Wieczorek said he was not distressed about who might see his personal information via the bn.com crack. Viewers who are looking to do something constructive with the understandable frustration they’ll feel after watching even small segments of Miss Representation are invited to head over to the movie’s website in order to take action, host a…
Month: February 2017
A Large Underground Parking Lot Can Deliver A More Vibrant And Functional Walking Community—if It’s Done Right
Careful what you use your cryptocurrency for: Researchers have found that it’s all too easy to dredge up evidence of years-old bitcoin drug deals. To set up, each player gets a farm board, three worker discs, and 9 of the yellow borders. Then you place the game board in the center of the table, with…
Email Your Stuff To Math@nerdist
Manne’s piece was shared approvingly on Twitter by the executive vice president of the Cato Institute and the VP of policy at the Niskanen Center—both of which receive funding from Google—as well as by a senior research fellow at the Koch Institute (a recent Google ally on antitrust) and assorted venture capitalists, and was eventually…
“We Need Legislators To Spend More Time Thinking More Carefully About Protecting The Innovation Engine That Drives The American Economy And To Be Highly Suspicious Of Any Initiative Proposed By The Existing Dominant Players,” Young Said
Sherwood attributes her first three online writing credits to contacts she made through the list. Now, as one of the moderators, she gives new members the same kind of advice and encouragement that she received. “I think the hardest square to fill will likely be the one for spotting a famous actress,” Wen said. “Almost…
Caldbeck says he also sent handwritten apology letters to women who did not come forward, but whom “upon reflection, I felt I owed apologies.” His idea appealed immediately to drivers, who spar regularly with the app companies. Uber has blocked drivers’ attempts to unionize in Seattle; Postmates has fended off claims that its drivers should…
As Part Of The 10-year Deal, Amazon
Three years ago, Upworthy found itself whipsawed by Facebook’s changing algorithms, with hits skyrocketing above 80 million, then plummeting in half in the subsequent months when Facebook changed the algorithm it used to place and disseminate content. It was around the same time that Upworthy came under fire for “clickbait” stories that seemed designed to…
A Cantwell Victory Would Split The 100-member Senate Evenly Between The Democrats And Republicans, But Republicans Will Retain Control Of The Chamber Regardless Of The Outcome
Another oft-heard argument is that science requires creativity, and that—at least so far—we have no idea how to program that into a machine. (Simply trying everything, like Cronin’s robo-chemist, doesn’t seem especially creative.) “Coming up with a theory, with reasoning, I think demands creativity,” Polsterer said. “Every time you need creativity, you will need a…
Today’s Sea-Floor Sunday Images Are From An Active Submarine Sedimentary System In The Mediterranean Sea That Has Been Characterized In Great Detail, Mostly By French Researchers
Unwired Factory’s ZoneMaster, a Risk-like game in which players amass collections of zombies to attack each other and control “zones” in Copenhagen and around Denmark, has inspired fanaticism similar to BotFighters. Sørensen says some players have been known to tool up and down the country on the railway looking for enemies to attack. Yesterday’s magnificent…
Cupertino, California-based Apple Had Won A $399 Million Judgment Against South Korea-based Samsung For Infringing Parts Of The IPhone’s Patented Design, But The Case Now Returns To A Lower Court To Decide What Samsung Must Pay
As the complaints piled up, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which manages the site simply shut down the entire GitHub repository without explanation. According to them, they did this because people were confused about the difference between the front-end and back-end systems and the issues that people were raising on GitHub was only…
Wired Science Has Only Shifted A Handful Of Paradigms In Fields Including Drug Research And Genetics, And Happily, No Paradigm Has Shifted Since The Current Editor (me) Joined The Team
Jim Daniel, an associate professor of food and nutrition at Purdue University, said the biggest obstacle to creating fat substitutes is getting something that mimics the real thing. So there’s the bulk of my idea. A sandbox learning app that incorporates video, images, text, worksheets, referrals, and maybe more. Something that a child can sit…