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How Structure Arose in the Primordial Soup | Quanta Magazinequantamagazine.org
Life’s first epoch saw incredible advances — cells, metabolism and DNA, to name a few. Researchers are resurrecting ancient proteins to illuminate the -
Jobs and jail might not keep young men out of crime, but how about therapy?washingtonpost.com
Work programs and jail time don't seem to reduce crime, but from experiments in Liberia to Chicago there's hope for something new: behavioral therapy. -
Pharmacy Startup PillPack Could Change The Way America Takes Its Medicineforbes.com
A tiny New Hampshire startup is revolutionizing the way millions of patients take their daily medicines--and threatening the business model of titans like CVS and Walgreens in the process. -
yandex/repgithub.com
Reproducible Experiment Platform is a collaborative software infrastructure for computational experiments on shared big datasets, which allows obtaining reproducible, repeatable results and consistent comparisons of the obtained results. -
Tracing the origins of modern Internet culture to the BBS worldniemanlab.org
Where does the culture of the Internet come from? One important origin point, according to Kevin Driscoll: the mid-1970s standardization of phone jacks. While the core technology behind today's Internet was developed through the U.S. government-backed ... -
Scribd Expands Audiobook Catalog in Deal With Penguin Random Housenytimes.com
The digital reading service will add over 9,000 audiobooks, as competition grows among e-book subscription services to become the Netflix of books. -
SF Scala: Bruce Eckel, Rethinking Scalayoutube.com
Bruce reviews the state of programming languages today and shows what are they thinking points when reasoning about them. Many ideas for improving Scala stor... -
Why We Are No Longer Developing For the iPad - Generalspiderwebforums.ipbhost.com
Why We Are No Longer Developing For the iPad - posted in General: After several years of good time, we at Spiderweb have come to the sad conclusion that we can no longer develop new games for the iPad. The iPad titles currently on iTunes will still be ... -
L.A. school district demands iPad refund from Applelatimes.com
The Los Angeles Unified School District is seeking to recoup millions of dollars from technology giant Apple over a problem-plagued curriculum that was provided with iPads intended to be given to every student, teacher and administrator. -
ALMA Reveals Intense Magnetic Field Close to Supermassive Black Hole - Illuminating the mysterious mechanisms at play at the edge of the event horizoneso.org
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revealed an extremely powerful magnetic field, beyond anything previously detected in the core of a galaxy, very close to the event horizon of a supermassive black hole. This new observation h... -
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One man’s quest to meld Adam Smith and Marx – by creating an Uber for jobstheguardian.com
Wingham Rowan wants to harness technology to make zero-hours culture less exploitative. Will his project improve our lives – or is it part of the problem? -
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Docker 1.6: Engine & Orchestration Updates, Registry 2.0, & Windows Client Previewblog.docker.com
We are happy to announce updates to Docker Engine, Registry, Compose, Swarm, and Machine. We are releasing them all at the same time so you can test and roll them out together, and so that we can s... -
Ted Ullyot Joins Andreessen Horowitz To Build First Policy Group At A VC Firmforbes.com
Facebook's former general counsel joins Andreessen Horowitz to build a policy and regulatory affairs group, the first at a VC firm -
Writing Android Libraries with Java, Annotation Processors or Native Code (Video) via @realmrealm.io
At some point as a developer you will consider writing a library, whether to perform a specific task, modularize your code-base, or simply to reuse your code in an elegant way. But writing a library is tough work. In this talk, our own Emanuele Zattin ... - web.archive.org
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