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Artists Should Be Allowed to Fail
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Artsy
Why Artists Should Be Allowed to Fail
Patton Hindle, senior director of arts at Kickstarter, argues for backing artists’ projects from the earliest stages of research and development.
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Companies outside the tech industry are spinning off internal software
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WSJ
Our IT Is So Good, Let’s Sell It, Firms Say
Companies outside the technology sector are stepping into the software market, selling digital tools developed by their own information-technology teams to other businesses, with some firms even spinning off tech units.
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WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (2013)
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Smithsonian Magazine
A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark
How a ruse to keep German pilots confused gave the Vitamin-A-rich vegetable too much credit
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Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users
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GitHub
luksamuk/powerlisp
Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users. - luksamuk/powerlisp
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The Atlas of Moons
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National Geographic
Explore the mind-boggling moons of our solar system
Soar through a cosmic menagerie of moons—and learn their long-held secrets—in our interactive atlas.
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Shopify and the Power of Platforms
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Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Shopify and the Power of Platforms
It is all but impossible to beat an Aggregator head-on, as Walmart is trying to do with Amazon. The solution instead is to build a platform like Shopify.
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Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services
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A Quantum Theory That Peels Away the Mystery of Measurement
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Nautilus
The Quantum Theory That Peels Away the Mystery of Measurement
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Imagine if all our scientific theories and models told us…
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US launches inquiry into French plan to tax tech giants
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BBC News
US launches inquiry into French plan to tax tech giants
The US says it is concerned that plans for a 3% tax on tech giants will unfairly target US firms.
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Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware
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phys.org
Malicious apps infect 25 million Android devices with 'Agent Smith' malware
Malicious apps from a campaign called "Agent Smith" have been downloaded to 25 million Android devices, according to new research by cyber-security firm Check Point.
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The Ice Cream: A Recipe from 1687
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Cooking in the Archives
The Ice Cream.
Elisabeth Hawar wrote her name in the front of her recipe book and dated her collection 1687. She also wrote two addresses in the Shoreditch and Spitalfields East London neighborhoods inside the fr…
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Data scientists shouldn't use Upwork
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Data Science Jay
Why data scientists should never use Upwork - J's Data Science Blog
Last month, I got an interesting request for a contract assignment on Upwork. An HR company on Upwork tasking algorithm. As a data scientist I was pretty intrigued because I had
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France passes tax on tech giants despite US threats
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BBC News
France passes tax on tech giants despite US threats
The Trump administration says the new 3% tax on sales in France will harm US online giants.
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Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop
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peterwang512.github.io
Detecting Photoshopped Faces By Scripting Photoshop
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QuickJS JavaScript Engine
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Sugary drinks and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort
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The BMJ
Sugary drink consumption and risk of cancer: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort
Objective To assess the associations between the consumption of sugary drinks (such as sugar sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juices), artificially sweetened beverages, and the risk of cancer.
Design Population based prospective cohort study.
Setting…
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Once a Joke Goes Viral, Who Cares Where It Came From? (2015)
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The New Republic
Once A Joke Goes Viral, Who Cares Where It Came From?
The man who created some of early Hollywood's funniest gags ended up a forgotten suicide.
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210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe, Asia
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Los Angeles Times
210,000-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe or Asia
A 210,000-year-old skull in Greece is the earliest evidence for modern humans in Eurasia and suggests they left Africa earlier than previously thought.
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Plant trees while you search the web
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www.ecosia.org
Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees
Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.
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German submarine U-1206
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Hermes – A small JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native on Android
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GitHub
GitHub - facebook/hermes: A JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native.
A JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native. - facebook/hermes
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