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Also, you can save the MEW webpage locally and use it.

It seems like Apple has been doing away with the iTunes dependency, albeit slowly. You have been able to update without iTunes for a couple of years and more recently the awful App…

In Japanese rail, conductors and drivers periodically point with their hand [1][2] to indicate awareness of the task. Reading the article, perhaps these distracted test drivers cou…

the ~4 years of undergrad in college here are actually really really lax Is this because undergrad does not prepare you for a career and the bulk of the "useful" learning happens l…

So the use of Facebook data was lauded as genius and now isn't. [1] Now you got me curious if the media would be saying all the same things if Cambridge helped the other candidate …

But you're right. Gifts aside, we can at least reduce the packaging. Recently I had a chance to spend some time in Japan and the overuse of plastic bags and packaging was startling…

Am I understanding correctly is that the primary blame on Facebook is in enabling apps (via API) to collect data? This stuff has unfortunately existed for years, no different from …

If the task is "taking datasets and making them more searchable," it seems like that company gets the heat simply for making the task easier. Excel, SQL databases (or, heck, huge C…

So long as we remain wedded to directory paths as a means of referencing files and folders, much of our storage will contain duplicated content. As a counterpoint, there are many s…

May be more likely due to the Binance "hack." http://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/bitcoin-p... Edited for clarity.

There is a difference from risking a few hundred dollars you can maybe afford to lose, and the remainder (unspent) of your bank account being overdrawn.

One of those situations where software bugs may (temporarily) ruin people's lives. Many threads on this topic from people who had a relatively small amount to their name in their b…

What did for me was the influx of the "you won't believe what happens next, this video will make you cry" shares, and then political diatribes (you may call it virtue signaling) by…

Mac App Store is a fascinating topic! It seems to be a product nearly abandoned by Apple (not much improvement in years since the first release, unless you count sandboxing as one.…

So, they are more work for developers, but are technically superior for users (native UI, performance, battery life, etc.)

I'm just not sure why Bloomberg would choose to omit the date until being pestered online. Doesn't this change things quite a bit? If there was a true smoking gun, they would be sh…

This should be much more visible. The market is panic selling on effectively old news.