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Do we all have Alzheimer's completely wrong? This man says yespri.org
The scientific consensus around Alzheimer's disease says it's caused by proteins called beta-amyloids that build up on the brain and destroy its normal functions. But one man, Duke professor Allen Roses, has made it his mission to prove that the conven... -
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Whistleblower accuses cybersecurity company of extorting clientsmoney.cnn.com
An FTC privacy and hacking case has been turned upside down. Now in question: whether a cybersecurity firm faked hacking evidence -- that eventually destroyed a cancer lab. -
The real story behind the demise of America's once-mighty streetcarsvox.com
It wasn't a GM-driven conspiracy. -
ARM Processor - Sowing the Seeds of Success - Computerphileyoutube.com
30 years ago, Acorn Computers switched on their first ever processor, the Acorn RISC Machine, or ARM. Now, they power 95% of smartphones & 12 billion ARM chi... -
Share buybacks: Big cos say "We don't know what to do with the cash anyway!" and why it's good for startups.blog.garrytan.com
Stock buybacks are the biggest force influencing equities since 2009 — over $2 trillion have been done. Some are probably good, but many aren't. In 2011, Warren Buffet wrote about how you can... -
The Discovery of Apache ZooKeeper's Poison Packet - PagerDutypagerduty.com
We uncovered 4 bugs causing random cluster-wide lockups. Two bugs laid in ZooKeeper, and the other two were lurking in the Linux kernel. This is our story. -
Halt and Catch Fireamc.com
It’s March 1985. More than a year has passed since Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) set fire to a truck full of Cardiff Giant PCs, the last in a long string of destructive acts that burned the people that made the machine possible. -
Rogue Russian spacecraft burns up in Earth's atmosphere - BBC Newsbbc.com
The Russian space agency says its out-of-control Progress spacecraft has burnt up after re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. -
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5 Brilliant Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Moneyballblog.saleswhale.io
Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), the general manager of the baseball club Oakland Athletics, one day has an epiphany: Baseball's conventional wisdom is all wrong. Faced with one of the lowest budgets in the league, and not able to outcompete the... -
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The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus - Issue 24: Error - Nautilusnautil.us
There is a family living in Britain, known only as the KE family, with a few members that can’t quite say words like “hippopotamus.”… -
Progress M-27M Re-Entryspaceflight101.com
Mission Updates Flight Chronology Entry Prediction Risks & Prediction The Entry Process -
Accepting payments is getting hardermedium.com
PCI compliance is not really something often talked about in startup circles, but PCI is changing, and it’s getting a lo… -
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Optimize Python with Closures - Tech at Magnetictech.magnetic.com
Magnetic’s real-time bidding system, written in pure Python, needs to keep up with a tremendous volume of incoming requests. On an ordinary weekday, our application handles about 300,000 requests per second at peak volumes, and responds in under 10 mil... -
Open Smart Grid Protocol Homegrown Crypto Weaknesses | Threatpost | The first stop for security newsthreatpost.com
Researchers in Europe have published research examining weak, homegrown cryptography used in the Open Smart Grid Protocol.