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‘Emblems of the Passing World,’ by Adam Kirsch - The New York Times

‘Emblems of the Passing World,’ by Adam Kirsch - The New York Times : Cities are destroyed by fire And rise again; Conquering armies melt away, Hemorrhaging men; Leaders proclaim a government To last forever, Then walls collapse and refugees Come pouring over. Everything passes; he remains Casting the seed, Changeless and inescapable As human need.
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Tokyo 2020 urged to scrap open competition to find new logo

Tokyo 2020 urged to scrap open competition to find new logo : An open competition launched by Tokyo 2020 to find a new logo has been criticised by The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) - who want organisers to scrap it. The search is on to find a new emblem for the Olympics in the Japanese capital after the logo originally chosen had to be scrapped following a plagiarism row. The competition to find the logo first time around was only open to designers in Japan who had won a specific design award, but the re-run was�opened to all�Japanese nationals over the age of 18. As a result nearly 15,000 entries were received before the closing date on December 7,�12,900 from individuals and 1,699 group efforts. That compared to only 104 entries which were accepted in the contest for the axed design. The eventual winning designer will receive a prize of��1 million (�5,400/$8,200/€7,600) and will be invited to the Opening Ceremonies of both the Olympics and Paralympics, but AIGA ...
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Responsive Web Design · An A List Apart Article

Responsive Web Design · An A List Apart Article : The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. But first, we must 'accept the ebb and flow of things.'
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Tom Brady Leaves Press Conference After Two Questions About His Friendship With Donald Trump

Tom Brady Leaves Press Conference After Two Questions About His Friendship With Donald Trump : This morning’s cover of the New York Daily News features the headline “BRADY HAS NO BALLS” over a picture of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady standing with rancid salmon filet Donald Trump, whom Brady has previously called a “great friend” while saying it “would be great” if Trump became president. The Daily News cover was in response to Brady going on the radio yesterday and again calling Trump “a great friend” while reiterating that he supports all his friends. Today, Brady’s press conference was cut short after his friendship with Trump came up.
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PLATFORM COMPETITION IN TWO-SIDED MARKETS

Many if not most markets with network externalities are two-sided. To succeed, platforms in industries such as software, portals and media, payment systems and the Internet, must “get both sides of the market on board.” Accordingly, platforms devote much attention to their business model, that is, to how they court each side while making money overall. This paper builds a model of platform competition with two-sided markets. It unveils the determinants of price allocation and end-user surplus for different governance structures (pro􏰜 t-maximiz- ing platforms and not-for-pro􏰜 t joint undertakings), and compares the outcomes with those under an integrated monopolist and a Ramsey planner. (JEL: L5, L82, L86, L96) 
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My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure — The Message — Medium

My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure — The Message — Medium : Email v. Free software Email is a problem that was created by free, open software, so, I reasoned, maybe that’s what will solve it, too. This turned out to be entirely true. I used a tool called offlineimap to download all of my Gmail. That took a few days. Then I needed to actually search this mail. There are a few options to do this, but the two that I like are called mairix, and mu. I’ve used mairix in the past, and it’s excellent, but mu has more options for listing and displaying email, so I chose that. The way mu works is you type: mu find waffles and it makes you a special mailbox with all the emails that have the word “waffles” in them. In my case, 99 emails.
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Tobias van Schneider (@schneidertobias) | Twitter

Tobias van Schneider (@schneidertobias) | Twitter Microsofts website in 1993.
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Job Crafting - Amy Wrzesniewski on creating meaning in your own work - YouTube

Job Crafting - Amy Wrzesniewski on creating meaning in your own work - YouTube : Rarely are jobs designed to match the talents, preferences, and aspirations of the individual. Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski, professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management, discussed the art and science of job crafting. Wrzesniewski studied hospital maintenance workers to look at how job crafting affected their work experience and morale. She set up two groups - one simply followed the job description while the second was asked to take on other, related tasks of their own choosing. Differences between the two groups were significant - the second group found meaning in their work and saw themselves and their purpose as radically different from their counterparts. Allowing an employee to influence work scope changes the meaning of that work, and allows them to take ownership of their job. Wrzesniewski’s work shows that job crafting can foster engagement, job satisfaction, and resilience.
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Paper Hearts - Tori Kelly (Cover) - YouTube

Paper Hearts - Tori Kelly (Cover) - YouTube Published on Aug 9, 2015 Hi everyone! It has been awhile since my last upload, and I apologize. I've been incredibly busy but I hope to post on a more frequent basis. Thank you for patiently waiting and for your support. :) Emma Robinson  is an 18-year-old singer with a remarkable voice. Her unique vocal technique sounds almost like Auto-Tune, but she’s just singing with raw, natural talent. Listen to her lovely cover of “Paper Hearts” by Tori Kelly.
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Robin Thicke Croons in Court for "Blurred Lines" Trial | Wondering Sound

Robin Thicke Croons in Court for "Blurred Lines" Trial | Wondering Sound : lesson. Thicke reportedly argued “Blurred Lines” uses only two chords, E-major and A-major, while eight chords exist in�“Got to Give It Up.” He sang the “I’m gonna take a good girl” hook from “Blurred Lines” and the “I used to go out to parties” bit from Gaye’s song. The piano medley was meant to convince jurors that songs can be similar without rising to the level of legal damages.
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Amazon Yanks “Man in the High Castle” Nazi Ads From NYC Subways | Re/code

Amazon Yanks “Man in the High Castle” Nazi Ads From NYC Subways | Re/code : An Amazon spokesperson said�on Wednesday that the company did not ask the MTA to take down the ads. Variety first reported that an MTA spokesperson told the magazine that “Amazon has just decided to pull the ads,” but then published a second article suggesting Amazon wasn’t behind the removal. We asked Amazon if the company still stands behind the promotion, and we’re waiting to hear back. Requests for comment from the MTA have not been returned, although a statement provided to CBS New York said Governor Andrew Cuomo was behind the takedown.
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A history of the mic drop: When did people start dropping the mic?

A history of the mic drop: When did people start dropping the mic? : If you really set the stage, or the podium, or the Twitterverse, on fire in 2013, there’s apparently only one way to celebrate: You drop the mic. This relatively new kind of celebration is everywhere. Earlier this month Mindy Kaling dropped the mic at a rap battle on The Mindy Project, and just last weekend people used mic drops to Tweet about everything from the Inauguration to the Sundance Film Festival. So who popularized the mic drop?
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Adele’s Vogue cover released: What do you think? - The Washington Post

Adele’s Vogue cover released: What do you think? - The Washington Post Publish Post
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Više od tisuću Boysa i građana okupiralo Ministarstvo sporta: "Iza pljačke i korupcije stoje vaše institucije" - Sport - Index.hr

Više od tisuću Boysa i građana okupiralo Ministarstvo sporta: "Iza pljačke i korupcije stoje vaše institucije" - Sport - Index.hr : "Ovo je samo početak", objavili su navijača preko megafona nakon što su na stup ispred Ministarstva zalijepili proglas naslova: "Za one koji rade sve da ne naprave ništa".
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Lady Gaga’s Longtime Manager, Troy Carter, Cultivates New Tech Talent | Re/code

Lady Gaga’s Longtime Manager, Troy Carter, Cultivates New Tech Talent | Re/code : “On the artist side, we made a significant investment in very young artists from the very beginning of their careers and helped them become global superstars,” Carter told Re/code. “So, on the entrepreneurs’ side, the idea of the labs was to be able to create this ecosystem to help them from the very beginning, to see them through from development and hopefully until they become large companies.” Carter is no novice when it comes to tech investing. His firm, Atom Factory, built a portfolio of 80 companies that includes stakes in Uber, Spotify, Lyft, Warby Parker and Dropbox.
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Prosecutor says alleged Paris ringleader returned to scene of attacks - CBS News

Prosecutor says alleged Paris ringleader returned to scene of attacks - CBS News : Jawad Bendaoud, the only person in France known to be facing potential terrorism charges directly linked to the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, was handed over Tuesday morning to an anti-terrorism judge in Paris, according to a judicial official. Bendaoud was detained last week for providing lodging to the suspected mastermind of the attacks in an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.
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Well before Super Bowl comes to California, host city bans drones over stadiums | Ars Technica

Well before Super Bowl comes to California, host city bans drones over stadiums | Ars Technica : Kickoff for Super Bowl 50 is not scheduled until February 7, 2016, but Santa Clara is getting ready now. The city has a new local law imposing a half-mile “no-fly zone” over Levi’s Stadium (home of the San Francisco 49ers), the Santa Clara University stadium, and “within or over any sporting and/or large venue special event.”
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Skype DOWN: Microsoft messenger is NOT working in Europe, Australia, USA | Tech | Life & Style | Daily Express

Skype DOWN: Microsoft messenger is NOT working in Europe, Australia, USA | Tech | Life & Style | Daily Express : ncing a serious outage. The hugely successful Microsoft messenger is not working for thousands of users across the globe. Microsoft has confirmed the outage across social media and via the Skype website. The full scale of the blackout is
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How BuzzFeed Discovered the Secret to Success on Social Media

How BuzzFeed Discovered the Secret to Success on Social Media : According to Peretti, they ask six distinct questions of their content: “Does it spread internationally?” “Does it work across multiple platforms?” “Does it help people improve their actual lives?” “Does it actually change government institutions?” “Does it help make the world more open and media more diverse?” “Does it help people connect with each other?”
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The Future of News Is Not An Article | nytlabs ← Research, thoughts, and process from The New York Times R&D Lab

The Future of News Is Not An Article | nytlabs ← Research, thoughts, and process from The New York Times R&D Lab In May of this year, Facebook announced Facebook Instant Articles, its foray into innovating the Facebook user experience around news reading. A month later, Apple introduced their own take with their Apple News app, which allows “stories to be specially formatted to look and feel like articles taken from publishers’ websites while still living inside Apple’s app”. There has been plenty of discussion about what these moves mean for the future of platforms and their relationship with publishers. But platform discussions aside, let’s examine a fundamental assumption being made here: both Facebook and Apple, who arguably have a huge amount of power to shape what the future of news looks like, have chosen to focus on a future that takes the shape of an article. The form and structure of how news is distributed hasn’t been questioned, even though that form was largely devel...
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nytlabs EDITOR (2015) Tagging and annotation have long been some of the most important tasks that a news organization undertakes. The tags that we attach to articles enable nearly everything that happens to that article after publication: how we recommend related content to readers, how search engines index our site, how ads are targeted and more. Currently, at The New York Times, those tags are applied at the article level. Yet when we look at an article we can see that it actually contains many smaller component parts, like a fact, a person, a recipe or an event. If we could begin to annotate and tag these components, it would enable us to do so much more with that information. New devices, especially those with smaller screens, could make use of smaller chunks of content. New products could be created by extracting components from their original article context and recombining them to create collections or new kinds of experiences. And rather than the archive being a file cabinet...
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DSCOVR::EPIC::Earth Polychromatic Camera

DSCOVR::EPIC::Earth Polychromatic Camera http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/epic-archive/png/epic_1b_20150630110134_00.png
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NASA (@NASA) | Twitter

NASA (@NASA) | Twitter
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Man's $600,000 Facebook Ad Disaster - Business Insider

Man's $600,000 Facebook Ad Disaster - Business Insider : A review of emails from Facebook, ad campaign dashboard screengrabs, and billing records show a confusing, acrimonious dispute in which both sides believe the other acted badly. It's not even entirely clear what Brar's total spending was: Campaign budget data seen by Business Insider appear to show that Brar ran at least $489,000 in ads on Facebook. One email from Facebook demands payment of an unpaid bill for $370,000. Brar himself believes he ran up to $640,000 in ads.
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Sepp Blatter Deal Revealed - The New York Times

Sepp Blatter Deal Revealed - The New York Times : The German soccer federation on Thursday revealed a deal worth 6.7 million euros, about $7.4 million, between Sepp Blatter, the suspended FIFA president, and Franz Beckenbauer, one of the 2006 World Cup organizers. FIFA, the sport’s world governing body, said the payment “in no way corresponds to FIFA’s standard processes and regulations.” The German publication Der Spiegel reported that Germany
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The New York Times strategy memo - Oct. 7, 2015

The New York Times strategy memo - Oct. 7, 2015 We will continue to lead the industry in creating the best original journalism and storytelling. We will transform the product experience to make The Times an even more essential part of our readers' daily lives. We will continue to develop new audiences and grow The Times as an international institution, just as we once successfully turned a metro paper into a national one. We will improve the customer experience for our readers, making it easier to form and deepen a relationship with The Times. We will continue to grow digital advertising by creating compelling, integrated ad experiences that match the quality and innovation of The Times. We will continue providing the best newspaper experience for our print readers and advertisers, while carefully shifting time and energy to our digital platforms. We will organize the way we work around our readers, not legacy processes and structures.
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Apple confirms it is disabling its News App in China | 9to5Mac

Apple confirms it is disabling its News App in China | 9to5Mac : It was discovered by�Larry Salibra�and others that Apple has been disabling its Apple News Service in China. Perhaps most troubling is how Apple is doing this: They’re censoring news content that I downloaded and stored on my device purchased in the USA, before I even enter China just because my phone happens to connect to a Chinese signal floating over the border. On device censorship is much different than having your server blocked by the Great Firewall or not enabling a feature for customers with certain country iTunes account. That Apple has little choice doesn’t make it any less creepy or outrageous. The New York Times reports�that Apple confirmed, off the record, that it is�indeed turning off Apple News in Mainland China. Apple has disabled its news app in China, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation, the most recent sign of how difficult it can be for foreign companies to manage the st...
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9to5Mac: Apple iPhone, Mac and iPad News Breaking All Day

9to5Mac: Apple iPhone, Mac and iPad News Breaking All Day : In an interview with London’s�Evening Standard, Apple SVP Eddy Cue said that Apple is relaxed about how many Apple Music subscribers are immediately willing to pay for the service once their free trial ends. Ultimately, you never know until it happens.�But we’re pleased with the number of people who have tried. Everybody gets fixated on the short term but we’re in this for the long haul.
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9to5Mac: Apple iPhone, Mac and iPad News Breaking All Day

9to5Mac: Apple iPhone, Mac and iPad News Breaking All Day : Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter of Steve Jobs, told�Wired that he had no idea how he was going to turn the huge biography into a movie, and when he finally did come up with an idea for it, he didn’t think the studio would agree. I didn’t know that much about Steve Jobs, and the idea of doing a biopic was daunting.�I work very slowly, and the first couple of months are spent just pacing around, climbing the walls […] [Finally,] I got this idea, and I wrote an email to Scott saying, “If I had no one to answer to, I would write this entire movie in three real-time scenes, and each one would take place backstage before a particular product launch” […] Really, I was emailing Scott to get help: Take this thing that I really want to do and tell me what I’m allowed to do, because no studio is going to let me do this. Two or three minutes later, I got an email from Amy Pascal—Scott had forwarded my email to her—and she said, “I think ...
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9to5Mac: Apple iPhone, Mac and iPad News Breaking All Day

9to5Mac: Apple iPhone, Mac and iPad News Breaking All Day : Andy Hertzfeld, one of the key designers�of the original Macintosh system software, has told�Re/code that the Sorkins/Boyle movie�Steve Jobs “deviates from reality everywhere” but “exposes deeper�truths” about the man. It deviates from reality everywhere — almost nothing in it is like it really happened — but ultimately that doesn’t matter that much. The purpose of the film is to entertain, inspire and move the audience, not to portray reality. It is cavalier about the facts but aspires to explore and expose the deeper truths behind Steve’s unusual personality and behavior, and it often but not always succeeds at that. Hertzfeld said that Sorkin had�convinced him that an impressionistic approach was valid
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Emails, Not Emojis, Reveal Clinton's Real Personality | WIRED

Emails, Not Emojis, Reveal Clinton's Real Personality | WIRED : This is the Hillary Clinton that her private emails reveal—a woman of a certain age who actually acts her age, who sometimes struggles with technology and who cracks corny jokes. But she is all the more relatable for it, because what millennial�hasn’t taught her�parents how to use a smartphone or hummed along while they played Sweet Baby James in the car? (Hey, mom and dad!)
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NEWS FLASH: AI Startups Are Reinventing Media | WIRED

NEWS FLASH: AI Startups Are Reinventing Media | WIRED : Over the last five years, processing power and huge corpuses of teaching data have given computers the ability to detect emotions and moods. Soon, perhaps, they will be able to recognize a sideline scuffle or a player’s shift in attitude. Combine that with sensors gathering crowd reactions, the movement and changes in velocity for players and passes, historical statistics that provide context for the game and a player’s performance—and now AI is starting to encroach on analysis as well. As that definition of “reliable data” continues to expand, so too will AI applications. Here are a few AI-oriented ventures making inroads with content and media: � Arria — Natural language generation platform that parses complex data sets, in any vertical, from finance to meteorology and writes expert-level reports formerly assigned to human analysts. � Banjo — Ingests all types of digital signals from Twitter, Facebook and around the Web, t...
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Facebook Doesn't Make as Much Money as It Could—On Purpose | WIRED

Facebook Doesn't Make as Much Money as It Could—On Purpose | WIRED : When he joined Facebook in 2007, after getting a master’s in economics at Stanford University, Hegeman helped build the online auction that drives the company’s advertising system. Auctions are the standard way that online services accept ads from advertisers and place them on web pages and inside smartphone apps. That’s what Google uses with AdWords, the system that serves up all those ads when you look for stuff on the company’s Internet search engine. Advertisers bid (in dollars) for placement on the results page when you key in a particular word or group of words. But in building Facebook’s advertising system, Hegeman and team took online auctions in a new direction. The VCG auction spent decades as little more than an academic exercise. But then Hegeman and Facebook came along and applied it to online ads. They built a system based on what’s called the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves auction, or VCG, an auction mech...
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The Global Fanbase of Rugby Union’

'Game On' for RWC 2015: the eighth Rugby World Cup is well and truly underway, with an opening weekend that thrilled and shocked in equal measure as the action unfolded.   SMG Insight, the sports specialist arm of YouGov, will be getting up close and personal with the game of rugby and its fanbase during RWC2015. Over the coming months, we will drop-kick key insights into how the biggest sporting event in Europe since the London 2012 Olympic Games influences interest levels in rugby, as well as sponsor brand awareness amongst fans and consumers. Watch this space for more ...    In the meantime, here are a few take-outs from recent SMG Insight / YouGov rugby research, including ‘The Global Fanbase of Rugby Union’, an in-depth report analysing leading trends and public interest in the sport worldwide.
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Google’s Driverless Cars Run Into Problem: Cars With Drivers - The New York Times

Google’s Driverless Cars Run Into Problem: Cars With Drivers - The New York Times : Traffic wrecks and deaths could well plummet in a world without any drivers, as some researchers predict. But wide use of self-driving cars is still many years away, and testers are still sorting out hypothetical risks — like hackers — and real world challenges, like what happens when an autonomous car breaks down on the highway.
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First 'Steve Jobs' review calls film 'must-see,' hails Michael Fassbender's 'enthralling' performance

First 'Steve Jobs' review calls film 'must-see,' hails Michael Fassbender's 'enthralling' performance : Writer Aaron Sorkin's forthcoming "Steve Jobs" biopic screened at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend, and the first review has emerged with considerable praise, calling the movie an unconventionally constructed, "brilliant" piece of filmmaking.
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Bruce Willis acts like a jerk during interview for RED 2|Lainey Gossip Entertainment Update

Bruce Willis acts like a jerk during interview for RED 2|Lainey Gossip Entertainment Update : In the same way, Mary Louise Parker is caught here too. You can see her discomfort. It’s awkward for her too. And she does make an attempt to somehow counter Willis’s arrogance with a good anecdote although her efforts are futile. Because he’s decided to take a dump in the room and no one can escape the smell. Do you think Mary Louise Parker would have pulled him aside afterwards and told him that he made it hard for her too? Do you think it’s set up that for her to be able to stand up for herself and for the reporter? Please.
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Apple Takes Washington

Apple Takes Washington : Cook and Holder hotly debated security and privacy during their first-ever meeting on that freezing December day, but the attorney general said he sat across a much different leader than he had expected. “We found we had a mutual Alabama connection,” Holder recently explained in an interview. The sister of Holder’s wife had helped desegregate the University of Alabama, and Cook, a gay man born and raised in the South, knew firsthand the impact of discrimination.
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Intelligent Energy's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology Can Now Fit Inside an iPhone - Mac Rumors

Intelligent Energy's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology Can Now Fit Inside an iPhone - Mac Rumors : To our knowledge this has never been done before. We have now managed to make a fuel cell so thin we can fit it to the existing chassis without alterations and retaining the rechargeable battery. This is a major step because if you are moving to a new technology you have to give people a path they are comfortable with.
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Quartz: Italians are emotional, the Swiss are punctual: This shopping site is making billions by tailoring its services to European stereotypes

http://qz.com/482553/italians-are-emotional-the-swiss-are-punctual-this-shopping-site-is-making-billions-by-tailoring-its-services-to-european-stereotypes/ The name Zalando is unfamiliar to most people outside Europe, but on the continent, the online shopping site has exploded since it started selling flip-flops… Sign up for the Quartz Daily Brief: http://bit.ly/quartzdailybrief .
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'I Am Cait' Ratings Drop Nearly 50 Percent - The New York Times

'I Am Cait' Ratings Drop Nearly 50 Percent - The New York Times : drew Ratings for  the second episode of “I Am Cait,”  E!’s reality series about Caitlyn Jenner, fell almost by half from  its July 26 premiere. The second show drew 2.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen’s live-plus-three-days data, which accounts for delayed viewing; 3.9 million total viewers watched the first episode of “I Am Cait” within three days of its first airing. The show’s viewership also fell to 1.3 million within the 18-to-49-year-old demographic (a 43 percent dip from Episode 1), a key number for advertisers.
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Fwd: Inside look at Banksy's 'Dismaland'; The process of designing a font; How to create a realistic tattoo in Photoshop; Deleted 'Friends' scene resurfaces; Most popular swear words according to Twitter

Inside look at Banksy's 'Dismaland';   Reply-To: DesignTAXI < do-not-reply@designtaxi.com > Inside look at Banksy's 'Dismaland'; The process of designing a font; How to create a realistic tattoo in Photoshop; Deleted 'Friends' scene resurfaces; Most popular swear words according to Twitter Images not showing? View it on a browser instead. Share on Facebook   Twitter   Google+   Follow us Share on Facebook ...
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