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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Novels Written By Computers
Via Business Insider: …in a play on a human literary contest, around a hundred people are writing computer programs that will write texts for them, the Verge says. It's a response to November's National Novel Writing Month, an annual challenge that gets people to...
World’s Gone Right
Via Reason.com: …the world is getting better in spite of governments, not because of them. World’s Gone Right - Reason.com Points: “…rapid advances in technology have made it more difficult for governments to run the kinds of campaigns that ran up the death toll in...
Inside Army Sapper School At Fort Leonard Wood
Via Business Insider: In a 28-training-day course at Fort Leonard Wood sapper students learn demolition, knot-tying, rappelling, urban combat tactics, and they also brush-up their hand-to-hand combat techniques. The training — done straight through without a day off —...
IBM Financing Small Businesses
Via Business Insider: Rather than sitting back and waiting on the economy, IBM announced today that it's going to lend out $4 billion to small and medium businesses in a calculated bet that getting these companies to adopt their technology and forming relationships...
IBM Financing Small Businesses
Via Business Insider: Rather than sitting back and waiting on the economy, IBM announced today that it's going to lend out $4 billion to small and medium businesses in a calculated bet that getting these companies to adopt their technology and forming relationships...
Google: Surveillance ‘is on the rise’
Via The Hill: From January to June, Google received nearly 8,000 requests for user data from the U.S. government. The search company said it "fully or partially" compiled with roughly 90 percent of them. That's up from the 5,950 requests for user data that Google...
Google: Surveillance ‘is on the rise’
Via The Hill: From January to June, Google received nearly 8,000 requests for user data from the U.S. government. The search company said it "fully or partially" compiled with roughly 90 percent of them. That's up from the 5,950 requests for user data that Google...
In case you’re still wondering where the next boom will come from
Via Business Insider: According to the Frankfurt-based International Federation of Robotics, China could become the world's biggest consumer of industrial robots by 2014, with demand reaching 32,000 units. Gudrun Litzenberger, the organisation's general secretary, has...