Airlines Make More Money Selling Miles Than Seats
The golden goose isn’t your ticket or bag fee—it’s the credit card you use to collect frequent flier miles.
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Posted on 2017-04-09T04:52:46+0000
Why F.E.A.R.’s AI is still the best in first-person shooters
The shadows on the wall tell me they’re coming. Two of them, both with assault rifles swinging idly at their hips. If I’m quick enough, I’m sure I can take them
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Posted on 2017-04-08T17:31:41+0000
Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest
With so much research showing that young males suffer beneath the gravity of conventional masculinity, why isn’t there more help for them on campus?
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Posted on 2017-04-07T15:06:42+0000
Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data
Posted by Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage, Research Scientists Standard machine learning approaches require centralizing the training da...
Bay Area murder suspect could be released on bail after offering $70 million in property
A Bay Area woman accused of killing the father of her two children is planning to offer nearly $70 million in property to get out of jail.
Bay Area housing crisis splits young and old
A new poll shows sharp generational divides in the attitudes of Bay Area residents toward the housing crisis. Among its findings: 70 percent of millennials say “yes” to housing in their…
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"Many older homeowners, Regan said, have “for all intents and purposes built regulatory walls around their communities that prevent even their own children from moving back to the area after college, given the housing costs.”"
Posted on 2017-04-07T03:52:22+0000
These high school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials. Days later, she resigned.
In a story published Friday, a high school newspaper staff questioned the legitimacy of the recently hired principal's degrees and of her work as an education consultant.
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If only every newspaper these days did as much investigative journalism as these folks.
Posted on 2017-04-07T01:13:06+0000
Uber finds one allegedly stolen Waymo file – on an employee’s personal device
Uber admitted today that it had found one of the documents Waymo alleges was stolen by a former employee -- who left its self-driving car effort to join..
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This just gets better and better. I love Alsup's comments.
"If your guy is involved in criminal activity and has to have criminal lawyers of the caliber of these two gentlemen, who are the best, well, okay they got the best. But it’s a problem I can’t solve for you. And if you think I’m going to cut you some slack because you’re looking at—your guy is looking at jail time, no. They [Waymo] are going to get the benefit of their record. And if you don’t deny it—if all you do is come in and say, “We looked for the documents and can’t find them,” then the conclusion is they got a record that shows Mr. Levandowski took it, and maybe still has it. And he’s—he’s still working for your company. And maybe that means preliminary injunction time. Maybe. I don’t know. I’m not there yet. But I’m telling you, you’re looking at a serious problem."
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"Well, why did he take [them] then?". "He downloaded 14,000 files, he wiped clean the computer, and he took [them] with him. That's the record. He’s not denying it. You're not denying it. No one on your side is denying he has the 14,000 files. Maybe you will. But if it's going to be denied, how can he take the 5th Amendment? This is an extraordinary case. In 42 years, I've never seen a record this strong. You are up against it. And you are looking at a preliminary injunction, even if what you tell me is true."
The drink Brits go to bed with and Indians wake up with - BBC News
How does a company go from succeeding in its home country to a global brand?
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Posted on 2017-04-05T19:58:55+0000
Espresso makes Google cloud faster, more available and cost effective by extending SDN to the public internet
, where we shared details about Espresso, Google’s peering edge architecture—the latest offering in our Software Defined Networking (SDN) strategy. Espresso has been in production for over two years and routes 20 percent of our total traffic to the internet—and growing. It’s changing the way traffic...
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Posted on 2017-04-05T05:31:43+0000