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82% of vehicles sold this year came with a touch screen
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MarketWatch
Tesla’s infotainment dashboard screen tops Consumer Reports ratings
The infotainment system in Tesla Inc. vehicles tops a Consumer Reports satisfaction survey, with owners rating it highly in audio, calling, and navigation...
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Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M
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TechCrunch
Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M
Pluralsight, an online training platform focusing on subjects like web development, IT certification and security training, announced today that it will acquire GitPrime, a dev team productivity tool, for $170 million in cash.
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Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"
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Whatsonweibo
Chinese Media Warn WeChat Group Admins: “You Can Be Arrested for What Happens in Your Group Chat”
Managing a WeChat group should not be taken lightly, recent headlines warn.
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Huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission
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the Guardian
End to Aids in sight as huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission
Paper says risk between male partners is zero if virus fully suppressed by antiretrovirals
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Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics
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Quanta Magazine
With a Simple Twist, a ‘Magic’ Material Is Now the Big Thing in Physics
The stunning emergence of a new type of superconductivity with the mere twist of a carbon sheet has left physicists giddy, and its discoverer nearly overwhelmed.
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Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (2014)
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NPR
Why The U.S. Chills Its Eggs And Most Of The World Doesn't
In many countries, eggs aren't refrigerated and they're still considered safe to eat. But in the U.S., we have to chill them, because we've washed away the cuticle that protects them from bacteria.
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Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon (2016)
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the Guardian
Lost cities #10: Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon
In the 1920s the US industrialist wanted to found a city based on the values that made his company a success – while, of course, producing cheap rubber. The jungle city that bore his name ended up one of his biggest failures
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Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple'
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BBC News
Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple'
Border agent searches of travellers' devices have nearly quadrupled since 2015, rights groups say.
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Dreams Detoured: Struggle After the Recession in Greater Cincinnati
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Cincinnati
Dreams detoured
We set out to discover if we've actually recovered from the Great Recession. This is what we found.
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Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr
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TechCrunch
Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr
Last year’s decision to ban porn from its platform has had a marked adverse effect on Tumblr’s traffic. No surprise, really, especially given how wide the net was cast for “adult content” when it announced back in December. Now the blogging platform’s media…
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On lists, cache, algorithms, and microarchitecture
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Paweł Dziepak
On lists, cache, algorithms, and microarchitecture
Lists are rather hardware-unfriendly data structure. However, having a closer look at why is that and what can be done to improve this can provide an interesting insight into how high-level algorithms performance is affected by the processor microarchitecture.
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Bento – An Android UI Framework
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Yelp
Introducing Bento
Introducing Bento Tyler Argo, Software Engineer May 2, 2019 Today we’re proud to introduce Bento, an open source framework for building modularized Android user interfaces, created here at Yelp. Over...
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Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
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Inkandswitch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
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King Alfred and India
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www.caitlingreen.org
King Alfred and India: an Anglo-Saxon embassy to southern India in the ninth century AD
One of the more intriguing references to early medieval contacts between Britain and the wider world is found in the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'...
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In search of a truce in the autism wars
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Spectrum
In search of truce in the autism wars
The fight between those who define autism as a medical condition and those who see it as a mere difference has reached vitriolic levels. Can the two sides come together to support all autistic people?
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Interactive Text Prediction Explainer
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The Pudding
How Algorithms Know What You’ll Type Next
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Permafrost is thawing in the Arctic so fast scientists lost their equipment
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CBC
Permafrost is thawing in the Arctic so fast that scientists are losing their equipment | CBC News
Permafrost in some areas of the Canadian Arctic is thawing so fast that it's gulping up the equipment left there to study it.
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Palantir’s software was used for deportations, documents show
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TechCrunch
Palantir's software was used for deportations, documents show | TechCrunch
Data mining firm Palantir’s software was used by a U.S. government agency during an operation in 2017 in which immigrants crossing the border were
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Algorithm Design (2006) [pdf]
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The Human Brain: Even Basic Facts Are Hotly Contested
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Mind Matters
The Human Brain: Even Basic Facts Are Hotly Contested
When we read that “Scientists Are Closer to Making Artificial Brains That Operate Like Ours Do”, we might ask: If career researchers dispute the question of how the brain works at basic levels…
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Don't Do This
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