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How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle Easteff.org
Shortly after Microsoft Bing launched in 2009, researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society found that the search engine was enforcing “safe search” in a number of countries, including across the whole of the Middle East and North Afric... -
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Dark Markets - The Morning Newsthemorningnews.org
A new book captures Chicago’s financial markets at a moment when there are no offers for trades—any trading company’s horror vacui. -
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I Waited 19 Months for the Magic Coin Card and It Was a Big Disappointmentrecode.net
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Facebook's new chief security officer wants to set a date to kill Flashtheverge.com
Alex Stamos, the recently appointed chief security officer at Facebook, has called on software company Adobe to announce an "end-of-life date for Flash." In a pair of tweets sent over the weekend,... - thebfed.com
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Yes, Google Photos Can Still Sync Your Photos After You Delete The Apptechcrunch.com
Google's recently rebooted Photos app might be syncing your photos without you realizing it. David Arnott, an editor at the Nashville Business Journal, writes.. -
'Happy Birthday' Hits Sour Notes When It Comes To Song's Free Usenpr.org
"Happy Birthday to You" is sung everywhere, but because it's copyrighted, it's rarely heard on TV or in movies. A filmmaker has filed a lawsuit seeking to make the song part of the public domain. - autoapi.com
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Working with unreliable web APIs • Instavest Blogblog.instavest.com
To be clear, you should not compromise on API quality for mission critical things. We do not do this. Sometimes you have to work with web APIs that have reliability issues and or inconsistent error responses – and changing APIs is not always an... | In... -
Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92%wsj.com
Roughly 1,000 companies make smartphones. Just one—Apple—reaps nearly all the profits. -
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From Lenses to Yoneda Embeddingbartoszmilewski.com
Lenses are a fascinating subject. Edward Kmett's lens library is an indispensable tool in every Haskell programmer's toolbox. I set out to write this blog post with the goal of describing some new ... -
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density.io
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Removal of sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9 - A disaster in the makingblog.dripstat.com
Oracle plans to remove sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9. This is an absolute disaster in the making and has the potential to completely destroy the entire ecosystem around Java. Almost every tool, infrastructure software, high performance library built using...