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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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Times Reaches Online Milestone, but Many Challenges Await - The New York Times

Times Reaches Online Milestone, but Many Challenges Await - The New York Times : • The money spent on journalism — about $300 million a year, up 50 percent since 2008 — is worth it. “The most precious thing we have is the quality of the news report and the range of opinion,” he said. “It’s why people are prepared to pay a lot of money” to subscribe. The Times’s publisher, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., and its board members were wise, he said, as they “obstinately stuck with the idea of a really, really large-scale, properly invested-in newsroom,” while other news organizations were “chiseling away.” The resulting “depth and breadth is the point of The Times. It would be self-defeating to change that.” (Despite buyouts last year, the news staff remains the same size, around 1,300, because of hiring in such areas as audience development.)
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Transcript of interview with Henry Molaison

As a boy, Henry Molaison (1926–2008) had severe epilepsy. Surgeons removed part of his brain – the hippocampus – to stop the fits he experienced. But afterwards Henry could no longer form new memories. His amnesia fascinated memory researchers, who studied him for the rest of his life as ‘patient HM’. Neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin conducted many interviews with patient HM. Because of his amnesia, Henry never remembered Suzanne – but she knew him for over 30 years, through many stages of life. This is a transcript of an audio interview between Suzanne Corkin and Henry Molaison at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1992. Further information about Henry Molaison is available in the Who am I? gallery on the first floor. 
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Canon enters 3D Machine Vision Market in Europe - Canon Europe

Canon enters 3D Machine Vision Market in Europe - Canon Europe : LONDON, July 16, 2015 – Canon Europe today announce the entry into the growing machine vision market in Europe, with the launch of 3D Machine Vision Systems for use with industrial robots – capable of high-speed, high-accuracy three-dimensional recognition of objects. Using the systems in combination with a robotic arm can increase production efficiencies in factories by facilitating the automatic high-speed supply of parts to production lines.
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Why the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security - The Washington Post

Why the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security - The Washington Post 2015 The Washington Post’s Knowledge Map aims to diminish that frustration by embedding context and background directly in a story. (We  wrote about it briefly  when it debuted earlier this month.) Highlighted links and buttons within the story, allowing readers to click on and then read brief overviews — called “supplements” — on the right hand side of the same page, without having to leave the page (currently the text and supplements are not tethered, so if you scroll away in the main story, there’s no easy way to jump back to the phrase or name you clicked on initially). Solving the problem of context — the fact that different readers bring different amount of knowledge to a story — has been one of the primary quests of the past half decade. Vox’s Card Stacks, Circa’s atomized stories, “9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask” — all are attempts to buil...
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