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borntowin
@borntowin Aug 3, 2016, 1:53 PM UTC

San Francisco Progressives Declare War on Affordable Housing

The U.S. is running out of places for people to live. Rent is a bigger and bigger part of our cost of living. Here is an index of rental prices divided by median household income: The Rent Is Too Dar…

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borntowin
@borntowin Jul 27, 2016, 12:19 PM UTC

Philae Lander says goodbye forever

It’s time for me to say goodbye. Tomorrow, the unit on @ESA_Rosetta for communication with me will be switched off forever... Here: https://twitter.com/Philae2014/status/757938537803153408

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borntowin
@borntowin Jul 21, 2016, 12:36 PM UTC

Researchers create a tiny ‘Atomic’ hard drive that can store 500 terabits of data

Imagine if individual atoms could store data. Dutch researchers are working on doing just that, and can fit 500 terabits of data in a single square inch. That’s right: 500 terabits, or 62.5 terabytes…

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borntowin
@borntowin Jul 21, 2016, 11:08 AM UTC

Elon Musk's second Master Plan

The first master plan that I wrote 10 years ago is now in the final stages of completion. It wasn't all that complicated and basically consisted of: Create a low volume car, which would necessarily b…

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borntowin
@borntowin Jul 20, 2016, 6:45 PM UTC

Use this helpful tool to quickly advance in 'Pokémon GO'

Any experienced "Pokémon GO" player will tell you that the key to quickly leveling up your trainer is to evolve a bunch of Pokémon while using an item called a Lucky Egg. Evolving a Pokémon normally…

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borntowin
@borntowin Jul 20, 2016, 5:18 PM UTC

Be nice to nerds

http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full-width/images/print-edition/20160716_WBD000_0.jpg FIVE years ago Zach Sims, a sprightly, striving 21-year-old, launched Codeacademy,…

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borntowin
@borntowin Jul 20, 2016, 2:42 PM UTC

Dollar Shave Club and The Disruption of Everything

Probably the most important fact when it comes to analyzing Unilever’s purchase of Dollar Shave Club is the $1 billion price: in the world of consumer packaged goods (CPG) it is shockingly low. After…

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borntowin
@borntowin Jul 20, 2016, 12:23 PM UTC

Microsoft’s Q4 earnings beat Street with $22.6B in revenue

Microsoft today reported earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2016, its first earnings report after announcing its proposed acquisition of LinkedIn. The company’s earnings came in at a non-GAAP…

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borntowin
@borntowin Jul 20, 2016, 8:39 AM UTC

When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death

Many who have heard the melancholy cry of the mourning dove might wonder: Do birds grieve for their loved ones? For this Saturday’s Weird Animal Question of the Week Emilie Bouef commented via Facebo…

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borntowin
@borntowin Jul 20, 2016, 7:55 AM UTC

Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill With DeepMind-Powered AI

Google just paid for part of its acquisition of DeepMind in a surprising way.The internet giant is using technology from the DeepMind artificial intelligence subsidiary for big savings on the power c…

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