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ghostcall.io
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San Francisco, of all places, has lousy connectivity. This man wants to change that.medium.com
If you are a city CIO, you need a plan. Santa Monica did it. So why not our tech capital? -
FoundationDB's Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store is Not Enoughvoltdb.com
The sale and subsequent closure of FoundationDB cut short something of a grand experiment. FoundationDB, conceived as a Key-Value store, had decided to add flexibility in the form of programming and query-model “Layers” on top of its core KV store. Fir... -
Designing a Breadboard Adaptor for the $5 ESP8266 Microcontroller - Make:makezine.com
The ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible, but to the most common breakout board isn't breadboard friendly. So we go ahead and build a breadboard adaptor (Part 3 of 3) -
bitbucket.org
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First look at Project Spartan, Microsoft’s take on the modern browserarstechnica.com
Has ditching the legacy and adding Cortana made for a better browser? -
coreos.com
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Why are we deporting talented entrepreneurs? Let PJ Stay!letpjstay.com
America’s immigration system should support — not deport — companies like PJ’s. It's time we fixed our broken immigration system. -
Renegades of Junk: The Rise and Fall of the Drexel Empirebloomberg.com
The people who lived through Michael Milken's Wall Street saga tell it in their own words, 25 years later -
Leaked TPP Investment Chapter Reveals Serious Threat to User Safeguardseff.org
A newly leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement from Wikileaks has confirmed some of our worst fears about the agreement. The latest provisions would enable multinational corporations to undermine public interest rules through a... -
Biologists Decode an Ancient Cancer-Fighting Antibioticmotherboard.vice.com
Borrelidin isn’t a cure-all, but it’s the next best thing. -
California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal With Droughtnytimes.com
The move by Gov. Jerry Brown comes as California’s drought has reached near-crisis proportions after a winter that brought record-low snowfalls. -
Smarter programming of stoplights could improve efficiency of urban trafficphys.org
Sitting in traffic during rush hour is not just frustrating for drivers; it also adds unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. -
lawnlove.getbannerman.com
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Modern Explorers Seek a Place in a GPS Worldnytimes.com
When every inch of the planet seems mapped, what’s left for the adventurous? -
eelis.net
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Introduction to I²C and SPI protocols « Byte Paradigm – Speed up embedded system verificationbyteparadigm.com
I²C vs SPI Today, at the low end of the communication protocols, we find I²C (for ‘Inter-Integrated Circuit’, protocol) and SPI (for ‘Serial Peripheral Interface’). -
scott.arciszewski.me
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E.O. Wilson, Nowak et al. wrote a paper... - Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebookfacebook.com
E.O. Wilson, Nowak et al. wrote a paper on altruism that triggered a huge angry reaction (particularly by science journalists Steven Pinker and Richard... -
Google Lab Puts a Time Limit on Innovationswsj.com
Google is embracing a leaner, faster way to find the next big thing amid questions about the Internet giant’s heavy spending on long-term research projects.