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How horizontal gene transfer shakes up evolution – Ferris Jabr – Aeonaeon.co
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Emojineering Part 2: Implementing Hashtag Emojiinstagram-engineering.tumblr.com
Today’s post is a continuation of Part 1 on emoji semantics. 🙀🔝Last week, Instagram began supporting emoji characters inside of hashtags. On Friday we talked about the rise in emoji usage on Instagram... -
Why Ken Jennings's 'Jeopardy!' Streak Is Nearly Impossible To Breakfivethirtyeight.com
It started innocently enough. Ken Jennings, a baby-faced computer engineer, printed the phrase “Who is Jones?” onto his Final Jeopardy lightbox. Jennings, who had bet $17,201 of the $20,000 he had ... -
Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon | MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com
Spiders sprayed with water containing carbon nanotubes and graphene flakes have produced the toughest fibers ever measured, say materials scientists. -
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keevio eye: the WebRTC Pi in the skytrefor.net
What do you get if you put together WebRTC, a Raspberry Pi and a quadcopter? Here's what ipcortex did at a 48 hour hackathon. -
Dissolve My Nobel Prize! Fast! (A True Story)npr.org
It's 1940. The Nazis have taken Copenhagen, and physicist Niels Bohr has just hours, maybe minutes, to make two Nobel Prize medals disappear. -
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Tired Of Recruiting's Broken Image, Airbnb Rewrites The Playbookforbes.com
At many high-flying tech companies, recruiting systems are fundamentally broken. Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia helped develop new, kinder systems that kill the chaos. -
Max Levchin's Affirm Raises $275 Million to Make Loansrecode.net
"There’s room for a product by young people for young people," said Levchin. "That’s what Silicon Valley’s good for, and that’s what we’re doing." -
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A Gigantic List of Psychological Pricing Strategiesnickkolenda.com
Welcome to a massive list of psychological pricing strategies. You'll learn tips & techniques to choose prices that will maximize your profit. -
I was an undercover Uber drivercitypaper.net
I drove a hundred rides for UberX to fact-check whether a middle-of-the-pack driver can make $90,000 a year. This is what I... -
Neural network chip built using memristorsarstechnica.com
Paired memristors act like synapses to link circuitry that acts like neurons. -
The Importance of a Good Night's Sleep | History Todayhistorytoday.com
Sleep is an urgent topic for neuroscientists and now more than ever is known about its crucial importance for concentration and memory formation. Despite all this, the western world spends fewer and fewer hours asleep. With human interaction increasing... - blog.lizardwrangler.com
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Practice vs. Theory": The British Electrical Debate, 1888-1891academia.edu
Practice vs. Theory": The British Electrical Debate, 1888-1891 -
World's Oldest Blood Found in Famed "Iceman" Mummynews.nationalgeographic.com
Using new nanotech—which could be a boon to modern murder investigations—scientists find that Stone Age Ötzi "definitely" died quickly. -
Varnish Goes Upstack with Varnish Modules and Varnish Configuration Language - High Scalability -highscalability.com
This is a guest post by Denis Brækhus and Espen Braastad , developers on the Varnish ... -
Paper Moonslaphamsquarterly.org
Americans so dearly love to be fooled. —Charles Baudelaire Swindle and Fraud, the vaudeville team of nouns headlining this issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, are old dogs always keen to learn n