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Samsung stops shipments of 'exploding' Galaxy Note 7 phones

Samsung stops shipments of 'exploding' Galaxy Note 7 phones : The Galaxy Note 7 was announced on Aug. 2 and started shipping to U.S. customers on Aug. 19. AT&T is currently listing short delays for the device, with a unit ordered on Aug. 31 shipping between Sept. 6 and Sept. 8. T-Mobile has similar shipment windows. Amazon is showing no hold-ups in shipping, but a similar customer receipt window.
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Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About

Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About : Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Fahey today dismissed the key claims in a lawsuit that alleged that Beats co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre double-crossed former partner Noel Lee, founder of cable maker Monster, reports The Associated Press. The allegations were made in a lawsuit that was filed last year.
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There’s a productive way to approach wasting time online — Quartz

There’s a productive way to approach wasting time online — Quartz : Cyberloafing extends to the home as well (if you’ve ever found yourself browsing viral videos instead of exercising, or choosing Snapchat over sleep, consider yourself an offender). According to Matthew W. McCarter, an associate professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio who co-authored a study on how to prevent cyberloafing in the workplace, social cyberloafing can also include moments when people are pretending to pay attention. (Think about every dinner party, seminar, or recital you’ve spent sneaking looks at your phone.)
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International Migration Initiative Portfolio Review | OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS

Accepting the current crisis as the new normal and moving beyond the need to react Observing our partners as they respond and adjust to the new reality in light of the crisis in Europe and the Mediterranean, we see little attention given to long-term planning or fundamentally new approaches to advocacy. There is a need to create more space for reflection, stock-taking and development of mid- and longer-term strategies. In addition, analysis of our investments in Governance and Enforcement has produced the following learnings that apply to our decisions as grant-makers: Influencing policy Assess the balance between generating evidence to inform policymaking and the need to engage politically to create will for reform. Consider bringing a greater diversity of actors to policy spaces. Invest in capacity building of key civil society networks to engage in policy discussions and
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Vernor Vinge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vernor Vinge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. — "The Coming Technological Singularity" (1993) by Vernor Vinge
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Elon Musk's SolarCity Debt Buy Getting Panned | The Daily Caller

Elon Musk's SolarCity Debt Buy Getting Panned | The Daily Caller : Stack’s investment firm shorted Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla Motors’ stock in May after issuing a report stating the company’s financial model is a kind of “Ponzi scheme” strikingly similar to the one created by “Enron.”
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The biggest myths in the luxury industry

The biggest myths in the luxury industry : Part of the luxury fashion industry’s biggest problems is its reluctance to change. As high-spending consumers turn to Amazon Prime for free shipping and the market for pre-owned Birkin bags surges on an Instagram account, many retailers are still only selling certain items on e-commerce or beginning to consider a mobile app. To get an idea of the mindset that’s keeping the luxury industry steadfastly behind others when it comes to the digital revolution, we asked industry folks�to share what they think is the biggest myth that the luxury industry is holding onto.
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Ang Lee Is Embracing a Faster Film Format. Can Theaters Keep Up? - The New York Times

Ang Lee Is Embracing a Faster Film Format. Can Theaters Keep Up? - The New York Times : It may sound like techno-babble, but Mr. Lee’s blend of visual formats is a major departure for movie exhibition, particularly when it comes to the speed. Films have been presented almost exclusively at 24 frames a second since the 1920s. To a degree, that rate gives cinema its otherworldly quality — the blur when cameras pan from side to side, for instance. To achieve a sharper picture and limit the eye strain that can affect 3-D viewers, some filmmakers are experimenting with higher speeds. Peter Jackson tried 48 frames a second with “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” in 2012; James Cameron is considering higher-speed cinematography for “Avatar” sequels. But no mainstream director has pushed as far as Mr. Lee, who has a history of embracing new technology. “I thought Billy’s journey, which is both intimate and epic, and told almost entirely from his point of view, lent itself particularly wel
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Foundation Ties Bedevil Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign - The New York Times

Foundation Ties Bedevil Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign - The New York Times : With Mrs. Clinton facing accusations of favoritism toward Clinton Foundation donors during her time as secretary of state, former President Bill Clinton told foundation employees on Thursday that the organization would no longer accept foreign or corporate donations should Mrs. Clinton win in November. But while the move could avoid the awkwardness of Mr. Clinton jetting around the world asking for money while his wife is president, it did not resolve a more pressing question: how her administration would handle longtime donors seeking help from the United States, or whose interests might conflict with the country’s own.
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Stories — Crew

Stories — Crew : When people started reaching out to React.js Training co-founders Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence to help them understand and use React they knew they were staring at an opportunity. All they needed was the right site to make it happen. READ MORE
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Lyft was seeking as much as $9 billion in a buyout - Recode

Lyft was seeking as much as $9 billion in a buyout - Recode : After General Motors, a Lyft investor, expressed the possibility of buying the company, the startup hired investment bank Qatalyst to solicit competing offers from other potential buyers, a common practice after receiving buyout interest. It approached Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and even Apple, sources say. Lyft eventually brought its $9 billion asking price down during conversations with potential suitors, but none of the tech companies ended up placing a bid, according to a source familiar with the talks.* GM never made a formal bid, people familiar said. Lyft’s latest funding round valued the company at $5.5 billion. Representatives for Lyft, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Qatalyst declined to comment.
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Prime Numbers

Prime Numbers : The first 168 prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113, 127, 131, 137, 139, 149, 151, 157, 163, 167, 173, 179, 181, 191, 193, 197, 199, 211, 223, 227, 229, 233, 239, 241, 251, 257, 263, 269, 271, 277, 281, 283, 293, 307, 311, 313, 317, 331, 337, 347, 349, 353, 359, 367, 373, 379, 383, 389, 397, 401, 409, 419, 421, 431, 433, 439, 443, 449, 457, 461, 463, 467, 479, 487, 491, 499, 503, 509, 521, 523, 541, 547, 557, 563, 569, 571, 577, 587, 593, 599, 601, 607, 613, 617, 619, 631, 641, 643, 647, 653, 659, 661, 673, 677, 683, 691, 701, 709, 719, 727, 733, 739, 743, 751, 757, 761, 769, 773, 787, 797, 809, 811, 821, 823, 827, 829, 839, 853, 857, 859, 863, 877, 881, 883, 887, 907, 911, 919, 929, 937, 941, 947, 953, 967, 971, 977, 983, 991, 997
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5 Things Keeping You From Learning a Language How often have you tried to learn a language and given up? Maybe you unconsciously committed a few “strategic” mistakes. 
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The long, troubled history of ‘Criminal Minds’ | New York Post

The long, troubled history of ‘Criminal Minds’ | New York Post : I never thought they were going to kill and rape all these women every night, every day, week after week, year after year. It was very destructive to my soul and my personality,” Patinkin told New York magazine in 2012. It would be four years before he landed another starring TV role (as Saul Berenson on “Homeland”).
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Google's self-driving car unit is losing three key execs - Recode

Google's self-driving car unit is losing three key execs - Recode : Three early members of Google’s self-driving car unit are departing, including the project’s chief technician. Chris Urmson, who serves as CTO and technical lead, announced that he was leaving after seven years. Urmson did not indicate what was next for him, but wrote: “If I can find another project that turns into an obsession and becomes something more, I will consider myself twice lucky.” But Urmson isn't the only big name moving on from the Google unit. Jiajun Zhu, the team’s principal software engineer and one of its founders, listed a new role as a startup co-founder on his LinkedIn profile. The New York Times is reporting Dave Ferguson, another software lead on the unit, has left as well.
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Kevin Rose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kevin Rose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : On April 6, 2014, protestors demonstrated in front of Rose's home in San Francisco. The protesters held up a banner calling Rose a "parasite" and distributed a pamphlet accusing Rose of directing "the flow of capital from Google into the tech startup bubble that is destroying San Francisco." One banner read "I'ma Snip Snip Yr Ballz," an allusion to Rose's 2008 video podcast on Diggnation in which he joked about cutting off women’s breasts.[36]
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Larry Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Larry Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux. The primary database is kept on a Sun Ultra series II with 28GB of disk. Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg have provided a great deal of very talented implementation help. Sergey Brin has also been very involved and deserves many thanks By early 1997, the BackRub page described the state as follows: The mathematical website interlinking that the  PageRank algorithm facilitates, illustrated by size-percentage correlation of the circles. The  algorithm  was named after Page himself. Some Rough Statistics (from August 29, 1996) Total indexable HTML urls: 75.2306 Million Total content downloaded: 207.022 gigabytes ... BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running  Linux . The primary database is kept on a  Sun Ultra series  II with 28GB of disk. Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg have provi
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Clifford Stoll Quotes - 4 Science Quotes - Dictionary of Science Quotations and Scientist Quotes

Clifford Stoll Quotes - 4 Science Quotes - Dictionary of Science Quotations and Scientist Quotes Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.  — Clifford Stoll Attributed to Cliff Stoll and Gary Schubert, in Mark R Keeler,  Nothing to Hide: Privacy in the 21st Century  (2006), 112. A similar quote, 'Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not wisdom,' is in the lyrics of Frank Zappa's album,  Joe's Garage , track 'Packard Goose.' The sentiment of the above quote is presented in Clifford Stoll,  Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway  (1996), 193-194. The elements of the above quote are fragmented and distributed within three paragraphs. “Data isn't information ... information is not knowledge ... doesn't mean you understand ... There's a relationship between data, information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. ... perhaps knowledge becomes wisdom.”
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As per Albert Einstein, 'The only source of knowledge is experience,' then why Quora? - Quora

As per Albert Einstein, 'The only source of knowledge is experience,' then why Quora? - Quora : But regardless of whether or not that quotation comes from Einstein, it isn't even the full quote that is usually stated.� The full quote is "Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience."� Seen as a whole, it is evident that the purpose of the words is to distinguish the differences between information and knowledge I have seen a quote that provides a different viewpoint: " It seems that the human mind has first to construct forms independently before we can find them in things. Kepler’s marvelous achievement is a particularly fine example of the truth that knowledge cannot spring from experience alone but only from the comparison of the inventions of the intellect with observed fact. " Einstein, Albert. Ideas And Opinions (p. 266). Crown Publishing Group.  So, from that quote, I think Einstein would see value in Quora's ab
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The writing class I’d like to teach — Signal v. Noise

The writing class I’d like to teach — Signal v. Noise : a description of a course I’d like to see taught in college. In fact, I’d like to teach it. It would be a writing course. Every assignment would be delivered in five versions: A three page version, a one page version, a three paragraph version, a one paragraph version, and a one sentence version.
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Why The Game of Business Needs to Change Its Rules — Medium

Why The Game of Business Needs to Change Its Rules — Medium : The Next Economy, an economy in which we use technology not just to replace workers, but instead to augment them so that they can do things that were previously impossible. It’s an economy in which we harness business to make our entire society more prosperous, not just a lucky few
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Alphabet Learns That Change Isn’t as Easy as ABC — Backchannel

Alphabet Learns That Change Isn’t as Easy as ABC — Backchannel : Page’s blog post a year ago announcing Alphabet shocked not only some of Google’s closest followers, but also many top Googlers. Months in the making, the plan to shift Google from a single enterprise to a hydra-structured holding company was concocted by a very small group of executives, operating at a level of stealth unusual even for the normally secretive firm
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Apple (AAPL) Stock Up in After-Hours Trading, Said to File Health Device Patent - TheStreet

Apple (AAPL) Stock Up in After-Hours Trading, Said to File Health Device Patent - TheStreet : We rate APPLE INC as a Buy with a ratings score of B. This is driven by a few notable strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, expanding profit margins and notable return on equity. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.
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The Apple (AAPL) iPhone 7 may well be a waterproof iphone — Quartz

The Apple (AAPL) iPhone 7 may well be a waterproof iphone — Quartz : The patent, granted this week and first uncovered by Patently Apple, outlines a system for color-balancing photos shot underwater. Presumably if Apple is working on technology to make sure photos taken underwater come out looking good, the company would also be ensuring that the phones themselves are waterproof.
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The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority — Medium

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority — Medium : We can answer these points using the minority rule. Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, as we saw, it will eventually destroy our world. So, we need to be more than intolerant with some intolerant minorities. It is not permissible to use “American values” or “Western principles” in treating intolerant Salafism (which denies other peoples’ right to have their own religion). The West is currently in the process of committing suicide.
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Unofficial 2016 Olympic Sponsors Find Ways To Capitalize On Rule 40 08/08/2016

Unofficial 2016 Olympic Sponsors Find Ways To Capitalize On Rule 40 08/08/2016 : "Brands that sponsor big name athletes like Michael Phelps may be able to gain more exposure for less cost than by becoming an official Olympics sponsor," said Mark Simon, managing director of North America at Toluna. "Ultimately, the IOC will need to consider what brings them more value--allowing non-sponsors to generate broader exposure for the games through their athlete partnerships,�or maintaining control over the athletes’ marketing influence by restricting use of the Olympics brand."
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‘The map precedes the territory’: Pok�mon Go through the eyes of Jean Baudrillard | openDemocracy

‘The map precedes the territory’: Pok�mon Go through the eyes of Jean Baudrillard | openDemocracy : When I think about this international virtual gaming incident, and watch players around us in familiar spaces made new by spinning Pok�stops, towering Gyms and alluring magical creatures, I’m reminded of the work of French philosopher Jean Baudrillard and his concerns about today’s hyper-mediated society. Baudrillard coined the phrase “the map precedes the territory” to express the idea that our knowledge of the representation of space (the map) is often more familiar and more ‘real’ to us than the actual space itself. Accordingly, as the media increasingly filters information and experience for us, Baudrillard suggests that ‘authentic’ reality will no longer exist; everything around us will become a reflected construction.
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How Rio got super-smart — FT.com

How Rio got super-smart — FT.com : There was another factor, however, that made the ceremony so memorable: it delivered spectacular digital visual effects, producing an immersive experience akin to sitting inside the Matrix or Insurgent movies. Over the course of several hours, a breathless kaleidoscope of computer images was beamed on to the walls and floor of the stadium, creating worlds of urban skyscrapers, seascapes and jungle scenes. The net result was an experience as visually thrilling and emotionally powerful as anything I saw in the London 2012 opening ceremony (which I was lucky enough to attend) or Beijing’s, in 2008 (which I watched on television) — so much so that when the athletes finally stepped into the area, it was almost an anticlimax. In many ways, this is no surprise: most large events use computer projections these days. London 2012, for example, employed dazzling lighting. But the fact that digitisation now dominates the Olympic opening ceremony is a symbol o
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Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "I love watching these poor, pathetic people (pundits) on television working so hard and so seriously to try and figure me out. They can't!"

Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "I love watching these poor, pathetic people (pundits) on television working so hard and so seriously to try and figure me out. They can't!" : I love watching these poor, pathetic people (pundits) on television working so hard and so seriously to try and figure me out. They can't!
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NBC's coverage of the Olympics is atrocious. There's a simple reason why. - Vox

NBC's coverage of the Olympics is atrocious. There's a simple reason why. - Vox : on August 5, John Miller, the NBC Olympics chief marketing officer, offered an explanation for why so many Olympic events — and particularly the opening ceremony — are aired on a tape delay, even for those who live on the East Coast, only an hour off the time in Rio (to say nothing of the West Coast, which gets everything on a tape delay). Jonathan Tannenwald of the Philadelphia Inquirer reported the following comment: The people who watch the Olympics are not particularly sports fans. More women watch the games than men, and for the women, they're less interested in the result and more interested in the journey. It's sort of like the ultimate reality show and mini-series wrapped into one. It’s an idea NBC has offered before, including in press conferences I’ve attended over the years. It’s also one that is baldly sexist on its face, but one the network claims it can back up with mar
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Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) Stock To End Up At $0 Due To Competition: Dr. Doom

Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) Stock To End Up At $0 Due To Competition: Dr. Doom : Gloom, Bloom & Doom Report’s publisher and Marc Faber Ltd.’s director, Marc Faber, is widely known for his everlasting bearish view on the entire market, including some big stocks. The investor, also known as ‘Dr. Doom’ gave an extremely pessimistic take on Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), one of the Street’s beloved stocks. Dr. Doom attended CNBC’s “Trading Nation” and said, "I think Tesla is a company that is likely to go to zero eventually," which is a bold claim for a revolutionary stock which has convinced the entire industry to move towards electrification. He highlighted that Tesla builds battery-powered vehicles, which can be produced eventually by the industry giants, including BMW, Nissan, Mercedes, and Toyota, more efficiently and at a much lower cost. Mr. Faber said that the electric vehicle (EV) market is not big enough for the auto giants. Though, whenever it is big e
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Arianna Huffington to Leave the Huffington Post - WSJ

Arianna Huffington to Leave the Huffington Post - WSJ : Thrive Global Arianna Huffington , who co-founded the Huffington Post 11 years ago and built it into one of the largest digital media outlets in the U.S., says she will be leaving the company in the coming weeks to focus on a soon-to-launch startup dedicated to issues of health and wellness. Ms. Huffington, who is 66 years old, had signed a new deal in June of last year to remain at the Huffington Post as president and editor-in-chief through 2019. But she said the contract allowed her to launch the new company, Thrive Global, while continuing in her role at the site. When she secured Series A funding for the new venture late last week, she said it had become clear she could no longer continue running the Huffington Post. “I really thought I could do both, but as we started building it up, I realized that it really needed my full attention,” she said in an interview. “It is important to know when one door closes and another open
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