boxnytimes.com
How an abandoned manuscript became “What Pet Should I Get?,” the latest publication from Theodor Geisel. -
NASA News Audionasa.gov
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. -
SL-1: Murder by Nuclear Reactorpassingstrangeness.wordpress.com
There have been three nuclear power plant meltdowns that have captured worldwide attention and left the general public with the opinion that nuclear power is too dangerous to rely upon. The most da... - personalityatlas.com
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Scientists Are Hoarding Data And It’s Ruining Medical Researchbuzzfeed.com
Major flaws in two massive trials of deworming pills show the importance of sharing data — which most scientists don't do. - ap.org
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Can we colonize the moon?csmonitor.com
A report commissioned by NASA outlines the resources needed to put humans, and industry, on the moon.