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SNB Unexpectedly Gives Up Cap on Franc, Lowers Deposit Ratebloomberg.com
The Swiss National Bank unexpectedly gave up its minimum exchange rate of 1.20 per euro today, ending a three-year-old policy designed to shield the economy from the euro area’s sovereign debt crisis. -
Scientists Discover Potent Antibiotic, A Potential Weapon Against a Range of Diseaseswsj.com
Scientists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic they say can kill an array of germs without the bugs easily becoming resistant to it, a potential weapon against a range of diseases. -
How to Recreate a Sloppy Ancient Greek Drinking Gamelivescience.com
How hard was it to play kottabos? An art historian enlisted her students to find out. The results were messy. -
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Will online anonymity win out? – Jamie Bartlett – Aeonaeon.co
The cypherpunks are winning the second crypto-war against government spies. What will happen when everyone is anonymous? - ams.org
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Sizing Ocean Giants: The Paper! | Deep Sea Newsdeepseanews.com
I am elated to announce the publication of Sizing Ocean Giants, a tome on the sizes of everything from Giant Barrel Sponges and Giant Isopods to Great Whites -
The mystery of the 132-year-old Winchester rifle found propped against a national park treewashingtonpost.com
Great Basin National Park staff have no idea how this rifle ended up sitting outside for more than 100 years. But they are trying to find out. -
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Undercover Agent Reveals How He Helped the FBI Trap Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht | WIREDwired.com
The DHS's undercover Silk Road agent who was chatting online with Silk Road's boss during his arrest has finally told his story. And he’s revealed that just before his fateful conversation with the drug site's kingpin, he had been watching Ross Ulbrich... -
Working Longer Hours Can Mean Drinking Morenpr.org
Working more than 48 hours a week makes risky drinking more likely, a study of people in 14 countries finds. And that held true for rich and poor, men and women. -
MyHarmony - One-Touch Univeral Remote Controls - Logitech Harmonymyharmony.com
Logitech Harmony remote controls are easy to setup, easy to use, support 225,000+ devices from 5,000+ brands. Simply powerful control. -
We Can’t Control What Big Data Knows About Us. Big Data Can’t Control It Either.slate.com
Can a computer program be racist? Imagine this scenario: A program that screens rental applicants is primed with examples of personal history, debt, and the like. The program makes its decision based on lots of signals: rental history, credit record, j... -
007. Machine learning best practices we've learned from hundreds of competitions - Ben Hamneryoutube.com
Ben Hamner is Chief Scientist at Kaggle, leading its data science and development teams. He is the principal architect of many of Kaggle's most advanced mach... -
The creative economy, signed originals and blockchain technologybernardlunn.com
It is not just money that suffers if there is a double spending problem. Everybody who makes their living in the creative economy (artists, developers, writers, film directors, musicians, photograp... -
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Exclusive: Samsung talks to BlackBerry about $7.5 billion buyout - sourcereuters.com
NEW YORK/SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics recently offered to buy BlackBerry Ltd <BBRY.O> <BB.TO> for as much as $7.5 billion, seeking its valuable patents as it battles Apple <AAPL.O>