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The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile Fired at It
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The National Interest
The SR-71 Spy Plane Was So Fast, It Outran Every Missile Fired at It
Speed has always been as powerful as stealth.
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American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs
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What Winning $250k at Poker Taught Me About Money
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The Cut
What Winning $250,000 at Poker Taught Me About Money
At first, The New Yorker’s Maria Konnikova was just writing about poker. Then she started winning.
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‘Making Amazon look bad’: Microsoft supports a state tax on businesses
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The Seattle Times
‘Making Amazon look bad’: The unique and welcome way Microsoft is getting Amazon’s goat
Remember when Microsoft was the Death Star? Well now it's down at the state Legislature doing good works like lobbying for a tax on itself to pay for higher education....
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Algorithms for Planar Graphs and Beyond (2011)
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South America's marble cathedral carved by nature
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Bbc
South America’s stunning ‘marble cathedral’
Deep in the remote reaches of Patagonia, a shimmering glacial lake holds a spectacular geological marvel.
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AT&T 1993 “You Will” Ads [video]
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YouTube
AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads
This montage of AT&T ads came from a 1993 Newsweek CD-ROM, when Newsweek thought that one day, magazines would be sent to you in CD-ROM form, sponsored with ads. It's an interesting view of the future.
(via very-appealing.com)
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Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of storing data in Australia
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ABC News
Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of storing data in Australia
The software giant's president says vague new laws are damaging the Australian technology industry and causing customers to seek options in other countries.
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Can you buy your own train?
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Bloomberg
Let’s Buy a Train
If you dream of roaming the U.S. in a your own personal train car, you still can. But Amtrak cuts have railcar owners wondering if their days are numbered.
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CopperheadOS Release: Android 9
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Jim Henson's “Paperwork Explosion” (1967) [video]
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YouTube
"Paperwork Explosion"
In 1967, Henson was contracted by IBM to make a film extolling the virtues of their new technology, the MT/ST, a primitive word processor. The film would explore how the MT/ST would help control the massive amount of documents generated by a typical business…
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Told U.S. security at risk, Chinese firm seeks to sell Grindr dating app
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Low-quality sleep can lead to procrastination
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Chinese Devs Protest on GitHub Against 996 Work (9am – 9pm, 6 days/week)
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The Calculus Trap (2005)
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Artofproblemsolving
Don’t Fall into the Calculus Trap
For an avid student with great math skills, rushing through the standard curriculum is not the best answer. Take advantage of our online community and online classes to keep your student truly challenged.
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More security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms
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MIT Technology Review
Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked
Early last month, the security team at Coinbase noticed something strange going on in Ethereum Classic, one of the cryptocurrencies people can buy and sell using Coinbase’s popular exchange platform. Its blockchain, the history of all its transactions, was…
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IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit
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The Mercury News
IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched ‘Millennial Corps’: lawsuit
IBM has let go more than 20,000 U.S. workers over age 40 in the past six years, lawsuit claims.
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Meet Q. The First Genderless Voice
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GenderLess Voice
Gender Less Voice
Meet Q – Unlike Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant, Q has a voice which is Gender-Neutral. Q is a genderless voice assistant which is able to generate voice which is...
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Flaws in Bitcoin make a lasting revival unlikely
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The Economist
Flaws in Bitcoin make a lasting revival unlikely
The latest boom and bust invite comparisons with past financial manias
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ECG app and irregular rhythm notification on Apple Watch
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Apple Newsroom
ECG app and irregular rhythm notification on Apple Watch available today across Europe and Hong Kong
The ECG app on Apple Watch Series 4, a direct-to-consumer product, enables customers to take an electrocardiogram right from their wrist.
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Why are monoidal categories interesting?
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Julia Evans
Why are monoidal categories interesting?
Hello! Someone on Twitter asked a question about tensor categories recently and I remembered “oh, I know something about that!! These are a cool thing!”. Monoidal categories are also called “tensor categories” and I think that term feels a little more concrete:…
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