Was Someone Tipped Off To The LinkedIn Sale?
Some signs point to insider trading.
How Killing the 3.5mm Needlessly Complicates Smartphone Audio
Join us in an exploration where we find out how the death of the 3mm jack will affect the smartphone experience, and why it shouldn't happen yet.
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Posted on 2016-06-14T05:21:34+0000
Compare These Gun Death Rates: The U.S. Is in a Different World
In most advanced countries, gun homicides are as rare as deaths from falling tree limbs or plane crashes.
Hasnain says:
"Last year’s Paris attacks killed 130 people, which is nearly as many as die from gun homicides in all of France in a typical year. But even if France had a mass shooting as deadly as the Paris attacks every month, its annual rate of gun homicide death would be lower than that in the United States."
Posted on 2016-06-14T04:22:58+0000
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn | News Center
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn Posted June 13, 2016 By Microsoft News Center 0 8223 REDMOND, Wash., and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — June 13, 2016 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) on Monday announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft…
Distributed Systems in Haskell :: Will Yager
I recently completed UT Austin's Distributed Computing class, taught by Lorenzo Alvisi. My project partner Pato and I decided to give it a go in Haskell, and ended up using Haskell for all project assignments (Chandy-Lamport, Paxos, and Bayou).
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Posted on 2016-06-13T05:29:04+0000
The Voyeur’s Motel
Fifty years ago, Gerald Foos bought a motel and rigged it up in order to watch his guests having sex. He saw a lot more than that.
Hasnain says:
This is a super engrossing human interest story about a guy who set up a motel with the express purpose of peeping on people, and what he observed.
Posted on 2016-06-12T21:03:51+0000
Man with weapons and explosives arrested, was going to L.A. gay pride parade, police say
Authorities in Santa Monica found possible explosives as well as a cache of weapons and ammunition Sunday in the car of a man who told them he planned to look for a friend at the L.A. Pride festival in West Hollywood, a law enforcement source said.
The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think
It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned -- and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about ad...
Hasnain says:
I've read a few articles about this before but this is the first time I've heard of the last study. Super interesting stuff, sadly I doubt people will listen due to existing "moral" stigmas. What happened in Portugal needs to happen everywhere if people actually care about reducing drug usage, but I doubt it will anytime soon
Posted on 2016-06-12T11:28:24+0000
As Tech Evaporates Jobs, "The Tipping Point Will Be Driverless Trucks"
Driverless vehicles "will make what happened in the steel or auto industries look tiny," says the former chief of one of America's largest unions.
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Posted on 2016-06-12T05:51:47+0000
What if PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological?
A new study supports what a small group of military researchers has suspected for decades: that modern warfare destroys the brain.
Hasnain says:
"Daniel Perl is continuing to examine the brains of blast-injured soldiers. After five years of working with the military, he feels sure, he told me, that many blast injuries have not been identified. “We could be talking many thousands,” he said. “And what scares me is that what we’re seeing now might just be the first round. If they survive the initial injuries, many of them may develop C.T.E. years or decades later.”"
Posted on 2016-06-11T21:54:31+0000