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Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book 4’nytimes.com
Jeffrey Eugenides reviews Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle: Book 4,” which centers on the author’s yearlong stint as a sexually frustrated young teacher in northern Norway. -
Scientists are skeptical about the secret blood test that has made Elizabeth Holmes a billionairebusinessinsider.com
One big question: Does it work? - jacobmorse.com
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I am a climate skeptic who believes in global warmingwattsupwiththat.com
Guest essay by Richard J. Petschauer A skeptic that believes in global warming? How can that be? We have been told that climate skeptics, sometime incorrectly called “deniers”, still believe the ea... -
A Bot Made Millions on Wall Street by Reading the Web. It Also Ate This Guy’s Lunch.slate.com
On the afternoon of Friday, March 27, as several news outlets reported at the time, somebody apparently made $2.4 million from a tweet. That tweet was a bit of breaking news from Wall Street Journal writer Dana Mattioli: Quicker than any human seemingl... -
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley Can’t Stop Believingmedium.com
While you were earning badges, Foursquare was building a location layer to the Web. No wonder it’s a takeover target. -
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PepsiCo to Drop Aspartame From Diet Pepsiwsj.com
PepsiCo said it will remove aspartame from Diet Pepsi in the U.S. and replace it with sucralose, another artificial sweetener, in a bid to reverse plunging sales. -
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Toyota's killer firmware: Bad design and its consequencesedn.com
Unintended acceleration: A textbook study of how not to develop software and hardware, especially in safety-critical designs. -
Rare Medieval Name Tagsmedievalbooks.nl
A word of warning: this post may make you want to weep. Last week I blogged about tiny pieces of parchment, paper birch bark, and wood that were filled with short messages from individuals in Antiq... -
Lessons I Learned from Co-Founding a Tech Startupblog.sueraisty.com
Once upon a time, when I was a wee lass (25 years old, to be precise), and not yet a product manager but a code warrior-ess (or whatever it is that you call female warriors), I did that clichéd, hackneyed... - marc.info
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PayPal joins the Dark Sidehax.5july.org
PayPal just updated their User Agreement – and went barking mad. The new paragraph at section 1.3 reads as follows: “When providing us with content or posting content (in each case for publication, whether on- or off-line) using the Services, you grant... - m.linuxjournal.com
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Russian Hackers Read Obama’s Unclassified Emails, Officials Saynytimes.com
The hackers dido not appear to have penetrated closely guarded servers that control the message traffic from President Obama’s personal BlackBerry, officials said. -
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Brief History of a Small Officenplusonemag.com
n+1’s first employee was Isaac Scarborough. It’s hard to recall just how he became an employee: he was an NYU student in political science and had been our second-ever intern, and then new interns arrived, so Isaac could no longer be an intern, but he ... -
Tesla Motors | Premium Electric Vehiclesteslamotors.com
Tesla designs and manufactures premium electric vehicles. Tesla currently produces the Model S sedan and is taking reservations for the Model X SUV crossover.