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Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
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NY Times
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook (Published 2019)
The Massachusetts senator, who is running for president, announced a regulatory plan aimed at breaking up large tech companies and “unwind tech mergers that illegally undermine competition.”
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Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful
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Business Insider
Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why you don't need a college degree to be successful
Apple CEO Tim Cook said there's a "mismatch" between the skills learned in college and skills that are necessary for many businesses in the future.
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Don't Sell Out the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil Companies
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National Audubon Society
Audubon Action Alert: Don't Sell Out the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Oil Companies
Submit a public comment opposing the disastrous proposal to sell out the heart of the Arctic Refuge for oil drilling.
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Make Sagelib a pip-installable Python source package, listed on PyPI (2016)
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Zuckerberg’s So-Called Shift Toward Privacy
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NY Times
Opinion | Zuckerberg’s So-Called Shift Toward Privacy (Published 2019)
Facebook is happy to protect user data when doing so decreases the company’s civic responsibilities — but not when it threatens advertising revenue.
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First-class air travel is in decline
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The Economist
First-class air travel is in decline
Executives are flying business class; plutocrats are taking private jets
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Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Google, Amazon and Facebook
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TechCrunch
Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Google, Amazon and Facebook
The influential Massachusetts senator and presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has been a longtime critic of the consolidation of economic power by Amazon, Google and Facebook. Now she’s making their break-up a key component of her presidential platform.…
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Website Database Security (2018)
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Int64 Software Blog
Hardening Website Security - Part 3: Website Database Security | Int64 Software Blog
It feels like almost every week there’s another news item about personal information being stolen because yet another company’s website got hacked. Most of these attacks are perpetrated through social…
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Splashdown of Crew Dragon DM-1
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Twitter
NASA Commercial Crew
Successful splashdown of the #CrewDragon right on time at 8:45 a.m. ET. https://t.co/0qHhHzD4Js
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Hipster whines at tech mag, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster
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The Register
Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster
YEAH! SCIENCE
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Doctor tells patient he doesn't have long to live through robot's video screen
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KTVU FOX 2
Doctor tells patient he doesn't have long to live through hospital robot's video screen
When Ernest Quintana went into Kaiser Permanente Medical Center's emergency department in Fremont on Sunday, his wife of 58 years, his son, daughter Catherine, and granddaughter Annalisia all worried about the 79-year-old man. They say it was hard enough…
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Chelsea Manning jailed for contempt of court
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TheHill
Chelsea Manning jailed for contempt of court
Former Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning was jailed Friday for contempt of court after she refused to testify in a closed-door grand jury hearing related to WikiLeaks, the site to which she sent classified documents in 2010.
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Austin Is Building a Mini Silicon Valley
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Nasa captures images of supersonic shockwaves
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phys.org
NASA captures unprecedented images of supersonic shockwaves
NASA has captured unprecedented photos of the interaction of shockwaves from two supersonic aircraft, part of its research into developing planes that can fly faster than sound without thunderous "sonic ...
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Myequifax.com
Bypasses Credit Freeze Pin
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'Tibetans and Uyghurs not accepted': Apple supplier probes hiring discrimination
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Inkstone
‘Tibetans and Uygurs not accepted’: Apple supplier probes hiring discrimination
Now hiring: workers at the world’s biggest iPhone factories.
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x86: Deprecate a.out support
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Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox
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Quanta Magazine
Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox
Astronomers claim in a new paper that star motions should make it easy for civilizations to spread across the galaxy, but still we might find ourselves alone.
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The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
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Medium
Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
Old coders never die, they just become middle managers.
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Why isn’t CPU time more valuable?
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John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting
Why isn’t CPU time more valuable?
Here’s something I find puzzling: why isn’t CPU time more valuable? I first thought about this when I was working for MD Anderson Cancer Center, maybe around 2002. Our research in adaptive clinical trial methods required bursts of CPU time. We might need…
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People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
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The Atlantic
The People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
“Variety doesn’t really matter to me. I would be perfectly happy to eat the same Caesar salad or peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich every day.”
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