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Meet Mellow, the smart sous-vide machine.

Mellow is a sous-vide machine that takes orders through your smartphone and keeps food cold until it’s the exact time to start cooking. Tell it what to do, teach it what you like, and it'll do its best to make your life simpler.

Click to view the original at cookmellow.com

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Space Monkey | Beyond the Cloud

Store all of your music, movies, photos, and documents in the cloud and never have to worry about losing anything ever again. The future of data storage is here.

Click to view the original at spacemonkey.com

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My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player - Andrew Kelley

Over the past few years, I have been slowly but surely building my own music player. It's been a wild ride. The codebase has radically changed several times, but is always converging on a better music listening experience.

Click to view the original at andrewkelley.me

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Project Naptha

Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image.

Click to view the original at projectnaptha.com

Hasnain says:

I rarely install browser addons or extensions - after seeing this, however, I'm wondering what took the world so long to get this. This is amazing.

Posted on 2014-04-23T04:44:30+0000

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Results of the GitHub Investigation

Last month, a number of allegations were made against GitHub and some of its employees, including one of its co-founders, Tom Preston-Werner. We took these claims seriously and launched a full, independent, third-party investigation. The investigation found no evidence to support the claims against…

Click to view the original at github.com

Hasnain says:

GitHub loses one of their co-founders. Ouch.

(TPW's take on things: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2014/04/21/farewell-github-hello-immersive-computing.html)

Posted on 2014-04-21T20:22:43+0000

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Is the Toilet Free?

Is the Toilet Free? Callum Jefferies April 16, 20140 commentsA few of us Many have been working on a side project that we’ve aptly named Is the Toilet Free? Its purpose to provide an at-desk indication of whether a toilet is free in an effort to remedy that laborious walk to the loo only to find tha…

Click to view the original at madebymany.com

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Hasnain says:

"Although Cassie’s frauds had caused his bank to collapse and decimated his personal wealth, he studied her skeptically through the bars of her cell. “You’ve ruined me,” he said, “but I’m not so sure yet you are a fraud.” To this day the full extent of Cassie’s spoils remains unknown—some historians believe that many victims declined to come forward—but the most commonly cited sum is $633,000, about $16.5 million in today’s dollars"

Posted on 2014-04-21T04:24:01+0000

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Hasnain says:

"Tonya and Charlie’s relationship had become one of two love stories.

Either, as Charlie says, he loved her so much that he had been willing to burn up a county because he thought it would make her happy. Or, as Tonya grew to believe, he loved her too much to let her be free while he went to prison alone."

Posted on 2014-04-21T04:13:18+0000

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Meet the Bag Man: How to buy college football players, in the words of a man who delivers the money

How some college football players are bought, in the words of a man who delivers the money.

Click to view the original at sbnation.com

Hasnain says:

"Now let me ask you, who do you think is more important to this team winning next season? Him with his $50,000 getting bathrooms painted in the basketball arena, or what I do with not even a quarter of that much money?""

Posted on 2014-04-21T03:56:26+0000

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The Trouble With Shaken Baby Syndrome

After three decades and thousands of accusations and fractured lives, medical and legal experts are challenging shaken baby syndrome as a diagnosis. And as one family's saga demonstrates, we can't wait any longer to get it right.

Click to view the original at seattlemet.com

Hasnain says:

" “When we started using more advanced imaging techniques such as MRI,” he told PBS’s Frontline in 2011, “we started realizing there were a number of medical conditions that can affect a baby’s brain and look like the findings that we used to attribute to shaken baby syndrome or child abuse.”

“If you look at it with any scrutiny whatsoever, the absolute bogus nature of the syndrome is clear as a bell,”"

So the study that is used as a basis for shaken baby syndrome involved putting monkeys through a (simulated) 40-mph automobile collision. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Posted on 2014-04-21T03:31:20+0000