How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6 Billion Embarrassment
Inside Germany’s profligate (Greek-like!) fiasco called Berlin Brandenburg
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> "Professor, let me understand this," Loge said. "You are talking about having 800 people wearing orange vests, sitting on camping stools, holding thermoses filled with coffee, and shouting into their cell phones, 'Open the fire door'?" Loge refused the airport an operating license. Schwarz stood up and walked out without another word.
Posted on 2015-07-24T05:11:52+0000
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another “Earth.”
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Posted on 2015-07-24T03:06:26+0000
Steve Jobs Made Warner Music Sue My Startup — Startup Study Group
We had 50M monthly active users and 250M searches every month. Steve Jobs told the labels, including Warner Music, to su…
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Posted on 2015-07-23T15:56:25+0000
New research: Comparing how security experts and non-experts stay safe online
googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com
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Posted on 2015-07-23T15:50:49+0000
Uber has defeated Bill de Blasio’s plan to rein them in
Uber and Mayor Bill de Blasio are at war over a proposal to cap the growth of ride-hailing services.
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Posted on 2015-07-23T04:54:11+0000
This Bizarre Criminal Case Shows the Danger of Prosecutors Who Won’t Admit They’re Wrong
Three years ago, one of the strangest criminal cases in recent memory began in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I live, when a young woman sent a series of text messages telling her boyfriend that a man had abducted her, followed by a series of texts, allegedly from her captor, taunting her...
Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete | Quanta Magazine
A 115-year effort to mathematically bridge the particle and fluid descriptions of nature has led physicists to an unexpected answer.
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Posted on 2015-07-22T04:39:08+0000
ducklang.org
ducklang.org
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Designing a programming language - I'm waiting for the next part
Posted on 2015-07-21T16:30:13+0000
How a Car Works
A beautiful detailed guide to how cars work with over 280 articles and 2,000 illustrations.
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.
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This is why we should all just go back to riding horses - I often don't see why all cars need to be "smart" given that most software companies (let alone hardware companies) are so bad at security
Posted on 2015-07-21T16:26:12+0000