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Let’s Help Hackathons Change More Lives For The Better - Major League Hacking Newsnews.mlh.io
We’ve seen how hackathons change lives. And students tell us: they blog, they post, they tweet, and they scream at the tops of their lungs about it from dorm rooms. Unfortunately, if we only sung the successes of hackathons, we wouldn’t be telling the ... -
How the U.S. Screwed Up in the Fight Against Ebolabusinessweek.com
One promising treatment might have averted an epidemic. Why wasn't it ready in time? -
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Under New Leadership, BlackBerry Unveils the Passport, Its Newest Smartphonenytimes.com
The company, whose chief executive, John S. Chen, arrived in November, is hoping that the new Passport phone will put BlackBerry back on the board, even if only modestly. -
The Peculiar Journey of "Orange" : Word Routes : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurusvisualthesaurus.com
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus: Word Routes - In the latest installment of the Slate podcast Lexicon Valley, I take on a word that every child knows, orange, and reveal its hidden history. It's a remarkably well-traveled word, and its travels tell us a grea... - international-lisp-conference.org
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BLDGBLOG: The Underground Wind Bulbs of Utahbldgblog.blogspot.com
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estimote.com
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Hacking the Breast Pump - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
A weekend-long gathering of engineers, designers, and parents recently sought to reinvent one of the most loathed trappings of modern motherhood. -
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How Stoical Was Seneca? by Mary Beardnybooks.com
For a philosopher who had devoted so much of his writing to preparations for death, Seneca made a very bad job of it when his own turn came. -
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Lizard Stowaways Revise Principle of Ecology | Quanta Magazinesimonsfoundation.org
The movement of lizards around the Caribbean is forcing researchers to account for human activity in even their most basic ecological models. -
How To Migrate 50MM+ Records From Mongo To PostgreSQL In Less Than A Daytech.plug.dj
Of the many challenges we faced when releasing the latest version of plug.dj perhaps the biggest was migrating and de-duplicating the over 50 million media items held in users playlists. All told t... -
vgvassilev/clinggithub.com
cling - Cling is an interactive C++ interpreter, built on top of Clang and LLVM compiler infrastructure. Cling realizes the read-print-evaluate-loop concept, in order to leverage rapid application development. Implemented as a small extension to LLVM a... -
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Tech Firms and Lobbyists: Now Intertwined, but Not Eager to Reveal Itnytimes.com
The industry ranks near the bottom of a list that grades large corporations on how well they publicly disclose political activities. -
The First Four-Seater, Solar-Powered Vehicle Hits The U.S. Road | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Stella, the first ever family sized road vehicle that runs on the sun has made its U.S. debut. The car took first place in the World Solar Challenge and won.. -
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