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To Tame Dashboard Chaos, Carmakers Take a Hint From Tabletsnytimes.com
By adopting tabletlike, touch-screen systems, automakers are integrating smartphones and online services with fewer complicated controls that frustrate and distract drivers. -
scottaaronson.com
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When bigger isn't bettereconomist.com
HOW would you rank “important” languages? If asked to rattle them off, many people start with English, but after that are reluctant to go further. Important how,... -
archive.org
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Qwant Wants to Be Alternative to Googlebits.blogs.nytimes.com
A search engine called Qwant is trying to tap into growing anger in Europe that Google holds too much control over how people surf the Web. -
ibm.com
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7 Venture Capitalists Predict What Will Happen In 2015techcrunch.com
From cloud wars to the certainty that there will be hacks, venture capitalists believe that 2015 will be a year of tumult and (in public markets anyway).. -
Filmmaker says he uncovered Nazis’ ‘biggest secret weapons facility’ underground near concentration campwashingtonpost.com
The facility may shed some light on one of the most secretive aspects of the Nazi regime: the quest to build an atomic bomb. -
HP sells Palm trademarks; brand could be resurrected with new smartphonesarstechnica.com
It looks like Palm will rise from the dead as a Chinese smartphone brand. -
The New York Times Doesn't Know Any Math Teachersblog.mrmeyer.com
Michael Cieply for The New York Times: The Interview generated roughly $15 million in online sales and rentals during its first four days of availability, Sony Pictures said on Sunday. Sony did not... -
acrosswalls.org
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How My Illness Forced Me to Leave My Job and Take Control of My Life - A Year in Review (Part 1)notthegolfer.com
I've been working on a couple of related posts around these topics for a while now, and delays and timing have led me to realize they'd actually make a good end-of-year summary of what was an amazi... -
The Halting Progress of Mind-Controlled Robot Tech | Emerging Tech | TechNewsWorldtechnewsworld.com
new mind-controlled robotic arm in a project run by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Earlier this year, demonstrated her ability to use her thoughts to move the robot hand into different positions while controlling the wrist and arm. Ma... -
RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlusgithub.com
RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus - Runtime-Compiled C++ is a way to reliably make major changes to your C++ code at runtime and see the results immediately. -
postercat.io
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Will Africa Produce the 'Next Einstein'? | WIREDwired.com
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences leverages donor dollars to support long-term investment in the continent's promising young people. -
Locating All the Christmas Trees on Instagramminimaxir.com
I downloaded hundreds of thousands of #tree images and found 25,432 images which were taken on Christmas, have a #tree, and, most importantly, contain location data where the photo was … -
lwn.net
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Oxford’s Oak Beams, and Other Tales of Humans and Trees in Long-Term Partnershipblog.longnow.org
Here at Long Now, we often like to tell the story - or perhaps better said, legend - of the oak beams at New College... -
Review: Automatic, a Simple, Smart Driving Assistant for Willing Driversrecode.net
Can this little device help you save money on gas?