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Apple Shares Recommended Graphics Cards and Chassis in New eGPU Support Document for macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 - Mac Rumors

Apple Shares Recommended Graphics Cards and Chassis in New eGPU Support Document for macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 - Mac Rumors : Apple recommends AMD Polaris, Vega 56, and Vega 64 graphics cards, paired with a specific Thunderbolt 3 chassis. For the AMD Radeon RX 570, RX 580, and Radeon Pro WX 7100 cards (of which Apple recommends the Sapphire Pulse series and the AMD WX series), Apple recommends the following Thunderbolt 3 chassis: OWC Mercury Helios FX3 PowerColor Devil Box Sapphire Gear Box Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box 350W Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box 550W3 Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box 650W3
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China Catches Smugglers Using Drones to Transport $80M Worth of iPhones From Hong Kong to Mainland - Mac Rumors

China Catches Smugglers Using Drones to Transport $80M Worth of iPhones From Hong Kong to Mainland - Mac Rumors : According to a news conference held by the customs officers, this marks "the first case found in China that drones were being used in cross-border smuggling crimes." Shenzhen customs was quoted by the Legal Daily as saying it would closely monitor new types of smuggling with high-tech devices and enhance their capability with technical equipment, including drones and high-resolution monitors, to detect smuggling activity. Drone regulations are said to be "an important task" for Chinese officials, with the government publishing a series of strict rules in 2017 after drones were found to be interfering with aircraft flight paths. Civilian drone owners are now required to register any drone "up to a certain weight" using their real names.
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Executives | Domino Data Lab

Executives | Domino Data Lab : Get the most out of precious resources Data scientists are expensive resources, but they often spend more than half of their time managing tools and wrangling infrastructure, rather than adding business value. Domino handles all the plumbing and lets data scientists focus on extracting insights and communicating with the business. Leverage powerful centralized hardware, centralize communications, easily discover and reproduce past work, and minimize the friction with IT when deploying models.
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Top sports leagues heavily promote unhealthy food and beverages, new study finds: Millions of children and adolescents view sports programs associated with unhealthy food and beverage sponsors -- ScienceDaily

Top sports leagues heavily promote unhealthy food and beverages, new study finds: Millions of children and adolescents view sports programs associated with unhealthy food and beverage sponsors -- ScienceDaily : The descriptive study publishes online March 26 in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics. Researchers analyzed Nielsen statistics of televised sports programs among children 2-17 years of age. The study found that, among the 10 most watched sports organizations (e.g. NFL), most of the food products were rated "unhealthy" under the guidelines of the Nutrient Profile Model, a profiling system that identifies nutritious value in the United Kingdom and Australia. (The U.S. does not have a comparable measurement system.) Specifically, the NPM system assigns a score to all foods, and scores can be converted to a 0-100 point scale called the Nutrient Profile Index (NPI). An NPI of 64 or higher indicates a food product as "nutritious." When NPI scoring was applied
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Facebook has a detailed plan to fight election interference for the 2018 mid-terms - Recode

Facebook has a detailed plan to fight election interference for the 2018 mid-terms - Recode : A few other things Facebook is doing: The social network is notifying people who share fake news that they shared fake news, and also wants to “warn people who try to share it going forward.” Facebook is close to rolling out the new political ad dashboard that it announced last fall. The dashboard will let people see who is buying what political ads, and the company has already been testing it in Canada. It plans to roll it out in the U.S. this summer. Facebook is trying to prevent bad actors from getting started at all. The company says it’s blocking “millions of fake accounts each day at the point of creation.”
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Former Apple CEO John Sculley says he never fired co-founder Steve Jobs

Former Apple CEO John Sculley says he never fired co-founder Steve Jobs : "We [Apple] had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started?" he quipped. "Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out." Jobs went on to add that "getting fired from Apple" turned out to be "the best thing that could have ever happened" to him. To Jobs' credit, Sculley was quick to point out that technology eventually caught up to Jobs' vision of what it could do. For instance, he said Jobs' work at NeXT was too early for its time, but eventually was used as &qu
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Clean Up Corrosive Interpersonal Dynamics on Your Team with This System | First Round Review

Clean Up Corrosive Interpersonal Dynamics on Your Team with This System | First Round Review : To have a productive discussion as a group, you need to cut through the etiquette and niceties that prevent transparency. You have to declare this time and space a wholly different zone, where honesty and openness are championed. Ideally, this is an opportunity to talk about what's bothering you in detail, publicly. Resolving things in this type of forum dramatically cuts down gossip and hallway conversations.
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Interview: Apple logo creator Rob Janoff on making timeless work, fielding criticism, and what makes a good designer | 9to5Mac

Interview: Apple logo creator Rob Janoff on making timeless work, fielding criticism, and what makes a good designer | 9to5Mac : More than 40 years later, Janoff is still working in graphic design, now with an agency of his own. Watching the changing landscape of the design community over the past four decades has revealed to him some insights about the industry. “It’s amazing to me how many people think that designers design stuff into their logos to have meaning and be profound. It’s enough of a job to get something to look halfway decent,” says Janoff. He points to Apple’s logo as an example.
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Karen McDougal's message to Melania Trump: 'I'm sorry' - CNNPolitics

Karen McDougal's message to Melania Trump: 'I'm sorry' - CNNPolitics : Washington (CNN)A former Playboy model who is alleging an affair more than a decade ago with President Donald Trump apologized to his wife, first lady Melania Trump, in an interview Thursday evening. "What can you say except, I'm sorry?" Karen McDougal said on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." She continued, "I'm sorry. I wouldn't want it done to me." The White House has denied the alleged affair, which came to light in a Wall Street Journal story shortly before the presidential election saying the parent company of The National Enquirer had paid for McDougal's story and never published it.
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Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) | Twitter

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) | Twitter : Donald J. Trump ‏ Verified account � @realDonaldTrump 17h17 hours ago More Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case...don’t believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on. Fame & fortune will NEVER be turned down by a lawyer, though some are conflicted. Problem is that a new......
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Mathematician's study of 'swarmalators' could direct future science | EurekAlert! Science News

Mathematician's study of 'swarmalators' could direct future science | EurekAlert! Science News : Strogatz and Kevin O'Keeffe, Ph.D. '17, used the curious mating ritual of male Japanese tree frogs as inspiration for their exploration of "swarmalators" - their term for systems in which both synchronization and swarming occur together. Specifically, they considered oscillators whose phase dynamics and spatial dynamics are coupled. In the instance of the male tree frogs, they attempt to croak in exact anti-phase (one croaks while the other is silent) while moving away from a rival so as to be heard by females. This opens up "a new class of math problems," said Strogatz, a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow. "The question is, what do we expect to see when people start building systems like this or observing them in biology?" Their paper, "Oscillators That Sync and Swarm," was published Nov. 13 in Nature Communications. Stro
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Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction: By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extermination of species in future millennia -- ScienceDaily

Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction: By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extermination of species in future millennia -- ScienceDaily : Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extermination of species in future millennia Date: September 20, 2017 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summary: Scientists have analyzed significant changes in the carbon cycle over the last 540 million years, including the five mass extinction events. They have identified 'thresholds of catastrophe' in the carbon cycle that, if exceeded, would lead to an unstable environment, and ultimately, mass extinction.
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Being frugal is for the rich | The Outline

Being frugal is for the rich | The Outline : So the Frugalwoods appear to be doing pretty well for themselves. And if their story carries a whiff of d�j� vu, that’s probably it slots neatly into a classist myth that millions of adults in this country still believe: the story of the American Millennial. It goes like this. The 2008 recession may have cratered the wages and employment prospects for people just entering the job market, but according to the myth of the American Millennial, the real problem young people have today is themselves. Nearly a decade after the crash, the mainstream media still seems hell-bent on portraying people born between 1982 and 2004 as a bunch of decadent and “fun-employed” narcissists who piss their parents’ money away on matcha green tea lattes, spend too much time Instagramming their pets, and are thus responsible for the economic rut they’re stuck in. This myth — which scrubs millions of underprivileged Millennials from the picture — is crucial to und
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Nobody wants to listen to Spotify’s “self-driving music”

Nobody wants to listen to Spotify’s “self-driving music” : During a March 15 presentation meant to publicize its April 3 trading date, Spotify executives told investors about the company’s goal of creating “self-driving music,” a nonsense term that basically means that the streaming giant wants to automate the music discovery process even more than it already has. “The more music people discover, the more they will listen, and the more artists will be successful,” explained the company’s CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek. In true tech company form, Ek was proposing a tech-centric solution to a problem that music buffs, especially hip-hop fans, have already solved on their own.
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Academic who collected 50 million Facebook profiles: ‘We thought we were doing something normal’ - The Verge

Academic who collected 50 million Facebook profiles: ‘We thought we were doing something normal’ - The Verge : Speaking to Radio 4, Kogan echoed these sentiments, saying Cambridge Analytica had tried to sell “magic” but that its efforts “could have only hurt [Trump’s] campaign.” “The accuracy of this data has been extremely exaggerated,” said Kogan. “In practice my best guess is that we were six times more likely to get everything wrong about a person as we were to get everything right about a person. I personally don’t think micro-targeting is an effective way to use such datasets.”
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Cambridge Analytica misled MPs over work for Leave.EU, says ex-director

Cambridge Analytica misled MPs over work for Leave.EU, says ex-director : Nix worked as a financial analyst in Mexico and the UK before joining SCL, a strategic communications firm, in 2003. From 2007 he took over the company’s elections division, and claims to have worked on�more than 40 campaigns�globally. Many of SCL’s projects are secret, so that may be a low estimate. He set up Cambridge Analytica to work in America, with investment from US hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer. He has been both hailed as a visionary – featuring on�Wired’s list�of “25 Geniuses who are creating the future of business” – and derided as a�snake oil salesman.
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Excerpt From: John Hargrave. “Mind Hacking.” iBooks.

“You are not your mind! Close your eyes and think about your own mind for just a moment. The fact that you can observe your mind, and think about it objectively, shows there is a “mind,” and then an “observer of the mind,” which we’ll call “you.” In other words, you can separate “your mind” (which you have just pictured) with “you” (the one who is doing the picturing). Got it? You’ve probably got it. But this idea is so fundamental to mind hacking, and yet so foreign to our everyday experience, that I will illustrate it via several different analogies. These analogies will serve as handy tools for peeling away “you” from “your mind,” which a mind hacker must be able to do at will. If you’re a movie geek like me, perhaps you’ve had the experience of deconstructing a movie as you’re watching it. It’s the opening credits of The Lord of the Rings, and you’re watching the title sequence, analyzing the music. Now comes the first scene, and you’re evaluating the actors, admiring the cinema
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Read the full Kogan email: Researcher says Facebook is scapegoating him | The Outline

Read the full Kogan email: Researcher says Facebook is scapegoating him | The Outline : Later, in 2014, once I formed GSR, but before starting the project, I moved the app into GSR, and (a) changed the name of the app to GSRApp, (b) changed the logo, (c) changed the description, and (d) changed the terms and conditions. In fact, the only aspect that was the same about the app was its app ID number. In the GSRApp, we made clear the app was for commercial use—we never mentioned academic research nor the University of Cambridge. The project was in fact done entirely through GSR—the university played no role. In the Terms of Service of the GSRApp, we clearly stated that the users were granting us the right to use the data in broad scope, including selling and licensing the data. These changes were all made on the Facebook app platform and thus they had full ability to review the nature of the app and raise issues. Facebook at no point raised any concerns at all about any of these changes.
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This is what it’s like to have dinner with Steve Bannon, Roger Ailes and Michael Wolff - Recode

This is what it’s like to have dinner with Steve Bannon, Roger Ailes and Michael Wolff - Recode : Min, who had commissioned a column from Wolff when she was the editor of the Hollywood Reporter, had been invited to his house for dinner in New York. Ailes, who had just been pushed out of Fox News, showed up in a wheelchair with his wife, and Bannon showed up three hours late.
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Exclusive: Amazon's internal numbers on Prime Video, revealed

Exclusive: Amazon's internal numbers on Prime Video, revealed : (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc’s top television shows drew more than 5 million people worldwide to its Prime shopping club by early 2017, according to company documents, revealing for the first time how the retailer’s bet on original video is paying off.
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Exclusive: Amazon's internal numbers on Prime Video, revealed

Exclusive: Amazon's internal numbers on Prime Video, revealed : the first season of the popular drama “The Man in the High Castle,” an alternate history depicting Germany as the victor of World War Two, had 8 million U.S. viewers as of early 2017, according to the documents. The program cost $72 million in production and marketing and attracted 1.15 million new subscribers worldwide based on Amazon’s accounting, the documents showed. Amazon calculated that the show drew new Prime members at an average cost of $63 per subscriber.
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Amazon HQ2 search has a 'hidden variable' - Business Insider

Amazon HQ2 search has a 'hidden variable' - Business Insider : LeRoy, who has been following Amazon's HQ2 search from the beginning, says there's something missing from most people's bets on where Amazon will select. He calls it the "hidden variable." "We don't know what Bezos is going to acquire next, or where he thinks the company is gonna grow the most next," LeRoy said to Business Insider. "If we did have that information, it might suggest particular places that have comparative advantages in those niches. But since we don't know, it's all a guessing game." Whatever this hidden variable is, it could be the thing that would, all else being equal, swing Amazon's choice from one city to the next. It's Amazon's next big, secret project — one that hasn't been reported at all and might even be in the very earliest stages of development. Think New York having the advantage as Amazon moves into advertising
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Hollywood condemns Terry Gilliam for #MeToo comments | Film | The Guardian

Hollywood condemns Terry Gilliam for #MeToo comments | Film | The Guardian : Gilliam said: “Harvey opened the door for a few people, a night with Harvey - that’s the price you pay. “I think some people did very well out of meeting with Harvey and others didn’t. The ones who did, knew what they were doing. These are adults; we are talking about adults with a lot of ambition.” The allegations against Harvey Weinstein – a list Read more He continued: “It’s like when mob rule takes over, the mob is out there, they are carrying their torches and they are going to burn down Frankenstein’s castle. It’s crazy how simplified things are becoming.” Judd Apatow, who has directed films including The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Trainwreck, described Gilliam’s comments as “idiotic and dangerous”. “He wasn’t in those rooms. He doesn’t know how aggressive and violent and terrifying he [Weinstein] was. Who is he to say it was some sort of offered deal? He should be ashamed of himself,” Apatow twe
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Google's Detailed Management Study Reveals 8 Signs You're a Toxic Boss | Inc.com

Google's Detailed Management Study Reveals 8 Signs You're a Toxic Boss | Inc.com : 4. You feel constantly behind and split in too many directions. Appearing out of control and unable to stay on top of your work is a sign of poor self-management. If you can't manage your own effectiveness and productivity, you can't expect others to model your behavior.
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Extremism pays. That’s why Silicon Valley isn’t shutting it down | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian

Extremism pays. That’s why Silicon Valley isn’t shutting it down | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian : “It seems,” she reflected, “as if you are never ‘hardcore’ enough for YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. It promotes, recommends and disseminates videos in a manner that appears to constantly up the stakes. Given its billion or so users, YouTube may be one of the most powerful radicalising instruments of the 21st century.”
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