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2015-08-11 19:35:55     Investigation: Police shootings - Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/.../police-shootings/

At least 86 people have been shot and killed by police a... States within the past 30 days, according to Washington ... database is based on news reports, public records, Inter... original reporting.

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2012-08-16 07:15:29     Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/...otential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help... interact with the world of data -- including a deep look... device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In a... Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthS... possibiliti

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2011-03-02 09:14:52     BBC News - Graduates - the new measure of power

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12597811

At the beginning of the last century, the power of natio... measured in battleships and coal.
In this century it's as likely to be graduates.
There has been an unprecedented global surge in the numb ...
Among the developed OECD countries, graduation rate

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2014-02-15 09:28:23     What's that sucking sound? It's all the public money and private wealth being swallowed up by London | Aditya Chakrabortty | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...te-wealth-london-north-v-south

At the end of 2011, the IPPR North thinktank totted up a... spending on transport projects up till 2015. Londoners e... investment of £2,731 per head, far outstripping any oth... north-east received a measly £5 per head.

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2011-02-24 13:50:35     Visualising Data » Blog Archive » Best of the rest… January 2011

http://www.visualisingdata.com/...-of-the-rest-january-2011/

At the end of each month I pull together a collection of... the most relevant, interesting and useful articles I’v... during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter y... of these items tweeted as soon as I find them. Here’s ... collection

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2013-12-12 16:53:54     Art Maps and the museum as platform | Tate

http://www.tate.org.uk/conte.../art-maps-and-museum-platform

At the heart of the Art Maps project is an exploration o... the future museum. Throughout the project we have been c... kinds of ideas and meanings – both personal and art hi... audiences might generate around artworks and geographica... Furthermore

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2015-07-27 21:58:01     To us, it's an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it's the heist of the century | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/comm.../tax-city-heist-of-century

At the moment tax law ensures that companies based here,... other countries, don't get taxed twice on the same money... only the difference between our rate and that of the oth... example, Dirty Oil plc pays 10% corporation tax on its p...
Foreign mea

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2013-12-21 11:55:16     JavaScript Promises: There and back again - HTML5 Rocks

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/es6/promises/

At their most basic, promises are a bit like event liste...
A promise can only succeed or fail once. It cannot s ...
If a promise has succeeded or failed and you later a ...
This is extremely useful for async success/failure, beca ...

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2012-11-26 18:40:13     Brain-like chip outstrips normal computers - tech - 22 November 2012 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...tstrips-normal-computers.html

Attempts to simulate the brain usually involve programmi... behave like groups of neurons. A new "neuromorphic" desi... recreate the brain's hardware, using analogue components...
The Spikey chip contains 400 "neurons", or printed circu ...
Spikey also

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2010-03-23 10:41:11     Augmented reality: it's like real life, but better | Technology | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...nted-reality-iphone-advertising

Augmented reality: it's like real life, but better
Charles Arthur investigates how the ways in which we wat ...
* Digg it
* Buzz up
... a video or sound clip. Or pretty much anything you want.

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2016-12-06 14:35:42     Author discusses new book, 'The Uberfication of the University'

https://www.insidehighered.com/...ok-uberfication-university

Author discusses new book on the relationship between th... and the erosion of faculty rights.

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2010-07-09 10:20:46     The 100 most funny and unusual 404 error pages - FrancescoMugnai.com - Graphic Design Inspiration and Web Design Trends

http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/...nusual-404-error-pages/

Author's website
banner
About the author
About Francesco Mugnai
... Less is more: 30 excellent examples of vCard websites

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2010-02-06 18:50:35     Toyota's lesson: Software can be unsafe at any speed - Computerworld Blogs

http://blogs.computerworld.com/...can_be_unsafe_at_any_speed

Auto makers, on the other hand, now function more like s... Dozens of suppliers provide sub-assemblies, many of whic... own silicon - and those interconnected systems are becom... elaborate.
Can Toyota elevate software quality to the same level th ...

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2006-07-02 09:29:29     AVL tree

http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/avltree.html

AVL tree
(data structure)
Definition: A balanced binary search tree where the heig ...

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2006-07-02 09:28:04     AVL tree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVL_tree

AVL tree
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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2006-07-02 09:26:43     OOPWeb.com - Data Structures and Algorithms by John Morris

http://www.oopweb.com/Algorithms/Do.../VolumeFrames.html?...

[ From frame: http://www.oopweb.com/Algorithms/Documents/PLDS2.../AVL.html ]

AVL Trees
An AVL tree is another balanced binary search tree. Name ...

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2022-07-04 07:02:29     Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’ | Memory | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-rise-of-digital-amenesia?...

‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories?

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2017-07-12 10:23:49     Nest Founder: “I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?”

https://www.fastcodesign.com/...at-did-we-bring-to-the-world

“A lot of the designers and coders who were in their 2... creating these things didn’t have kids. Now they have ... “And they see what’s going on, and they say, ‘Wait... they start to rethink their design decisions.”
And it’s not just tha

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2023-05-05 07:32:38     US aims to tackle risk of uncontrolled race to develop AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ficial-intelligence-arms-race

“At this point, Big Tech companies need to be saved fr... companies and their top AI developers are well aware of ... generative AI. But they are in a competitive arms race a... themselves unable to slow down,”

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2015-08-11 10:55:25     Stop calling it the “Sharing Economy.” That isn’t what it is. | Olivier Blanchard

http://olivierblanchard.net/...economy-that-isnt-what-it-is/

“I need a car to pick me up at my hotel and take me to... as collaborative as “my yard looks like crap and I rea... cheap landscaper.” You’re talking about buying and s...
Let me ask you this: if someone pushed out an escort-boo ...
Context mat

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2022-10-21 07:02:21     Millennials Are Actually Workaholics, According to Research

https://hbr.org/...ctually-workaholics-according-to-research

“in the 1950s, 12% of high-school students perceived t... important person’ – by the 1990s, 80% did.”

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2011-06-02 17:03:45     Mpemba’s baffling discovery: can hot water freeze before cold? (1969) | Skulls in the Stars

http://skullsinthestars.com/...ater-freeze-before-cold-1969/

“My name is Erasto B Mpemba, and I am going to tel... discovery, which was due to misusing a refrigerator.”
With those words, Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba entere ...

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2009-07-01 11:24:39     famfamfam.com: Silk Icons

http://famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/

“Silk” is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 7... icons in strokably-soft PNG format. Containing a large v... you're sure to find something that tickles your fancy. A... low price of $0.00. You can't say fairer than that.
Icon sample: Empty d

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2015-05-28 16:46:14     I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.

http://io9.com/...thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800

“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of... had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 ... they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front pa...
I am Johannes Bohannon, Ph.D. Well, actually my name is ...
Other than

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2017-05-01 07:31:14     Greg Mark of Markforged talks about putting metal into the microwave | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/...ting-metal-into-the-microwave/?...

“So that’s it. Humans have been pouring metal in mol... Fuck molds. The digital age transformed every other indu... – music, photography, writing, telecom, email, the int... makes cars largely the same way they did in the 50’s. ...
In short he

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2015-02-25 12:36:43     Lab In Berkeley Accidentally Discovers Solution To Fix Color Blindness « CBS San Francisco

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/...hroma-cx-sunglasses/?...

“The glasses work by selectively removing certain wave... red and green cones that allow them to be in essence pus... said Don McPherson, EnChroma’s VP of products.

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2012-04-19 09:29:06     Space-age Christmas c.1973 | Retronaut

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/12/space-age-christmas-c-1973/

“There are two theories about the kind of Christmas pr... expect in 2003, and no one can say exactly which of them...
“Because of the incredible advances in automation, mac ...
“So, if that theory is correct, Christmas presents in ...
“The oppo

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2011-09-05 11:03:38     Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/...should-know-about-time/

“Time” is the most used noun in the English language...
1. Time exists. Might as well get this common question o ...
2. The past and future are equally real. This isn’t co ...
3. Everyone experiences time differently. This is true a ...
... #9 and

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2024-03-13 07:16:06     Workplace AI, robots and trackers are bad for quality of life, study finds | Business | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...ty-of-life-institute-for-work

“We found that quality of life improved as the frequency of interaction with ICTs increased, whereas quality of life deteriorated as frequency of interaction with newer workplace technologies rose,” the report said.

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2012-12-14 09:28:04     N. Joseph Woodland, Inventor of the Bar Code, Dies at 91 - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/...f-the-bar-code-dies-at-91.html?...

“What I’m going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale... told Smithsonian magazine in 1999. “I poked my four fi... and for whatever reason — I didn’t know — I pulled... and drew four lines. I said: ‘Golly! Now I have four l... could be wi

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